• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.11
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

The Sensor Network enables many distributed systems to be unmanned and automated by using of diverse sensors as well as wireless communication technologies. One of major enabling technologies for the sensor network is the USN middleware which plays the role of collecting and analyzing of measurements of sensors and controlling of the environments. The paper deals with the fungus cultivating environment based on Sensor Networks. Especially, we focus on the design of USN middleware for the embedded system, and explain how to design software architecture in terms of architectural patterns. In this design process, the improvement of methodology for pattern-oriented architecture design is proposed and the quality attributes for the architecture design is newly classified and suggested for the reference of software architecture design.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.147-156
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• 2010

There are some of the studies on sensor middleware. However the standard middleware has not yet been defined. Especially, this paper focuses on the processing an intelligent service of the main functions of middleware. Several applications in the sensor network environment support not only monitoring services, but also sensor-based context-awareness and intelligent services based on sensors. However, the previous studies about USN middleware only mentioned the need for intelligent service and did not discuss the architecture and method for supporting the intelligent service in detail. Therefore this paper designs a USN middleware for providing intelligent services and proposes the method for processing the services. For this purpose, this paper proposes the Sensor-Service ontology to define the concept of services and sensors for USN applications and the relationship between them. The Sensor-Service ontology is used to infer high-level information from low-level information. To apply a variety of environmental context to intelligent services, the paper uses the rule-based reasoning. This paper implements the proposed intelligent service middleware as a prototype and then shows that the middleware can be used for a variety of USN applications through the performance evaluation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.1A
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• pp.67-73
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• 2008

Our research is aimed at developing an architectural frame-work of USN sensor network discovery service systems. The research is fo-cused on the four areas a survey of USN technology, development of a USN software model, development of the design space of the USN sensor network discovery service, and finally the architectural framework of the USN sensor network dicovery service. The survey of the USN technology is conducted on four technological visions that contain USN system technology, USN networking technology, and USN middleware along with the service platform, With respect to each technological division, domestic and worldwide leading research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research projects are primarily explored with their technical features and research output To provide a means to analyze sensor network discovery services, we devel-oped the design space of the sensor network discovery services by exploring the scalability with respect to query scope, lookup performance, and resolution network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.174-178
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 환경을 실현하기 위한 핵심 기술로 RFID가 주목받고 있고 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. RFID는 점점 소형화되고 주변의 모든 환경 및 사물에 부착 될 것이다. 이러한 환경에서 RFID Tag가 부착된 개체들의 관리와 Middleware의 중요성이 부각되고 많은 기관에서 연구가 진행되고 있다. USN/RFID 환경 하에서 사용하기 위한 Middleware는 다음과 같은 기능이 필요하다. 첫째, RFID가 부착 된 개체가 주위 환경에 민감한 개체일 경우 Middleware에서 자체적으로 상황을 인지하여 대처해야 한다. 둘째, 방대한 양의 raw 데이터 처리를 부하 없이 처리해야 한다. 셋째, 실제 RFID를 적용했을 경우 한 종류의 RFID 장비만을 사용하는 것이 아니므로 다양한 종류의 RFID 장비를 인식할 수 있는 Middleware가 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 RFID에 센서와 무선통신 기술을 결합하여 상황인식(context-aware)이 가능하고, 분산처리 환경을 도입하여 방대한 양의 데이터를 처리 가능하며, 다양한 프로토콜이나 주파수의 장비를 통합적으로 적용 가능한 Middleware의 설계를 제안한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.170-181
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• 2015

Generally, because individual agricultural product possesses its own distinctive characteristics and shows different characteristics at each stage of the agricultural supply chain, it is necessary to develop a proper enterprise architecture for managing information system. In this paper, we propose an enterprise architecture based on RFID/USN technology that can be used as a reference enterprise architecture for u-IT application in the agriculture sectors, which is called the u-Farm enterprise architecture with taking heterogeneous characteristics of agricultural products into account for. In addition, we also developed the RFID/USN middleware platform as a core infrastructure technology. Fo evaluation of the performance of the proposed u-Farm architecture and the RFID/USN middleware platform, the field-trial evaluation at the apple Agricultural Processing Center (APC) has been executed and the results shows that the proposed architecture and platform perform well in terms of information integration over the whole SCM process from the farming stage to delivering statge to the customers. It is expected that the proposed u-Farm enterprise architecture can be utilized as a standard information architecture, and the RFID/USN middleware platform can be a infrastructure platform for future u-IT based information technology applications and services in the agricultural environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.231-239
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• 2008

