• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38B권3호
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• pp.207-215
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• 2013

본 논문은 효율적인 무선 AMI 네트워크를 위한 채널 할당 및 스케줄링 기법에 관한 것이다. AMI 시스템에서, 제안하는 다중채널 클러스터 네트워크는 NC(Network Coordinator)와 CDA(Clustered Data Aggregator) 간의 통신 채널을 네트워크 채널로 정의 하고, CDA와 OMD(Out Meter Display), SMD(Smart Meter Device) 간의 통신채널을 그룹 채널로 정의한다. 네트워크 채널과 그룹채널이 혼합된 다중채널 클러스터 기반의 AMI 네트워크는 물리적/논리적 수용가 채널 클러스터링을 통해서 관리의 효율성을 증대하고, 인접 클러스터간 구별되는 채널 사용을 통한 검침 데이터의 신뢰성을 증대한다. 또한 다중채널 클러스터 기반의 채널할당을 통하여 데이터의 빠른 수집이 가능하며 검침망의 크기를 증가시킨다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2005년도 ICCAS
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• pp.773-777
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• 2005

This article is about using information technology to apply with water loss inspection system in District Metering Area (DMA). Inspector can check Flow rate and Minimum Night Flow; NMF via Smart Phone or PDA include sending SMS Alert in case the Pressure, Flow rate and NMF is over the range of controlling. This will be used as equipment to implement water loss in international proactive and can keep on water loss reduction more efficiency. The system consists of Data Logger which collects data of Flow rate from DMA Master Meter. PC is Wap Server which dial via modem in order to get data through FTP Protocal that will convert text file to Microsoft Access Database. Wappage will use xhtml language to show database on Wapbrowser and can show the result on Smart Phone or PDA by graph and table for system analysis.

• 한국정보처리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보처리학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.208-211
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• 2012

전력시스템에서 MDMS(Meter Data Management System)는 HAN(Home Area Network)과 Smart Meter, SUN(Smart energy Utility Network)와 같은 AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure) 기반 환경에서 수많은 전력 또는 수도 가스 사용량과 같은 데이터를 수집, 취득하고, 이들 데이터를 처리, 가공, 분석하여 가치 있는 정보로 변환시켜, 요금서비스 및 다양한 부가서비스 창출에 활용되는 소프트웨어 인프라이다. 최근 MDMS 개발은 기능의 중요성 뿐만 아니라 다른 응용 시스템들과의 상호 운용성을 고려하여 개발하는 요구 기능을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 스마트그리드 환경에 적합한 AMI의 전력처리시스템(MDMS) 개발을 위한 설계 방안을 기술하였다.

• Journal of Multimedia Information System
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2014

The Smart grid refers to the technology that enables efficient usage of electric power by collecting information concerning the power usage and power lines grafting information and communications technology to onto power grids. There are Zigbee, PLC or IEEE 802.11 WLAN MAC as a core technology of the Smart grid, but in this paper, the discussion is focused on the PLC. The PLC is the technology that carries out data communications using power lines and put into practical use in the field of lights or home appliances control recently but PLC-applied communications between electronic devices are rarely seen. For the reason that the PLC uses high-voltage power lines and has a disadvantage of experiencing higher data loss rate caused by the noises produced by going through transformers, the technology is yet to be used in many areas. Nevertheless, the PLC has been studied widely recently in respect that it's the low-cost communication solution for the Smart Metering [1]. Moreover, this technology is emerging as a novel data communication method and discussed as an important technology lately due to the developments of the Smart grid systems and Internet of things (IoT). Thus, in this paper, the results obtained from designing and performing implementation scenario for the PLC-based Smart grid home network system were compared and analyzed with that of IEEE 802.11 WLAN MAC (the foundation technology at Jeju Smart grid Test bed)-based Smart grid home network. Thus, in this paper, OPNET 14.5 PL8, OSI 7 layer, PLC router nodes and PLC nodes had been used for the designing and implementation simulations of both systems. Additionally, QoS was not considered in order to guarantee that all the traffics would not have the same processing priority.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.511-517
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• 2015

Korea's modern waterworks began with construction of DDukdo water treatment plant in 1908 and has been growing rapidly along with the country's economic development. As a result, water supply rates have reached 98.5% based on 2013. Despite multilateral efforts for high-quality water supply, such as introduction of advanced water treatment process, expansion of waterworks infrastructure and so on, distrust for drinking tap water has been continuing and domestic consumption rate of tap water is in around 5% level and extremely poor comparing to advanced countries such as the United States(56%), Japan(52%), etc. Recently, the water management has been facing the new phase due to water environmental degradation caused by climate change, aging facilities, etc. Therefore, K-water has converted water management paradigm from the "clean and safe water" to the "healthy water" and been pushing the Smart Water City(SWC) Pilot Project in order to develop and spread new water supply models for consumers to believe and drink tap water through systematic water quality and quantity management combining ICT in the whole water supply process. The SWC pilot projects in Pa-ju city and Go-ryeong county were an opportunity to check the likelihood of the "smart water management" as the answer to future water management. It is needed to examine the necessity of smart water management introduction and nationwide SWC expansion in order to improve water welfare for people and resolve domestic & foreign water problems.

