• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.1C
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• pp.97-108
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• 2012

This paper introduces a health monitoring system based on a wireless sensor network for weapon asset. This system can estimate the remaining lifetime and decide what should be done and when should it be done using the environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity and shock for weapon assets by sensor tag. And we describes its operating scenario and routing method for this system. Finally we introduce the developments of the sensor tag, portable reader, gateway and monitoring server.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.125-131
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.406-408
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• 2008

최근 전력IT 사업으로 추진되고 있는 디지털 기반의 설비 감시 진단 시스템은 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크 기술(USN) 기반의 무선 통신 환경 접목이 큰 줄기를 이룬다고 할 수 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 전력 설비의 운영 신뢰성을 검증하고, 설비 감시 시스템에 ZigBee 무선 통신 적용 가능성을 고찰 하고자 한다. 설비 감시 진단 프로그램은 API(Windows Application Programming Interface)와 MFC(Microsoft Fundamental Classes)를 이용하여 구현하였다.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.511-522
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• 2008

Domestic slope related measuring system are mainly depending on manual and visual measurements and technical development for natural slopes is poor since the technology is developed focusing on artificial cut slopes. In addition, landslide with a debris flow is occurring frequently due to recent climate abnormally and heavy rains but early forecasts and prevention of disasters are in poor condition. Therefore, construction of ubiquitous sensor network (USN) capable of detecting dangers of landslide for rapid countermeasures is necessary. In this study, new measurements devices and measurement management techniques in compliance with domestic conditions are prepared by establishing ubiquitous based landslide monitoring system and standards of measurement management.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.19-25
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• 2011

With the issue of a Green IT Technology, studies on a environment-friendly luminous source that can reduce Carbon discharge and increase energy efficiency are actively progressed all over the world. Especially, with the problems of high oil price and environmental pollution, LED has made a great attention as a new luminous source that can replace the existing incandescent bulbs and fluorescent lights. In this paper, the proposed streetlight system becomes more intellectual by combining the low power consuming, high efficient, and high luminous LED module with a complex sensor module with temperature, humidity, illumination and motion sensors. Then, we design and implement the Ad-Hoc based LED-IT-Sensor integrated streetlight system that can maximize the energy savings efficiently with central monitoring system and selective remote dimming control by connecting them to the wireless ubiquitous sensor network(USN) using a Zigbee module.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.747-752
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• 2011

Wireless technology has enabled farmers monitor and control protected production environment more efficiently. Utilization of USN (Ubiquitous Sensor Network) devices also brought benefits due to reduced wiring and central data handling requirements. However, wireless communication loses signal under unfavorable conditions (e.g., blocked signal path, low signal intensity). In this paper, performance of commercial wireless communication devices were evaluated for application to protected crop production. Two different models of wireless communication devices were tested. Sensors used in the study were weather units installed outside and top of a greenhouse (wind velocity and direction, precipitation, temperature and humidity), inside ambient condition units (temperature, humidity, $CO_2$, and light intensity), and irrigation status units (irrigation flow and pressure, and soil water content). Performance of wireless communication was evaluated with and without crop. For a 2.4 GHz device, communication distance was decreased by about 10% when crops were present between the transmitting and receiving antennas installed on the ground, and the best performance was obtained when the antennas were installed 2 m above the crop canopy. When tested in a greenhouse, center of a greenhouse was chosen as the location of receiving antenna. The results would provide information useful for implementation of wireless environment monitoring system for protected crop production using USN devices.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.171-178
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• 2010

Pipeline structure is one of core underground infrastructure which transports primary sources. Since the almost pipeline structures are placed underground and connected each other complexly, it is difficult to monitor their structural health condition continuously. In order to overcome this limitation of recent monitoring technique, recently, a Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) system based on on-line and real-time monitoring system is being developed by the authors' research group. In this study, real-time pipeline health monitoring (PHM) methodology is presented based on electromechanical impedance methods using USN. Two types of damages including loosened bolts and notches are artificially inflicted on the pipeline structures, PZT and MFC sensors that have piezoelectric characteristics are employed to detect these damages. For objective evaluation of pipeline conditions, Damage metric such as Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD) value was computed from the impedance signals to quantify the level of the damage. Optimal threshold levels for decision making are estimated by generalized extreme value(GEV) based statistical method. Throughout a series of experimental studies, it was reviewed the effectiveness and robustness of proposed PHM system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.734-737
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• 2012

인체 무선망이란 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)을 통해 환자의 생체 정보를 실시간으로 수집하는 환경이다. 이를 기반으로 원격지에서 생체 정보를 전달 받는 시스템이 u-RPMS(USN Remote Patient Monitoring System)이다. u-RPMS에서 실시간으로 환자의 정보들이 발생하는데 이때 실시간으로 발생한 정보들은 공유가 불가피하다. 환자의 생체 정보는 생명과 연결되기 때문에 공유할 때 안전이 중요하다. 하지만 u-RPMS에서는 무선 통신으로 동작하기 때문에 보안에 취약하며, 이를 보안하기 위해서 서버와 DB(Data Base) 사이에 인증 서버를 통해서 해결 할 것을 제시한다. 본 연구에서는 인체 무선망을 기반으로 해서 모듈화 된 오픈 소스 원격진료 플랫폼인 OpenEMed의 개인 확인 서비스(PIDS, Personal Identification Service)를 이용해 네트워크를 기반으로 한 Kerberos 인증을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.389-395
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• 2012

U-City has been promoted nation-wide by development of recent IT technology. This paper studied the concept of 3D-virtual city in order to realize the current Ubiquitous City(U-City) efficiently, and to manage all the RFID/USN monitoring data in the real U-City. 3D-Virtual City is the concept of the reproduction of real world U-City, for embodying Ubiquitous technology while using Digital map, satellite image, VRML(Virtual Reality Modeling Language). U&V-City is the four-dimensional future city that real-time wire/wireless communication network and 3D-web GIS shall be connected that massive database, intelligent service be perceived through employing EAI(External Authoring Interface) that provides HTML&JAVA, and interface for efficient removal/process of massive information/ service and also by employing GPS/LBS/Navigation in support of world-wide orientation concept, and RTLS(Real Time Location System).

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.779-784
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• 2008

This paper presents Kalman filter based system modeling algorithm for autonomous robot systems. State of the robot system is measured using embedded sensor systems and then carried to a host computer via ubiquitous sensor network (USN). We settle a linear state-space motion equation for unknown robot system dynamics and modify a popular Kalman filter algorithm in deriving suitable parameter estimation mechanism. To represent time-delay nature due to network media in system modeling, we construct an augmented state-space model which is mainly composed of original state and estimated parameter vectors. We conduct real-time experiment to test our proposed estimation algorithm where speed state of the constructed robot is used as system observation.