• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

The operation of subway trains induces secondary structure-borne vibrations in the nearby underground spaces. The vibration, along with the associated noise, can cause annoyance and adverse physical, physiological, and psychological effects on humans in dense urban environments. Traditional tethered instruments restrict the rapid measurement and assessment on such vibration effect. This paper presents a novel approach for Wireless Smart Sensor (WSS)-based autonomous evaluation system for the subway train-induced vibrations. The system was implemented on a MEMSIC's Imote2 platform, using a SHM-H high-sensitivity accelerometer board stacked on top. A new embedded application VibrationLevelCalculation, which determines the International Organization for Standardization defined weighted acceleration level, was added into the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project Service Toolsuite. The system was verified in a large underground space, where a nearby subway station is a good source of ground excitation caused by the running subway trains. Using an on-board processor, each sensor calculated the distribution of vibration levels within the testing zone, and sent the distribution of vibration level by radio to display it on the central server. Also, the raw time-histories and frequency spectrum were retrieved from the WSS leaf nodes. Subsequently, spectral vibration levels in the one-third octave band, characterizing the vibrating influence of different frequency components on human bodies, was also calculated from each sensor node. Experimental validation demonstrates that the proposed system is efficient for autonomously evaluating the subway train-induced ambient vibration of underground spaces, and the system holds the potential of greatly reducing the laboring of dynamic field testing.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.885-909
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• 2016

Advances in low-cost wireless sensing have made instrumentation of large civil infrastructure systems with dense arrays of wireless sensors possible. A critical issue with regard to effective use of the information harvested from these sensors is synchronized sensing. Although a number of synchronization methods have been developed, most provide only clock synchronization. Synchronized sensing requires not only clock synchronization among wireless nodes, but also synchronization of the data. Existing synchronization protocols are generally limited to networks of modest size in which all sensor nodes are within a limited distance from a central base station. The scale of civil infrastructure is often too large to be covered by a single wireless sensor network. Multiple independent networks have been installed, and post-facto synchronization schemes have been developed and applied with some success. In this paper, we present a new approach to achieving synchronized sensing among multiple networks using the Pulse-Per-Second signals from low-cost GPS receivers. The method is implemented and verified on the Imote2 sensor platform using TinyOS to achieve $50{\mu}s$ synchronization accuracy of the measured data for multiple networks. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach is highly-scalable, realizing precise synchronized sensing that is necessary for effective structural health monitoring.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.689-709
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• 2010

In this paper, a low cost, low power but multifunctional wireless sensor node is presented for the impedance-based SHM using piezoelectric sensors. Firstly, a miniaturized impedance measuring chip device is utilized for low cost and low power structural excitation/sensing. Then, structural damage detection/sensor self-diagnosis algorithms are embedded on the on-board microcontroller. This sensor node uses the power harvested from the solar energy to measure and analyze the impedance data. Simultaneously it monitors temperature on the structure near the piezoelectric sensor and battery power consumption. The wireless sensor node is based on the TinyOS platform for operation, and users can take MATLAB$^{(R)}$ interface for the control of the sensor node through serial communication. In order to validate the performance of this multifunctional wireless impedance sensor node, a series of experimental studies have been carried out for detecting loose bolts and crack damages on lab-scale steel structural members as well as on real steel bridge and building structures. It has been found that the proposed sensor nodes can be effectively used for local wireless health monitoring of structural components and for constructing a low-cost and multifunctional SHM system as "place and forget" wireless sensors.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.846-850
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• 2009

최근 환경 모니터링, 스마트 빌딩, 의료 분야, 농업 분야 등에서 센서 네트워크가 널리 활용되고 있다. 센서 노드는 배터리로 동작한다. 넓은 지역에 배포된 센서 노드의 배터리를 주기적으로 교체하는 것은 불가능하기 때문에 에너지는 센서 네트워크에서 가장 중요한 자원이다. 따라서, 센서 데이터를 수집하는 동안 네트워크 수명을 연장시키기 위한 에너지 효율적인 메커니즘에 대한 연구는 필수적이다. 대표적인 연구로는 송수신하는 데이터의 크기를 줄이기 위한 데이터 압축 기법과 통신간 충돌을 방지하여 에너지 사용의 효율을 높이기 위한 MAC 프로토콜 기법이 있다. 기존 데이터 압축 기법은 센서 데이터의 공간 또는 시간적인 연관성을 이용하며, 기존 MAC 프로토콜은 TDMA, FDMA, CDMA 등의 방법을 통해 데이터의 충돌을 방지한다. 본 논문에서는 MAC 프로토콜 중 하나로 널리 사용되고 있는 TDMA 스케줄을 조정하여 송수신되는 센서 데이터의 크기를 줄이는 새로운 압축 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 데이터 전송 시점을 이용하여 센서의 측정값을 인코딩하여 데이터의 크기를 줄이고, 동적으로 시간 슬롯을 할당함으로써 발생되는 전송 지연을 줄인다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 기법의 성능 평가를 수행하였으며, 실험 결과, 기존 데이터 수집 기법에 비해 통신 비용이 약 52% 감소하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.607-621
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• 2015

