• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2012

Increase in the number of older people due to demographic changes poses great challenges to the social healthcare systems both in the Western and as well as in the Eastern countries. Support for older people by formal care givers leads to enormous temporal and personal efforts. Therefore, one of the most important goals is to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of today's care. This can be achieved by the use of assistive technologies. These technologies are able to increase the safety of patients or to reduce the time needed for tasks that do not relate to direct interaction between the care giver and the patient. Motivated by this goal, this contribution focuses on applications of acoustic technologies to support users and care givers in ambient assisted living (AAL) scenarios. Acoustic sensors are small, unobtrusive and can be added to already existing care or living environments easily. The information gathered by the acoustic sensors can be analyzed to calculate the position of the user by localization and the context by detection and classification of acoustic events in the captured acoustic signal. By doing this, possibly dangerous situations like falls, screams or an increased amount of coughs can be detected and appropriate actions can be initialized by an intelligent autonomous system for the acoustic monitoring of older persons. The proposed system is able to reduce the false alarm rate compared to other existing and commercially available approaches that basically rely only on the acoustic level. This is due to the fact that it explicitly distinguishes between the various acoustic events and provides information on the type of emergency that has taken place. Furthermore, the position of the acoustic event can be determined as contextual information by the system that uses only the acoustic signal. By this, the position of the user is known even if she or he does not wear a localization device such as a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.295-305
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• 2013

Purpose: Recent research showed that total mixed ration (TMR) feeding for pigs improved the productivity and reduced feed cost and manure odor. An automatic TMR feeding system was developed for this study because the conventional feeder cannot deliver the TMR containing roughage. Methods: Conventional feeding systems and physical properties of TMR were surveyed, and performance tests of the conventional feeder were conducted to develop a TMR feeder. Based on the TMR feeder was developed and installed, driving, measuring weight, radio frequency identification (RFID) reading, and discharging test for feeding were conducted to ensure the performance. Results: Moisture content, density, and angle of repose of the TMR 1 (mixture of 30% cut IRG silage and 70% concentrates) were 31.6%, 387 $kg/m^3$, and $51^{\circ}$, respectively. Moisture content, density, and angle of repose of the TMR 2 (mixture of 45% concentrates, 30% cut IRG silage and by-products, 10% bean curd refuse, 10% others, and 5% fermenter) were 22.2%, 544 $kg/m^3$, and $50^{\circ}$, respectively. The coefficient of variation (C.V.) of conventional concentrate feeding were 1.9~4.1%, and C.V. of TMR containing 1~3% cut IRG roughage feeding by conventional feeder were 9~42%. The conventional disc type feeder was not suitable for TMR feeding because the supply unit was clogged. The C.V. of TMR 1 was 0.6~7.9% when 0.5~10 kg of the TMR supplied, and it was suitable for feeding grow-finish pigs and sows. On the contrary, the C.V. with TMR 2 was 28% when 0.5 kg of the TMR supplied, and it was not suitable for feeding sows. Conclusions: The TMR feeder developed in this study was suitable for feeding grow-finish pigs because the feeder performed stably with over 5.0 kg feed. However, the feeder showed a lack of accuracy for feeding sows because the amount of each feed was more than 0.5 kg per a feeding. Therefore, the improvement of outlet structure for accurate feeding is needed for sow feeding.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.147-157
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• 2017

소비자만족과 소비자경험을 향상시키기 위해 기술-유통 통합(ICT Retail Convergence; IRC)이 증가하고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 소비자에게 상용화된 IRC의 현황과 가치를 소비자의 구매의사결정 단계별로 고찰함으로써 소비자 관점에서 IRC를 진단하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 먼저 국내 외 유통관련 문헌 고찰을 통해 IRC 종류를 살펴본 결과, IRC는 체험특화기술인 가상현실(VR)와 증강현실(AR), 정보관련기술인 인공지능(AI)과 빅데이터, 위치기반기술인 비콘과 RFID, 결제관련기술인 핀테크와 생체인식기술로 구분되었다. 다음으로 각 기술별 대표사례를 수집하고 소비자에게 제공하는 가치를 분석한 결과, 기술 유형에 따라 구매단계별 소비자에게 제공하는 가치에 차이가 있는 것을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구는 소비자의 만족향상과 유통산업, 기술의 발전이 함께 이루어질 수 있는 IRC 도입 방향을 제시하였다는 점에서 의의가 있으며, 향후 다양한 산업과 후속연구에서 소비자 지향적으로 기술을 분석하는데 기초자료로 활용될 수 있다.

