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실시간 헬스케어 모니터링의 독립 구동을 위한 접촉대전 발전과 전자기 발전 원리의 융합 (Stand-alone Real-time Healthcare Monitoring Driven by Integration of Both Triboelectric and Electro-magnetic Effects)

  • 조수민;정윤수;김현수;박민석;이동한;감동익;장순민;라윤상;차경제;김형우;서경덕;최동휘
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • 제60권1호
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    • pp.86-92
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    • 2022
  • 최근 COVID-19 팬데믹 등 다양한 이유로 인해 바이오 헬스케어 시장이 전세계적으로 활성화되고 있다. 그 중, 생체정보 측정 및 분석 기술은 앞으로의 기술적 혁신성과 사회경제적 파급효과를 불러일으킬 것으로 예측된다. 기존의 시스템은 생체 신호를 받아 신호 처리를 하는 과정에서 신호 송×수신부, 운영체제, 센서, 그리고 인터페이스를 구동하기 위한 대용량 배터리를 필수적으로 요구한다. 하지만, 배터리 용량의 한계가 인해 시×공간적인 기기 사용의 제한을 야기하며, 이는 사용자의 헬스케어 모니터링에 필요한 데이터의 단절에 대한 원인으로 작용할 수 있으므로 헬스케어 디바이스의 큰 걸림돌 중의 하나이다. 본 연구에서는 생체정보 측정 장치에 접촉대전 효과(Triboelectric effects)와 전자기유도 효과(Electro-magnetic effects)를 융합하여, 외부 전원을 요구하지 않는 독립 구동이 가능한 시스템을 구성하여 시×공간적으로 사용 제한이 없는 소형 생체정보 측정 모듈을 설계 및 검증했다. 특히, 다양한 헬스케어 모니터링 중 족압 계측을 통해 사용자의 보행 습관 등을 파악할 수 있는 무선 족압 계측 모니터링 시스템을 검증했다. 보행 시 발생하는 접촉×분리 움직임에서 접촉대전 효과를 이용한 효과적인 압력 센서와 압력에 따른 전기적 출력신호를 통해 족압 센서를 만들고, 축전기를 이용한 신호처리 회로를 통해 이의 동적 거동을 계측할 수 있다. 또한, 출력된 전기신호의 무선 송×수신용 전원으로 사용하기 위해 전자기 유도 효과를 이용하여 보행 시 생기는 생체역학적 에너지를 전기에너지로 수확했다. 따라서, 이번 연구는 사용자가 제한적인 배터리 용량 때문에 생기는 충전에 대한 불편함을 줄일 수 있고, 뿐만 아니라 데이터 단절에 대한 문제점을 극복할 수 있는 방법으로서 큰 잠재력을 보여줌을 시사한다.

참여자관점에서 공급사슬관리 시스템의 성공에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 실증연구 (An Empirical Study on the Determinants of Supply Chain Management Systems Success from Vendor's Perspective)

