• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.565-569
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• 2009

This paper proposed the safety helmet monitoring system based on USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks) to secure the wear of helmet for labor on the construction area. As one of the most significant gear to assure labor's safety, The safety helmet would have the extend of labor's injuries minimized whether one wears or not when an accident takes place. At this point, we have developed and demonstrated the system which is able to check who wear the safety helmet properly for labors, composed of safety helmets with sensor node, router nodes, sink node and management program. Moreover, we could show optimized parameters for the proposed USN system as doing experiment and demonstration, we expected that this system would make for labor wear the safety helmet properly on the construction area as well as prevent economic injury caused by an accident with not wearing for labors.

• Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.86-93
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• 2010

RFID has been used as an identification tool that substitutes for bar codes. Its areas of application are increasing due to its suitability in ubiquitous environment. In this paper, first, we review various aspects of RFID, including standards, characteristics, and relationships with wireless sensor networks. Then, we review the technical aspects of RFID and its areas of application, e.g., supply chain management (SCM) and manufacturing since 2005. SCM, in which RFIDs can shorten lead time and ensure the quality of products, is one of the most active application areas. Manufacturing is a relatively new area for RFID applications, but it is believed that it can enhance the productivity and the reliability of the products. Also, the authors suggest research issues and limitations of RFID, as well as possible application areas related to marine engineering.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.82-94
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• 2007

Wireless sensor networking technology is one of the basic infrastructures for ubiquitous environment. It enables us to gather various sensory data such as temperature, humidity, gas leakage, and speed from the remote sensor devices. To support these networking functions, IEEE WPAN working group makes standards for PHY and MAC, while ZigBee Alliance defines the standards for the network, security, and applications. The low-rate WPAN was emerged to have the characteristics of network resilience, low cost, and low power consumption. It has a broad range of applications including, but not limit to industrial control and monitoring, home automation, disaster forecast and monitoring, health care. In order to provide more intelligent and robust services, users want voice-based solutions to accommodate to low-rate WPAN. In this paper, we have evaluated voice quality of an IEEE 802.15.4 standard compliant voice node. Specifically, it includes the design of a voice node and experiments based on the prediction of voice quality using the E-model suggested by ITU-T G.107, and the network communication mechanisms considering beacon-enabled and nonbeacon-enabled networks for real-time voice communications.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.330-338
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• 2009

Various applications based on the location information of things are developed as entering by the ubiquitous computing age. Wireless sensor networks are suitable to indoor location-based service because of the important features such as low-power consumption, low-cost, easy deployment, etc. To recognize the distance between nodes, the indoor location-based system transmits both ultrasound signal and radio signal periodically. However, increment of the number of deployed sensor nodes make lots of collision and interference among the signals and it can degrade the accuracy of location-based system. In this paper, we propose a beacon management mechanism to increase the probability of transmission chance to the nearest beacon from the listener. It can minimize collision and interference and reduce the error probability due to the characteristics of ultrasound.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.627-633
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• 2007

This paper describes position tracking system of a container trailer approaching to a gantry crane for loading or unloading a container into or from a ship, respectively. Proposed position tracking system informs the trailer driver of right position to stop the car under a gantry crane. To measure the location of a trailer, we used Cricket Mote modules which adopted RF and ultrasound technology. We present an elaborate method to improve position errors occurring at sensing and calculate three dimensional position by triangulation along with how to reduce location tracking interval for real-time monitoring. The location information was transmitted to a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) periodically through Bluetooth communication for guidance of the trailer driver. In indoor and outdoor tests, position errors were less than 3 cm and location tracking interval was 0.5 second on average.

• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.39-45
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• 2012

In recent years the USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks) technology has been applied in the greenhouse in order to control temperature and humidity automatically. In this paper, we proposed a control algorithm using feedback linearization techniques based on a mathematical model for temperature and humidity environment. Especially, Control algorithm is presented to the operation of the ventilator affecting on the temperature and humidity system at the same time. The System has been designed taking into account the disturbance(External temperature, soil temperature, external humidity, solar radiation and wind). In conclusion, I will present a way to control multiple actuator through simulations. The proposed control algorithm is validated using the Matlab/Simulink tools.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.20 no.1 s.91
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• pp.93-99
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• 2005

최근 새롭게 등장한 유비쿼터스 컴퓨팅 환경은 기존의 컴퓨팅 환경과는 다르게 통신 인프라가 없는 환경에서도 동작이 가능한 저전력 소출력의 무선 센서간의 네트워크를 형성하고 이들간의 정보 유통이 이루어진다. 이러한 u-센서 네트워크는 Ad-hoc 성격뿐만 아니라 무선이 가지는 방송 특성으로 센서정보의 도청, 비정상적 패킷의 유통, 메시지의 재사용 등의 데이터 위. 변조 문제와 네트워크 전체를 마비시킬 수 있는 서비스 거부 등의 공격에 쉽게 노출된다. 본 고에서는 센서 네트워크에서의 정보보호요구사항과 구조, 키 관리의 문제 및 라우팅과 수집된 데이터를 집계하는 데 있어서의 보안 이슈와 동향에 대해 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.963-966
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크(Ubiquitous Sensor Networks: USNs)환경은 주변 공간의 상황을 인식할 수 있고, 인식한 상황을 바탕으로 적절한 시기에 필요한 정보를 올바른 사용자나 사용자 장치에게 제공해주는 지능적인 환경을 제공한다. 이러한 환경에서 사용자의 위치정보는 매우 중요한 요소로 부각되고 있으며, 위치정보 측정을 위해 GPS(Global Positioning System)같은 위치 측정 시스템들이 개발되고 있다. 하지만, 사용자의 위치정보를 측정하는 것은 다른 한편으로 사용자의 프라이버시를 침해 할 수도 있는 심각한 보안상의 문제점을 야기시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 CBS(Covert Base Station)을 이용하여 베이스스테이션만이 노드의 위치를 파악할 수 있도록 하여, 노드 및 노드 주변의 다른 어떤 노드에게도 위치가 노출되지 않도록 하기 위한 기법을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1073-1076
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크의 성능을 판단하는 중요한 지표로 감지된 정보를 실시간으로 전송하는 능력과 네트워크의 최대 생존시간을 들 수 있다. 하지만 대부분의 무선센서 에너지원은 배터리로 구성되어 있음으로 인해 실시간 정보전송을 위해 통신모듈의 전원을 자주 사용하게 되면 조기에 네트워크의 생존력을 잃게 되는 문제가 발생할 수 있으며 그와 반대로 에너지소모를 낮추기 위해 전송 주기를 길게 하면 전송지연이 발생되어 위급한 상황에서 시스템이 즉시 대응하지 못하는 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 통신모듈을 DUAL BAND로 이중화하고 송수신모드를 세분화하여 각 모듈에 공급되는 에너지를 상황에 맞게 제어하는 방법을 제안하며 제안한 방법을 적용하여 에너지 소모량과 전송지연시간을 계산한 결과, 중요한 군사적 목적이나 위험방지를 위한 실시간 감시 목적으로 사용할 경우 실시간전송과 효율적 에너지사용을 동시에 만족시킴을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.77-86
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• 2009

This paper proposes an ontology-based context-aware home healthcare platform employing environmental factors obtained from home. The proposed platform manages the health of home residents, and notifies relatives or a medical team of critical condition through context-awareness based on home ontology by using information sensed from various sensors. The ontology definition of context-awareness from the sensed information provides technically more precise decision for us. Therefore the platform can be aware of the health state of residents and environment by reasoning exactly from data gathered from various sensors and heterogeneous devices. The platform also can individually provide the customized service for users by setting priority for critical status that can be occurred in the health state of residents.