• 한국태양에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국태양에너지학회 2012년도 춘계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.419-424
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• 2012

This paper discusses the state-of-the-art techniques in real-time state estimation for the Smart Microgrids. The most popular method used in traditional power system state estimation is a Weighted Least Square(WLS) algorithm which is based on Maximum Likelihood(ML) estimation under the assumption of static system state being a set of deterministic variables. In this paper, we present a survey of dynamic state estimation techniques for Smart Microgrids based on Belief Propagation (BP) when the system state is a set of stochastic variables. The measurements are often too sparse to fulfill the system observability in the distribution network of microgrids. The BP algorithm calculates posterior distributions of the state variables for real-time sparse measurements. Smart Microgrids are modeled as a factor graph suitable for characterizing the linear correlations among the state variables. The state estimator performs the BP algorithm on the factor graph based the stochastic model. The factor graph model can integrate new models for solar and wind correlation. It provides the Smart Microgrids with a way of integrating the distributed renewable energy generation. Our study on Smart Microgrid state estimation can be extended to the estimation of unbalanced three phase distribution systems as well as the optimal placement of smart meters.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 효율적 에너지 관리를 위해 인공 신경망 중 하나인 GRU 모델을 사용하여 전력사용량을 예측하고 예측된 전력사용량과 실제 전력사용량의 비교를 통해 부하를 자동 제어 하는 스마트 미터기를 제안한다. 제안한 스마트 미터기를 통해 GRU 모델을 학습시키기 위해 필요한 전력사용량 데이터를 수집했다. 구현된 스마트 미터기가 전력사용량 자동측정 및 실시간 관찰 기능과 전력사용량 예측을 통한 부하 제어 기능을 가지고 있음을 보여준다. 성능평가 지표 중 하나인 Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) 값에 약 20%의 마진 값을 이용하여 부하 자동 제어를 위한 기준 값으로 설정했다. 부하 자동 제어 기능을 가진 스마트 미터기로 인해 에너지 관리의 효율성이 증대되는 것을 확인하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제5권10호
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• pp.311-318
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• 2016

사물인터넷(IoT, Internet of Things) 분야는 풍부한 정보를 기반으로 사용자가 쉽게 접근해서 서비스를 창출해야 하나, 전력시스템의 특수성으로 인해 다음의 사항이 IoT 확산에 걸림돌로 작용할 수 있으며 '지능형 전력망 정보의 보호 조치에 관한 지침'에 의거, 전력설비 접근이 용이하지 않고, 특히 AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure)분야에 IoT 기술적용시 엄격한 보안 정책이 요구되고 있다. 이로 인해 IoT 기술의 전력시스템에 적용 및 활용에 제약이 발생되는 실정이다. 전력정보통신망은 그간 폐쇄망으로 운영되어 왔으며, 스마트그리드(Smart Grid) 인프라인 지능형 전력망에서도 개방형 양방향 통신을 검토하고 있으나 정보보안 취약성이 높아지고 사고 위험이 증가함에 따라 종합적인 보안정책 및 기술이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문은 IoT 기반 에너지 플랫폼 개발 연구내용의 일부로 전력정보시스템의 IoT 플랫폼 아키텍쳐 설계를 목표로 한다. IoT를 기반으로 전력서비스 및 솔루션을 제공하기 위해 '센서-게이트웨이-네트워크-플랫폼-서비스'를 하나로 연결하는 표준 프레임워크를 제정하고자 한다. 프레임워크는 크게 '센서-게이트웨이-플랫폼'을 연계하는 정보모델링 및 연동규약을 다루는 표준과 이를 토대로 다양한 센서를 수용할 수 있는 게이트웨이, 실시간 데이터 수집 분석 제공 역할을 수행하는 플랫폼으로 구분하고 관련 기술을 확보하고자 한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.566-576
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• 2013

In Home Area Network (HAN) of the smart grid, Power Line Communication (PLC) technology and ZigBee communication technology can be used in the communication among the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) devices. However, according to performance evaluation results of the PLC technology, we find that using the PLC technology is unsuitable for the remote meter reading service. It is worth noting that some parts of the PLC are converted to the ZigBee communication technology in Jeju, Korea. Compared with PLC, ZigBee has no restriction of the place, where the equipments can be freely set up, due to the advantage of radio communication. However, number of usable devices will impact the network performance which is depended on the address assignment. In addition, due to the restriction of transmission range among devices, it is difficult to apply the ZigBee address assignment method to the practical circumstance. In this paper, we examine the previous ZigBee address assignment schemes and the corresponding routing algorithms, and propose a novel address assignment scheme compared with the existing methods, the performance of the proposed one is improved. In particular, evaluation results show that the proposed scheme reduces the average number of hop count, the transfer time and the processing time.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.41-51
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• 2016

Smart metering systems have become widespread around the world. RF mesh communication systems have contributed to the creation of smarter and more reliable power systems. This paper presents an algorithm for positioning GPRS concentrators to attain delay constraints for a ZigBee-based mesh network. The proposed algorithm determines the number and placement of concentrators using integer linear programming and a queueing model for the given mesh network. The solutions given by the proposed algorithm are validated by verifying the communication network performance through simulations.