A Wireless Sensor Network Systems to Identify User and Detect Location Transition for Smart Home

지능형 주택을 위한 구성원 식별 및 위치 이동 감지 센서 네트워크 시스템

  • 이선우 (한림대학교 전자공학과, 정보전자공학연구소) ;
  • 양승용 ((주)에스테크원 기술연구소)
  • Received : 2010.01.19
  • Accepted : 2010.07.07
  • Published : 2010.10.15

Abstract

The tracking of current location of residents is an essential requirement for context-aware service of smart houses. This paper presents a wireless sensor network system which could detect location transition such as entrance and exit to a room and also identify the user who passed the room, without duty of wearing any sort of tag. We designed new sensor node to solve the problem of short operation lifetime of previous work[1] which has two pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensors and an ultrasonic sensor, as well as a 2.4 GHz radio frequency wireless transceiver. The proposed user identification method is to discriminate a person based on his/her height by using an ultrasonic sensor. The detection idea of entering/exiting behavior is based on order of triggering of two PIR sensors. The topology of the developed wireless sensor network system is simple star structure in which each sensor node is connected to one sink node directly. We evaluated the proposed sensing system with a set of experiments for three subjects in a model house. The experimental result shows that the averaged recognition rate of user identification is 81.3% for three persons. and perfect entering/exiting behavior detection performance.

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.

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