• KIEAE Journal
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.51-57
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• 2013

Energy saving starts by knowing how much energy is being consumed. A building factor is easier than any other things in energy saving. Since, especially, it is closely connected with user's space-use-patterns and manager's utility-operation-style. An energy metering system lets building users know about energy consumption pattern in buildings and measure energy in real time. Development and materialization of metering systems need more careful plans, so that they depend on a demand of individual facilities and available infrastructures they used to use. But, so far, there is no guidelines how to install metering systems. This paper suggested how to install meters and researched a method for how to analyze by using metered data. For that, Green Building in KIER is used as a test bed. As the results, nevertheless the smallest number of meters is basically one for the whole building energy measuring, it is too limited in analysis. So we needed to add the sort of fuel and utility types and found that it depends on all cases. For this reasons, a guideline should be created in order to install meters as soon as possible. It would be suggest a way to save more energy in building factor.

• 정보처리학회논문지D
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• 제10D권6호
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• pp.1041-1048
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• 2003

본 논문은 계기 영상을 캡처하고, 숫자를 자동인식하며 데이터를 PCS 데이터 망을 통하여 무선으로 전송하는 원격 영상 검침 시스템을 구현한다. 기존의 가스/수도 미터기를 그대로 사용하면서 소형, 저가의 흑백 CMOS 카메라를 미터기 계기판 전면에 밀착하여 설치하고 NTSC 카메라 영상을 얻는다. 원격 데이터 전송을 위해 상업적인 PCS 망에서 제공되는 SMS를 이용한다. 계기 영상의 캡처를 위해 DVR 및 숫자 인식 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 이외에 SMS 및 계기 선택기의 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어를 개발하였다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.619-628
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• 2012

The ZigBee network has been considered to monitor electricity usage of home appliances in the smart grid network. ZigBee, however, may suffer from a coexistence problem with wireless local area network (WLAN). In this paper, to resolve the coexistence problem between ZigBee network and WLAN, we propose a new protocol constructing a cognitive smart grid network for supporting monitoring of home appliances. In the proposed protocol, home appliances first estimates the transmission timing and channel information of WLAN by reading request to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) frames of WLAN. Next, based on the estimated information, home appliances transmit a data at the same time as WLAN transmission. To manage the interference between WLAN and smart grid network, we propose a cognitive beamforming algorithm. The beamforming algorithm is designed to guaranteeing zero interference to WLAN while satisfying a required rate for smart metering. We also propose an energy efficient rate adaptation algorithm. By slowing down the transmission rate while satisfying an imperceptible impact of quality of service (QoS) of the receiver, the home appliance can significantly save transmit power. Numerical results show that the proposed multiple antenna technique provides reliable communications for smart metering with reduced power comparing to the simple transmission technique.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.1903-1909
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• 2007

As the electric power industry has been revolutionarily transformed such that the distributed energy resources have been interconnected with power systems and a variety of energy service providers have been appeared, the need of Consumer Energy Portal as a core of two-way communication and service infrastructure between power suppliers and consumers has been gradually increased. Consumer Energy Portal can be thought of as a combination of hardware and software enabling two-way communication between energy service providers and equipment within the consumers' premises or a physical and logical link between consumers' in-building networks and wide-area access networks. In other words, Consumer Energy Portal can make the way the power industry has been traditionally operated the web-based way, enabling two-way interactions between energy service providers and consumers and mutual networking between end users' equipment. Thus, Consumer Energy Portal can be a kind of Service portal that provides new value-added services and efficient power operations that in the past. In this paper, for ESPs' integrated resources management, demand side management and value-added service provision, we have established the two-way access network that can gather real-time metering data using ZigBee technology and control physically networked equipment.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.829-836
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• 2017

본 논문은 새로운 구조의 AMR(원격검침)/AMI(첨단계량인프라)를 시스템 개발에 관한 연구이다. 개발된 시스템은 기존시스템 보다 가격이 저렴하고, 검침 시간이 단축되고, 설치가 용이하다. 개발된 시스템을 적용하면 한국의 일반 가정에서 기본으로 사용하고 있는 전기, 수도, 가스, 온수 및 난방의 5종 계량기의 계량값을 원격검침 하고 이에 대한 AMI 적용이 가능하다. 제안된 시스템이 이론과 실제 적용에 있어서 경제성과 신뢰성 모두 우수함과, AMI 적용에 기존 시스템보다 더 적합함을 테스트 결과에 보여준다.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제10권7호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2020

최근 전국 각 지역 AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure) 원격검침 시스템의 보급사업이 활성화되고 있으며, 전력수요 관리를 위한 양방향 통신 및 보안 요금제 기능 등 다양한 계량 기능을 제공하고 있다. 현재 AMI 시스템은 새로운 내부 IoT 장비 및 네트워크 규모의 증가로 인해 기존 RDB(Relational Database) 기반 장애 분석이 어렵다. 본 연구는 기존 RDB 데이터를 활용하는 새로운 GDB(Graph Database)기반 장애 분석 방법을 제안한다. 내부 임계치와 상태 값 등 누적된 데이터를 통해 새로운 장애 패턴의 상관관계를 분석한다. GDB 기반 시뮬레이션 결과 RDB에서 분석이 어려웠던 새로운 장애 패턴을 예측할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권12호
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• pp.2337-2343
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• 2010

