• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.625-631
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• 2000

Practical devices for measuring personal exposure to nitrogen dioxide(NO$_2$) have been made for epidemiological studies of the health effects of air pollution Standard methods for NO$_2$ measurement such as the chemiluminescent method and Saltzman method are not suitable for personal exposure because they are heavy, large and complicated to operate. In this study, a passive monitor was tested for the measurements of indoor and outdoor NO$_2$ level. Through a comparative analysis of data sets obtained by on-site chemiluminescence system, we assessed the accuracy and precision of NO$_2$ passive monitors. We also examined the possibility of passive monitor in the study of indoor, outdoor and personal NO$_2$ exposure. The accuracy and precision of NO$_2$ passive monitor were analyzed assuming measurements of on-site chemiluminescence system is reference value and using duplicated measure- ments, respectively. From these analysis the NO$_2$ passive monitor was useful for measuring indoor, outdoor and personal exposure. And NO$_2$ level from on-site chemiluminescence systems could not properly represent the personal NO$_2$ exposure as well as indoor and outdoor level of ones house. Personal exposures were correlated more strongly with indoor NO$_2$ concentrations than with outdoor NO$_2$ concentrations. Since activity pattern of each person is different, it was considered that personal daily behavior and life-style might prevent the air pollutant exposure.

• 환경영향평가
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.83-88
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• 1998

Filter badge type sampler has not been widely used to evaluate air quality over large cities in Korea while it can be successfully used for multi-point sampling and analysis. We evaluated the passive sampler as a new tool to monitor air quality over large cities. We latticed Metropolitan Seoul into $2{\times}2Km$ to give 136 points. $NO_2$ concentrations were measured at all the points in the Spring and Summer of 1997. According to the passive sampler data, natural green zones generally recorded lower $NO_2$ concentrations than major streets and traffic congestion areas. Passive samplers with abundant 136 points gave more detailed picture of $NO_2$ distribution while auto-monitoring network did not clearly provide the characteristics of local land use. Also, passive samplers gave 15% higher values than auto-monitoring network. The correlation between the two values appears very high judging from the regression slope of 0.92 and correlation coefficient of 0.91. This study clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of the passive sampler as a tool to monitor air quality over large cities.

• 동위원소회보
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.55-65
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• 2006

A passive type radon monitor adopting two silicon PIN detector as radiation detector has been developed, manufactured and test-evaluated. A radiation signal processing circuit has been electronically tested and then the radiation detection characteristics of this instrument has been performance-tested by using reference radon concentration and a reference photon radiation field. As a result, in a electronic performance test, radiation signals from each detector were well observed in each signal processing circuit. The radiation detection sensitivity of this instrument after several test-irradiations to a Cs-137 gamma radiation source and a standard radon concentration appeared to be 1.37 cph/$\mu$Svh-1 and 1.66 pCi/L respectively. The developed radon monitor in this paper could be used conveniently in monitoring of radon concentration in buildings which population utilize in Korea.

• 한국대기환경학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국대기환경학회 1997년도 한국대기보전학회 추계학술대회 요지집
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• pp.196-197
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• 1997

• 한국철도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국철도학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1560-1565
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• 2007

A surveillance system is used many industrial places, and public places to monitor the present situation. Most of the existing surveillance system is composed of the monitors and a lot of cameras that are installed each place to be monitored. The system is usually using the CCTV, closed circuit television, system that is a passive surveillance system. Urban transit operation corporations use the passive surveillance system to monitor the situation of the passengers, and the status of the important facilities. However the officers or operators cannot monitor all of the situation or status constantly, and cannot respond to emergency. In this paper, we propose a sensor network-based intelligent surveillance system to solve these problems. The proposed system is composed of a lot of intelligent sensors that can determine the present status and integrated processor units to detect more precisely events using the information from the sensors. The sensors and the integrated processor are connected by communication network. The proposed system can be installed and used without a lot of change of the existing facilities such as the enormous communication bandwidth increase.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.186-192
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• 2020

This paper describes a real-time monitoring system in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPON) that uses burst-mode fiber Bragg grating (FBG) optical sensors. The FBG interrogation unit in the optical line terminal (OLT) transmits the monitoring wavelength to optical network units (ONUs). The FBG sensor unit in each ONU returns a burst-mode monitoring signal to the OLT. As the system applies time division multiple access (TDMA), a uniform Bragg wavelength can be used to monitor the EPON system. The FBG interrogation unit analyzes the received burst-mode monitoring signals and outputs fault information on the ONU branches in EPON. The simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed monitoring system based on TDMA. In addition, we compared the proposed TDMA-based monitoring system with a WDMA-based monitoring system.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.481-494
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• 2005

