• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.261-263
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• 2006

전력 계통은 발전설비, 송전설비, 변전설비, 배전설비 등으로 크게 나눌 수 있다. 전력계통을 구성하는 이런 설비들을 원격 감시하고 제어하는 시스템을 전력자동화 시스템이라고 한다. 이런 전력자동화 시스템은 국내 전체 에너지의 수요, 공급, 수송을 제어하는 에너지 관리시스템(EMS : Energy Management System), 송전 및 변전설비의 감시제어를 담당하는 송변전소 감시제어 시스템(SCADA : Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), 배전계통의 실비관리 및 운영을 담당하는 배전자동화시스템(DAS : Distribution Automation System), 수용가의 계량기를 원격으로 읽어오는 원격검침시스템 (AMR : Automatic Meter Reading) 통으로 구성되어 있다. 국내에서 운용중인 배전자동화 시스템은 배전선로에 설치되어 있는 개폐기만을 원격 감시 및 제어 하는 보편적인 시스템이다. 한편, 2005년도 전력IT 국가 전략과제로 수행하고 있는 배전지능화 시스템 개발 과제에서는 변전소부터 배전계통과 수용가까지의 모든 전력 설비에 대한 원격감시제어가 가능한 시스템을 배전지능화 시스템이라고 정의하고 이의 개발을 추진하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 ABB, SIEMENS, GE와 같은 국외의 배전 자동화 시스템들을 소개하고, 배전지능화 시스템에서 목표로 하고 있는 GIS 기반 위에서 고 저압 배전설비를 관리하고, SCADA, DAS, GIS(Geographic Information System), AMR, TCS(Trouble Call System) 등 배전지능화 시스템의 중앙제어장치가 갖추어야 하는 주요 기능들에 대해 기술하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.197-205
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• 2009

In future digital environment, energy management system will meet the real-time capability to process the emergency events, unexpected blackouts or over-load, and the high speed to provide the consumer service events such as remote meter reading. According to, energy management system needs the simple and independent information exchange model which can transmit various energy event information in real-time. In this paper, we developed an esXML that was divided into two modelings, device modeling and event modeling, based on XML using object-oriented modeling. As a result of experiments, the system was able to exchange information independently and efficiently.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.245-251
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• 2011

Quantities of data in the DMS (Distribution management system) or SCADA (Supervisory control and data acquisition) system is enormously large as illustrated by the usage of term flooding of data. This enormous quantity of data is transmitted to the status data or event data of the on-site apparatus in real-time. In addition, if GIS (Geographic information system) and AMR (Automatic meter reading), etc are integrated, the quantity of data to be processed in real-time increases unimaginably. Increase in the quantity of data due to addition of system or increase in the on-site facilities cannot be handled through the currently used Single Thread format of data processing technology. However, if Multi Thread technology that utilizes LF-POOL (Leader Follower -POOL) is applied in processing large quantity of data, large quantity of data can be processed in short period of time and the load on the server can be minimized. In this Study, the actual materialization and functions of LF POOL technology are examined.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1387-1390
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• 2005

Recently, foreign utilities emphasize the importance of the value-added services based on Information Technology(IT) as one of the strategic technologies for establishing a new power system in the future digital society. They develop many different types of the value-added services and apply the systems for customer. In domestic case, the data from the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) System is used only for calculating the tariffs. Data from the AMR system can be strategic assets for utilities to provide the value-added services for customer. Development of the value-added services for utilities and customer needs processing and managing the AMR data. In this paper, the energy consulting service, which is adequate to new power system environment, is suggested for development of the value-added services. The application of the suggested service will bring the effect of reducing the monthly bill for customer. Also the service will give not only the effective demand side management(DSM) and load control, but also reduction of the investment for utilities.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.225-230
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• 2022

