• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.439-441
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• 2007

The seoul metropolitan subway has installed 8 lines and about 500 stations to transport 5 million passengers everyday. The underground air pollution level in the subway stations is very severe status, which is very harmful to the commutators and its personals. Although subway roles as such a massive and huge transportation system, the subway doesn't adapt yet any real-time air monitoring system. They have only some hand-held type detector equipments for monitoring air pollution. Therefore subway passengers are exposed to the harmful air pollution environment. The most harmful environmental parameters among the air pollution are known as the dust and sound noise dB level in the subway station. Because the dust is consisted of very small particles, we can't see them easily in dark condition on the platform, but it is very harmful. The monitoring system for air pollution is developed using embedded system attached with 6 different environmental sensors. This system monitors air pollution of dust sound noise, gas, temperature, humidity, inflammable gas, toxic gas in the subway ?station. The sensor unit of the ARM-CPU board and sensor transmits real time environmental data to the main server using Zigbee wireless communication module and TCP/IP network. The main control server receives and displays the real-time environmental data, and it send alarms to the personals when high level value.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.1147-1167
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• 2015

Wireless smart sensors, which have become popular for monitoring applications, are an attractive option for implementing structural control systems, due to their onboard sensing, processing, and communication capabilities. However, wireless smart sensors pose inherent challenges for control, including delays from communication, acquisition hardware, and processing time. Previous research in wireless control, which focused on semi-active systems, has found that sampling rate along with time delays can significantly impact control performance. However, because semi-active systems are guaranteed stable, these issues are typically neglected in the control design. This work achieves active control with smart sensors in an experimental setting. Because active systems are not inherently stable, all the elements of the control loop must be addressed, including data acquisition hardware, processing performance, and control design at slow sampling rates. The sensing hardware is shown to have a significant impact on the control design and performance. Ultimately, the smart sensor active control system achieves comparable performance to the traditional tethered system.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권7호
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• pp.1585-1609
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• 2013

Over recent years, enormous amounts of research in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been conducted, due to its multifarious applications such as in environmental monitoring, object tracking, disaster management, manufacturing, monitoring and control. In some of WSN applications dependent the energy-efficient and link reliability are demanded. Hence, this paper presents a routing protocol that considers these two criteria. We propose a new mechanism called Reliable Routing Scheme for Energy-Balanced (RRSEB) to reduce the packets dropped during the data communications. It is based on Swarm Intelligence (SI) using the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) method. The RRSEB is a self-adaptive method to ensure the high routing reliability in WSNs, if the failures occur due to the movement of the sensor nodes or sensor node's energy depletion. This is done by introducing a new method to create alternative paths together with the data routing obtained during the path discovery stage. The goal of this operation is to update and offer new routing information in order to construct the multiple paths resulting in an increased reliability of the sensor network. From the simulation, we have seen that the proposed method shows better results in terms of packet delivery ratio and energy efficiency.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2009년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.585-588
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• 2009

무선센서네트워크는 처리능력과 자원이 제한된 수많은 소형의 센서노드들로 구성된다. 따라서 무선센서네트워크에 있어서 가장 중요하고 기본적인 요소는 환경 정보를 수집하고 이를 사용자 응용시스템에 전송하는 센서노드 기술이다. 기술의 발전에 따라 센서노드는 점점 소형화 되고 지능화 되어 그 응용범위를 넓혀가고 있다. 특히 이식형 센서노드 기술은 인체나 가축의 체내에 이식되어 질병을 감시하고 치료하는데 사용됨으로써 무선센서네트워크의 미래 발전 방향을 제시한다. 본고에서는 가축의 체온을 실시간으로 감시할 수 있는 이식형 무선 센서노드를 설계하였다. 또한, 실시간 생체 감시 시스템 구현을 위한 추가적인 고려사항에 대하여 논하였다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.197-209
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• 2010

The structural state of a bridge is currently examined by visual inspection or by wired sensor techniques, which are relatively expensive, vulnerable to inclement conditions, and time consuming to undertake. In contrast, wireless sensor networks are easy to deploy and flexible in application so that the network can adjust to the individual structure. Different sensing techniques have been used with such networks, but the acoustic emission technique has rarely been utilized. With the use of acoustic emission (AE) techniques it is possible to detect internal structural damage, from cracks propagating during the routine use of a structure, e.g. breakage of prestressing wires. To date, AE data analysis techniques are not appropriate for the requirements of a wireless network due to the very exact time synchronization needed between multiple sensors, and power consumption issues. To unleash the power of the acoustic emission technique on large, extended structures, recording and local analysis techniques need better algorithms to handle and reduce the immense amount of data generated. Preliminary results from utilizing a new concept called Acoustic Emission Array Processing to locally reduce data to information are presented. Results show that the azimuthal location of a seismic source can be successfully identified, using an array of six to eight poor-quality AE sensors arranged in a circular array approximately 200 mm in diameter. AE beamforming only requires very fine time synchronization of the sensors within a single array, relative timing between sensors of $1{\mu}s$ can easily be performed by a single Mote servicing the array. The method concentrates the essence of six to eight extended waveforms into a single value to be sent through the wireless network, resulting in power savings by avoiding extended radio transmission.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2012