The monitoring of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the atmosphere is a basis for the study of the fate of POPs in multimedia environments. Recently, passive air samplers (PASs) for POPs have been developed. In this paper, we deal with the principle, properties, and applications of the PAS. The principle of PAS, which has no pump, is physical sorption of semi-volatile organic chemicals on various sorbent materials. The PAS is much smaller than a high-volume air sampler and does not need electricity. These properties of the PAS make it possible to conduct various-scaled environmental monitoring all over the world including the Arctic and Antarctic, but the major disadvantage of PAS is its long sampling periods up to 2 years. To date, four kinds of PAS have been developed: polyurethane foam (PUF), polymer-coated glass (POG), semi-permeable membrane devices (SPMDs), and XAD resin-based PAS. Among them, SPMDs have been commercialized and are most widely used now. Meanwhile, the POPs emitted from China have a large potential to influence the levels and fates of POPs in Korea. Since characteristics of PAS are quite useful to monitor long-range transport of POPs, the use of PAS is highly recommended.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.49-57
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• 2022

Objective: This study aims to conduct a comprehensive review of monitoring systems to monitor and manage physical function of community-dwelling elderly living alone and suggest future directions of unobtrusive monitoring. Design: Literature review Methods: The importance of health-related monitoring has been emphasized due to the aging population and novel corona virus (COVID-19) outbreak.As the population gets old and because of changes in culture, the number of single-person households among the elderly is expected to continue to increase. Elders are staying home longer and their physical function may decline rapidly,which can be a disturbing factorto successful aging.Therefore, systematic elderly management must be considered. Results: Frequently used technologies to monitor elders at home included red, green, blue (RGB) camera, accelerometer, passive infrared (PIR) sensor, wearable devices, and depth camera. Of them all, considering privacy concerns and easy-to-use features for elders, depth camera possibly can be a technology to be adapted at homes to unobtrusively monitor physical function of elderly living alone.The depth camera has been used to evaluate physical functions during rehabilitation and proven its efficiency. Conclusions: Therefore, physical monitoring system that is unobtrusive should be studied and developed in the future to monitor physical function of community-dwelling elderly living alone for the aging population.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2022

고도화된 현대사회는 도시산업화와 대중교통으로 인한 대기오염 물질 중 미세먼지는 실외에서 실내로 유입되는 현상이 있다. 실내에서 사용하는 미세먼지 측정기는 제한적인 정보 제공과 오염 수치가 다르게 측정되어 사용자에게 원하는 데이터와 모니터링을 할 수 없는 문제점이 발생하고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 실내 공기 질 데이터 미세먼지와 초미세먼지인 Dust(PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10), VOC(Volatile Organic Compounds)와 PIR(Passive Infrared Sensor)로 미세먼지 측정기와 모니터링시스템을 설계 및 구현하였다. 측정기는 지정한 구역에 설치하여 미세먼지를 실시간 측정하고 Google Cloud Platform의 App Engine을 통하여 데이터 수집 및 저장하고 시각화하여 사용자에게 제공하는 미세먼지 측정기와 모니터링시스템을 제안한다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.45-51
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• 2015

폴리브롬화 디페닐에테르는 강한 소수성과 큰 분자량을 지닌 물질로 수체에 쉽게 용존되지 않으며, 이로 인해 다른 환경매체에 비해 수환경에 대한 연구는 많지 않다. 그러나 하 폐수처리장으로부터 수환경으로의 질량부하, 침적토에서의 재부유 현상 그리고 부유 입자 및 콜로이드로부터의 분배현상은 무시할 수 없는 영향을 미칠 것이다. 따라서 수환경 중 폴리브롬화 디페닐에테르를 조사하는 것은 중요하면서도 어려운 작업이다. 최근에 수환경에서 소수성물질을 모니터링 할 때의 어려움을 극복하기 위한 방안으로 반투과성막장비와 같은 수동적 시료채취 기법이 사용되고 있다. 수동적 시료채취를 사용하면 시료채취 기간 동안 주변환경인자의 변동을 조절하며 미량으로 존재하는 폴리브롬화 디페닐에테르를 검출하고 장기간에 거쳐 재현성 있는 모니터링 결과를 얻을 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 반투과성막장비(SPMD)를 수질 모니터링 장비로서 활용하는 가능성을 확인하고자 하였다. 강둑에서 그랩, 혼합 시료채취법과 SPMD를 적용하여 다양한 수질시료 채취기법에 따른 시간적 변동과 농도 차이를 확인하고 SPMD를 사용하여 폴리브롬화 디페닐에테르의 수환경 중 농도를 예측할 수 있는지 평가하였다.