• Wind and Structures
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.179-196
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• 2005

This paper describes the application of a wireless data acquisition system to monitor wind pressures and velocities with absolute pressure sensors and an anemometer. The system was developed for future deployment, as part of a research effort currently underway to instrument coastal homes in Florida to monitor roof wind pressures during hurricanes. The proposed wireless system will replace the current system that involves a large amount of hardwired connections from the sensors to the data processing unit that requires labor intensive wiring and preparation of the home. The paper describes comparison studies and field tests to assess the performance of the system. The new system offers the advantages of light hardware, ease of installation, capacity for 48 hours of continuous data acquisition, good frequency and amplitude responses, and a relatively simple maintenance. However, the tests also show that the shape of the shell that has been previously used to protect the sensors might interfere with the proper measurement of the pressures.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.2437-2445
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• 2012

본 논문은 무선 매체의 점유 요인을 분석하여 효율적인 라디오 자원 측정 방법을 제안한다. 미디엄 점유 시간은 무선 단말이 현재 채널에서 802.11 프레임, 무선 간섭, 프로토콜 대기 시간에 의해 점유된 시간으로 다양한 분야에서 성능 측정 도구로 이용된다. 기존 연구들은 부분적인 요인만을 측정하고, 측정 도구에 대한 검증 및 다양한 라디오에 대한 확장성이 부족하다. 본 논문은 세분화된 점유 요인들의 측정 방법을 제안한다. 이를 위해 무선 칩셋의 레지스터 정보 수집, 가상 모니터 모드를 통한 프레임 분석을 위해 802.11n 기반 OpenHAL 디바이스 드라이버를 수정하였다. 뿐만 아니라 다양한 검증 방법을 통해 정확한 미디엄 점유 시간을 도출한다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제31권B호
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• pp.99-105
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• 2011

Recently, smartphones have been widely used in wireless communications which caused severe data overload in cellular networks. Cellular companies consider increasing wireless data capacity in overloaded areas. Determining overloaded areas is mainly made from user reports which are currently collected by calling or simple apps by some active users experiencing overloads. Since the current reporting method is inconvenient and does not contain detail information about the overload conditions, and therefore is used by only some active users, the overloaded areas determined from the reports are not likely to be accurate. Therefore, we need a new reporting method which is convenient enough for even inactive users to willingly report the overload condition and which delivers detail information about the overloads. In this paper, we design and implement a measurement function of smartphone's WCDMA communication quality including overload condition and management system of mobile wireless communication networks about smartphones' communication quality.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.404-409
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• 1992

It is important to measure the somatic informations for stockbreeding automatization. This study was carried out for the development of wireless measurement system of sphygmus in living animals. In meauring sphygmus counting with the single-channel telemety system, a LED-photo transistor sensor showed more sensitivity to the change of blood pressure than a piezo-electric sensor based pressure sensor. The LED-photo transistor sensor resulted ${\pm}1.29%$ of measurement error of sphygmus counting. In the process of transmitting and receiving the blood pressure signal for counting sphygmus, noises were mixed with, and the noises made the counting almost impossible. Auto-correlation analysis technique was applied to the signal data to extract the sphygmus information, and the technique was proved to be very effective.

• 한국전산구조공학회논문집
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.49-56
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• 2023

기술의 발전에 따라 전 세계적으로 교량은 대형화되고 있으며, 또한 노후 교량의 수도 급격히 증가하고 있다. 이들 대형, 노후 교량에 대한 구조건전성 모니터링은 대형 사고 예방을 위해 필수적이다. 본 연구에서는 LoRa LPWAN 기반 무선계측시스템의 적용에 대한 연구를 수행하였으며, 전남 신안군에 위치한 천사대교의 사장교 구간에 LoRa 무선계측시스템을 구축하였다. 교량의 주탑, 케이블, 보강거더에 대하여 계측시스템을 구축하여 기구축되어 운영 중인 유선기반 모니터링 시스템과 성능 및 경제성을 비교하여 LoRa LPWAN 기반 무선 모니터링 시스템의 대형 교량에서의 적용성을 검토하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.38-46
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• 2011

