• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2012

This paper proposes a new indoor location recognition system using a ZigBee network and a global positioning system(GPS). The proposed location recognition system applies GPS values that are mainly used for outdoor location recognition, to indoor location recognition; hence the techniques conventionally separated for the indoor and outdoor location recognition are integrated into one location recognition technique. The proposed system recognizes a location using the distance between nodes. Although the distance between nodes can be calculated by measuring the strength of the received ZigBee signals, generally the measured distance is not accurate and has high error rates since the strength of the ZigBee signals is different depending on the distance. In order to reduce the error rate, we have subdivided the output power of the received ZigBee signals into five levels. When a moving node generates a signal, each fixed node transmits the received signal strength and its own GPS information to other nodes, so the moving node can find its own accurate location in terms of the received signals.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.53-62
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• 2010

Recent development in wireless communication technology, like GPS, and mobile equipments, like PDA and cellular phone, make location-based services (LBSs) popular. However, because, users continuously request a query to a server in the LBSs by using their exact locations, privacy information could be in danger. Therefore, a mechanism for users' privacy protection is required for the safe and comfortable use of LBSs by mobile users. For this, we, in this paper, propose a grid-based cloaking area creation scheme supporting continuous LBSs in peer-to-peer environment. The proposed scheme creates a cloaking area by using Chord protocol, so as to support the continuous LBSs in peer-to-peer environment. Finally, we show from a performance analysis that our cloaking scheme outperforms the existing cloaking schemes, in terms of service time.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.137-143
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• 2017

Facilities for pedestrian safety of the visually impaired are scarce on the walkway and crosswalk. Braille blocks are installed on the walkways and RF controlled signal lights and sound generators are installed on the crosswalk at the main intersection for the visually impaired. An RF remote control system using one frequency has a problem of simultaneously operating nearby signal lamps and sound generators at an intersection. In this paper, we develop the smart cane that uses a beacon to identify the signal lamp and sound generators installed on the crosswalk at intersections and to operate the signal lamps and sound generators in the direction of the walk by IR communication. The developed smart cane is able to provide the pedestrian navigation for the blind by interworking with mobile apps through Bluetooth communication.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.524-532
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• 2012

According to increasing in number of smart phone subscribers to offer the convenience of users, wide range of applications in various fields have emerged. Recently, a lot of applications are being developed to provide a way of receiving information according to the user's current location. Also, the news seems difficult to provide the necessary information among the numerous data. Especially, it is difficult to find the news that associated with the region. There are many applications that provide news, but there is no system to provide news information according to the user's location information in domestic, so users not receive the news of the region. In this paper, we propose a news retrieval application which provides users with news around by using the location information of smart phone users. Because this system provides news of the region, it has the advantage to obtain the around information easily. The proposed system, whose name is 'ChungbukN', provides news that receives data at chungbuk comprehensive daily newspaper 'Daily Chungbuk'.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.205-214
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a mobile navigation application that allows a user to send location data to another user using the iPhone's GPS function and Mapkit framework. The GPS function of the iPhone detects the location of the first user and the Mapkit framework shows the first user location on Google Maps. If the second user requires guidance to a destination, the first user touches the record button on the proposed application to record his or her position. The first user can check his or her recorded location from the pin position on Google Maps, and he or she can then send the relevant information to the second user who wants to visit that location. The second user receives the location data and is guided to the destination easily by following the next position icon on the iPhone camera overlay or by following the pin position on Google Maps. Therefore, even if a user is traveling somewhere for the first time, the proposed application guides that user to his or her destination by receiving recorded location data from another user.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.5 no.2 s.10
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• pp.5-21
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• 2003

Sptaio-temporal databases are important to store the real-time location information of large spatio-temporal objects efficiently and retrieve them rapidly. Accordingly necessity for spatio-temporal database system that can manage spatial information, aspatial information and temporal information of spatio-temporal objects is increasing. Sptaio-temporal databases are important to store the real-time location information of large spatio-temporal objects efficiently and retrieve them rapidly. Accordingly necessity for spatio-temporal database system that can manage spatial information, aspatial information and temporal information of spatio-temporal objects is increasing. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal data model that is able to efficiently manage historical spatio-temporal objects that change dynamically their states as time. Also, various spatio-temporal operations and constraint conditions are defined to keep integrity of spatio-temporal data and spatio-temporal operations.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.126-132
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• 2011

In the application areas of LBS(Location Based Service) and ITS(Intelligent Transportation System), continuous k-nearest neighbor query(CkNN) which is defined as a query to find the nearest points of interest to all the points on a given path is widely used. It is necessary to acquire results quickly in the above applications and be applicable to spatial network databases. It is also able to cope successfully with frequent updates of POI objects. This paper proposes a new method to search nearest POIs for moving query objects on the spatial networks. The method produces a set of split points and their corresponding k-POIs as results with partial order among k-POIs. The results obtained from experiments with real dataset show that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods. The proposed method achieves very short processing time(15%) compared with the existing method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.2968-2974
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• 2014

When lighting has installed indoor, we control lighting using human-detecting sensors for people who pass at night and places that are lack of quantity of light. However, malfunction can be caused by positions of inappropriate sensors, and in the case of passages of big buildings, it is a problem that even after a person pass, light apparatuses are turned on for a long time. In this paper, we propose lighting control system based on location positioning for energy saving that control lighting in accordance with passers's position through indoor location positioning. This system use the fingerprinting technology that is one of the location positioning technologies and RSSI data that is collected by a smart device. Using those, it can turn on only lightings that are included in the positioned location and reduce unnecessary power consumption. As a result of experiment, on condition that four people were existing and illumination was 308 lux, we assured reduction effect of 49 Wh.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-140
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• 2011

As the recent advances in network and wireless communications and semiconductor design and process technologies, our computing platform is rapidly shifting from desktop PCs to mobile devices such as UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), Tablet PC, and Smartphone. Especially, wide-spreading Smartphones allow a new field of application based on location based services available with an user interface called augmented reality (AR). Therefore, this paper introduces an implementation of AR using various OpenAPls on Android Smartphones. In order to utilize enrich user data in real time, the system integrates with location based social network services also with OpenAPI. These APIs enable third-party developers to make use of rich contents of many portal web sites. The prototype was implemented on the real Android phone, Sky Sirius, and the result shows that it can provide an efficient location based service using AR technology without any constraints on mobile devices; in addition, it connects SNS to AR for sharing user data including photos, videos, and messages based on a specific location.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.103-108
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• 2011

The modern society with the wide spread recognition of the importance of informatics and for the development of information and communication technology is rapidly processing. Especially the rapid development in mobile technology boost up the general expectation that one can get the information he wants anytime anywhere. Accordingly image search for the convenient information retrieval is becoming common. However general image search has difficulties because inexactitude extracting character in the image and getting the detail information in extracted character. Therefore these paper make character recognition through the images that I photographed a sightseeing resort, a signboard of a lot of stores to a smart phone camera, so information offer to be convenient to users is a purpose. A user can get detailed information, by character extraction way called top-hat algorithm and connect to a server.