AMR(Automatic Meter Reading)/AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure) is actively deployed all over the world. efficient, economical, stable and reliable system need to push forward the AMR/AMI business, so various researchs are in progress. In electric power system of domestic, a transformer is connected average twenty to thirty households and PLC is possible to communication within household connected same transformer. So if server and data concentrator unit(DCU) share circuit line through communication between transformers, communication network is able to efficient. Therefore we design new communication method between DCUs and test it and demonstrate the performance.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.469-478
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• 1997

This study was conducted to develop an automatic nutrient-solution mixing system for small-scale sewers. The nutrient-solution mixing system consisted of a low-cost and precise metering device and data acquisition ＆ control system with a personal computer. and, the metering device was composed of three parts those were supply pumps, metering cylinders and venturi tube. The system controlled electric conductivity(EC) and pH of nutrient-solution based on the time-based feedback control method with the information about temperature, EC, and pH of the nutrient-solution. The performance of the nutrient-solution mixing system was evaluated through the control of EC and pH while compared with those of commercial system. Also an experimental cultivation of tomato was conducted to verify and to improve the developed system. Results of this study were as follows. 1. The correlation coefficient of meteing device between the flow rate and operating time was 0.9999, and the linear reuession equation computed was y=21.759x, where y is the discharge($g$) and x is the operating time(s). 2. Calculated errors for the developed metering device and two commercial pump were $\pm$0.3% $\pm$2.45% and $\pm$1.38 % FS error respectively. 3. An automatic nutrient-solution mixing system based on a low-cost and precise metering device was developed. 4. The full scale errors of the developed system in controlling EC and pH at 23$\pm$1$^{\circ}C$ were $\pm$0.05mS/cm and $\pm$0.2, respectively 5. When using the commercial system, the controlled values of EC and pH of the 500 $\ell$ of water were 1.29 mS/cm and 6.1 pH for the setting points of 1.4 mS/cm and 6.0 pH respectively at 23$pm1^{\circ}C$. 6. The developed nutrient-solution control system showed $\pm$0.05 ms/cm of deviation from the setting EC value over the experimental cultivation period. 7. The deviation from the average values of Ca and Mg mass content in the several nutrient-solution were 0.5% and 1.8% respectively.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2014

OPC UA(IEC62541)는 SG(Smart Grid) 응용 플랫폼 간에 연계 프로토콜로서, 2012년 12월에 IEC TC57 그룹에서 IEC62541로 표준화되었다. IEC61850은 디지털 변전소 및 스마트 배전 시스템에서 사용되는 SCADA 표준 프로토콜이고, DNP3.0은 RTU나 IED와 같은 장비에 대해 데이터 수집 제어를 위한 프로토콜로서 기존 배전 자동화 시스템에서 사용되고 있다. DLMS/COSEM은 전기 계량기를 제어하고 정보를 수집하기 위한 프로토콜로서 스마트 계량기에서 사용되고 있다. 최상위 SG 운영 플랫폼에서 IEC61850 이나 DNP3.0을 비롯한 다양한 전력 IT 시스템들을 투명하게(Transparent) 관리하기 위해서는 프로토콜에 독립적인 미들웨어가 필요하다. 본 논문은 IEC61850, DNP3.0, DLMS/COSEM 기반의 디지털변전소, 스마트 배전시스템 및 기존 배전 자동화 시스템을 단일 OPC UA 클라이언트로 통합 관리하기 위한 SDG(Scada Data Gateway) 플랫폼에 관한 것이다. 이 게이트웨이는 OPC UA를 통해서 스마트미터, 디지털변전소 및 스마트배전 시스템을 관리한다.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.1373-1380
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• 2019

에너지의 생산 효율성을 증가시키기 위해 최근 스마트그리드 기술 중 지능형 검침 시스템(AMI, advanced metering infrastructure)의 개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 전력 소비 데이터를 분석하고 소비 패턴을 예측하는 일은 AMI에서 핵심적인 부분이다. 본 논문에서는 수집된 전력 소비 데이터를 분석하고 발생할 수 있는 오류들을 정리하였으며 소비 패턴을 월별로 k-means 군집화 알고리즘을 사용하여 분석하였다. 또한 deep neural network를 이용하여 소비 패턴을 예측하였는데, 가구별 하루 전력 사용량 예측의 어려움을 극복하기 위하여 전력 사용량을 100개의 군집으로 분류하여 이 군집의 하루 평균으로 다음날 군집의 평균을 예측하였다. 실제 AMI에서의 전력 데이터를 사용하여 오류들을 분석하였으며 군집화 방법을 도입하여 성공적으로 전력 소비 예측이 가능하였다.