The intelligent home network system integrates various devices in the home into one communication network to provide information sharing, control, and operation environment between devices. This intelligent home network system operates around a home server. Home appliances in the era of the 4th industrial revolution will have numerous home servers in logical areas as the intelligent home network in the home accelerates. Therefore, the need for systematic management of home servers is emerging. We propose an agent system for efficient intelligent smart home server management. The agent system monitors the home server and operating environment for home server management of the intelligent smart home network. By referring to this monitored information, the service module of the home server is managed, and the home server is dealt with whether it is normal or not. In addition, by referring to the information collected by the service agent created in the group management server while migrating the home server, it is possible to deal with integrated meter reading, crime prevention, and topics. And when a new service is applied to the home server, it is registered in the management server and distributed to the home server through the agent, so that the intelligent smart home network can be efficiently managed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.601-604
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• 2012

Recently, there have been many attempts to monitor the equipment's condition or the input devices in sensors remotely by using cable and wireless communications. Also, the research and development on this matter has been actively carried on. In this paper, we developed the monitoring system which will eliminate the errors of manual reading by humans and therefore will secure reliability between tenants and the building management office. Through the system, the private telecommunication network can be connected between the building management office and the households. This enables the control office to remotely read the electric meter and exact energy consumption of each household even when the tenants are absent.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.11
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• pp.2080-2085
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• 2008

KEPCO's AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) is a system that performs the real-time inspection and management of the 15-minute load profile of electric power consumption through a wired and/or wireless network such as CDMA. It has been utilized widely for real-time collection and data analysis. So far, KEPCO has focused on establishing wireless networks using CDMA and collecting data in real time but failed to consider sufficiently performances that can improve the quality of the original data required in terms of data utilization as well as establish the summary information. In this paper, we are going to show the functions that improve data quality by recording the final renewal time of any erroneous data and maintaining such data lists to use them in the rebuilding of summary information. The goals are to reduce any load applied mainly on the DBMS (Database Management System) of AMR, to enable the real-time performance of establishment in the summary information, and to obtain high-quality inspection data. The performance evaluation result has revealed a 10-fold improvement compared to the traditional disk-based DBMS system when the summary information is established.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.245-251
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• 2016

Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of state-of-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.249-256
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• 2017

Recently, application areas based on M2M (Machine-to-Machine communications) and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies are expanding rapidly. Accordingly, water flow and water quality management improvements are being pursued by applying this technology to water and sewage facilities. Especially, water management will collect and store accurate data based on various ICT technologies, and then will expand its service range to remote meter-reading service using smart metering system. For this, the error in flow rate data transmitting should be minimized to obtain credibility on related additional service system such as real time water flow rate analysis and billing. In this study, we have identified the structural problems in transmitting process and protocol to minimize errors in flow rate data transmission and its handling process which is essential to water supply pipeline management. The result confirmed that data acquisition via communication system is better than via analogue current values and pulse, and for communication method case, applying the industrial standard protocol is better for minimizing errors during data acquisition versus applying user assigned method.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.25-35
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• 2016

he objective of this study was to investigate home network systems presently applied in multi-housing complexes and resident's usage to improve the utilization of these systems and services as well as maintenance methods. Subjects were 27 housing complexes equipped with home network systems in west Pangyo area. The investigation methods of communal network systems were observed and photographed. Unit systems were investigated through photography, interviews, and observation focusing on the utilization of Wall-Pads by visiting one unit of each housing complex. The results are as follows: (1) Most housing complexes that we investigated were built with high-grade IT infrastructure. Also, remote meter reading, electronic security, vehicle access, and building access systems were established. Wall-Pads with similar functions were installed in 23 housing complexes, excluding private rental housing complexes. (2) Even though people were well aware of the need for common systems within their housing complexes, only 10~20% of Wall-Pad menus were used. (3) Low utilization rates of home network stem from Wall-Pad menus which were user-unfriendly, and a lack of user training for the complex's common system and unit system. Therefore, to promote active use of home network systems, the systems must be diversified in accordance with user characteristics. In addition, the Wall-Pad menus should be reorganized to be user-friendly.