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Design and Implementation of Modbus Communications for Smart Factory PLC Data Collection (스마트팩토리 PLC 데이터 수집을 위한 Modbus 통신 설계 및 구현)

  • Han, Jin-Seok;Yoo, Jae-Soo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.77-87
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    • 2021
  • Smart Factory refers to a factory that can be controlled by itself with an intelligent factory that improves productivity, quality and customer satisfaction by combining the entire process of manufacturing and production with digital automation solutions. The manufacturing industry around the world is rapidly changing, with Germany, Europe, and the United States at the center. In order to cope with such changes, the Korean government is also implementing a policy to spread the supply of smart factories for small and medium-sized companies, and related ministries and agencies such as the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of SMEs and Venture Business, the Korea Institute of Technology and Information Promotion, and local technoparks, as well as large companies such as Samsung, SK and LG are actively investing in smart manufacturing projects to support smart factories[1]. Factory Automation (FA) construction has many issues regarding the connection of heterogeneous equipment. The most difficult aspect of configuring various communications from various equipment is the reason. Although it may not be known if there are standards or products made up of the same company, it is not easy to build equipment that is old, up-to-date, and different use environments through a series of communications. To solve this problem, we would like to propose a method of communication using Modbus, one of FieldBus, which is one of the many industrial devices of PLC, a representative facility control system, and is used as a communication standard.

Determination of Heavy Metal Concentration in Herbal Medicines by GF-AAS and Automated Mercury Analyzer

  • Kim, Sang-A;Kim, Young-Jun
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.281-288
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    • 2021
  • This study was conducted to analyze and compare the concentrations of heavy metals in 430 different products of 20 types of herbal medicines available in the domestic market in Korea by Graphite Furnace-Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (GF-AAS) and automated mercury analyzer. The accuracy for lead (Pb), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg) was in the range 92.67-102.56%, and the precision was 0.21-6.00 relative standard deviation (RSD%), which was in compliance with the Codex acceptable range. Furthermore, the Food Analysis Performance Assessment Scheme (FAPAS) quality control (QC) material showed a recovery range of 96.7-102.0% and 0.33-4.93 RSD%. The average contents (㎍/kg) of Pb, As, Cd, and Hg in herbal medicines were 254.9 (not detected (N.D.)-2,515.2), 171.0 (N.D.-2,465.2), 99.2 (N.D.-797.1), and 6.0 (N.D.-83.6), respectively. Based on the quantitative analysis results, the heavy metal contents of 20 types of herbal medicines distributed in Korea are within the acceptable range according to the standards issued by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). By using the manufacturer of herbal products as the standard for QC, the Pb, As, Cd, and Hg contents were investigated in the packaging process just before distribution to determine the actual conditions of residual heavy metals in herbal medicines. Thus, these result may contribute to monitoring the QC of herbal medicines distributed in Korea and could provide basic data for supplying safe herbal medicines to the public.

An Analysis of Professional's Perspectives on the Roles of Socio-cultural Factors and Welfare Technology among Older Adults in the US (사회문화적 요인이 미국 고령층의 복지기술 수용에 미치는 영향: 전문가 인터뷰를 중심으로)

  • Kang, Suk-Young;Kim, Jeungkun;Winthal, Jeffrey;Lenz, Rosemarie
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.215-228
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    • 2021
  • The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify cultural factors among older Americans that could influence them to accept new welfare technologies. This study also explored how social and cultural-based plans could increase the acceptability of welfare technologies for improving the quality of life of older adults in the future. In-depth interviews were conducted with ten professionals who work with older adults. The collected interview data were subsequently analyzed using a two-cycle open coding process. The data analysis generated 29 codes that were organized into 7 primary codes, or categories, and 22 secondary codes nested within the primary codes. Several themes were identified: individualism, family-oriented culture, pragmatism, low-context culture, privacy, fun-seeking culture, and a less hierarchical culture. These findings will inform the development of a future survey to examine the relationship between older adults' intentions when using technology and socio-cultural factors in community settings. In order to explore the different impact levels of the cultural factors found in this study, the future study will need to include measures for identifying socio-cultural variations among individuals in one country or across countries.

