• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.497-510
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• 2013

Quick, accurate damage monitoring is strongly required for damage assessment in the aftermath of a large natural disaster. Wireless sensor networks are promising technologies to acquire damage information in a citywide area. The wireless sensor networks, however, would be faced with difficulty to collect data in real-time and to expand the scalability of the networks. This paper discusses a scheme of network architecture to cove a whole city in multi-tier heterogeneous networks, which consist of wireless sensor networks, access networks and a backbone network. We first review previous studies for citywide damage monitoring, and then discuss the feature of multi-tier heterogeneous networks to cover a citywide area.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.264-266
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• 2005

Recently, on-line diagnosis methods through wired and wireless networks are widely adopted in the diagnosis of industrial Electric Facilities, such as generators, transformers and motors. Also smart sensors which includes sensors, signal conditioning circuits and micro-controller in one board are widely studied in the field of condition monitoring. This paper suggests an self-powered system suitable for condition-monitoring smart sensors, which uses parasitic vibrations of the facilities as energy source. First, vibration-driven noise patterns of the electric facilities are presented. And then, an electromagnetic generator which uses mechanical mass-spring vibration resonance are suggested and designed. Finally energy consumption of the presented smart sensor, which consists of MEMS vibration sensors, signal conditioning circuits, a low-power consumption micro-controller, and a ZIGBEE wireless tranceiver, are presented. The usefulness and limits of the presented electromagnetic generators in the field of electric facility monitoring are also suggested.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.769-785
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• 2015

Although timber structures have been extensively used in underground temporary supporting system, their actual performance is poorly understood, resulting in potentially conservative and over-engineered design. In this paper, a novel wireless sensor technology, SmartPlank, is introduced to monitor the field performance of timber structures during underground construction. It consists of a wooden beam equipped with a streamlined wireless sensor node, two thin foil strain gauges and two temperature sensors, which enables to measure the strain and temperature at two sides of the beam, and to transmit this information in real-time over an IPv6 (6LowPan) multi-hop wireless mesh network and Internet. Four SmartPlanks were deployed at the London Underground's Tottenham Court Road (TCR) station redevelopment site during the Stair 14 excavation, together with seven relay nodes and a gateway. The monitoring started from August 2013, and will last for one and a half years until the Central Line possession in 2015. This paper reports both the short-term and long-term performances of the monitored timber structures. The grouting effect on the short-term performance of timber structures is highlighted; the grout injection process creates a large downward pressure on the top surface of the SmartPlank. The short and long term earth pressures applied to the monitored structures are estimated from the measured strains, and the estimated values are compared to the design loads.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.59-82
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• 2011

In this study, an output-only modal identification approach is proposed for decentralized wireless sensor nodes used for linear structural systems. The following approaches are implemented to achieve the objective. Firstly, an output-only modal identification method is selected for decentralized wireless sensor networks. Secondly, the effect of time-unsynchronization is assessed with respect to the accuracy of modal identification analysis. Time-unsynchronized signals are analytically examined to quantify uncertainties and their corresponding errors in modal identification results. Thirdly, a modified approach using complex mode shapes is proposed to reduce the unsynchronization-induced errors in modal identification. In the new way, complex mode shapes are extracted from unsynchronized signals to deal both with modal amplitudes and with phase angles. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed approach is evaluated from numerical and experimental tests by comparing with the performance of existing approach using real mode shapes.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.263-275
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• 2010

In the last decade, wireless sensor networks have emerged as a promising technology that could accelerate progress in the field of structural monitoring. The main advantages of wireless sensor networks compared to conventional monitoring technologies are fast deployment, small interference with the surroundings, self-organization, flexibility and scalability. These features could enable mass application of monitoring systems, even on smaller structures. However, since wireless sensor network nodes are battery powered and data communication is the most energy consuming task, transferring all the acquired raw data through the network would dramatically limit system lifetime. Hence, data reduction has to be achieved at the node level in order to meet the system lifetime requirements of real life applications. The objective of this paper is to discuss some general aspects of data processing and management in monitoring systems based on wireless sensor networks, to present a prototype monitoring system for civil engineering structures, and to illustrate long-term field test results.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.209-228
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• 2012

