• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.373-384
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• 2012

Purpose: In EU, the animal welfare regulations are strengthening. Also, in Korea, for strengthening of animal protection laws, animal welfare farm certification scheme is being prepared to enforce. To get the certification of animal welfare farm, especially for sows, individual specific feeding in sow group is necessary in accordance with the animal welfare regulation. Also, liquid feeding is reported to be more effective for farrowing as well as dry sow. Therefore, in this study, a electronic liquid sow feeder using RFID which could be fed to farrowing sow simultaneously is developed. Methods : We manufactured a prototype of appropriate elements which were evaluated in the preliminary test for selecting RFID tag, supply pump, mixing type, etc. With the prototype, the performance test for liquid feeding gilt was done in group raising training barn. Results : The performance test result shows the C.V.(coefficient of variation) of liquid mixing and feeding is 0.77~1.97% and 2.4~5.3%, respectively, which means the system could feed sows uniformly. The feeding time of pneumatically activated ball valve is 2 seconds per 0.9 kg of liquid feed. The eating time for gilt were 65 seconds in average. Conclusions : The prototype could feed sow uniformly, and deliver the liquid feed 9 times for a sow continuously. Also, total eating time for a sow was 18 minutes in one visit to the prototype of feeding station.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.46 no.10
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

Nowadays there are many studies and there's huge development about RFID and WSN which have great developmental potential to many kinds of applications. In particular, the healthcare field is expected to could be securing international competitive power in u-Healthcare and combined medical treatment industry and service. More and more real time application apply RFID and WSN technology to identify, data collect and locate objects. Wide deployment of RFID and WSN will generate an unprecedented volume of primitive data in a short time. Duplication and redundancy of primitive data will affect real time performance of application. Thus, emerging applications must filter primitive data and correlate them for complex pattern detection and transform them to events that provide meaningful, actionable information to end application. In this paper, we design a complex event processing system. This system will process RFID and WSN primitive data and event and perform data transformation. Integrate RFID and WSN system had applied each now in medical treatment through this study and efficient data transmission and management forecast that is possible.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.5C
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• pp.540-547
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• 2006

This paper proposes a novel anti-collision method for the ISO/IEC 18000-6 type B protocol which is the standard protocol of the 900 MHz RFID system. We improve the anti-collision performance by reducing the transmission number of commands and the length of bits required for multi-tag identification in the ISO/IEC 18000-6 type B protocol. Simulation results show that the proposed method improves the multi-tag identification time by 21.7% over the conventional method, irrespective of number of tags.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.32 no.7B
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• pp.448-454
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• 2007

This paper proposes an estimation method of number of tags which may be necessary in improving anti-collision performance for ALOHA-based RFID systems. In ALOHA-based anti-collision algorithms, since the performance of the multi tag identification can be improved by allocating the optimal slot size corresponding to the number of tags, it is needed to exactly estimate the number of tags. The proposed method uses the a priori knowledge of the relation between the expectation of the number of empty slots and the number of tags. After measuring the number of empty slots in one ROUND, we estimate the number of tags which corresponds to the expectation of the number of empty slots nearest to the measured one. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to conventional methods in terms of the estimation accuracy and the computational complexity.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.1294-1301
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• 2008

Under passive RFID environment, this paper presents a new localization of a mobile robot traversing over the floor covered with tags, which is superior to existing methods in terms of estimation performance and cost effectiveness. Basically, it is assumed that a mobile robot is traveling along a series of straight line segments, each segment at a certain constant velocity, and that the number of tags sensed by a mobile robot at each sampling instant is at most one. First, for a given line segment with known starting point, the velocity and position of a mobile robot is estimated using the spatial and temporal information acquired from the traversed tag. Some discussions are made on the validity of the basic assumptions and the localization for the initial segment with unknown starting point. Second, for a given tag distribution density, the optimal tag arrangement is considered to reduce the position estimation error as well as to make easy the tag attachment on the floor. After reviewing typical tag arrangements, the pseudorandom tag arrangement is devised inspired from the Sudoku puzzle, a number placement puzzle. Third, through experiments using our passive RFID localization system, the validity and performance of the mobile robot localization proposed in this paper is demonstrated.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.1
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• pp.19-25
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• 2012

In evaluating the performance of RFID systems, the tag anti-collision arbitration has been considered to be an important issue. For BT(Binary Tree) and ABS( Adaptive Binary Splitting) protocols, the so-called capture effect, which presumably happens frequently in the process of readers' receiving messages from multiple tags, can lead to some failures in detecting all tags in BT and ABS. In this paper, we propose a new anti-collision protocol, namely FTB (Feedback TagID with Binary splitting), which can solve the aforementioned problem and improve the performance.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.2A
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• pp.174-182
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• 2008

For the UHF EPC C1 Gen2 RFID system, to overcome the performance degradation in wireless channel environments, we proposed a modified tag structure which supports channel coding and its applied methodology. The reader consistently monitors the wireless channel status and sets to use channel coding functions for tags and reader only if wireless channel is corrupted. Compared with previous tag complexity, only negligible gates are needed to implement channel coding. By simulation we showed an obvious performance improvement of the identification reliability.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.176-184
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• 2012

In this paper, the effects of a metal plane on the performance of a meandered slot RFID antenna are evaluated in a real environment, and 3 metal plane cases are considered (the most likely scenarios in which metal conductive materials are placed near the tag antenna). The metal plane effects can be categorized as matching degradation and antenna gain variation. First, matching degradation due to the antenna's induced mutual impedance is experimentally investigated. In addition, the gain variation is investigated to figure out the change in the radiation characteristics. With the derived antenna parameters, the read range is calculated with the Friis transmission equation and measured to analyze the effects of a metal plane on RFID system performance. The calculated and measured read range varies from 9.3 m to 19.1 m as the distance between the RFID antenna and the metal plane changes.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.137-140
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a simplified tag collection algorithm to improve the performance of ISO / IEC 18000-7, the standard of active RFID systems. In the proposed algorithm, the collection command is modified to include the result of the listening period response from the previous round. The tag, which has received the collection command, checks whether the slot to which it has responded is collided, transmits additional data to its data slot without a point-to-point read command and sleep command, and transitions to the sleep mode. The collection round in the standard consists of a series of collection commands, collection responses, read commands, read responses, and sleep commands. On the other hand, in the proposed tag collection algorithm, one collection round consists only of a collection command and a collection response. As a result of performance analysis, it can be seen that the proposed technique shows superior performance compared to the standard.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.7A
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• pp.751-756
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a modified I/Q diversity scheme receiver of UHF RFID reader system. The modified I/Q diversity receiver is more robust than the conventional homodyne receiver in the wireless noisy, fading channel and phase noise environments by making use of additional axes. In particular, it is shown that the closer the phase difference ${\theta}(t)$ between the reader and the tag to ${\pi}/4$, the larger performance improvement we can get. The performance of the proposed receiver is verified by equations and is demonstrated by the computer simulation for various difference ${\theta}(t)$ cases.