• Information Systems Review
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.23-44
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• 2009

U-Services are inevitably essential for the realization of u-Cities. Most local governments in Korea have expressed much interest in introducing u-Cites and related u-Services. Since researchers anticipate that developing u-Cities will produce economic effects, the Korea government has support local governments to develop u-Cities and necessary u-Services. However, the technology issues have been dominiated in the field of U-City services and most of the U-City services do not reflects all the complicated and pluralistic sides of environment, which are caused by future uncertainties in developing u-Cites. For the purpose of addressing the above uncertainties, this paper attempts to develop the possible scenarios for U-City services through a scenario planning approach. A focus group interview and survey with professionals in the field of planning u-Cities was performed to identify these uncertainties. Then, in order to investigate the validity of the scenario planning methodology, the u-Service "u-Water purity monitoring" is adopted. After considering the relevant issues, we developed two possible scenarios: a mutual linkage service among u-Service related organization and a cooperating and coordinating service among local governments. On the basis of these scenarios, the strategies for potential U-City services are formulated. Various participants in developing U -City services are encouraged to use the scenarios as the foundation of predicting future features of u-Cities and developing the framework of the U-City service scenarios effectively.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.23 no.12
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• pp.17-36
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• 2006

본 고에서는 U-City를 구현할 때 가장 핵심적인 부가 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 서비스의 종류를 소개하고 이 서비스들이 필요로 하는 공통적인 요구사항을 정리한 후 이 서비스 구현에 적용 가능한 근거리 무선 통신 기술로서 최적의 프로토콜인 WiBEEM (Wireless Beacon-enabled Energy Efficient Mesh Network) 기술에 대해 소개하였다. WiBEEM 기술은 정보통신부가 추진한 IT 839 정책 중에서 핵심 인프라기술로 인정받고 있는 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network)을 위한 최적의 아키텍처로, Mesh Network를 구현 시 Bluetooth나 ZigBee 기술이 해결하지 못하는 다양한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 여러 개의 Beacon을 수용하는 새로운 Superframe 구조를 제안하였으며 여러 개의 비컨들이 충돌없이 네트워크 정보를 전송할 수 있는 최적의 Beacon Scheduling 기법을 채택하였다. 또한 WiBEEM 기술은 기기의 이동성을 제공해 주기 위해 LAA (Last Address Assigned) 기법을 이용한 새로운 Short Address 할당 기법을 채택함으로써 16-bit 주소 공간을 낭비 없이 사용할 수 있게 하였으며 이동하는 기기와의 정보 전송을 위해 고속의 Routing 기법을 제공하는 USN 최적의 아키텍처이다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.43-53
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• 2011

The many cities are changing in the city form where the person and nature are mixed. Namely, the government invests many expense in tree field of distance space for the change in the green city. In this paper, we design and implement a tree growth management system using PDA built in 13.56MHz RFID reader and CBD(Component Based Development) for ubiquitous computing environments. Our system provides history management to increase business efficiency for location coordinate of tree and history information of tree which using RFID, the RFlD tag is attaching the new tree and that is inputting GPS location information in PDA and provides tree information of tree by location coordinate to history management. Finally, we show from a performance analysis that our system achieves about 85% average tree read rate of RFID under test scenario environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.95-96
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• 2006

A variety of systems have been attempted for effective urban management. In this paper, we introduce integrated urban management system (IUMS), which mainly consists of optical line terminal (OLT), optical network terminal (ONTs) and wireless access points (APs), by combining passive optical network (PON) and radio over fiber (RoF) technologies so as to take advantages of both two systems. Further, several IUMS services including disaster detection and prevention system (DDPS), bus information system (BIS) and real time location system (RTLS) are demonstrated in order to employ IUMS for the realization of future ubiquitous city (U-city).

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.100-111
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• 2011

u-City(ubiquitous city) pursuing competitiveness of city and improvement the quality of life needs high cost to build and operate it. But not all people get a benefit by u-City. It is important that low-income people have experienced information divide gain practical benefits in u-City. In this paper, first we selected suitable item of u-service for low-income people and then drew a order of priority using AHP method about legal and institutional conditions, possibility of technical realization, and the generalization. As a result, we prioritize to u-service for low-income people, that is the order is prevention for missing a dotard, safety of street, and information providing about job and employment.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.485-487
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• 2009

