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920 MHz Band Antenna for Marine Buoy

해양 부이용 920 MHz 대역 안테나

  • Choi, Hyung-dong (Corporate Technology Institute, Company of RCN) ;
  • Kim, Sung-yul (Corporate Technology Institute, Company of RCN) ;
  • Lee, Seong-Real (Division of Navigational Information System, Mokpo National Maritime University)
  • 최형동 (주식회사 알씨엔 기술연구소) ;
  • 김성율 (주식회사 알씨엔 기술연구소) ;
  • 이성렬 (목포해양대학교 항해정보시스템학부)
  • Received : 2020.11.23
  • Accepted : 2020.12.16
  • Published : 2020.12.30

Abstract

The equipment for marine IoT service have to overcome the effect of seawater. Furthermore, the free floating transmitter in seawater will be less affected by the seawater environment. The results of the design and fabrication of antenna, which is embedded in buoy, are shown in this research. The proposed antenna is used to supervise the states of fishing gears in monitoring system for real-name system of electric fishing gear. The selected frequency band of the proposed antenna is 920 MHz, and PCB pattern type is selected for subminiature and light weight. It is confirmed that RF characteristics is more degraded, however, the radiation is gradually upward as the contact surface of buoy with seawater is more broaden through the simulation results. That is, the RF performance of the proposed antenna is more deteriorated but beam radiation characteristics is more suited the marine IoT, the seawater effect is more increased. It is expected that the proposed antenna will contribute the implementation of IoT network based on low power wide area (LPWA) when the degradation of RF performance will be settled.

해양 IoT 서비스를 위한 장치들은 해양 환경에 강인해야 한다. 특히 바닷물 속에 부유하는 전송 장치는 바닷물의 영향을 덜 받도록 설계되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 전자 어구 실명제 모니터링 시스템에서 어구 상태를 감시하는 부이에 내장되는 안테나를 설계하고 제작한 결과를 보이고 있다. 안테나의 주파수 대역은 920 MHz이고, 부이의 초소형과 경량화를 위해 PCB 패턴 안테나 구조로 설계 제작되었다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제안한 안테나를 내장한 부이가 바닷물 속에 잠기는 정도가 심할수록 반사 계수 증 RF 특성이 저하되지만 빔의 방사 각도는 안테나 하층부에서 점점 상층부로 옮겨가는 것을 확인하였다. 즉 바닷물의 영향을 많이 받을수록 전파 성능은 저하되지만 방사 특성은 해양 IoT 서비스 환경에 적합하다는 것을 확인하였다. 향후 RF 성능을 개선할 수 있는 안테나 구조를 변경 설계하면 제안한 안테나와 부이는 LPWA (low power wide area) 기반 IoT 네트워크 구현에 기여할 것으로 기대된다.

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