  • 강성배;문태수;정윤
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • 제20권3호
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    • pp.139-166
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    • 2010
  • The supply chain management (SCM) systems have emerged as strong managerial tools for manufacturing firms in enhancing competitive strength. Despite of large investments in the SCM systems, many companies are not fully realizing the promised benefits from the systems. A review of literature on adoption, implementation and success factor of IOS (inter-organization systems), EDI (electronic data interchange) systems, shows that this issue has been examined from multiple theoretic perspectives. And many researchers have attempted to identify the factors which influence the success of system implementation. However, the existing studies have two drawbacks in revealing the determinants of systems implementation success. First, previous researches raise questions as to the appropriateness of research subjects selected. Most SCM systems are operating in the form of private industrial networks, where the participants of the systems consist of two distinct groups: focus companies and vendors. The focus companies are the primary actors in developing and operating the systems, while vendors are passive participants which are connected to the system in order to supply raw materials and parts to the focus companies. Under the circumstance, there are three ways in selecting the research subjects; focus companies only, vendors only, or two parties grouped together. It is hard to find researches that use the focus companies exclusively as the subjects probably due to the insufficient sample size for statistic analysis. Most researches have been conducted using the data collected from both groups. We argue that the SCM success factors cannot be correctly indentified in this case. The focus companies and the vendors are in different positions in many areas regarding the system implementation: firm size, managerial resources, bargaining power, organizational maturity, and etc. There are no obvious reasons to believe that the success factors of the two groups are identical. Grouping the two groups also raises questions on measuring the system success. The benefits from utilizing the systems may not be commonly distributed to the two groups. One group's benefits might be realized at the expenses of the other group considering the situation where vendors participating in SCM systems are under continuous pressures from the focus companies with respect to prices, quality, and delivery time. Therefore, by combining the system outcomes of both groups we cannot measure the system benefits obtained by each group correctly. Second, the measures of system success adopted in the previous researches have shortcoming in measuring the SCM success. User satisfaction, system utilization, and user attitudes toward the systems are most commonly used success measures in the existing studies. These measures have been developed as proxy variables in the studies of decision support systems (DSS) where the contribution of the systems to the organization performance is very difficult to measure. Unlike the DSS, the SCM systems have more specific goals, such as cost saving, inventory reduction, quality improvement, rapid time, and higher customer service. We maintain that more specific measures can be developed instead of proxy variables in order to measure the system benefits correctly. The purpose of this study is to find the determinants of SCM systems success in the perspective of vendor companies. In developing the research model, we have focused on selecting the success factors appropriate for the vendors through reviewing past researches and on developing more accurate success measures. The variables can be classified into following: technological, organizational, and environmental factors on the basis of TOE (Technology-Organization-Environment) framework. The model consists of three independent variables (competition intensity, top management support, and information system maturity), one mediating variable (collaboration), one moderating variable (government support), and a dependent variable (system success). The systems success measures have been developed to reflect the operational benefits of the SCM systems; improvement in planning and analysis capabilities, faster throughput, cost reduction, task integration, and improved product and customer service. The model has been validated using the survey data collected from 122 vendors participating in the SCM systems in Korea. To test for mediation, one should estimate the hierarchical regression analysis on the collaboration. And moderating effect analysis should estimate the moderated multiple regression, examines the effect of the government support. The result shows that information system maturity and top management support are the most important determinants of SCM system success. Supply chain technologies that standardize data formats and enhance information sharing may be adopted by supply chain leader organization because of the influence of focal company in the private industrial networks in order to streamline transactions and improve inter-organization communication. Specially, the need to develop and sustain an information system maturity will provide the focus and purpose to successfully overcome information system obstacles and resistance to innovation diffusion within the supply chain network organization. The support of top management will help focus efforts toward the realization of inter-organizational benefits and lend credibility to functional managers responsible for its implementation. The active involvement, vision, and direction of high level executives provide the impetus needed to sustain the implementation of SCM. The quality of collaboration relationships also is positively related to outcome variable. Collaboration variable is found to have a mediation effect between on influencing factors and implementation success. Higher levels of inter-organizational collaboration behaviors such as shared planning and flexibility in coordinating activities were found to be strongly linked to the vendors trust in the supply chain network. Government support moderates the effect of the IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support on collaboration and implementation success of SCM. In general, the vendor companies face substantially greater risks in SCM implementation than the larger companies do because of severe constraints on financial and human resources and limited education on SCM systems. Besides resources, Vendors generally lack computer experience and do not have sufficient internal SCM expertise. For these reasons, government supports may establish requirements for firms doing business with the government or provide incentives to adopt, implementation SCM or practices. Government support provides significant improvements in implementation success of SCM when IS maturity, competitive intensity, top management support and collaboration are low. The environmental characteristic of competition intensity has no direct effect on vendor perspective of SCM system success. But, vendors facing above average competition intensity will have a greater need for changing technology. This suggests that companies trying to implement SCM systems should set up compatible supply chain networks and a high-quality collaboration relationship for implementation and performance.