Group-based Adaptive Rendering for 6DoF Immersive Video Streaming (6DoF 몰입형 비디오 스트리밍을 위한 그룹 분할 기반 적응적 렌더링 기법)

  • Lee, Soonbin;Jeong, Jong-Beom;Ryu, Eun-Seok
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.216-227
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    • 2022
  • The MPEG-I (Immersive) group is working on a standardization project for immersive video that provides 6 degrees of freedom (6DoF). The MPEG Immersion Video (MIV) standard technology is intended to provide limited 6DoF based on depth map-based image rendering (DIBR) technique. Many efficient coding methods have been suggested for MIV, but efficient transmission strategies have received little attention in MPEG-I. This paper proposes group-based adaptive rendering method for immersive video streaming. Each group can be transmitted independently using group-based encoding, enabling adaptive transmission depending on the user's viewport. In the rendering process, the proposed method derives weights of group for view synthesis and allocate high quality bitstream according to a given viewport. The proposed method is implemented through the Test Model for Immersive Video (TMIV) test model. The proposed method demonstrates 17.0% Bjontegaard-delta rate (BD-rate) savings on the peak signalto-noise ratio (PSNR) and 14.6% on the Immersive Video PSNR(IV-PSNR) in terms of various end-to-end evaluation metrics in the experiment.

A Study on Corporate Culture of Shanxi Fenjiu Group (산서 분주그룹 기업문화연구)

  • Xu, JingYi;Choi, MyeongCheol;Ma, XiaoDong;Ahn, JiYoung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.259-264
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    • 2022
  • In China, liquor has gone beyond mere drinks to become a culture. China's liquor culture has a long history, in China, distilled liquor companies have a huge scale and huge profits. There are many companies all over the country. Fenjiu Group is a long-lived enterprise in Shanxi Province, which has considerable influence and popularity in the Chinese liquor market. Such research on Fenjiu Group enterprises has not yet appeared in South Korea. Therefore, this study analyzes the development process and corporate culture of Fenjiu Group. Fenjiu Group has a history of more than 100 years and has achieved considerable achievements and market share in the liquor market from its inception to the present. According to the investigation, the development of Fenjiu Group stems from the excellent corporate culture. Fenjiu Group has formed and developed the corporate culture based on the core idea, quality and character orientation and honest management. Based on such corporate culture, the company develops organizational structure, manufactures products, and enjoys high popularity and market share. Through this study to improve the understanding of well-known Chinese liquor companies and time-honored brand, and to provide inspiration to Korean liquor companies.

A Study on Operation Control Technology Required for Introduction of Intelligent Sewage Treatment Plant (스마트 하수처리장 도입에 필요한 운전제어기술에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jiwon;Kim, Yuhyeon;Gil, Kyungik
    • Journal of Wetlands Research
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.38-43
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    • 2022
  • Smart sewage treatment plant means creating a safe and clean water environment by establishing an ICT-based real-time monitoring, remote control management and intelligent system for the entire sewage treatment process. The core technology of such a smart sewage treatment plant can be operation control technology using measuring instruments. This research team analyzed and suggested the operation control technologies necessary for the establishment of the intelligent business by referring to the intelligent research projects of the sewage treatment plant in progress in Korea. As a result of the analysis, a total of six removal technologies were presented, including control by scale, reflow water control, linked treated water control, chemical quantity control, winter operation control, and total organic carbon control. By size, standards that can be classified into small and medium-sized large-scale are presented, and in the case of reflow water control, the location of water quality and flow sensors capable of managing reflow water is suggested. In the case of the linked treated water control, the influence and control points of the linked treated water on the sewage treatment plant were presented, and in the case of the chemical injection volume control, a system capable of optimizing the amount of chemical injection according to the introduction of an intelligent sewage treatment plant was presented. In the case of winter operation, the sensors and pumps to be controlled are suggested when considering the decrease in nitrification due to the decrease in water temperature. In the case of total organic carbon control, an interlocking system considering the total amount of pollution in the future was proposed. These operation control scenarios are expected to be used as basic data to be used in intelligent sewage treatment algorithms and scenarios in the future.

Factors of Selecting Temporary Road Positions for the Optimal Path of Earthwork Equipment in Road Constructions (도로공사에서 토공장비 최적 이동을 위한 가설도로 위치선정 요소)

  • Lee, Dong-Jun;Kim, Sung-Keun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.85-94
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    • 2022
  • Construction industry is facing difficult challenges in terms of productivity, manpower, and industrial accidents. Currently, along with the 4th Industrial Revolution, various high-tech technologies are emerging, and efforts are being made to solve the problem by applying the technologies related to the 4th Industrial Revolution to the construction industry. As part of these efforts, research is being conducted to develop a construction equipment control system to increase productivity and safety at earthworks sites where many and various types of construction equipment are involved, and the system needs a function to increase productivity by optimizing the moving path of construction equipment. In the case of trucks, the location of the temporary road must be optimized in order to optimize the path of movement in the construction site. However, only matters related to the quality standard of temporary roads have been suggested so far, and there is no standardized process for efficiently determining the location of temporary roads. In this paper, the factors and its importance related to the location of the temporary road were identified through field surveys and interviews with experts, and a method for determining the location of the temporary road was presented. It was confirmed that the suggested method through a case study could improve the productivity of earthwork.

