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Development of Investment Evaluation Model for Ubiquitous Health Service (유비쿼터스 서비스 모델의 성과 평가 모형 개발에 관한 연구 : u-Health 서비스의 투자 타당성을 중심으로)

  • Nam, Se-Il;Kim, Min-Kwan;Lee, Cha-Young;Han, Chang-Hee
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.183-202
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    • 2008
  • The introduction of a ubiquitous environment has realized commercial ubiquitous services in various industrial fields and government area. The central and/or local governments are demanding an appropriate investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service. Thus, this study develops and suggests an evaluation model for ubiquitous service by reflecting its characteristic of promoting public good, as well as its broad ripple effect on people. The investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service suggested by this study is based on Cost Benefit Analysis Method. Especially, the 'Benefit' is analyzed in two aspects; 'Economic Benefit', which shows the benefit that ubiquitous service providers to the overall local economy, and; 'Financial Benefit', which shows the profit of individual investors participating in the introduction of ubiquitous service. The investment evaluation model for ubiquitous service suggested by this study can be used by the central and/or local government during their evaluation for investment before introducing a ubiquitous service. Also, when introducing a ubiquitous service in public field, the model can be used to support the decision making of private businesses for investment. Finally, it can be used to promote and inform the expected benefits of introducing a ubiquitous service to local residents.

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1.5 V Sub-mW CMOS Interface Circuit for Capacitive Sensor Applications in Ubiquitous Sensor Networks

  • Lee, Sung-Sik;Lee, Ah-Ra;Je, Chang-Han;Lee, Myung-Lae;Hwang, Gunn;Choi, Chang-Auck
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.644-652
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, a low-power CMOS interface circuit is designed and demonstrated for capacitive sensor applications, which is implemented using a standard 0.35-${\mu}m$ CMOS logic technology. To achieve low-power performance, the low-voltage capacitance-to-pulse-width converter based on a self-reset operation at a supply voltage of 1.5 V is designed and incorporated into a new interface circuit. Moreover, the external pulse signal for the reset operation is made unnecessary by the employment of the self-reset operation. At a low supply voltage of 1.5 V, the new circuit requires a total power consumption of 0.47 mW with ultra-low power dissipation of 157 ${\mu}W$ of the interface-circuit core. These results demonstrate that the new interface circuit with self-reset operation successfully reduces power consumption. In addition, a prototype wireless sensor-module with the proposed circuit is successfully implemented for practical applications. Consequently, the new CMOS interface circuit can be used for the sensor applications in ubiquitous sensor networks, where low-power performance is essential.

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Ubiquitous Computing and Statistics; What's the Connection?

  • Jun, Sung-Hae;Jorn, Hongsuk
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.287-295
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    • 2004
  • Mark Weiser introduced ubiquitous computing in his article titled 'The computer for 21st Century' in 1991. This has been new paradigm after internet. Now, the rapid development of mobile computer, wireless network, and intelligent system has supported ubiquitous computing environment. In the related area of information science, the researchers have studied on ubiquitous computing. But in the field of Korea statistics, this research has not been worked yet. So, we proposed the connection between statistics and ubiquitous computing in this paper. As an example, we showed an efficient cache hoarding for ubiquitous computing using statistical methods. In experimental results, we verified our proposed issue.

Ubiquitous Healthcare Monitoring and Measuring System based on Wireless Sensor Network (무선센서네트워크 기반의 u-헬스케어 모니터링 및 계측시스템)

  • Lee, Young-Dong;Lee, Dae-Seok;Walia, Gaurav;Bhardwaj, Sachin;Chung, Wan-Young
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.821-822
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    • 2006
  • Ubiquitous healthcare monitoring and measuring system based on wireless sensor network was implemented and tested. The system can measure the ECG and body temperature of patients or elderly persons and transfer the data wirelessly in ad-hoc network to remote base-station connected to doctor's PDA/PC or hospital server, using wireless sensor motes. The data obtained can be analyzed by doctors and care providers to monitor a health status of patient in real time environment. To prove the capabilities of the wireless sensor network platform for ubiquitous healthcare applications, the performance of our monitoring and measuring system was tested with positive results.

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Ubiquitous Car Maintenance Services Using Augmented Reality and Context Awareness (증강현실을 활용한 상황인지기반의 편재형 자동차 정비 서비스)

  • Rhee, Gue-Won;Seo, Dong-Woo;Lee, Jae-Yeol
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.171-181
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    • 2007
  • Ubiquitous computing is a vision of our future computing lifestyle in which computer systems seamlessly integrate into our everyday lives, providing services and information in anywhere and anytime fashion. Augmented reality (AR) can naturally complement ubiquitous computing by providing an intuitive and collaborative visualization and simulation interface to a three-dimensional information space embedded within physical reality. This paper presents a service framework and its applications for providing context-aware u-car maintenance services using augmented reality, which can support a rich set of ubiquitous services and collaboration. It realizes bi-augmentation between physical and virtual spaces using augmented reality. It also offers a context processing module to acquire, interpret and disseminate context information. In particular, the context processing module considers user's preferences and security profile for providing private and customer-oriented services. The prototype system has been implemented to support 3D animation, TTS (Text-to-Speech), augmented manual, annotation, and pre- and post-augmentation services in ubiquitous car service environments.

The Framework to Support a Common Way for Context-aware Applications

  • Baek, Jong-Kwun;Jung, Hae-Sun;Jeong, Chang-Sung
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.279-282
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    • 2007
  • In this paper, we introduce the general way for producing context information to support context-aware applications. It can fetch raw data from the service environments, translate it to reasonable context information, and provide to multiple applications. It is designed originally for the ubiquitous computing middleware and based on the ontology processing model. Automated service applications can use this system as the form of libraries or of web services for deciding its semantic cause of action.

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The Technology of Device-to-Device Integration using Web Services (웹서비스를 이용한 서비스 기반 디바이스 연동 기술)

  • Lee, Won-Suk;Lee, Kang-Chan;Jeon, Jong-Hong;Lee, Seung-Yun
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.71-78
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    • 2005
  • The beginning of Web Services was understood as efficient technology for application integration in the internet, thus it was used to integrating the distributed enterprise applications or the e-business applications between partners. But, recently the usage trend of Web Services is largely spreaded out wireless network applications beyond the internet applications. The main reasons are that Web Services is the international standard of W3C, and Web Services is based on XML that is independent of the specific internal implementations such as platform, programming languages, communications networks etc. Currently Major company of Web Services such as MS, IBM, etc. focus on the research about technology for integrating various devices. In this paper, we define and explain technical issues for adapting web services to ubiquitous Environment.

A Routing Scheme for Reducing the Power Consumption of USN Nodes (USN 노드의 소비전력 절감을 위한 경로설정 기법)

  • Lee, Moon-Ho
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2007
  • The ubiquitous computing system is expected to be widely utilized in digital home, logistics control, environment/disaster management, medical/health-care services and other applications. The ubiquitous sensor network (USN) is a key infra-structure of this system. Nodes in the USN are exposed to adverse environments and required to perform their missions with very limited power supply only. Also the sensor network is composed of much more nodes. In case some node consumes up its power capacity under a certain required level, the network topology should change and re-routing/ re-transmission of data is necessitated. Resultantly communication protocols studied for conventional wireless networks or ad-hoc networks are not suitable for the sensor network. Schemes should be devised to control the efficient usage of node power in the sensor network. This paper proposes a routing algorithm to enhance the efficiency of power consumption for USN node and analyzes its performance by simulation.

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