• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1379-1383
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• 2005

Introducing the market into the electricity industry lets the multiple participants get into new competition. These multiple participants of the market need new business strategies for providing value added services to customer. Therefore they need the accurate customer information about the electricity demand. Demand characteristic is the most important one for analyzing customer information. In this study load profile data, which can be collected through the Automatic Meter Reading System, are analyzed for getting demand patterns of customer. The load profile data include electricity demand in 15 minutes interval. An algorithm for clustering similar demand patterns is developed using the load profile data. As results of classification, customers are separated into several groups. And the representative curves for the groups are generated. The number of groups is automatically generated. And it depends on the threshold value for distance to separate groups. The demand characteristics of the groups are discussed. Also, the compositions of demand contracts and standard industrial classification in each group are presented. It is expected that the classified curves will be used for tariff design, load forecasting, load management and so on. Also it will be a good infrastructure for making a value added service related to electricity.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.168-170
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• 2006

In this paper, authors realize water AMR(Automatic Meter Reading) network using low power ZigBee protocol included routing ability for improving wireless communitation error detection and network range. ZigBee wireless standard is an important standard of the field related Ubiquitous industry and recently has application to Home-Network. It's special features are to spend low power and to include routing ability each terminator. Because of these features, authors realize water AMR system on Embedded system using ZigBee protocol for applying to transfer data between a water meter and RF module equipped with a water meter in each house.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.12
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• pp.143-150
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• 2021

In the recent power industry, a change is taking place from manual meter reading to remote meter reading using AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure). If such the power data generated from the AMI is recorded on the blockchain, integrity is guaranteed by preventing forgery and tampering. As data sharing becomes transparent, new business can be created. However, Ethereum blockchain is not suitable for processing large amounts of transactions due to the limitation of processing speed. As a solution to overcome such the limitation, various On/Off-Chain methods are being investigated. In this paper, we propose a interface server using data sharding as a solution for storing large amounts of power data in Etherium blockchain environments. Experimental results show that our power-data processing system with sharding method lessen the data omission rate to 0% that occurs when the transactions are transmitted to Ethereum and enhance the processing speed approximately 9 times.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.218-226
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• 2019

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the key to operate a change from the traditional manual reading of water meters and sensors to an automated system where high frequency data is remotely collected and analyzed in real time, one of the main components of a Smart Water Grid. The recent boom of ICT offers a wide range of both wired and wireless technologies to achieve this objective. We review and present in this article the most widely recognized technologies and protocols along with their respective advantages, drawbacks and applicability range which can be Home Area Network (HAN), Building Area Network (BAN) or Local/Neighborhood Area Network (LAN/NAN). We also present our findings and we give recommendations on the application of ICT in Smart Water Grids and future work needed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1992.07a
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• pp.183-186
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• 1992

The distribution automation functions include feeder automation, data acquisition and processing, remote meter reading and load management. This report explains the function of feeder automation and the accomplishment method of feeder automation using the switches of distribution system with multi functions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.419-421
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• 1994

A CRU (Customer Remote Unit) for KODAS(Korea Distribution Automatic System) is presented in the paper. This equipment works as a terminal unit for the Load Control and the AMR(Automatic Meter Reading). It is composed of control, drive, input, display, and communication parts. A CRU calculates and memorizes the active power, time-of-use, and demand by the pulse from watthour meter for AMR. It also transfers the data to Center Control System. It can measure current, voltage, and power factor by adding the simple circuit. For load control, It receives the necessary informations such as the load control periods, modes, and time intervals. It controls the load until the stopping commad comes. The system reliability has been proved using a prototype.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.714-717
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• 2011

스마트그리드(Smart Grid)는 기존의 단방향 전력망인 자동화 검침 장치(Automated Meter Reading, AMR)에서 발전하여 양방향으로 실시간 정보를 교환하는 '지능형 전력망'이다. 스마트그리드 환경에서는 수요 반응(Demand Response) 서비스를 이용하여 전력 사용을 효과적으로 분산 할 수 있다. 하지만 보안에 대한 대비가 충분하지 않을 시에는 데이터의 삽입, 변조에 의해 시스템이 오용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 스마트 미터의 검침 값이 네트워크를 통해 전력정보처리시스템(Meter Data Management System, MDMS)까지 전달되는 과정에서 데이터 변조의 발생여부를 탐지할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문의 탐지 방법을 통해 신뢰성 있는 수요 반응 서비스를 제공할 수 있으며, 이는 효율적인 전력 사용을 유도할 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.737-747
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• 2012

Recently, in order to support automatic meter reading for conventional metering devices, an image processing-based approach of recognizing the number meter data in the captured meter images has attracted many researchers' interests. Numerical character segmentation is a very critical process for successful recognition. In this paper, we propose an efficient numeric character segmentation method which can segment numeric characters well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments. The proposed method consists of two consecutive stages; detection of number area containing all numbers as a tight ROI(Region of Interest) and segmentation of numerical characters in the ROI. Detection of tight ROI is achieved in two steps: extraction of rough ROI by utilizing horizontal line segments after illumination enhancement preprocessing, and making the rough ROI more tight through clipping utilizing vertical and horizontal projection about binarized ROI. Numerical character segmentation in the detected ROI is stably achieved in two processes of 'vertical segmentation of each number region' and 'number segmentation in the each vertical segmented number region'. Through the experiments about a homegrown meter image database containing various meter type images of low contrast, low intensity, shadow, and saturation, it is shown that the proposed numeric character segmentation method performs effectively well for any metering device types under diverse illumination environments.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.49-59
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• 2018

Smart grid system has been deployed fast despite of legal, business and technology problems in many countries. One important problem in deploying the smart grid system is to protect private smart meter readings from the unbelievable parties while the major smart meter functions are untouched. Privacy-preserving involves some challenges such as hardware limitations, secure cryptographic schemes and secure signal processing. In this paper, we focused particularly on the smart meter reading aggregation,which is the major research field in the smart meter privacy-preserving. We suggest a noisy weighted aggregation scheme to guarantee differential privacy. The noisy weighted values are generated in such a way that their product is one and are used for making the veiled measurements. In case that a Diffie-Hellman generator is applied to obtain the noisy weighted values, the noisy values are transformed in such a way that their sum is zero. The advantage of Diffie and Hellman group is usually to use 512 bits. Thus, compared to Paillier cryptosystem series which relies on very large key sizes, a significant performance can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.443-446
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• 2003

This paper implement Remote Meter Reading System which is used Bluetooth and SMS in CDMA. This System propose system which tan detect a total amount of gas, electricity or water without a meterman, at home BlueTooth is a close range wireless communication technology which uses a wireless frequency 2.4GHz and has a high trust and self error correction technology according to a low power consumption quality and a high-speed frequency hopping. This makes get a high trust concerning a data transmission than an existing modem. In addition, though wireless modem is restricted by a minimal of a wireless terminal, it will be possible to coincide with the function of the portable with the low power consumption quality by using Bluetooth. And as the system on a chip of module progresses, the possibility of the small size is present. Nowadays, SMS Protocol in CDMA for have a network function based on PPP in CDMA Phone. The proposed Remote Meter Reading System to get more nobility, efficiency, and have good function. SMS Protocol in CDMA have profits which is low power, low cost, and low microwave output.