• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제49권11호
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• pp.97-102
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• 2012

최근 지중 시설물은 공간적 제약에 의하여 관리가 쉽지 않기 때문에 무선 통신 센서 네트워크를 도입하려는 시도가 이루어지고 있다. 수백 MHz ~ 수 GHz 대역의 전자기파를 이용한 통신을 사용할 경우 불균질한 물질에서의 통신 성능의 급격한 변화로 인하여 원활한 통신이 어려운 상황이다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 단점을 극복하기 위하여 자기장을 이용한 통신 시스템을 구축하였다. 3m 토압 및 물의 침투를 막을 수 있는 시설물을 제작하여 무선 통신 센서 네트워크 시스템를 설치하였다. 3m 깊이로 땅을 파서 시설물을 매립한 뒤 통신 성능 테스트를 진행하였다. 그 결과 흙, 돌, 물 등이 불균일하게 분포되어 있는 지중에서도 무선 통신이 원활하게 이루어짐을 확인하였다. 따라서 자기장을 이용한 통신 시스템은 지중 시설물 및 연약 지반 관리, 환경 오염 관리 등에서 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.433-446
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• 2022

Despite efforts to reduce unexpected accidents at confined construction sites, choking accidents continue to occur. Because of the poorly ventilated atmosphere, particularly in long, confined underground spaces, workers are subject to dangerous working conditions despite the use of artificial ventilation. Moreover, the traditional monitoring methods of using portable gas detectors place safety inspectors in direct contact with hazardous conditions. In this study, a long-range (LoRa)-based wireless safety monitoring system that features the network organization, fault-tolerant, power management, and a graphical user interface (GUI) was developed for underground construction sites. The LoRa wireless data communication system was adopted to detect hazardous gases and oxygen deficiency within a confined underground space with adjustable communication range and low power consumption. Fault tolerance based on the mapping information of the entire wireless sensor network was particularly implemented to ensure the reliable operation of the monitoring system. Moreover, a sleep mode was implemented for the efficient power management. The GUI was also developed to control the entire safety-monitoring system and to manage the measured data. The developed safety-monitoring system was validated in an indoor testing and at two full-scale water pipeline construction sites.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2009년도 정보통신설비 학술대회
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• pp.136-137
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• 2009

In this paper, we introduce UFSN(Underground Facility Sensor Network) in order to build the intelligent management system for the underground facility and drainage in convergence with ubiquitous technologies and propose the energy harvesting system for UFSN.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2004년도 추계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.325-333
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• 2004

Since 1995, One of the NGIS(National Geographic Information System) projects, the underground utilities project has been finished in 2003. The 19 cities in korea for this project will use underground utilities management system using underground utilities database focusing on water and sewage system. However, special expert, technical and experience problem in computer environment has not been had in working department for water and sewage management and maintenance for each local government. The management and maintenance of underground utilities database by manual method is getting lowered a data quality of underground utilities database because of the data omitting, error in writing and securing of the lasted database. Therefore, in this study, Application test for field workers using a mobile tool and environment analysis of wireless communication in Korea and application test of GPS receiver for mobile tools had been processed and made a mobile working environment. The efficient management and maintenance method for underground utilities database has been developed an off- line method for modification and update of database about general work which has a high working frequency because of the limitation of wireless communication environment Also, the emergency working has been applied for on-line method.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권5_6호
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• pp.619-639
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• 2010

There is increasing interest in using structural monitoring as a cost effective way of managing risks once an area of concern has been identified. However, it is challenging to deploy an effective, reliable, large-scale, long-term and real-time monitoring system in an underground railway environment (subway / metro). The use of wireless sensor technology allows for rapid deployment of a monitoring scheme and thus has significant potential benefits as the time available for access is often severely limited. This paper identifies the critical factors that should be considered in the design of a wireless sensor network, including the availability of electrical power and communications networks. Various issues facing underground deployment of wireless sensor networks will also be discussed, in particular for two field case studies involving networks deployed for structural monitoring in the Prague Metro and the London Underground. The paper describes the network design, the radio propagation, the network topology as well as the practical issues involved in deploying a wireless sensor network in these two tunnels.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.4227-4240
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• 2019

In this paper, we present our proposed magnetic induction based wireless communication system. The proposed system is designed to perform communication as well as distance measurement in underground environments. In order to improve the communication quality, we propose and implement the adaptive channel compensation technique. Based on the fact that the channel may be fast time-varying, we keep track of the channel status each time the data is received and accordingly compensate the channel coefficient for any change in the channel status. By using the proposed compensation technique, the developed platform can reliably communicate over distances of 10m while the packet error rate is being maintained under 5%. We also implement the distance measurement block that is useful for various applications that should promptly estimate the location of nearby nodes in communication. The distance between two nodes in communication is estimated by generating a table describing pairs of the magnetic signal strength and the corresponding distance. The experiment result shows that the platform can estimate the distance of a node located within 10m range with the measurement error less than 50cm.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.41-46
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• 2007

