• Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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• v.53 no.5
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• pp.43-51
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• 2011

Irrigation facilities are spread over demand area in a low density and exposed in the field requiring efficient operation and maintenance. Thus, it could be more efficient to manage an irrigation system when it is with wireless sensor network (WSN) using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) application. A WSN, a kind of ubiquitous sensor network composed of wireless network, RFID and database management system was developed for agricultural water management in terms of operational status and maintenance requirements. Identification code for RFID tag was designed and an application for RFID reader was developed for field data collection, and a database management system was constructed for managing irrigation facility attributes. The system was installed in I-dong irrigation districts in Gyounggi-province, Korea and the operated results showed the applicability of the WSN for agricultural water management.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.1905-1913
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• 2006

The researches about the hardware and the software implementing ubiquitous sensor network have great rush in recent years. This paper deals the development of a sensor node with the dual interface which also has an RF wireless interface while has an Bluetooth interface used widely in present. This sensor node includes a Atmeg32 microcontroller, a Bluetooth module, a RF module. a temperature-humidity sensor. and I also develop the F/Ws controlling each modules with C language using GCC compiler. The sensor node developed can reaches 15m with Bluetooth interface and 60m with RF interface. It works stably with the voltage above 5V and it consumes currents 21mA average in idle mode, 63mA average in active mode.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.868-874
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• 2011

In this paper, a new structure to improve the resolution of an inductive torque sensor is proposed. The new coupling structure and the change of number of turns for the receiving coil increase the resolution of the torque sensor. Because this torque sensor has non-contact points, it has no abrasion at the contact point, and is very durable. Also, the torque sensor has less variation due to vibration or strain, and it has a good EMC(Electromagnetic Compatibility) and thermal characteristics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1052-1070
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• 2016

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) have received a lot of attention as a promising technology for medical and healthcare applications. A WBAN should guarantee energy efficiency, data reliability, and low data latency because it uses tiny sensors that have limited energy and deals with medical data that needs to be timely and correctly transferred. To satisfy this requirement, many multi-radio multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed, but these cannot be implemented on current off-the-shelf sensor nodes because they do not support multi-radio transceivers. Thus, recently single-radio multi-channel MAC protocols have been proposed; however, these methods are energy inefficient due to data duplication. This paper proposes a TDMA-based single-radio, multi-channel MAC protocol that uses the Unbalanced Star+Mesh topology to satisfy the requirements of WBANs. Our analytical analysis together experiments using real sensor nodes show that the proposed protocol outperforms existing methods in terms of energy efficiency, reliability, and low data latency.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.335-343
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• 2014

This paper considers the crucial problem of deploying wireless relays for achieving a connected wireless sensor network in indoor environments, an important aspect related to the management of the sensor network. Several algorithms have been proposed for ensuring full sensing coverage and network connectivity. These algorithms are not applicable to indoor environments because of the complexity of indoor environments, in which a radio signal can be dramatically degraded by obstacles such as walls. We first prove theoretically that the indoor relay placement problem is NP-hard. We then predict the radio coverage of a given relay deployment in indoor environments. We consider two practical scenarios; wire-connected relays and radio-connected relays. For the network with wire-connected relays, we propose an efficient greedy algorithm to compute the deployment locations of relays for achieving the required coverage percentage. This algorithm is proved to provide a $H_n$ factor approximation to the theoretical optimum, where $H_n=1+{\frac{1}{2}}+{\cdots}+{\frac{1}{n}}={\ln}(n)+1$, and n is the number of all grid points. In the network with radio-connected relays, relays have to be connected in an ad hoc mode. We then propose an algorithm based on the previous algorithm for ensuring the connectivity of relays. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithms achieve better performance than baseline algorithms.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.229-234
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• 2017

