• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.47-53
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• 2011

The detection process of defective tags in most of Korean domestic RFID manufacturing companies is treated by on-hand processing after the job of chip bonding, so it has been requested to reduce the time and cost for manufacturing of RFID tags. Therefore, in this paper, we implement the system to perform the detection of defective tags after the process of chip bonding, and so provide the basis of software to establish the foundation of automation system for the detection of defected RFID tags which is requested in the related Korean domestic industrial field. We have developed the system by using UML in modeling phase and JAVA in implementation phase to reduce the cost of development of program and make it easy to maintain. The developed system in this paper shows the very enhanced performance in processing speed and perfect detection rate of defective tags, comparing to the method of on-hand processing.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.31 no.1
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• pp.116-123
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• 2008

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and many countries make an effort to conserve and utilization of animal genetic resources to prepare for our unpredictable future. In order to protect the customer and the producer from the animal diseases and unjust distribution, many country seek to appropriate solution. Among the solutions, RFID technology can be used as a basic technology, since this technology can be applied in the conservancy and utilization of animal genetic resources, object management for improved animal and traceability of animal's distribution flow. There are two main issues in making the efficient RFID environment. The first issue is the standardization of code system for object identification. International Organization for Standard (ISO) published the standard which regulates RFID of animal (ISO 11784 and ISO 11785). Based on these standards, many countries have tried to establish their national standard. In Korea, National Institute of Animal Science (NIAS) playa main role in establishing the standard of object identification code based on ISO 11784. Even though the standard format of object's identification is well established, the RFID system may not be operated well without the standardization of RFID network and related equipment. In Korea, National Internet Development Agency of Korea (NIDA) has proposed the RFID Network at 2006, which can be applied in the different kind of system at each phase. But, the implementation case of this RFID Network does not reported yet, since many company or agency who introduce RFID technology, implemented as an isolated individual system. In our study, we show that RFID network can be utilized for any kind of system at each phase, and propose the improvement point in order to be widely used.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

Since 2004, the Korean government has been engaged in u-IT new technology verification projects in an effort to level up the industries. Recently, cases are reported that RFID/USN technology has been adopted and applied to business processes, mainly by large enterprises. However, further policies and support for the industries have been restrained because of unavailability of essential data for policy making. Therefore, the study examined the level of satisfaction among the actual recipient organizations from the 27 pilot projects to draw implications from the study result. Accordingly, the level of satisfaction was assessed in four project phases from RFID/USN building, utilization (technical quality), utilization (business quality), to maintenance. The study result showed that the technical stability reached a significant level but the level of satisfaction in the maintenance phase for the utilization and proliferation of the technology remained at the lowest. It suggested that a more specified policy support is needed in the maintenance phase to include inexpensive supply of tags and devices, a maintenance establishment of consortium to maintain reliability and continuity of service, strengthening internal competence of the beneficiary organizations for utilization of RFID/USN.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.63-82
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• 2009

In B2B e-Commerce(Business to Business Electronic Commerce) market, many companies use B2B e-Commerce Guarantee Service. Guarantee service raised the stability of collect debts for seller, and made purchase fund for buyer. The purpose of this study is development of KPI (Key Performance Index) for measuring performance and improving service quality. Through analysis for 'B2B e-Commerce Guarantee Intermediary Service based on RFID', the study developed KPI and made the case. The study suggests KPI of B2B e-Commerce Guarantee Intermediary Service based on RFID by IT BSC(Balanced Scorecard) model. The process of developing KPI is 4 phase. First phase is connection between service goal and KPI, second phase is make a KPI pool, third phase is development of standard for valuating and selecting index, the last phase is defining and applying of index. This study suggests the standard of measuring performance in B2B e-commerce Guarantee Service and guidelines on revitalization of service in B2B e-commerce industry and the other industry.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.481-487
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• 2013

To successfully accomplish a bit synchronization, a synchronizer should exploit a preamble pattern. A MFM (modified frequency modulation) flag is uses as a preamble in a PJM (phase jitter modulation) mode RFID standard. In the recent work, a synchronizer for a PJM mode tag was proposed, which is composed of several correlators. In this paper, we present a new bit synchronizer in which a coarse synchronization is done as in the previous work while a fine synchronization is performed via exploiting a violation bit included in the MFM flag. We show that the proposed synchronizer can significantly reduce the overall hardware complexity at the expense of slight burden to a demodulator structure. Through simulation, we also show that its performance is comparable to that of the previous system despite its hardware simplicity.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.137-147
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• 2010

