• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.101-107
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• 2009

Modern society encounters various accidents due to industrialization and numbers of studies are going on to minimize damage from accidents. For prevention of accidents, it is necessary to design a system that helps making accurate judgment in emergency cases and is able to instantly manage each contingency. Various studies are currently going on contingency information system under ubiquitous environment. However, there have not been sufficient studies on the system that is able to monitor and process multiple contingencies and thus we still have difficulties in coping with multiple contingencies promptly. This study designs a RFID/USN middleware system for multiple contingencies control that receives data from various kinds of sensors and saves data after time marking thus is able to provide conjectured context when requested.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.529-532
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• 2011

Recently research efforts for ubiquitous technology that includes RFID(Radio Frequency Deification and sensor networks are conducted very actively The architectural framework of the USN sensor network discovery service. The survey of the USN technology is conducted on four technological visions that contain USN system technology USN networking technology and USN middleware along with the service platform, With respect to each technological division domestic and worldwide leading research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research outputs. Boasted on the result of the survey we establish a USN software model that includes data sensing, sensor data storage sensor data storage sensor data naming and sensor feed name service. This main objective of this model is to provide a reference model for the facilitation of USN application developments.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.203-208
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• 2007

Ministry of Information and Communication is pushing for IT 839 strategy that has main points : 8 major service which can develop IT industry of Korea on the whole, 3 major infra, and 9 major new growth power. Of these, RFID/USN utilizing service is expected to exert a great influence the whole industry from field that is closely related with our life to national defense, supply, construction, transportation, physical distribution, manufacture, circulation, and service. In domestic case, departure of RFID/USN field is a little bit later than advanced nation's, and a technique difference between domestic field and that of advanced nation is about 2 years. In this situation, in order to develop middleware of various field gearing RFID Tag efficiently, we have to study about user interface and data analysis technique that is used in middleware commonly. This paper searches about WPF that appears in user interface field with up-to-date technique, and embodies 3 dimension visualization information system with WPF.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.55-64
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• 2009

For realizing ubiquitous computing, many research activities are geared towards various areas including embedded computing, RFID, USN, home networking, context-awareness, and etc. By using the ability of RFID technology to recognize a number of objects simultaneously, more convenient ubiquitous application services are effectively provided. In this case, RFID middleware playing a role as a bridge between RFID reader devices and application services is required as well. In this paper, we propose a method of handling a number of types of RFID reader devices in ALE middleware of EPCglobal. For this, the information of connection and data protocol for a reader device is stored in a database as ontology meta-data, and used to interpret the data read by a reader device. By adding ontology data into a database, even though an RFID device newly emerges, ALE middleware can not only handle the device, but also be effectively extended through reusing ontology data, without any changes in the middleware.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.35-42
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• 2008

There are many efforts toward the development of next generation gas safety management systems to improve the assurance, availability, and efficiency of the extant systems. Among them, the application of ubiquitous technology, such as RFID and USN, to the system is regarded as a promising approach for enabling such an innovation. Recently the ubiquitous technology became much affordable and available than before thanks to the reduced production cost and wide proliferation of the ubiquitous devices. In this paper, we analyze the core requirements for the next generation gas safety management systems based on the ubiquitous technology, and present an architectural design of a middleware to facilitate the realization of the system. We formally define an event model and present how to specify various situations related to gas safety management using the proposed event model.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.152-158
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• 2006

RFID 관련 기술은 다른 산업에 상당한 영향을 미치는 기술이다. 또한 짧지 않은 미래에 물류와 계산대를 포함하여 전 문화에 걸쳐서 인류의 생활에 상당한 변화를 불러올 기술로 여겨지고 있다. 하지만 현재 RFID 태그나 리더에 대한 기술개발과 연구는 활발히 이루어지고 있지만 RFID 미들웨어에 대한 연구는 아직도 완전한 표준이 정해져 있지 않으며 아직도 연구가 진행 중에 있다. 더욱이 임베디드 기반의 RFID 미들웨어에 대한 기술연구는 전무한 실정이다. USN 플랫폼에서 RFID 미들웨어가 임베디드 시스템 상에서 이루어져야 하는 이유는 RFID 리더나 RFID 관련 시스템들이 분산 된 환경과 열악한 환경에서 실시간으로 업무를 처리하고 작업환경이 특수한 곳에서 쓰여질 것이며 RFID 미들웨어 또한 이와 같은 환경에서 동작되어 질 것이다. 따라서 범용의 서버나 PC 환경으로 미들웨어를 설계하고 구성하는 것보다 임베디드 시스템으로 설계와 구성하여 사용하는 것이 RFID 시스템에서 더 적절하다고 생각된다. 그런데 RFID 미들웨어는 여러 개의 다양한 RFID 리더로부터 수집 된 RFID 태그 데이터를 한군데로 모아 오류가 없는지 분석하고 이를 원하는 외부 애플리케이션에 제공하는 것이 목적이다. 본 연구에서는 RFID 태그 정보를 수집하는 컴포넌트와 RFID 태그에 오류가 없는지를 검사하고 데이터베이스 서버로 전송하는 컴포넌트를 임베디드 시스템으로 구현하였다. 그리고 RFID 태그 정보를 저장하는 데이터베이스와 외부의 애플리케이션에 필요 하는 RFID 태그 정보를 송신하는 부분은 일반적인 서버나 PC의 OS상에서 구동 될 수 있도록 설계하고 구현하였다. 외부 애플리케이션과 소통은 Web-Service 기술을 이용하도록 구현하여 멀티플랫폼에서 사용 될 수 있도록 하였다 우리는 임베디드 시스템 상에서 구현되어 질 수 있는 RFID 미들 웨어의 구조에 대해 제안하였으며, 구조에 맞게 RFID 미들웨어 시스템을 구현하여 다양한 RFID 리더로 실험을 진행하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.5B
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• pp.816-823
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• 2010