Structural health monitoring with wireless sensor networks has received much attention in recent years due to the ease of sensor installation and low deployment and maintenance costs. However, sensor network technology needs to solve numerous challenges in order to substitute conventional systems: large amounts of data, remote configuration of measurement parameters, on-site calibration of sensors and robust networking functionality for long-term deployments. We present a structural health monitoring network that addresses these challenges and is used in several deployments for monitoring of bridges and buildings. Our system supports a diverse set of sensors, a library of highly optimized processing algorithms and a lightweight solution to support a wide range of network runtime configurations. This allows flexible partitioning of the application between the sensor network and the backend software. We present an analysis of this partitioning and evaluate the performance of our system in three experimental network deployments on civil structures.

• 한국GIS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국GIS학회 2004년도 추계 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.105-110
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• 2004

This study suggests a trial system for facility monitoring technology on ubiquitous environment. The trial system can be used for integrated various collection and sending data by bluetooth and wireless network from bridge. We used smart sensor and wireless network for it. Especially, we analyzed out all appliable technologies at monitoring part on ubiquitous environment and gave a standard spec to build the system. We wanted it as a guideline to apply ubiquitous in smart facility monitoring part.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.396-402
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• 2010

지능형 주택의 상황인지 서비스를 위해서는 거주자의 현재 위치를 파악하는 것이 필수적이다. 이를 위해 본 논문에서는 사용자에게 별도의 장치 소지를 요구하지 않으며 특정 운에 대한 출/입 행동과 같은 위치 이동과 그 사람이 누구인지를 식별하는 센서 네트워크 시스템을 제안한다. 새롭게 개발된 센서 노드는 선행 연구 결과[1]의 짧은 동작 수명 문제를 해결한 것으로 2개의 초전형(PIR) 센서와 초음파 센서, 그리고 2.4 GHz 문선 통신 모듈로 구성된다. 제안된 구성원의 식별 방법은 초음파 센서를 이용한 구성원의 키 차이를 이용한다. 거주자의 위치 이동의 감지는 출/입 행동의 감지에 기초하며 이와 같은 출/입 행동 감지는 2개의 PIR 센서의 감지 순서에 기초하여 이루어진다. 전체 센서 네트워크의 구성은 각 센서 노드가 수신 노드와 과 1대 1로 연결되는 별 형태로 이루어져 있다. 제안된 시스템은 본보기주택에 설치되어 3명의 사용자를 대상으로 실험되었고 그 결과 완벽한 출/입 행동 감지와 평균 81.3%의 구성원 식별 성능을 얻었다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose the algorithms which determine 1) the efficient anchor-node visiting route of mobile sink in terms of energy supply and 2) the efficient energy amount to be charged to each anchor node, by using the information of each anchor node and the mobile sink. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) using mobile sinks can be deployed in more challenging environments such as those that are isolated or dangerous, and can also achieve a balanced energy consumption among sensors which leads to prolong the network lifetime. Most mobile sinks visit only some anchor nodes which store the data collected by the nearby sensor nodes because of their limited energy. The problem of these schemes is that the lifetime of the anchor nodes can be shorten due to the increased energy consumption, which rapidly reduces the overall lifetime of WSN. This study utilizes a mobile sink capable of wireless power transmission to solve this problem, so a mobile sink can gather data from anchor nodes while charging energy to them. Through the performance verification, it is confirmed that the number of blackout nodes and the amount of collected data are greatly improved regardless of the size of the network.

• 한국GIS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국GIS학회 2010년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.387-389
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• 2010

무선센서네트워크(Wireless Sensor Network) 기술이 전 산업에 널리 사용되면서, 텔레매틱스(Telematics), 지능형교통시스템 등과 무선센서네트워크와의 융합 서비스에 대한 수요가 높아지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 텔레매틱스, 지능형교통시스템 분야에 USN을 적용하기 위한 시스템 아키텍처를 제시한다. 그리고 이를 적용한 안전운전 서비스를 보여준다.