• 국제학술발표논문집
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• The 3th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• pp.869-875
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• 2009

Safety is a big issue in the construction sites. For safe and secure management, tracking locations of construction resources such as labors, materials, machineries, vehicles and so on is important. The materials, machineries and vehicles could be controlled by computer, whereas the movement of labors does not have fixed pattern. So, the location and movement of labors need to be monitored continuously for safety. In general, Global Positioning System(GPS) is an opt solution to obtain the location information in outside environments. But it cannot be used for indoor locations as it requires a clear Line-Of-Sight(LOS) to satellites Therefore, indoor location monitoring system could be a convenient alternative for environments such as tunnel and indoor building construction sites. This paper presents a case study to investigate feasibility of Wi-Fi based indoor location monitoring system in construction site. The system is developed by using fingerprint map of gathering Received Signal Strength Indication(RSSI) from each Access Point(AP). The signal information is gathered by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, which are attached on a helmet of labors to track their locations, and is sent to server computer. Experiments were conducted in a shield tunnel construction site at Guangzhou, China. This study consists of three phases as follows: First, we have a tracking test in entrance area of tunnel construction site. This experiment was performed to find the effective geometry of APs installation. The geometry of APs installation was changed for finding effective locations, and the experiment was performed using one and more tags. Second, APs were separated into two groups, and they were connected with LAN cable in tunnel construction site. The purpose of this experiment was to check the validity of group separating strategy. One group was installed around the entrance and the other one was installed inside the tunnel. Finally, we installed the system inner area of tunnel, boring machine area, and checked the performance with varying conditions (the presence of obstacles such as train, worker, and so on). Accuracy of this study was calculated from the data, which was collected at some known points. Experimental results showed that WiFi-based indoor location system has a level of accuracy of a few meters in tunnel construction site. From the results, it is inferred that the location tracking system can track the approximate location of labors in the construction site. It is able to alert the labors when they are closer to dangerous zones like poisonous region or cave-in..

• 지능정보연구
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.147-157
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• 2010

아이폰의 등장과 함께 스마트 폰에 대한 관심이 높아지고, 통신사업자를 통해야만 가능했던 다양한 서비스가 스마트 폰을 통해서 직접 제공할 수 있는 환경이 가능해졌다. 전세계적으로 해외 관광객이 증가하면서 관광가이드 없이 자신의 노력으로 여행을 다니는 개인관광객도 증가하고 있다. 그러나 우리나라를 방문하는 외국인들이 개인적으로 여행을 즐기기에는 언어소통이나 제공되는 정보의 부족으로 어려움을 느끼고 있다. 본 연구에서는 스마트 폰이 탑재하고 있는 GPS와 WiFi 또는 3G 무선망을 통해서 사전에 설정된 관광 정보 카테고리에 따라서 관광객의 위치에 따른 관련 정보를 자동으로 제공함으로써 관광객의 편의성을 높이는 서비스 기술을 개발하였다. 개발된 서비스는 인사동을 대상으로 시험하였으며, 사용자의 선택과 같은 불편함 없이 주변정보를 제공함으로써 관광에 대한 편의성을 최대한 높였다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.37-47
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• 2010

CRM은 고객에 대한 가치를 잘 이해하고 고객정보를 바탕으로 하여 그들의 욕구를 충족시키고 나아가서는 평생가치(Life Time Value)를 극대화시킬 수 있는 전략수립 및 고객관리프로세스를 통합적으로 잘 운영하는 것이다. 또한 이를 고객들과 좋은 관계로 유지 발전시켜서 궁극적으로는 회사의 수익을 최대화하기 위한 경영활동이다. 성공적인 CRM을 위한 전략은 고객접점을 담당하는 조직의 변화와 고객관리 프로세스를 재설계한 후에, 기업이 장기적인 계획으로 고객관계를 유지시키는 마케팅 전략과 시장 환경대응에 적절한 방법으로 통합시스템을 구축하여 전사적인 프로그램으로 전개되어야 한다. 또한 CRM 프로그램을 꾸준히 기업 특성에 맞게 개선과 보완활동을 펴나가야만 한다. 특히 중소규모의 유통업체들의 성공적인 CRM을 위한 전략은 다음과 같다. 첫째, CRM에 대한 인식을 바꾸고 고객에 대한 관심을 깊이 기울여야 한다. 둘째, 선진기업들의 CRM 기법을 벤치마킹하여 성공 포인트를 찾아내어 활용한다. 셋째, 나만의 재주와 장기를 마케팅에 접목하는 아이디어를 통해 자사 여건에 알맞은 방법을 모색한다. 넷째, 작지만 화제성 강한 이벤트 행사 등을 통하여 스위스의 소상공인의 사례처럼 개별고객에 대한 관계증진을 키울 수 있는 CRM 모델을 개발하여야 한다.