In this study, we fabricated a TFT gas sensor with ZnO nanorods grown by hydrothermal synthesis. The suggested devices were compared with the conventional ZnO film-type TFTs in terms of the gas-response properties and the electrical transfer characteristics. The ZnO seed layer is formed by atomic-layer deposition (ALD), and the precursors for the nanorods are zinc nitrate hexahydrate ($Zn(NO_3)_2{\cdot}6H_2O$) and hexamethylenetetramine ($(CH_2)6N_4$). When 15 ppm of NO gas was supplied in a gas chamber at $150^{\circ}C$ to analyze the sensing capability of the suggested devices, the sensitivity (S) was 4.5, showing that the nanorod-type devices respond sensitively to the external environment. These results can be explained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis, which showed that the oxygen deficiency of ZnO nanorods is higher than that of ZnO film, and confirms that the ZnO nanorod-type TFTs are advantageous for the fabrication of high-performance gas sensors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.15-16
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• 2012

The estimation of crack damages is studied using the radio frequency system and tilt switch sensors in RC beams. If load is received on the center of the flexible specimen, sensor housing using cement mortar of the flexible specimen will be destroyed, and these are become to send signals of damages at the radio frequency system connected with tilt switch sensors. This study is fundamental research for the estimation of the damage using tilt switch sensors in RC beams.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.798-801
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• 2015

센서 레지스트리 시스템(SRS, Sensor Registry System)은 이기종 센서 네트워크에서 끊김 없는 의미 처리를 위하여 사용자에게 센서 정보를 제공한다. 불안정한 네트워크 상황에서의 원활한 서비스 제공을 위하여 빠른 근거리 사용자 이동 경로 예측 알고리즘(FCR, Fast and Close-Range Prediction) 기반의 SRS가 연구되었다. 이 연구는 경로 예측 기반의 SRS에서 이용되는 FCR 알고리즘이 지니는 한계를 극복하기 위하여 3-간선 패턴(TEP, Three-Edge Pattern) 기반의 경로 예측 알고리즘을 제안한다. TEP 알고리즘은 경로를 그래프로 표현할 때 사용자의 위치를 기준으로 이전 간선, 현재 간선, 다음 간선으로 패턴화 하여 학습하고, 이 패턴을 기반으로 하는 사용자의 이동 경로를 예측한다. 또한 실험 및 비교 평가에서, TEP 알고리즘이 FCR 알고리즘에 비해 높은 정확성을 지님을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1242-1243
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• 2015

센서 레지스트리 시스템(Sensor Registry System, SRS)은 이기종 환경에서 센서 네트워크 환경에서 센서 데이터의 즉각적 활용 및 끊김 없는 해석을 위해 사용자에게 센서 메타데이터를 제공한다. SRS에서 센서 메타데이터를 안정적으로 송신하기 위하여 경로 예측 기반 센서 레지스트리 시스템을 제안한다. 하지만 네트워크 연결이 지원되지 않거나 신호가 불안정한 경우에 센서 메타데이터를 안정적으로 제공할 수 없다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 네트워크 커버리지 기반 센서 레지스트리 시스템을 제안한다. 이 논문에서는 네트워크 커버리지 기반 센서 레지스트리 시스템과 경로 예측 기반 센서 레지스트리 시스템을 비교평가 한다. 또한 통신사별로 경로예측 정확도를 측정한다. 성능 측정의 통계적 신뢰도를 높이기 위하여 실험 데이터를 10-묶음 교차검증을 수행한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.213-217
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• 2006

방송 및 비면허 대역에서의 주파수 자원을 효율적으로 활용하기 위한 Cognitive Radio(CR)기술의 구현을 위해서는 우선적으로 해결해야할 점이 무선 상에 존재하는 관련 주파수 스펙트럼을 센싱하는 기술의 구현이라고 할 수 있다. 이러한 주파수 스펙트럼 센싱 기술이 구현되어야만, 센싱을 통해서 획득된 주파수 할당 데이터를 기반으로 CR의 개념이 원활하게 동작됨과 통시에 기존의 무선통신 주파수의 우선 이용자간의 간섭문제 또한 야기되지 않는다는 특징을 갖게 된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 이러한 Cognitive Radio 센서로 이용되는 Energy Detection 및 Matched Filter 기법의 기술특성 분석 및 최신기술동향에 대하여 기술하였다.