• Transactions of the KSME C: Technology and Education
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.105-113
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• 2017

KOLAS (KOrea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme) belongs to APLAC (Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation). KOLAS manages the accreditation scheme for measurement traceability to SI units. As per June 2016, there are 22 KOLAS laboratories for liquid flow metering. Among them, 12 laboratories participated in the proficiency test (PM2015-08) for water flow metering, organized by KASTO (Korea Association of Standards and Testing Organizations). This proficiency test was performed with three kinds of flow ranges ($3.6m^3/h{\sim}12m^3/h$, $40m^3/h{\sim}80m^3/h$, $40m^3/h{\sim}200m^3/h$) considering the CMC (calibration and measurement capability) of the participating laboratories. The purpose of the proficiency test was to find out measurement equivalence of the CMC's between each participating laboratory and the reference testing laboratory (KRISS). The measurement equivalence was tested by the number of equivalence ($E_n$). If ${\mid}E_n{\mid}$ < 1, the measurement equivalence was established. All the participating laboratories passed this proficiency test.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.20 no.11
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• pp.1550-1559
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• 2003

The convergence of fixed and wireless networks in data communication is providing the necessary driver for M2M commerce to take-off. The opportunities provided by M2M Commerce areonly limited by imagination. Automotive Fleet and Freight, Tolling, Water and Power Metering, Supply Chain Management including Asset Management, Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics, Energy Management and Access Control and Security are among the many M2M applications that are currently getting rolled out. ARC Group expects the worldwide solutions market to be worth in excess of US$ 100 billion by 2007. In addition, operator revenues worldwide from the transport of Telematics data alone will rise from US$ 3.5 billion in 2002 to US$ 78 billion by 2007. This paper discusses some of the lifestyle and business opportunities provided by M2M Commerce in the new ear of network convergence. It also provides some case studies to demonstrate the benefits of M2M Commerce across the supply chain. The key focus of the paper is on achieving enhanced lifestyle, cost reduction, improved profitability and enhanced customer relationship management through M2M Commerce.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.678-684
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• 2005

In this Paper telemetering system for home automation is Proposed and implemented. Proposed and developed systems are composed with a home server and a few clients which send metering data of gas electric power water and home security to home server using power line communication. Management computer located in office of apartment complex collects all kinds of measured home data from each home server with multi drop communication by UDP Protocol A simple ASK method is used for power line communication Collected data from each home can be used for issuing the bill of each house and web service. The experiments were carried out under laboratory environment using various kinds of electric home appliances to ascertain the performance.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.37-42
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• 2015

This paper highlights the home concentrate device(HCD) that integrates the data reading and display of the six types of meters (water, hot water, heating, cooling, gas and electricity) used in Korean residential areas. Unlike the conventional system which utilizes single MCU, the developed system uses two MCUs for one MCU to gather the meter readings and for the other MCU to communicate to the server computer. Hard ware design, communication protocols, LCD design and program structures are discussed and the test results are shown in this paper. With the implementation of integrated meter reading, the developed system can increase the popularity of automatic meter reading(AMR) with its better scalability, pricing, installation fee, maintenance and faster response.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.5-15
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• 1995

An application of the cross correlation technique by adopting ultrasonic waves for water pipe flow measuring purpose is studied. It is a non-intrusive flow metering method by determining the time of the flight of the flow turbulent noise and its non-obstructing mechanism enables to reduce process energy loss due to the flowmeter obstruction. A digital signal processor for the purpose of the real time Fourier transform was employed for the fast time calculation of the flow velocity. The overall accuracy was found as about $1\%$ for flow velocities from 0.25 m/s up to 16 m/s and for the pipe inside diameters from 50mm to 248mm. The cross correlation technique can be used for the tap water utility including most common liquid flows.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.113-119
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• 2016

Purpose: In this study, we evaluate the annual energy performance of the detached house which was designed with the aim of zero energy. Method: The experimental house which was constructed in Gonju Chungnam in 2013, is the single family detached house of light weight wood frame with $100m^2$ of heating area. Thermal transmittance of roof (by ISO 10211) and building external walls are designed as $0.10W/m^2K$ and $0.14W/m^2$ respectively and low-e coating vacuum window glazing with PVC frame was installed. Also grid connected PV system and natural-circulation solar water heater was applied and 6kWp capacity of photovoltaic module was installed in pitched roof and $5m^2$ of solar collector in vertical wall facing the south. We analyzed the 2014 annual data of the detached house in which residents were actually living, measured though web-based remote monitoring system. Result: First, as a result, total annual energy consumption and energy production (PV generation and solar hot water) are 7,919kWh and 7,689kWh respectively and the rate of energy independence is 97.1% which is almost close to the zero energy. Second, plug load and hot water of energy consumption by category showed the highest numbers each with 33% and 31%, with following space heating 24%, electric cooker 8%, lighting 3% in order. Hot water supply is relatively higher than space heating because high insulation makes it decreased.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.712-719
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• 2013

