• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.870-878
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• 2003

The maintenance of thermal equilibrium between the human body and its environment is one of the primary requirements for health, wellbeing and comfort. For the effective control of indoor thermal environment, thermostat or humidistat is used. But, it is not sufficient to control the indoor thermal environment using only one or two parameters as human response for the indoor comfortable environment. So an environmental thermal index is required for the control of indoor thermal environment effectively. In this study, a PMV sensor has been developed which has integrated from various kinds of individual sensors for temperature, humidity, air velocity, radiant temperature. After applying the PMV and PPD equation, it is possible to monitor the indoor thermal environment with the sensor system, which is adopted to the circuit for optimization according to the human response with the metabolic rate and activities. The measurement was carried out to verify the performance of the integrated sensor system in comparison with existing measurement system, the PMV meter. As a result, the possibility of applying the PMV sensor to control the indoor thermal environment simultaneously was examined.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.24-33
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• 2003

This research is about a comfort sensing system for human environmental monitoring using a one-bodied humidity and temperature sensor and an air flow sensor. The thermal comfort that a human being feels in indoor environment has been known to be influenced mostly by six parameters, i.e. air temperature, radiation, air flow, humidity, activity level and clothing thermal resistance. Considering an environmental monitoring, we have designed and fabricated a one-bodied humidity and temperature sensor and an air flow sensor that detect air relative humidity, temperature and air flow in human environment using surface micromachining technologies. Micro-controller calculates a PMV (predicted mean vote) and CSV (comfort sensing vote) with sensing signals and display a PMV on LCD (liquid crystal display) for human comfort on indoor climate. Our work has demonstrated that a comfort sensing system can provide an effective means of measuring and monitoring the indoor comfort sensing index of a human being. Experimental results with simulated environment clearly suggest that our comfort sensing system can be used in many applications such as air conditioning system, feedback controlling in automobile, home and hospital etc..

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.273-275
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• 2009

In recent years, many home machines have been developed in order to design and control comfortable interior inside houses. For such task, important factors are temperature, natural and interior lights, and space and control of relative factors each other. This paper presents novel sensor module inside houses, which is designed based on these factors through the PMV (Predicted Mean Vote) standard using information about home state. Moreover, LonWorks based power line communication technique is utilized for control interior lights and air-conditioners by means of wireless remote controllers. This mechanism is systemically operated via intelligent control framework.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.317-321
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• 2006

본 연구는 웰빙 환경 조성에 적합한 습도센서, 온도센서와 기류센서를 이용한 쾌적도 측정시스템에 관한 것이다. 이 측정시스템이 나타내는 쾌적도는 기류와 온도에 민감하게 나타났다. 시스템을 위한 온도와 습도 일체형 센서와 기류센서를 설계 및 제작하고, 마이크로 컨트롤러에서 센서 신호를 측정하여 ISO7730에서 나타내는 예상온열 감지수(PMV)와 쾌적감 지수(CSV)를 계산하고, 각각의 계산 값을 LCD에 표시하도록 하였다. 인위의 환경에서 실험한 결과, 본 시스템이 공기조화시스템, 자동차 기류조정시스템, 가정과 사무실 병원 등의 많은 분야에 적용이 될 수 있음을 알 수 있었다.