• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.871-874
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• 2010

Needs for Smart Grid development are increasing all over the world as a solution to its problem according to depletion of energy resources, climatic and environmental rapidly change and growing demand for electrical power. Especially decentralized power is attracting world's attention. In this mood a new era for a unit scale of decentralized power environment is on its way in building. However there is a problem to have to be solved in the uniformity of power quality because the amount of power generated from renewable energy resources such as wind power and solar light is very sensitive to climate fluctuation. And thus this paper tries to suggest an energy management method on basis of real time monitoring for meteorological data. In the current situation of lacking in USN-based killer application in Smart Grid field, this paper proposes the USN-based DER management system which collects the meteorological data and control power system througout utilizing wireless sensor network technique this business. This communication technique is regarded to be efficient in aspects of installation cost and tits maintenance cost. The proposed EMS model embodies the method for predicting the power generation by monitoring and analyzing the climatic data and controling the efficient power distribution between the renewable energy and the existing power. The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide the technological basis for achieving zero-energy house.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.375-383
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• 2011

Recent advances in digital technology and diversified internet services have resulted in a rapid growth of research on monitering systems using embedded web servers in USN systems. In designing USN systems equipped with wireless sensor modules requiring extra power for heating sensors for their appropriate operations, excessive power consumption introduces inefficiency to the entire system. In this paper, using embedded systems in web environment, we develop a remote-monitoring system with VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) sensor signal, and propose a real time method of processing sensor-data streams by way of the serial bus from the sensor module in the USN system. The proposed system has an advantage of monitering the harmful gases on real-time basis and can be used semi-permanently by providing the sensor module with power through the serial bus. The harmful gas to be detected by the VOC sensor module is Toluene and the sensor module is composed of TGS-2602 VOC(Volatile Organic Compounds) sensors of FIGARO. The detected signal is transferred to the embedded web server using the RS-485 serial communication device. The proposed remote VOC monitering system is designed to coordinate in such a way that the VOC sensor module and embedded web server (EMPOS-II) work together effectively for real time monitering of harmful gases on the web at any places where the internet is connected.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.720-725
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• 2008

This paper proposes a system architecture for USN with a service robot to provide more active assisted living services for elderly persons by monitoring their mental and physical well-being with USN environments at home, hospital, or silver town. Sensors embedded in USN are used to detect preventive measures for chronic disease. Logged data are transferred to main controller of a service robot via wireless channel in which the analysis of data is performed. For the purpose of handling emergency situations, it needs real-time processing on gathering variety sensor data, routing algorithms for sensor nodes to a moving sink node and processing of logged data. This paper realized multi-hop sensor network to detect user movements with biometric data transmission and performed algorithms on Xenomai, a real-time embedded Linux. To leverage active sensing, a mobile robot is used of which task was implemented with a priority to process urgent data came from the sink-node. This software architecture is anticipated to integrate sensing, communication and computing with real-time manner. In order to verify the usefulness of a proposed system, the performance of data transferring and processing on a real-time OS with non real-time OS is also evaluated.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.219-222
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• 2010

An ubiquitous sensor network (USN) system to monitor the bio information and the emergency of the elderly in the silver town is presented. The USN system consists of the sensor node platforms based on MCU of Atmage128L and RF Chip of CC2420 satisfying IEEE 802.15.4, which includes the bios sensor module such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor and the temperature sensor. Additionally, when an emergency of the elderly is occurred in the silver town, the routing algorithm suitable to find and inform the location of the elderly is proposed, and the proposed routing algorithm is applied to the USN. To collect and manage the ECG data at the PC connected to the sink node, LabView software is used. The bio information and the emergency of the elderly can also be monitored at the client PC by TCP/IP networks in the USN system.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.136-145
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• 2009

