• Proceedings of the CALSEC Conference
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• 2005.03a
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• pp.215-220
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• 2005

For widespread adoption for the RFID technology, RFID middleware is considered as the key enabler of the RFID evolution while it manages the flow of data between tag readers and enterprise applications and is responsible for the quality, and therefore usability, of the information. In this paper, we introduce the recent researches and developments of RFID middleware and explain the software framework of the RFID middleware which is currently developed in ETRI. In conclusion, our experiences with the current implementation are presented

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

As ubiquitous computing is evolving, RFID/USN technology is largely applied to various fields. Although there has been much research on the improvement of educational environment using RFID/USN technology, there has been little research on the learning improvement using it. So, in this paper, we used RFID/USN technology to find out the location and situation of students for Chinese situation learning system. We developed a mobile RFID middleware for Chinese situation learning system reflecting Chinese characteristics compared with English on PDA. In USN environment, we designed a USN system, which gets the situation information through a sensor network with sensors and sends them for helping learners study in situation learning. We took a pilot test to a small group for the analysis of the system.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2008

USN and RFID, as new technologies for realization of ubiquitous computing, are closely related with each other technically. Nevertheless, these technologies are recognized as a separate research topic, and there are few researches on technical convergence of the two research areas. In this paper, we propose an efficient processing method of various kinds of sensor data which are used in USN environment to provide efficiency from the view point of not only convergence of USN and RFID technologies but also cost and extensibility. Especially, we propose a method of conversion of various sensor data into EPC data format which can be handled in a RFID middleware. Using the proposed method, RFID middleware systems based on international standard specification can handle not only RFID tag data but also general sensor data efficiently, and various types of ubiquitous application services can be implemented at low cost and in a short time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.174-178
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 환경을 실현하기 위한 핵심 기술로 RFID가 주목받고 있고 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. RFID는 점점 소형화되고 주변의 모든 환경 및 사물에 부착 될 것이다. 이러한 환경에서 RFID Tag가 부착된 개체들의 관리와 Middleware의 중요성이 부각되고 많은 기관에서 연구가 진행되고 있다. USN/RFID 환경 하에서 사용하기 위한 Middleware는 다음과 같은 기능이 필요하다. 첫째, RFID가 부착 된 개체가 주위 환경에 민감한 개체일 경우 Middleware에서 자체적으로 상황을 인지하여 대처해야 한다. 둘째, 방대한 양의 raw 데이터 처리를 부하 없이 처리해야 한다. 셋째, 실제 RFID를 적용했을 경우 한 종류의 RFID 장비만을 사용하는 것이 아니므로 다양한 종류의 RFID 장비를 인식할 수 있는 Middleware가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 RFID에 센서와 무선통신 기술을 결합하여 상황인식(context-aware)이 가능하고, 분산처리 환경을 도입하여 방대한 양의 데이터를 처리 가능하며, 다양한 프로토콜이나 주파수의 장비를 통합적으로 적용 가능한 Middleware의 설계를 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.143-150
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• 2009

Recently "Green IT" technology has been attracting public attention that the Ministry of Environment has come up with new plans to make "low carbon and green growth" technology and to promote u-City industries. Making an offer, Uubiquitous Service needs RFID/USN Middleware to handle heterogeneous RFID/USN devices in order to gather existing informations. In this paper, we propose the design and implementation of a dynamic management method for heterogeneous RFID/USN devices. In compliance with the paper I will furnish Uubiquitous Service regarding existing circumstances by handling heterogeneous RFID/USN devices such as new RFID/Sensor devices addition and deletion and so on.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.170-181
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• 2015

Generally, because individual agricultural product possesses its own distinctive characteristics and shows different characteristics at each stage of the agricultural supply chain, it is necessary to develop a proper enterprise architecture for managing information system. In this paper, we propose an enterprise architecture based on RFID/USN technology that can be used as a reference enterprise architecture for u-IT application in the agriculture sectors, which is called the u-Farm enterprise architecture with taking heterogeneous characteristics of agricultural products into account for. In addition, we also developed the RFID/USN middleware platform as a core infrastructure technology. Fo evaluation of the performance of the proposed u-Farm architecture and the RFID/USN middleware platform, the field-trial evaluation at the apple Agricultural Processing Center (APC) has been executed and the results shows that the proposed architecture and platform perform well in terms of information integration over the whole SCM process from the farming stage to delivering statge to the customers. It is expected that the proposed u-Farm enterprise architecture can be utilized as a standard information architecture, and the RFID/USN middleware platform can be a infrastructure platform for future u-IT based information technology applications and services in the agricultural environment.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 2014

Connotation and unlimited growth potential as the core infrastructure to implement the u-Korea RFID/USN is emerging to lead to a future Internet that can bring a huge transformation in the industry sector. On RFID/USN increase overall social interest of our country, if the world who want to dominate the market by securing the u-Korea vision and global RFID/USN technologies IT839 depending on the policy, has been active research on the USN and USN infrastructure in the future building is completed as quickly to take advantage of the USN. USN applications will increase. Of USN middleware and necessitate USN infrastructure-based application development in order to more easily USN middleware configuration directory service is one of the core services. USN infrastructure suitable for the directory service when considering the characteristics of WSN, such as the USN components, update existing directory services and search focused on the problem and receive, this paper can overcome this directory service design and implementation discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.1284-1288
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• 2008

Recently, there is increasing the development requirement of middleware and interface for GPS(Global Positioning System), RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification), sensor networks. GPS supports a useful location based service. RFID supports products logistic and distribution services through the identification. A sensor network collects a context information, such as humidity, temperature and atmospheric pressure. This paper implements and verifies a integrated service middleware for supporting efficiently process of sensing data collected from RFID, GPS and sensor network. This middleware have the temporary store function, the redundancy exclusion function, certification function, the classification function and the database storage function. Additionary, this middleware connects with low-level adaptor using socket interface and supports the high-level application services using database connection. Therefore, user can develop easily various many ubiquitous application system using proposed middleware instead of each RFID middleware, GPS middleware and, middleware based on sensor network.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.729-734
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• 2011

In this paper, e-Meters middleware and applications using standardized middleware in the EPCglobal is suggested. An standardized middleware of the EPCglobal is designed to manage as a form of SCM and other logistics. In order to support a variety of services using RFID-based, the system must be able to support each protocol. The main features of e-Meters middleware is consist of information status and delivery, distributed database processing, event data analysis, and handling. To operate real time e-Meters system information, The realized middleware is configured to process the results of data collection.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1351-1354
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• 2006

최근 들어 RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification) 및 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 기술개발과 응용에 대한 국내외의 관심이 고조되고 있으며, RFID 기술 및 USN기술은 미래 핵심기술로 새로운 시장을 창출할 수 있음은 물론, 모든 산업에 접목하여 새로운 정보화 혁명을 주도할 것으로 전망되고 있다. 본 논문은 RFID Middleware가 구축되었다는 가정 하에 RFID/USN 인프라를 어떻게 구축할 것인가에 대한 연구 및 RFID/USN 기술 중 RFID/USN 인프라 구축을 지원하는 정보 관리 시스템에 대한 소개, 역할 및 시스템의 구조를 설명한다.