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A Design and Implementation of CDMA based Electronic Float Flow Pattern System (CDMA기반 전자부자 흐름 패턴 시스템 설계 및 구현)

  • Kim, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Chae-Seok;Kim, Jong-Deok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.2619-2627
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    • 2012
  • The electronic float flow pattern system can predict a rate of flow of river by monitoring a location of float in remote with location measurement technology and a variety of communication technology. Now, to analyze the flow pattern of the natural streams, we use the manual floats in many forms. The measurement of a rate of flow using a manual float measures the distance and time of the manual float directly and uses it. It is inefficient for measurement method and exact a rate of flow of river. To overcome this problems, we designed and implemented the electronic float using CDMA, GPS, and RF module. Then, to get the location information and a rate of flow information, we designed and implemented the monitoring system for the electronic float flow pattern. The short life cycle of electronic float using the battery decreases the utility of the electronic float flow pattern system. Then, we design the power saving method to reduce the power of the electronic float in electronic float flow pattern system.

Applying Neural Networks to Model Monthly Energy Consumption of Commercial Buildings in Singapore(ICCAS2004)

  • Dong, Bing;Lee, Siew Eang;Sapar, Majid Hajid;Sun, Han Song
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.1330-1333
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    • 2004
  • The methodology for modeling building energy consumption is well established for energy saving calculation in the temperate zone both for performance-based energy retrofitting contracts and measurement and verification (M&V) projects. Mostly, statistical regression models based on utility bills and outdoor dry-bulb temperature have been applied to baseline monthly and annual whole building energy use. This paper presents the application of neural networks (NN) to model landlord energy consumption of commercial buildings in Singapore. Firstly, a brief background information on NN and its application on the building energy research is provided. Secondly, five commercial buildings with various characteristics were selected for case studies. Monthly mean outdoor dry-bulb temperature ($T_0$), Relative Humidity (RH) and Global Solar Radiation (GSR) are used as network inputs and the landlord monthly energy consumption of the same period is the output. Up to three years monthly data are taken as training data. A forecast has been made for another year for all the five buildings. The performance of the NN analysis was evaluated using coefficient of variance (CV). The results show that NNs is powerful at predicting annual landlord energy consumption with high accuracy.

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The Characteristics of Line Heating Using Hydrox Gas (수산소 혼합가스를 이용한 선상가열 특성)

  • Kim, Hong-Gun;Kwac, Lee-Ku
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.407-411
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    • 2011
  • The technology of line heating has evolved in various methods. Among them, fossil fuels like ethylene gas and LPG(Liquid Petroleum Gas) are widely used due to their simple utility. In the meantime, the technology implementing high frequency for line heating has also been developed continually, but its manufacturing technology or application includes lots of problems by now. One of the main characteristics of line heating using conventional technolob'Y is the quenching effect followed by heating process. On the other hand, hydrox gas which is mixed by hydrogen and oxygen is a prominent candidate for an application without above shortcomings. Especially, it is found that line heating using hydrox gas is tremendously effective taking low cost as well as low noise. In this paper, a small cell with high efficiency which can minimize installing space is developed to deal with the problem installing in narrow place. Experiments to prove the validation, efficiency and effectiveness is carried out by characterizing in the line heating of steel. It is found that the energy saving of using hydrox gas for line heating is significant and that the deviation performance is reduced by 78~89%. Furthermore, the noise is also reduced as amount of 18.3% though the heating time is not too different.

A game theory approach for efficient power control and interference management in two-tier femtocell networks based on local gain

  • Al-Gumaei, Y. A.;Noordin, K. A.;Reza, A. W.;Dimyati, K.
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.9 no.7
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    • pp.2530-2547
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    • 2015
  • In the recent years, femtocell technology has received a considerable attention due to the ability to provide an efficient indoor wireless coverage as well as enhanced capacity. However, under the spectrum sharing between femtocell user equipment (FUEs) and the owner of spectrum macrocell user equipment (MUEs), both may experience higher uplink interference to each other. This paper proposes a novel distributed power control algorithm for the interference management in two-tier femtocell networks. Due to the assignment of licensed radio frequency to the outdoor macrocell users, the access priority of MUEs should be higher than FUEs. In addition, the quality of service (QoS) of MUEs that is expressed in the target signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) must always be achieved. On the other hand, we consider an efficient QoS provisioning cost function for the low-tier FUEs. The proposed algorithm requires only local information and converges even in cases where the frontiers of available power serve the target SINRs impossible. The advantage of the algorithm is the ability to implement in a distributed manner. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm based on our cost function provides effective resource allocation and substantial power saving as compared to the traditional algorithms.

Demonstration of UAS Image-Based Intellectual Demarcation in Cadastral Reexaminationy (지적재조사에서 UAS 영상 기반 지적 경계확정 시범 연구)

  • Kim, Dal-Joo;Kang, Joon-Oh;Han, Woong-ji;Lee, Yong-Chang
    • Journal of Urban Science
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.29-38
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    • 2018
  • The cadastral rehabilitation project, which has been implemented since 2012, is a project to re-examine the national land that is not in conformity with the cadastral map, There is a lot of trouble in securing financial resources for business execution. This study examines the utility of UAS(Unmanned Aerial System) image - based cadastral demarcation as an alternative to budget reduction in the current state of cadastral rehabilitation, reasonable boundary adjustment, UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) is used to create 3D models and orthoimages of business districts, and to check accuracy by superimposing and comparing with digital maps of NGII(National Geographic Information Institute). As a result of the study, the accuracy of the 3D model and the orthoimage through the SfM(Structure-from-Motion) - based image interpretation of the digital map of the NGII were derived. In particular, we confirmed the similarity of UAS-based orthoimage with the cadastral boundaries affirmation, It is anticipated that the cost saving effect of current survey and boundary survey can be expected. In addition, it is easy to prepare a report to reduce civil complaints, which is a problematic element of the adjustment.