Wireless sensor technology has been opened up numerous opportunities to advanced health and maintenance monitoring of civil infrastructure. Compare to the traditional tactics, it offers a better way of providing relevant information regarding the condition of building structure health at a lower price. Numerous domestic buildings, especially longer-span buildings have a low frequency response and challenging to measure using deployed numbers of sensors. The way the sensor nodes are connected plays an important role in providing the signals with required strengths. Out of many topologies, the dense and sparse topologies wireless sensor network were extensively used in sensor network applications for collecting health information. However, it is still unclear which topology is better for obtaining health information in terms of greatest components, node's size and degree. Theoretical and computational issues arising in the selection of the optimum topology sensor network for estimating coverage area with sensor placement in building structural monitoring are addressed. This work is an attempt to fill this gap in high-rise building structural health monitoring application. The result shows that, the sparse topology sensor network provides better performance compared with the dense topology network and would be a good choice for monitoring high-rise building structural health damage.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.1133-1145
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• 1996

A method is proposed to predict the deformed shape of the structure subjected to the unknown external loads using the signal from the piezoceramic sensors. Such a shape estimation is based on the linear relationship between the deformation of structure and the signal from sensor, which is calculated using finite element method. The deformed shape is, then calculated using the linear matrix and the signals from the piezoceramic sensors attached to the structures. For the purpose, a structural analysis program is developed using a multi-layerd finite element of 8 nodes with 3 displacement and one voltage degrees of freedom at each node. The multiple layers with the different material properties can be layered within the element. The incompatible mode with the element is found to be crucial to catch the bending behavior accurately. The accuracy of the program is, then, verified by being compared with the experimental results performed by Crawley. The proposed shape estimation method is also verified for the different loads and sensor size. It is shown that the results of shape estimation method using the linear matrix well predicts the deflections compared with those of finite element method.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.85-93
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• 2016

The existence of correlation characteristics brings significant potential advantages to the development of efficient routing protocols in wireless sensor networks. This research proposes a new simple method of clustering sensor nodes into correlation groups in multiple-correlation areas. At first, the evaluation of joint entropy for multiple-sensed data is considered. Based on the evaluation, the definition of correlation region, based on entropy theory, is proposed. Following that, a correlation clustering scheme with less computation is developed. The results are validated with a real data set.

• 산업과 과학
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2023

스마트시티와 스마트 홈에서 사물인터넷의 사용이 필수적이다. 사물인터넷의 핵심인 센서 노드들에 대한 보안성이 취약하여 해킹공격을 받을 경우 실생활에 치명적인 영향을 미칠 만큼 심각하나, 사물인터넷을 구성하는 센서 노드들의 물리적 기술적 제약으로 인하여 보안모듈이 탑재되어 운영되지 못하고 있는 실정이어서 사물인터넷용 경량 보안 통신 프로토콜을 개발하여 사물인터넷의 보안성을 향상하고, 앞으로 4차산업혁명 시대에 맞는 안전한 사물인터넷 환경 구축을 위해 본 연구를 실시하며, IoT사물인터넷 인증체제 구축과 통신의 기밀성을 높이기 위한 키 관리 및 식별자 개발을 대한 제안을 하여 안전하고 편리한 스마트시티와 스마트 홈을 구축하는데 기여한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.263-275
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• 2010

In the last decade, wireless sensor networks have emerged as a promising technology that could accelerate progress in the field of structural monitoring. The main advantages of wireless sensor networks compared to conventional monitoring technologies are fast deployment, small interference with the surroundings, self-organization, flexibility and scalability. These features could enable mass application of monitoring systems, even on smaller structures. However, since wireless sensor network nodes are battery powered and data communication is the most energy consuming task, transferring all the acquired raw data through the network would dramatically limit system lifetime. Hence, data reduction has to be achieved at the node level in order to meet the system lifetime requirements of real life applications. The objective of this paper is to discuss some general aspects of data processing and management in monitoring systems based on wireless sensor networks, to present a prototype monitoring system for civil engineering structures, and to illustrate long-term field test results.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.85-97
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• 2011

무선 센서 네트워크는 단거리 무선 통신으로 연결된 지능 센서가 사람과 실세계 객체간의 효과적인 매개자 역할을 하므로 최근 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경을 가능하게 할 수 있는 핵심적인 기술 중 하나로 각광을 받고 있다. 무선 센서 네트워크는 대량으로 분산된 극도의 내장형 시스템으로 볼 수 있다. 이 시스템은 분산 시스템으로서 병행성과 비동기적 이벤트 처리 능력에 대한 요구사항과 함께 내장형 시스템으로서 자원제한성에 따른 심각한 요구사항을 갖고 있다. 이러한 일견 상충하는 두 가지 요구사항을 갖는 무선 센서 네트워크의 운영 환경과 구조는 시스템 개발자에게 매우 독특한 어려움을 제기하고 있으므로 우리는 유한상태기계에 기반을 둔, 매우 새로운 형태의 센서 네트워크용 운영체제를 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 센서 네트워크의 특성을 감안한 설계 목표를 명시하고, 간결하고 효율적인 상태기반 운영체제인 SenOS 설계와 구현의 핵심 사항을 제시한다. 또한 이러한 SenOS가 심각한 자원제한성을 갖는 센서 노드 상에서 원하는 반응성을 갖으면서도 적은 비용으로 동적 재구성이 가능하다는 것을 설명한다. 이러한 성능은 대표적인 센서 노드용 운영체제인 TinyOS의 성능평가에 사용된 벤치마크 프로그램을 수행하고 그 결과를 TinyOS의 경우와 비교한다.