The Spatial Image contents of Geomorphology 3-D environment is focused by the requirement and importance in the fields such as, national land development plan, telecommunication facility management, railway construction, general construction engineering, Ubiquitous city development, safety and disaster prevention engineering. The currently used DEM system using contour lines, which embodies geographic information based on the 2-D digital maps and facility information has limitation in implementation in reproducing the 3-D spatial city. Moreover, this method often neglects the altitude of the rail way infrastructure which has narrow width and long length. This As the results, We confirmed the solutions of varieties application for railway facilities management using 3-D spatial image contents and database design. Also, I suggested that U-city using topographical modeling about matching methods of high density elevation value using 3-D aerial photo with laser data are best approach for detail stereo modeling and simulation.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.305-310
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• 2014

We called a current society the convergence generation. In information society, digital convergence means a service or new product which appeared through fusion of unit technologies in information and communication regions. The effects of convergence technologies and social phenomenons are visualized in overall regions of society such as economy, society, culture, etc. In 2011, The Government introduced "IT Convergence Technology Prediction Survey 2025". This report includes 10 ICT industries. In this paper, we described a smart city which was leading case in digital convergence and related with our life.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.467-470
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 기반 인프라를 이용한 실시간 유괴방지 시스템을 구축하였다. 급속한 사회 발전과 더불어 강력사건이 증가되고 있으며 그중에서 어린이 유괴 범죄 같이 질적으로 흉악한 범죄가 해마다 증가되고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 유괴 범죄를 예방하기 위하여 현재 GPS(Global Positioning System)을 이용한 위치인식 기술 및 이동통신 기지국을 이용한 위치인식 기술이 사용되고 있다. 단순히 위치인식 기술은 위험상황이 발생하였을 때, 상황을 정확히 인지하기 어려워 유괴된 어린이 44%가 1시간 이내 사망하고 74%가 3시간 이내 사망 한다는 통계를 감안하면 기존 시스템은 어린이 생명 보호 능력에 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 유비쿼터스 도시 기반 인프라를 구축하여 WPAN(Wireless Personal Area Network)환경에서 RF만으로 거리 측정이 가능한 IEEE 802.15.4a의 ISM Band CSS(Chirp Spread Spectrum)방식을 이용하여 보다 저 전력으로 정확한 위치정보 시스템을 적용하였다. 이에 CSS방식을 통하여 얻은 위치정보를 지능형 CCTV와 융합하여 CCTV가 단말기 위치로 자동 초점하는 시스템을 구성하였다. 도시통합운영센터에서 상황을 정확히 인지하고 신속하게 출동할 수 있도록 단말기 위치를 지속적으로 요원의 PDA 및 핸드폰으로 통보하고 현장 주변의 미디어 보드 표시와 음성 경고로 경찰의 적절한 대응 및 주변의 도움을 받을 수 있는 시스템을 구성하였다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08a
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• pp.191-195
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• 2007

Recently, landslides frequently happen at a natural slope during period of intensive rainfall. With rapidly increasing population of steep terrain in Korea, landslides have become one of the most significant natural hazards. Thus, it is necessary to protect people from landslides and to minimize the damage of houses, roads and other facilities. To accomplish this goal, many landslide prediction methods have been developed in the world. In this study, a simple landslide prediction system that enables people to escape the endangered area is developed. The system is focused to debris flows which happen frequently during periods of intensive rainfall at steep slopes in Kangwondo. This system is based on the wireless sensor network that is composed of sensor nodes, gateway, and server system. Sensor nodes that are composed of sensing part and communication part are newly developed to detect sensitive ground movement. Sensing part is designed to measure tilt angle and acceleration accurately, and communication part is deployed with Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15. I) module to transmit the data to the gateway. To verify the feasibility of this landslide prediction system, a series of laboratory tests is performed at a small-scale earth slope supplying rainfall by artificial rainfall dropping device. It is found that sensing nodes installed at slope can detect the ground motion when the slope failure starts. It is expected that the landslide prediction system by wireless senor network can provide early warnings when landslides such as debris flow occurs, and can be applied to ubiquitous computing city (U-City) that is characterized by disaster free.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 2014

Low power RF devices, such as RFID and Zigbee, are important for ubiquitous sensing. These devices, however, are powered by portable energy sources, such as batteries, which limits their use. To mitigate this problem, this study developed RF energy harvesting with W-CDMA for a low power RF device. Diodes are required with a low turn on voltage because the diode threshold is larger than the received peak voltage of the rectifying antenna (rectenna). Therefore, a Schottky diode HSMS-286 was used. A prototype of RF energy harvesting device showed the maximum gain of 5.8dBi for the W-CDMA signal. The 16 patch antennas were manufactured with a 10 dielectric constant PTFT board. In low power RF devices, the transmitter requires a step-up voltage of 2.5~5V with up to 35 mA. To meet this requirement, the Texas Instruments TPS61220 was used as a low input voltage step-up converter. From the evaluated result, the achievable incident power of the rectenna at 926mV to operate Zigbee can be obtained within a distance of 12m.