A Study on the Planning of Urban Energy Supply Systems Including Co-generation System (도시지역 에너지 공급체계 개선방안 검토 연구)

  • Woo, Nam-Sub;Lee, Tae-Won;Kim, Yong-Ki
    • Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.177-182
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate planning of urban energy supply systems configuration and operating conditions for the district heating and cooling system using combined heat and power system. Generally the district heating and cooling system has been known to one of the effective way for energy saving, cost reduction and demand side management of energy. Economical analyses were carried out and operating characteristics for some systems were examined in terms of GER factor which represents to the ratio of gas and electricity costs. Rates of the energy consumption and the $CO_2$ emission were compared from the system configuration of the energy supply system with new district cooling system with the conventional one.

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A Transmit Power Control Method for Low-Power Communication in 802.11b Infrastructure Networks (IEEE 802.11b Infrastructure 환경에서 저전력 통신을 위한 전송 전력 제어 기법)

  • Kwon Do Han;Jung Hee Lock;Park Chang Yun;Jung Chung ll
    • Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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    • v.32 no.2
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 2005
  • This paper describes a transmission power control method for power saving in 802.11b wireless LANs. We have first explored how much effects reducing transmission power has on communication performance. Then we propose a power control algorithm, whose approach is similar to that of TCP congestion control, determining an appropriate transmission power level by monitoring the retransmission rate. We have implemented an utility software on a Linux-based system and made several experiments to validate the proposed method. The results show that it is possible to save energy consumption by controlling transmission power without sacrificing communication performance.

Voluntary Insurance for Ensuring Risk-Free On-the-Go Banking Services in Market Competition: A Proposal for Bangladesh

  • Rahman, Akim M.
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2018
  • In 21st Century business world, services are carried out in multifaceted, competitive and rationality manner that are characterized by evolving many factors, which are often unpredictable. On-the-go banking is a product in financial sector. However, it faces serious pitfalls being it riskiness. Bank customers compete for time-saving options. On contrary, PCBs compete for marginalizing its operating costs for enhancing its revenues. On strategic tactics, PCBs targets city customers in multi-facets including offering incentives for enhanced usages of on-the-go banking. Influencing customer's intention, attitude and behavior in banking, PCBs also offers incentive under market system along with often informational asymmetry. However, it causes exploitation. In most cases customers don't read terms & conditions of services. They don't save contract-copy. These weaknesses cause abuses. Customer faces hidden charges, extra fees, account hacked. Addressing the issue, Voluntary Insurance Option is proposed where PCBs will introduce it as a product of bank-services. Transferring risk away from customer will benefit both PCBs and bank-customers. This product can attract new customers who were on the brink using digital banking but just felt it was too risky. This model can facilitate the parties involved for increasing usage of on-the-go banking-services while customers can maintain optimal utility of usages.

Optimal Machine Operation Planning under Time-based Electricity Rates (시간대별 차등 전기요금을 고려한 최소비용 장비운용계획)

  • Kim, Inho;Ok, Changsoo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.63-71
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    • 2014
  • As power consumption increases, more power utilities are required to satisfy the demand and consequently results in tremendous cost to build the utilities. Another issue in construction of power utilities to meet the peak demand is an inefficiency caused by surplus power during non-peak time. Therefore, most power company considers power demand management with time-based electricity rate policy which applies different rate over time. This paper considers an optimal machine operation problem under the time-based electricity rates. In TOC (Theory of Constraints), the production capacities of all machines are limited to one of the bottleneck machine to minimize the WIP (work in process). In the situation, other machines except the bottleneck are able to stop their operations without any throughput loss of the whole manufacturing line for saving power utility cost. To consider this problem three integer programming models are introduced. The three models include (1) line shutdown, (2) block shutdown, and (3) individual machine shutdown. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed IP models through diverse experiments, by comparing with a TOC-based machine operation planning considered as a current model.

Best Practices and Implications of Global Energy Saving Policies (세계 에너지절약정책 모범사례와 시사점)

  • Lim, Ki Choo
    • Journal of Energy Engineering
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2017
  • The best practices of energy efficiency were selected by reviewing cases collected from the results of IEA research and prior studies, and then by evaluating the correspondence of each case for four attributes including economic performance, synergy, political adjustment, and marketability. The selected best practices included 36 cases in 6 fields such as governance, finance, utility, home, transportation, and industry/small and medium-sized businesses. The reduction of energy costs has brought countries implementing best practices of energy efficiency a variety of benefits, including higher rate of return, the reduction of incidental expenses, the increase of productivity, and the improvement of accessibility to energy. To have similar effects, other countries need to adjust these best practices before applying to their situations.