There are two purposes for the marine structures used for fossil fuel: transporting huge amounts of crude oil and petroleum products and producing petroleum resources on the ocean in an isolated operational environment. Both types of structures are exposed to dangerous situations by sea conditions. Such marine structures are greatly affected by ocean climate conditions and its changes. Because of such ocean climate changes, it has been necessary to monitor marine structures. This research discusses the difficulties with adopting a new methodology based on a ubiquitous sensor network and develops an optimized sensor network management system design for a marine structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2009.01a
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• pp.279-282
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• 2009

유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크(USN)는 다수의 u-센서 노드간 애드 혹(Ad Hoc), 멀티 홉(Multi Hop) 통신으로 구성된다. 그러나 USN이 시작 단계인 현재 시점에서, 과거 시리얼이나 이더넷으로 구성된 유선 네트워크를 지그비, 블루투스, 와이파이 등을 이용한 포인트 투 포인트 (Point To Point) 무선 네트워크로 전환하는 이슈가 많은 부분을 차지하고 있다. 하지만 적용 범위가 넓고 별도의 광역 인프라를 구성하기 곤란한 경우, USN을 이용한 애드 흑, 멀티홉 메시 네트워크를 구성하는 사례도 점차 늘어나고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 환경에서 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크를 보다 쉽고 편리하게 모니터링 하기 위한 시스템을 제안하였다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.701-703
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 태양광병용형 식물공장과 USN 기술이 융합된 스마트 팜 모니터링 시스템을 설계 및 구현하고자 한다. 먼저 식물공장의 규모 및 내부 환경 정보 수집에 적합한 무선 통신 모듈과 온도, 습도, 조도, PPFD, 일사량 센서를 선택한 뒤, 각 센서를 통합하기 위한 PCB 모듈을 설계 및 제작한다. 제작된 통합센서는 송신부와 수신부가 포함되어 있으며 일정 간격마다 USN 게이트웨이의 요청에 의해 식물공장 내부의 환경 정보를 측정하여 서버로 전송하고, 전송된 데이터는 서버관리자에 의해 데이터베이스에 저장 및 각 환경 정보와 연관된 디바이스 제어 시 입력 요소로 사용된다. 향후 본 시스템을 확장 및 적용할 경우 태양광병용형 식물공장의 생산 효율이 증대되고, 에너지 소비 효율을 향상시킬수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1264-1271
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• 2006

최근 RFID/USN (Radio Frequency IDentity/Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 시장의 급격한 성장으로 비즈니스 영역에서 물류/유통 뿐만 아니라 국방, 창고 및 공정관리 등 영역을 지속적으로 확장하고 있다. 본 연구는 RFID를 이용한 농작물 개체관리와 USN을 이용한 농작물 생장환경 관리를 구현하고 두 시스템을 통합하는 비즈니스 모델(한국형 u-Farm 모델)을 제시하였다. 이를 통하여 소비자에게는 농작물 이력데이터를 제공하여 상품에 대한 신뢰성을 확보할 수 있고, 생산자는 생장환경정보를 주기적으로 획득하여 최적의 생산조건을 구현하는 기반을 마련하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.51-62
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• 2007

Recently microcontrollers are being used in sensor networks to handle sophisticated control and monitoring activities. As applications become more sophisticated, their design and development processes become more complex which consequently necessitates the use of an operating system to manage the complexity and provide an abstraction for portability of code. This paper presents a Low-power real-time operating system, called UbiFOS-USN, designed for sensor networks. We present some of the features that make UbiFOS-USN appropriate especially for small, low-cost microcontrollers typically found in sensor networks. Through experimental results, we show that UbiFOS-USN is quite efficient for a sensor network, both in terms of system performance and memory requirement.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.51-58
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• 2010

In this paper, we introduce various attempts to transmit sensor data efficiently for design of a water quality monitoring system under the USN environment. The representative methods are the sensor management on a sensor node and the clustering on a sink node. The sensor management includes controls of sensing intervals, data accumulations, and data transmissions. And the clustering is one of efficient data compression methods using data mining technology. From the experimental results we confirmed that the proposed transmission method using the sensor management and the clustering outperformed common transmission method.