본 논문은 저비용으로 승강장 사고를 예방할 수 있는 승강장 안전 관리 장치 및 방법에 관한 연구이다. 승강장에 승객을 감지할 수 있는 감지부를 설치하고, 승객이 승강장과 선로 또는 차도가 인접한 부분으로 접근함에 따라서, 1차로 경광 램프를 작동시키고 경고음을 출력하여 승객의 주의를 환기시키고, 승객이 승강장의 끝 부분까지 접근한 경우에는 사고 발생 위험이 높은 것으로 인지하여 연속적으로 경광 램프를 작동시키고 경고음을 출력함과 동시에, 사고 발생의 위험성을 상황실 및 승강장에 진입하는 차량에 무선 랜을 통하여 통지함으로써, 저비용으로 승강장 사고를 효율적으로 예방할 수 있다.

• 국제초고층학회논문집
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.155-165
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• 2014

This study measured and compared the variation of ventilation rate and fan energy consumption according to various control strategies after installing wireless sensor-based pilot ventilation system in order to verify the applicability of demand-controlled ventilation (DCV) strategy that was efficient ventilation control strategy for underground parking lot. The underground parking lot pilot ventilation system controlled the ventilation rate by directly or indirectly tracking the traffic load in real-time after sensing data, using vehicle detection sensors and carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) sensor. The ventilation system has operated for 9 hours per a day. It responded real-time data every 10 minutes, providing ventilation rate in conformance with the input traffic load or contaminant level at that time. A ventilation rate of pilot ventilation system can be controlled at 8 levels. The reason is that a ventilation unit consists of 8 high-speed nozzle jet fans. This study proposed vehicle detection sensor based demand-controlled ventilation (VDS-DCV) strategy that would accurately trace direct traffic load and CO sensor based demand-controlled ventilation (CO-DCV) strategy that would indirectly estimate traffic load through the concentration of contaminants. In order to apply DCV strategy based on real-time traffic load, the minimum required ventilation rate per a single vehicle was applied. It was derived through the design ventilation rate and total parking capacity in the underground parking lot. This is because current ventilation standard established per unit floor area or unit volume of the space made it difficult to apply DCV strategy according to the real-time variation of traffic load. According to the results in this study, two DCV strategies in the underground parking lot are considered to be a good alternative approach that satisfies both energy saving and healthy indoor environment in comparison with the conventional control strategies.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2017

The operation of subway trains induces secondary structure-borne vibrations in the nearby underground spaces. The vibration, along with the associated noise, can cause annoyance and adverse physical, physiological, and psychological effects on humans in dense urban environments. Traditional tethered instruments restrict the rapid measurement and assessment on such vibration effect. This paper presents a novel approach for Wireless Smart Sensor (WSS)-based autonomous evaluation system for the subway train-induced vibrations. The system was implemented on a MEMSIC's Imote2 platform, using a SHM-H high-sensitivity accelerometer board stacked on top. A new embedded application VibrationLevelCalculation, which determines the International Organization for Standardization defined weighted acceleration level, was added into the Illinois Structural Health Monitoring Project Service Toolsuite. The system was verified in a large underground space, where a nearby subway station is a good source of ground excitation caused by the running subway trains. Using an on-board processor, each sensor calculated the distribution of vibration levels within the testing zone, and sent the distribution of vibration level by radio to display it on the central server. Also, the raw time-histories and frequency spectrum were retrieved from the WSS leaf nodes. Subsequently, spectral vibration levels in the one-third octave band, characterizing the vibrating influence of different frequency components on human bodies, was also calculated from each sensor node. Experimental validation demonstrates that the proposed system is efficient for autonomously evaluating the subway train-induced ambient vibration of underground spaces, and the system holds the potential of greatly reducing the laboring of dynamic field testing.

• 터널과지하공간
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.367-378
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• 2019

IT기술의 발전에 따라 무선 네트워크 통신을 사용하여 실시간으로 지하공사 현장을 관리하는 방안이 고려되고 있다. 지하공간은 밀폐된 통신환경과 공간적인 특성으로 인해 지상에 비해 상대적으로 사용에 제한이 있다. BMN(Bluetooth Mesh Networking) 기술은 최근에 소개된 무선통신 기술로 중계기 역할을 하는 블루투스 장비로 네트워크 망을 형성하고 개별 기기를 모니터링하는 기술이다. 본 기술기사에서는 BMN 기술의 지하공간 적용성을 분석하기 위해 고려해야 할 부분과 현재 국내외에서 개발되고 있는 무선통신 모니터링 시스템 사례 및 연구에 대해 조사하였다. 그리고 지하공간 적용을 목표로 개발이 진행되고 있는 국내 BMN 기술에 대해서도 소개하고 있다.