• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10c
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• pp.127-129
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• 2006

The distributed control system is used in wide control fields. Factory automation, home network and building automation are good examples. Lonworks that Echelon company has been developing and providing since 1991 is one of popular distributed control systems. Lonwork system is support various communication media, especially it has a feature that supports communication through the power line. When Constructing Lonworks network in a construction field, the experts, who can treat Lonworks bring laptops that LNS and Lonmaker installed, install the network. However this way takes long time to construct the network and needs the experts. To resolve this problem, this paper suggests that a design of Lonworks network installation machine that is easy to use for everyone and portable. Non-experts can install Lonworks network by using this machine so they can reduce fare for installation of network and time to install.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.334-340
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• 2004

In this paper, a Web-based management system for the building network is described. A multi-protocol converter based on SoC and embedded Linux is designed. The open source licensing, reliability, and broad hardware support are key reasons for use of embedded Linux in embedded industry. The multi-protocol converter integrates control network of RS-485 and LonWorks devices through TCP/IP protocol for a client with Java applet. The system consists of three-tier architecture, such as a client, a server that is performed on a multi-protocol converter, and control devices. The developed system includes the inverter motor control system with modbus protocol for the RS-485 network. The experiment results show that the multi-protocol converter using embedded Linux is a flexible and effective way to builda Web -based monitoring and control system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1378-1381
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• 2002

This paper describes a control network which has a new node structure in the LonWorks networks. The proposed node structure is applicable to flexible and more complex applications which are impossible in the conventional Lonworks node structure. We implemented a node in order to evaluate the proposed control networks and verified the commercial feasibility and compatibility by experimenting the implemented node in the conventional Lonworks control networks.