• Structural Monitoring and Maintenance
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.359-371
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• 2022

Bridges are critical to the civil engineering infrastructure network as they facilitate movement of people, the transportation of goods and services. Given the aging of bridge infrastructure, federal officials mandate visual inspections biennially to identify necessary repair actions which are time, cost, and labor-intensive. Additionally, the expansion joints of bridges are rarely monitored due to cost. However, expansion joints are critical as they absorb movement from thermal effects, loadings strains, impact, abutment settlement, and vehicle motion movement. Thus, the need to monitor bridge expansion joints efficiently, at a low cost, and wirelessly is desired. This paper addresses bridge joint monitoring needs to develop a cost-effective, real-time wireless system that can be validated in a full-scale bridge structure. To this end, a wireless expansion joint monitoring was developed using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) sensors. An in-service bridge was selected as a testbed to validate the performance of the developed system compared with traditional displacement sensor, LVDT, temperature and humidity sensors. The short-term monitoring campaign with the wireless sensor system with the internet protocol version 6 over the time slotted channel hopping mode of IEEE 802.15.4e (6TiSCH) network showed reliable results, providing high potential of the developed system for effective joint monitoring at a low cost.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.253-270
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• 2013

To achieve accurate localization information, complex algorithms that have high computational complexity are usually implemented. In addition, many of these algorithms have been developed to overcome several limitations, e.g., obstruction interference in multi-path and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments. However, localization systems those have complex design experience latency when operating multiple mobile nodes occupying various channels and try to compensate for inaccurate distance values. To operate multiple mobile nodes concurrently, we propose a localization system with both low complexity and high accuracy and that is based on a chirp spread spectrum (CSS) radio. The proposed localization system is composed of accurate ranging values that are analyzed by simple linear regression that utilizes a Big-$O(n^2)$ of only a few data points and an algorithm with a self-calibration feature. The performance of the proposed localization system is verified by means of actual experiments. The results show a mean error of about 1 m and multiple mobile node operation in a $100{\times}35m^2$ environment under NLOS condition.

• 한국정보기술응용학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보기술응용학회 2005년도 6th 2005 International Conference on Computers, Communications and System
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• pp.339-342
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• 2005

In order to support ultrawide-band signal generation for low rate WPAN, several types of signal generation mechanisms are suggested such as Chaos, Impluse, and Chirp signals by the activity of IEEE 802.15.4a. The communication system applied chaos theory may have ultrawide-band characteristics with spread spectrum and immunity from multipath effect. In order to use the advantage of chaotic signal generation, we introduce the system implementation of communication and networking systems with the chaos UWB signal. This system may be composed of mainly three parts in hardware architecture : RF transmission with chaotic signal generation, signal receiver using amplifiers and filters, and 8051 & FPGA unit. The most difficult part is to implement the chaotic signal generator and build transceiver with it. The implementation of the system is devidced into two parts i.e. RF blocks and digital blocks with amplifiers, filters, ADC, 8051 processor, and FPGA. In this paper, we introduce the system block diagram for chaotic communications. Mainly the RF block is important for the system to have good performance based on the chaotic signal generator. And the main control board functions for controlling RF blocks, processing Tx and Rx data, and networking in MAC layer.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2022년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.522-523
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 IoT 기반의 스마트팩토리 구축을 위한 게이트웨이 프로토콜 아키텍처를 설계한다. 스마트 팩토리 시스템은 여러 단말 장치, 게이트웨이 및 서버로 구성되며 이들을 무선 네트워크로 연결한다. 단말 장치는 다양한 센서로부터 정보를 수집하고 게이트웨이를 통해 서버로 정보를 전송한다. 단말장치는 서버의 제어 알고리즘에 따라 또는 수동 조작으로 제어 신호를 수신하여 액추에이터를 제어한다. 따라서 게이트웨이 시스템은 무선 스마트 유틸리티 네트워크인 Wi-SUN과 인터넷을 연결하며 Wi-SUN의 코디네이터 역할을 하며 Modbus-TCP가 탑재되어 SCADA와 연동한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권4A호
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• pp.324-329
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 IEEE802.11 기반의 WLAN(5.2/5.8GHz)대역에서 동작하는 새로운 모양의 마이크로스트립 패치 안테나를 설계 및 제작하였다. 안테나의 크기는 $21.2{\times}16mm^2$이며 Taconic-RF30 기판을 사용하였다. 이동성을 위해 소형화 하였고, Snowflake패치 모양에 Short-pin을 삽입하여 dual-band 공진특성 및 적절한 대역곡을 얻고자 하였다. 또한 주변 회로 집적화를 위해 단일 양면기판을 사용하였고, 시뮬레이션 설계는 Snowflake모양과 Short-pin의 위치변화, 패치길이를 최적화하여 제작 및 측정하였다. 제작한 안테나의 대역폭(Return loss < -10dB) 은 5.2GHz 대역에서 220MHz, 5.8GHz 대역에서는 135MHz의 대역폭을 얻었다. 또한 $4.7{\sim}6.9dBi$의 이득을 얻었으며, 3-dB 빔폭(HPBW)은 E-Plane과 H-Plane이 5.1500Hz에서 각각 $73.2^{\circ}/82.75^{\circ}$, 5.3500Hz에서 $74.56^{\circ}/83.63^{\circ}$, 그리고 5.7850Hz에서 $86.24^{\circ}/85.15^{\circ}$로 측정되었다.