USN and RFID, as new technologies for realization of ubiquitous computing, are closely related with each other technically. Nevertheless, these technologies are recognized as a separate research topic, and there are few researches on technical convergence of the two research areas. In this paper, we propose an efficient processing method of various kinds of sensor data which are used in USN environment to provide efficiency from the view point of not only convergence of USN and RFID technologies but also cost and extensibility. Especially, we propose a method of conversion of various sensor data into EPC data format which can be handled in a RFID middleware. Using the proposed method, RFID middleware systems based on international standard specification can handle not only RFID tag data but also general sensor data efficiently, and various types of ubiquitous application services can be implemented at low cost and in a short time.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

As ubiquitous computing is evolving, RFID/USN technology is largely applied to various fields. Although there has been much research on the improvement of educational environment using RFID/USN technology, there has been little research on the learning improvement using it. So, in this paper, we used RFID/USN technology to find out the location and situation of students for Chinese situation learning system. We developed a mobile RFID middleware for Chinese situation learning system reflecting Chinese characteristics compared with English on PDA. In USN environment, we designed a USN system, which gets the situation information through a sensor network with sensors and sends them for helping learners study in situation learning. We took a pilot test to a small group for the analysis of the system.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.353-356
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• 2007

With advances in sensor technology, current researches on the pertinent techniques are actively directed toward the way which enables the USN computing service. For many applications using sensor networks, the incoming data are by nature characterized as high-speed, continuous, real-time and infinite. Due to such uniqueness of sensor data characteristics, for some instances a finite-sized buffer may not accommodate the entire incoming data, which leads to inevitable loss of data, and requirement for fast processing makes it impossible to conduct a thorough investigation of data. In addition to the potential problem of loss of data, incoming data in its raw form may exhibit high degree of complexity which evades simple query or alerting services for capturing and extracting useful information. Furthermore, as traditional mining techniques are developed to handle fixed, static historical data, they are not useful and directly applicable for analyzing the sensor data. In this paper, (1) describe how three mining techniques (sensor data outlier analysis, sensor pattern analysis, and sensor data prediction analysis) are appropriate for the USN middleware structure, with their application to the stream data in ocean environment. (2) Another proposal is a middleware structure based on USN environment adaptive to above mining techniques. This middleware structure includes sensor nodes, sensor network common interface, sensor data processor, sensor query processor, database, sensor data mining engine, user interface and so on.

• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 2014

Connotation and unlimited growth potential as the core infrastructure to implement the u-Korea RFID/USN is emerging to lead to a future Internet that can bring a huge transformation in the industry sector. On RFID/USN increase overall social interest of our country, if the world who want to dominate the market by securing the u-Korea vision and global RFID/USN technologies IT839 depending on the policy, has been active research on the USN and USN infrastructure in the future building is completed as quickly to take advantage of the USN. USN applications will increase. Of USN middleware and necessitate USN infrastructure-based application development in order to more easily USN middleware configuration directory service is one of the core services. USN infrastructure suitable for the directory service when considering the characteristics of WSN, such as the USN components, update existing directory services and search focused on the problem and receive, this paper can overcome this directory service design and implementation discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.143-150
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• 2009

Recently "Green IT" technology has been attracting public attention that the Ministry of Environment has come up with new plans to make "low carbon and green growth" technology and to promote u-City industries. Making an offer, Uubiquitous Service needs RFID/USN Middleware to handle heterogeneous RFID/USN devices in order to gather existing informations. In this paper, we propose the design and implementation of a dynamic management method for heterogeneous RFID/USN devices. In compliance with the paper I will furnish Uubiquitous Service regarding existing circumstances by handling heterogeneous RFID/USN devices such as new RFID/Sensor devices addition and deletion and so on.