Real-time supply chain environments based on RFID will be an important topic in future society; Nevertheless, adopting RFID in real industry SCM is still in its infancy. The aim of this paper is to develop the physical framework of a fully adopting RFID system from manufacturing to recycle phase and measure the effect. So, we built a simulation station with fully appling RFID and analyzed benefits with mathematic model. Then, specifying the advantages and improvement scheme for real industry limitations were suggested. This work concluded that fully appling RFID in SCM gives improvement of quality and service to both production and consumer.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.489-499
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• 2011

RFID technologies, which allow collecting, storing, processing, and tracking information by wirelessly recognizing the inherent ID of object through an attached electronic tag, have a variety of application areas. This paper presents a novel carrier leakage suppression RF(CLS-RF) front-end for ultra-high-frequency RF identification reader. The proposed reader CLS-RF front-end structure generates the carrier leakage replica through the nonlinear path that contains limiter. The limiting function only preserves the frequency and phase information of the leakage signal and rejects the amplitude modulated tag signal in the envelope. The carrier leakage replica is then injected into the linear path that contains phase shifter. Therefore, the carrier leakage signal is effectively cancelled out, while not affecting the gain of the desired tag backscattering signal. We experimentally confirm that the prototype shows a significant improvement in the leakage to signal ratio by up to 36 dB in 910 MHz, which is consistent with our simulation results.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.247-252
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• 2009

This paper presents an Integer-N phase-locked loop (PLL) frequency synthesizer using a novel prescaler based on a charge pump and clock triggering circuit. A quadrature VCO has been designed for the 900MHz UHF RFID application. In this circuit, a voltage-controlled oscillator(VCO), a novel Prescaler, phase frequency detector(PFD), charge pump(CP), and analog lock detector(ALD) have been integrated with 0.35-${\mu}m$CMOS process. The integer divider has been developed with a verilog-HDL module, and the PLL mixed mode simulation has been performed with Spectre-Verilog co-simulator. The sweep range of VCO is designed from 828 to 960 MHz and the VCO generates four phase quadrature signals. The simulation results show that the phase noise of VCO is -102dBc/Hz at 100 KHz offset frequency, and the maximum lock-in time is about 4us with 32MHz step change (from 896 to 928 MHz).

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.528-536
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• 2011

In this paper, we analyze the location accuracy of real-time locating systems (RTLSs) in multipath environments in which the RTLSs comply with the ISO/IEC 24730-2 international standard. To analyze the location error of RTLS in multipath environments, we consider a direct path and indirect path, in which time and phase are delayed, and also white Gaussian noise is added. The location error depends strongly on both the noise level and phase difference under a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime, but only on the noise level under a high SNR regime. The phase difference effect can be minimized by matching it to the time delay difference at a ratio of 180 degrees per 1 chip time delay (Tc). At a relatively high SNR of 10 dB, a location error of less than 3 m is expected at any phase and time delay value of an indirect signal. At a low SNR regime, the location error range increases to 8.1 m at a 0.5 Tc, and to 7.3 m at a 1.5 Tc. However, if the correlation energy is accumulated for an 8-bit period, the location error can be reduced to 3.9 m and 2.5 m, respectively.

• IE interfaces
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.181-189
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• 2006

This study introduces an overall framework for RFID applications in product lifecycle management(PLM). PLM is a new strategic approach to manage product related information efficiently over the whole product lifecycle. Recently, with emerging technologies such as radio frequency identification(RFID), global positioning system(GPS), and wireless communication, PLM provides a new environment that enables us to gather and analyze product lifecycle information, and make decisions on several issues without spatial and temporal constrains. However, a PLM system just provides us with new opportunities to gain the PLM system, first and foremost, it is necessary to look into its overall framework in the viewpoint of hardware, software, and business model. For this purpose, in this study, first, we introduce the technical framework of the new PLM environment with the concept of extended RFID system, called product embedded information device(PEID). Then, for each lifecycle phase such as beginning of life(BOL), middle of life(MOL), and end of life(EOL), we explore several research problems that become highlighted under the new PLM environment.