Development of Optimal Antiviral Coating Method for the Air Filtration System of Subway Station (지하역사 승강장 공조 시스템 필터용 항바이러스 코팅 성능 및 재생 성능 평가)

  • Park, Dae Hoon;Hwang, Jungho;Shin, Dongho;Kim, Younghun;Lee, Gunhee;Park, Inyong;Kim, Sang Bok;Hong, Keejung;Han, Bangwoo
    • Particle and aerosol research
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.9-21
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    • 2022
  • In this study, a novel antiviral coating method for the air filtration system of subway station was investigated. Using dry aerosol coating process, we developed a high-performance antiviral air filter with spark discharger and carbon brush type ionizer. Silver nanoparticles were produced by a spark discharge generation system with ion injection system and were used as antiviral agents coated onto a medium grade air filter. The pressure drop, filtration efficiency, and antiviral ability of the filter against aerosolized MS2 virus particles as a surrogate of SARS-CoV-2 virus were tested with dust contamination. Dust contamination caused the increase of the filtration efficiency and pressure drop, while the antiviral agents (in this study, silver nanoparticles) coating did not have any significant effect on the filtration efficiency and pressure drop. Using these properties, we suggested a novel method to maximize the antiviral performance of the antiviral air filter that was contaminated by dust particles. Moreover theoretical analysis of antiviral ability with dust contamination and re-coated antiviral agents was carried out using a mathematical model to calculate the time-dependent antiviral effect of the filter under actual conditions of subway station. Our model can be used to apply on antiviral air filtration system of subway station for prevention of pandemic diffusion, and predict the life cycle of an antiviral filter.

Effect of puffing treatment on the quality characteristics of bee pollen and its addition to wheat flour-puff yeot-gangjeong (팽화처리가 화분 및 이를 첨가한 밀엿강정의 품질특성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee, Jiyea;Surh, Jeonghee
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.54 no.3
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    • pp.306-312
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    • 2022
  • To test bee pollen as an ingredient for heat-processed foods, bee pollen was puffed under heat at various pressures and examined for its physicochemical properties and antioxidant activities. As the puffing intensity increased, the browning index, total reducing capacity, and DPPH radical scavenging activity of the bee pollen increased significantly (p<0.001). This was attributed to the formation of Maillard reaction products during the puffing process. The wheat flour-puff yeot-gangjeong added with puffed bee pollen showed significantly (p<0.01) higher antioxidant activities than its counterpart with raw bee pollen. In addition, the gangjeong retained the physicochemical characteristics of the puffed bee pollen such as color, soluble solids, titratable acidity, and pH. The results showed that the puffed bee pollen could potentially be used as an ingredient in thermally processed foods and retain its superior antioxidant properties.

The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education of Students' Civic Responsibility

  • Sadovyi, Mykola;Terenko, Olena;Filimonova, Tetiana;Malanchuk, Serhii;Vovkochyn, Lyudmyla;Paslawska, Alla;Oros, Ildiko
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.7
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    • pp.213-219
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    • 2022
  • Building Ukraine as an independent, sovereign state requires the education of a citizen-patriot, able to live and work in a democracy, ensure the unity of Ukraine, feel constant responsibility for themselves, their people, country, seek to make a real contribution to the reform process. Modern modernization of the education system requires the search for new information and communication technologies that can ensure the formation of a citizen with an active civic position, which involves not only students mastering the rights and responsibilities of citizens, convincing them of the feasibility of democratic transformation of society, patriotic qualities and feelings, but also the identification of motivated civic actions. The pandemic and hostilities have led to significant changes in the field of education around the world, they have caused educational problems in Ukraine. At the beginning of the quarantine in the spring of 2020, all educational institutions in the emergency mode switched to distance learning. Intensive use of information and communication technologies in the life of modern society has led to a rethinking of the content of education and training of future professionals: the main role is played not so much by the information itself as the ability to work with it, critically comprehend and produce new knowledge; the main thing is not the amount of information, but its quality; information is needed for further practical application and transformation into knowledge, and the ability to work with information becomes one of the important competencies of the modern specialist in the new transformation of society: from information to the knowledge society. In this context, one of the main forms of training is distance learning, which is able to respond to the challenges of society. The main methodological positions that are taken into account in the construction of the structure and dynamics of the formation of civic responsibility of the individual during the use of information and communication technologies are highlighted. The structure of civil responsibility as a holistic system of information and communication technologies is outlined, which includes three subsystems that characterize the natural, social and systemic qualities of citizenship, interconnected hierarchically and synergistically.The constituent elements of the structural part of the model of civic culture of the individual are analyzed.