오늘날 무선센서노드는 환경모니터링과 같은 다양한 응용분야에서 많이 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 실내환경에서 전파를 방해하는 장애물(콘크리트 내벽, 철문)과 2.4GHz의 무선랜(IEEE 802.11b/g)이 있는 환경에서 센서노드의 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indication)와 PER(Packet Error Rate)을 측정하였다. 또한 다양한 실외 환경에서 센서노드의 RSSI와 PER을 측정하였다. 본 논문을 통해 분석되어진 데이터를 바탕으로 실내외 환경에서 데이터의 손실을 최소화할 수 있는 안정적인 무선센서네트워크의 구축에 필요한 가이드라인을 제시한다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.139-146
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• 2008

무선 센서 네트워크 관련 응용 시스템은 환경오염, 건물통제, 홈 오토메이션 등의 역할을 수행할 것으로 예상된다. 본 논문에서는 지하철 역사 내 인명 및 화재 피해 등을 줄이기 위한 무선 센서 네트워크 기반의 지하철 응급 상황 조치 시스템에 대해 기술한다. 본 시스템의 센서 노드는 온도, 조도, 연기, 인체 감지 등을 통해 지하철 역사내 발생 할 수 있는 사고를 실시간 감지한다. 이러한 실시간 센서 감지와 무선 네트워킹을 통해 인명과 재산의 피해를 최소화 하고자 한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.533-553
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• 2013

In this paper, system identification of a cable-stayed bridge in Korea, the Hwamyung Bridge, is performed using vibration responses measured by a wireless sensor system. First, an acceleration based-wireless sensor system is employed for the structural health monitoring of the bridge, and wireless sensor nodes are deployed on a deck, a pylon and several selected cables. Second, modal parameters of the bridge are obtained both from measured vibration responses and finite element (FE) analysis. Frequency domain decomposition and stochastic subspace identification methods are used to obtain the modal parameters from the measured vibration responses. The FE model of the bridge is established using commercial FE software package. Third, structural properties of the bridge are updated using a modal sensitivity-based method. The updating work improves the accuracy of the FE model so that structural behaviors of the bridge can be represented better using the updated FE model. Finally, cable forces of the selected cables are also identified and compared with both design and lift-off test values.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.2167-2173
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• 2013

최근 실내 공기오염으로부터 발생되는 많은 문제점에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있으며, 실내 환경정보를 측정하여 사용자에게 사전 조치를 취할 수 있는 시스템에 대한 필요성이 점차 증대되고 있다. 이와 관련하여 본 논문에서는 휴대용 단말기, 환경 센서를 이용하여 각종 실내 환경정보를 측정할 수 있는 근거리 무선통신을 이용한 실내 환경정보 모니터링 시스템을 설계하고 구현하였다. 제안하는 시스템은 사용자의 휴대 단말기로 센서노드가 설치되어 있는 실내 환경 정보를 사전 인지하고, 위험 요소가 인지될 경우 적절한 대비를 취할 수 있는 장점이 있다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.801-805
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• 2018

In this study, an underwater radiation detector was built using a GAGG(Ce) scintillator and silicon photomultiplier to establish an underwater radiation exposure monitoring system. The GAGG(Ce) scintillator is suitable for small radiation detectors as it strongly absorbs gamma rays and has a high light emission rate with no deliquescent properties. Additionally, the silicon photomultiplier is a light sensor with characteristics such as small size and low applied voltage. Further, a program and mobile app were developed to monitor the radiation coefficient values generated from the detector. According to the results of the evaluation of the characteristics of the underwater radiation monitoring system, when tested for its responsiveness to radiation intensity and reactivity, the system exhibited a coefficient of determination of at least 0.99 with respect to the radiation source distance. Additionally, when tested for its underwater environmental temperature dependence, the monitoring system exhibited an increase in the count rate up to a certain temperature because of the increasing dark current and a decrease in the count rate because of decreasing overvoltage. Extended studies based on the results of this study are expected to greatly contribute to immediate and continuing evaluation of the degree of radioactive contamination in underwater environments.