This paper studies the security module for the reliable transmission of the meter reading and the control data between the remote terminals and the upper server-side in smart water grid. The proposed security module was implemented to make it attachable to the remote terminal without security function. In particular, unlike the smart grid of electric field, the low power is considered due to the use of battery power in the smart water grid, and the ARIA-GCM-128 symmetric key method is adopted taking into the account that the damp and constrictive environments by the installed meter location in the underground occur a communication obstacle on building of the large-scale network system. The encryption module of this paper was devised to ensure the safety between the reading data on the terminal and the control data from the upper server, and secure the stability of the remote meter reading system by taking protection against an arbitrary alteration or modification.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.537-546
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• 2019

In this paper, a system that integrates a home concentrate unit(HCU) in a smart electricity meter to collects water, gas, hot water, and heating usage required for AMI has been proposed. The collected data could be transmitted to the in house display(IHD) and server to provide a more economical AMI system. The developed system is less expensive in the network configuration than the existing system, which could reduce the operating cost, and be easy to install. By applying the developed system, the usage of electricity, water, gas, hot water and heating could be measured and these make it easier to apply AMI system. The main contents of the development are the smart electricity meter and embedding of HCU into the smart electricity meter, and transferring these data to IHD and server to structure the AMI system. The each developed unit has been networked to structure the AMI system to perform the actual meter reading operation and show the result.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.34 no.12
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• pp.863-870
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• 2012

The market trends of automatic meter reading associated with smart water meters were investigated. Also, recent developments and field applications of key technology for automatic meter reading associated with smart water meters were analyzed. Smart water meters have been manufactured mostly in United States and Europe and have been expanded their business to Asia. Integrated water management system combining with the additional functions such as real-time consumption metering, cost notification, water conservation, leak detection, water quality monitoring, and flow control have been operated in automatic meter reading. Both water quality and quantity data measured from smart water meters and sensors were transferred to data concentration units through neighborhood area network, and then were transferred to integrated server through wide area network. The data transfer methods were determined by comprehensively considering urban scale, density of smart water meters, power supply and network topologies. Common data collection methods such as fixed network to data concentation units, vehicles drive by, people walk by, and drone fly by have been applied. The automatic meter reading associated with smart water meters are spread throughout the world, and both water and energy savings result in saving the money and reducing the greenhouse gases emission.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.1320-1323
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• 2008

현재 건설교통부 한강홍수통제소에서는 96개의(2006 한국수문조사연보 기준) 수위관측소를 설치 운영하고 있으며 현장에서 수집되는 수위자료의 전송방법은 크게 두 가지로 중계소를 통해 실시간으로 전송되는 TM(TeleMetering) 방식과 기록지(Recording) 방식으로 구분된다. 고품질 수위자료의 생산 및 제공은 비단 수자원 관련 연구 분야에서 뿐만 아니라 하천의 효율적인 관리, 각종 국토개발계획 등에 다양하게 이용되고 있으며 특히 TM 자료의 경우는 실시간으로 현장에서 관측되는 수문자료를 수집하여 홍수예보시스템의 가장 중요한 입력자료로서 활용된다. 한강홍수통제소에서 구축 운영하고 있는 TM 수위자료와 일반 수위자료를 대상으로 현황을 검토한 결과 일반적으로 수위관측소의 자료 오류 유형을 관측기기부터 전송단계별로 분류하면 수위계 기기 고장(부자 걸림 등), 전송로 변경 및 통신 장비 고장 등으로 인한 오 결측으로 구분될 수 있다. 과거 오 결측된 자료를 보정하기 위한 방법으로는 2시간, 3시간 전(前)수위 자료를 이용해 이상치를 보정하는 것이 유일하게 활용되고 있었으나 작년에 한강수계를 대상으로 "국가수문자료 품질관리시스템구축(1차)" 연구 용역을 실시하여 시범 구축 결과를 금년부터 활용하고 있으며 본 시스템에 자료보정에 대한 다양한 방법이 탑재되어 있다. 이와 별도로 기왕자료의 보정방법으로 TM과 일반방식이 이중화 되어 있는 관측소의 경우에는 연속적인 자료를 나타내는 기록지 자료를 활용하는 것이 대안으로 제시되고 있다. 하지만, 기록지 자료를 통해 오 결측된 TM 자료를 보완하는 것에 대해서는 아직 연구된 바가 없으며 이와 관련된 다각적인 검토가 국내에서 부족한 실정이므로 본 연구에서는 실제 한강홍수통제소에서 관할하고 있는 이중화 기록방식의 관측소를 선정하여 TM과 기록지 수위관측자료의 비교 분석을 통해 오 결측된 TM 자료를 일반 기록지 자료로 보완에 하는 것에 대한 실효성을 심도 있게 검토하여 수위자료 품질향상의 기반을 마련코자 한다.