현재 보행 분석에 있어 많이 사용되고 있는 3차원 동작 분석기의 경우, 여러 대의 카메라와 넓은 공간이 필요하다는 공간적 제한성과 함께 고가로 접근성이 용이하지 않으며, 측정 시 준비 과정이 복잡하여 이를 임상에 적용하기에는 많은 제약점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이를 해결하기 위해 임상에서 용이하게 하지(족부) 이상을 진단하기 위한 관성 센서 기반의 3차원 무선 보행 측정 시스템을 개발하고, 당뇨병 노인 환자 10명을 대상으로 시스템의 타당성을 평가하였다. 개발된 시스템은 보행 특성을 측정하는 관성 측정 장치, 관성 데이터를 수집 및 처리하는 마이크로 컨트롤러, 측정된 데이터를 PC로 전송하는 블루투스로 구성된 무선 보행 측정 모듈과, 수신 데이터의 저장, 처리 및 분석을 위한 윈도우 응용 프로그램 모듈로 구성되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 시스템은 하지(족부) 이상 진단의 실제 임상에 손쉽게 활용할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 스포츠 과학, 재활 등과 같은 인간의 3차원 움직임 분석을 필요로 하는 다양한 분야에 널리 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.356-357
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed an integrated miniaturized device which acquires and transmits the signal of ECG an interested heartbeat and body's temperature and humidity. Using an amplifier circuit on the electrodes and the radio frequency transmission, the developed system dispenses with the use of cables among the electrodes, amplifier, and the post processing system. The sensor signals are transmitted to the RF-wireless terminal that was developed using the micro controller Aduc812, LCD, RF-module (frequency 424MHz, 9600-bps). In results, the developed system improves not only the signal-to-noise ration in dynamic ECG & and body's temperature and humidity measurement, but also the user convenience.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회A
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• pp.1087-1090
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• 2007

A wireless magnetic torque sensor is utilized to measure the torque generated in the rotating shaft in magnetic field without connecting to the shaft by any wire. In this study, a new wireless magnetic torque sensor was introduced. The structure of the sensor was explained detailed as well as its operation principle. Resulting from the torque measurement experiment results, the sensor was proven to measure the generated torque effectively. Compared with traditional contact torque sensor, the wireless one has low cost and good environment adaptation ability. Moreover, the intractable wrapping wires around the shaft are removed in this design. Hence the wireless torque sensor may be expected as a possible sensing device for many applications, such as the electric assisting rotation system in automobiles, the torque sensing system in motors, the arm rotation system in robotics and so on.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제7권6호
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• pp.301-309
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• 2012

In this paper, a real-time monitoring system based on WSN is designed and implemented to monitor livestock growth environment information which includes the temperature, humidity and harmful gases such as $CO_{2},\;CO,\;NH_{3},\;H_{2}S$ and so on. The proposed system consists of the wireless sensor nodes, the monitoring management device, the management server and the user interface program based on PC/Smart phone. To verify the performance of the implemented system, gas measurement experiments are performed in laboratory environment by using the designed wireless sensor nodes. And it is able to estimate the concentration of gases. The implemented system is able to monitor the proposed environmental element information through the developed GUI.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.106-116
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• 2012

The huge success of location-aware applications has called for the rapid development of an alternative positioning system to the global positioning system (GPS) for indoor localization based on existing technologies, such as 802.11 wireless networks. This paper proposes the Wireless MAC Processor Positioning System (WMPS), which is a localization system running on off-the-shelf 802.11 Access Points and based on the time-of-flight ranging of users' standard terminals. This paper proves through extensive experiments that the propagation delays can be measured with the accuracy required by indoor applications despite the different noise components that can affect the result: latencies of the hardware transreceivers, multipath, ACK jitters and timer quantization. Key to this solution is the choice of the Wireless MAC Processor architecture, which enables a straightforward implementation of the ranging subsystem directly inside the commercial cards without affecting the basic DCF channel access algorithm. In addition to the proposed measurement framework, this study developed a simple and effective localization algorithm that can work without requiring any preliminary calibration or device characterization. Finally, the architecture allows the measurement methodology to be adjusted as a function of the network load or propagation environments at the run time, without requiring any firmware update.