Recently research efforts for ubiquitous technology that includes RFID(Radio Frequency Deification and sensor networks are conducted very actively The architectural framework of the USN sensor network discovery service. The survey of the USN technology is conducted on four technological visions that contain USN system technology USN networking technology and USN middleware along with the service platform, With respect to each technological division domestic and worldwide leading research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research outputs. Boasted on the result of the survey we establish a USN software model that includes data sensing, sensor data storage sensor data storage sensor data naming and sensor feed name service. This main objective of this model is to provide a reference model for the facilitation of USN application developments.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.193-202
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• 2012

RFID tag awareness information and sensor data continuously change, and are categorized with the position. They are able to similar data in the side, called massive data to change in time. If two data are managed together, a convergence process of object awareness along change of environment is possible. If RFID middleware and EPCIS repository realized the integrated system, it is usable with the functions of middleware and repository at the same time. The real-time awareness information retrieval is possible without process, getting information from another middleware. In this paper, it is able to continuously read information from RFID reader and sensor equipment and store to database in order to make general object awareness and an object retrieval dependent on an environmental information change possible by real time. ALE-compliant middleware and EPCIS repository proposing for standards at EPCglobal is designed and implemented to be able to deal with RFID and sensor data to bases on the collected data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.31-46
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• 2012

The most critical technology to implement ubiquitous health care is Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) technology which makes use of various sensor technologies, processor integration technology, and wireless network technology-Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-to easily gather and monitor actual physical environment information from a remote site. With the feature, the USN technology can make the information technology of the existing virtual space expanded to actual environments. However, although the RFID and the WSN have technical similarities and mutual effects, they have been recognized to be studied separately, and sufficient studies have not been conducted on the technical integration of the RFID and the WSN. Therefore, EPCglobal which realized the issue proposed the EPC Sensor Network to efficiently integrate and interoperate the RFID and WSN technologies based on the international standard EPCglobal network. The proposed EPC Sensor Network technology uses the Complex Event Processing method in the middleware to integrate data occurring through the RFID and the WSN in a single environment and to interoperate the events based on the EPCglobal network. However, as the EPC Sensor Network technology continuously performs its operation even in the case that the minimum conditions are not to be met to find complex events in the middleware, its operation cost rises. Moreover, since the technology is based on the EPCglobal network, it can neither perform its operation only for the sake of sensor data, nor connect or interoperate with each information system in which the most important information in the ubiquitous computing environment is saved. Therefore, to address the problems of the existing system, we proposed the design and implementation of USN integration management system. For this, we first proposed an integration system that manages RFID and WSN data based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Secondly, we defined the minimum conditions of the complex events to detect unnecessary complex events in the middleware, and proposed an algorithm that can extract complex events only when the minimum conditions are to be met. To evaluate the performance of the proposed methods we implemented SIP-based integration management system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06d
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• pp.84-88
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• 2007

최근 다양한 분야에서 안전한 RFID 애플리케이션 개발에 대한 필요성이 증가함에도 불구하고 초기의 많은 개발 비용과 전문적 보안 지식의 부재로 인해 중소 규모의 기업체에서는 안전한 애플리케이션 개발이 어려운 상황이다. 본 논문에서는 쉽고 효율적으로 RFID 미들웨어에 보안기능을 구현할 수 있는 Security Manager를 제안한다. Security Manager는 다양한 암/복호화 알고리즘을 제공하며 새로운 알고리즘을 구현할 경우 쉽게 Security Manager에 추가 및 확장이 가능하다. 또한 Security Manager는 Diffie-Hellman 키 일치 알고리즘, PKI 환경 구축 밀 인증기능을 제공한다. Security Manager는 API형태로 제공되므로 적은 비용으로 쉽고, 효율적으로 RFID 미들웨어에 보안기능을 제공할 수 있으며 개발자가 보인 전문지식이 부족하더라도 API를 이용하여 쉽게 보안 애플리케이션 작성이 가능하다.