• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

The parking guidance system can increase driver's convenience with detailed parking information service, but it continuously consumes electrical energy with large amount of sensors, displays and control modules. With the increase of the demand for green and sustainable building design, it becomes a meaningful issue for parking guidance system to reduce operating power. This paper presents the preliminary design and estimated results of a parking guidance system which is optimized to reduce the power consumption mainly on detectors and displays. The system design is based on commercial wireless parking detectors, wireless-loop-detector and earth-magnetic-detector. We have performed system architecture design, communication network design, parking information service scenario planning, battery life regulation and at last operating power estimation. With the 7 years of battery replace cycle, the estimated result for power consumption of designed system was 0.33W/slot, which is 13% of the traditional system's estimation result. The estimated annual maintain cost was similar to the traditional ultrasonic sensor based system's. The low power operable designed system can be expected to reduce CO2 emission.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.53-57
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• 2010

This study proposes the algorithm which drives the powerless without battery. The exiting wire or RF type dosimeter, which is the computation of the real time with battery on the dose radiation exposure, In the Wired dosimeter, it is trouble to need the maintenance and management by periods. Besides, the case of the RF typed dosimeter with battery, it is requested to size bigger and to replace battery frequently and so on. Especially RF typed dosimeter has trouble to need for the embody with large power consumption on the contactless typed dosimeter. As the method for the low power, the study designed to be down the operating clock of the MPC, to improve the efficiency of the rectifier, to eliminate the external memory and the DC-DC converter for the simplification of the circuit We convince our research contributes not only to understand the simplified circuit and miniaturization, but also to help the design and application technology of the powerless dosimeter.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.53-63
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• 2000

The mobile computing service market is increasing rapidly due to the development of low-cost wireless network technology and the high-performance mobile computing devices. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to effectively deal with restrictions of the mobile computing environment such as limited bandwidth, frequent disconnection and short-lived batteries. Amongst those methods, much study is being done on the caching method - among the data transmitted from a mobile support station, it selects those that are likely to be accessed in the near future and stores them in the local cache of a mobile host. Existing cache replacement methods have some limitations in efficiency because they do not take into consideration the characteristics of user mobility and spatial attributes of geographical data. In this paper, we show that the value and the semantic of the data, which are stored in the cache of a mobile host, changes according to the movement of the mobile host. We argue it is because data that are geographically near are better suited to provide an answer to a users query in the mobile environment. Also, we define spatial location of geographical data has effect on, using the spatial attributes of data. Finally, we propose two new cache replacement methods that efficiently support user mobility and spatial attributes of data. One is based on the location of data and the other on the meaningful region of data. From the comparative analysis of the previous methods and that they improve the cache hit ratio. Also we show that performance varies according to data density using this, we argue different cache replacement methods are required for regions with varying density of data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.858-861
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• 2012

Distributed sensor nodes for environmental monitoring, have a problem of difficult and expensive battery change. In this case, renewable energy such as solar energy is helpful. We can use high-quality solar energy everyday. In this paper, we model photovoltaic energy prediction model for sensor nodes, which includes charge and discharge characteristics as well as seasonal and monthly characteristics of the solar energy. Our model is useful to predict energy consumption of solar-powered sensor nodes realistically using real world use data of the nodes.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.12b
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• pp.697-700
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• 2011

무선센서네트워크 (WSN, Wireless Sensor Network) 시스템의 활용분야가 다양해짐에 따라 기존 WSN의 문제점을 개선하기 위한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있으며, 한정된 배터리 자원 문제는 반드시 해결해야하는 주요한 과제이다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 원격에서 무선 전송 기술을 통하여 에너지를 전송하는 자기유지 지원 기술이 주목받고 있다. 자기유지 지원 기술은 센서 노드의 배터리 교체 및 에너지가 열악한 환경에서 동작 가능한 에너지를 전송하는 기술로서 건물상태 모니터링, 전장 감시 등과 같은 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 이러한 자기유지 지원 기술은 WSN을 구성하는 센서 노드들 전원 상태를 확인하는 것이 매우 중요하며, 이에 따라 에너지를 공급해야 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 자기유지지원을 위한 노드 전원 관리 모니터링 시스템을 설계 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.884-887
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• 2012

무선 센서 네트워크 기술은 상시적으로 물리정보를 획득할 수 있기 때문에 광범위한 응용분야에서 수요가 증가하고 있다. 또한 무선 센서 네트워크에 적용되는 무선 센서 시스템은 일반적으로 배터리를 장착하여 회로에 전력을 공급해주는 방식을 사용한다. 그러나 센서가 적의 기지근처, 인체 조직내 삽입, 건물의 내벽 등과 같이 배터리를 교체할 수 없는 곳에 위치해 있는 경우, 반영구적인 사용에 제한이 있기 때문에 무전원 무선 센서의 개발이 절실히 필요하다. 특히, 이러한 센서를 새롭게 개발하고 검증하려며 센서의 주파수 특성을 분석해야 하는데 기존에는 단순한 파형만을 분석할 수 있는 일반적인 계측기를 사용할 수밖에 없었다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존의 계측기보다 유연성 있고 효율적으로 무전원 무선 센서의 개발과 검증이 가능하도록 신호의 모니터링과 신호발생기를 에뮬레이션하는 NI LabVIEW기반의 SAW System Analyzer와 SAW Reader Emulator 시스템을 설계하고 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.986-988
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• 2012

최적의 식물 생장을 위해서는 적절한 수분의 유지가 필수적이며 넓은 지역, 다양한 종류, 고가의 식물의 경우일수록 적절한 수분의 관리를 위한 시스템의 도움이 필요하다. 이를 위해 저가의 센서노드 시스템이 적절한 해결책이 될 수 있으나 일반적인 배터리 기반의 센서노드 시스템을 적용시 배터리 용량 확인 및 교체 등의 유지보수 문제가 대두된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 유지보수의 문제를 해결하고 식물재배에 도움을 줄 수 있는 자기유지 지원 방식의 정전용량 센싱기반의 수분 모니터링 센서노드를 설계하였다. UHF 기반의 무선 전력 전송의 자기유지 지원 시스템 및 PCB 패턴기반의 정전용량센싱 수분센서와 초저전력 센서노드 시스템으로 구성된다. 센서노드는 한번 송신시 약 0.24 mJ을 소모하며 에너지획득모듈은 에너지 획득 주기마다 약 4 mJ의 에너지를 공급하도록 설계하여 센서동작을 위한 충분한 에너지 마진을 주도록 설계하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.12
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• pp.2508-2519
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• 1994

In this thesis, two possible schemes for power feeding are considered. The first one is the network power feeding, and the other is the power feeding from the rechargeable battery. Though each scheme has its merits and demerits, the domestic network operator has proposed the latter due to the large deviation of line resistance, high power loss, and safety. This scheme, however, has several problems. The usage is limited by the life of battery leading to the failure of minimal voice service for many hours. The space occupation of that battery is another serious problem. Moreover, the network opeator should have overhead of maintenance and repair. In order to alleviate such the difficulties, the sealing current is introduced through the subscriber loop. Flowing the current into the loop prevents from rusting. This thesis designs a power controller using PEB2025 to control various amount, duration, and period of this sealing current, to achieve the optimum current supply for sealing.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.1003-1010
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• 2018

The geomagnetic sensor nodes are usually designed with wireless communication and battery for easy installation on the road without cable connection and wiring. To minimize operation cost of a system, it is important to prolong the battery lifetime of the geomagnetic sensors installed on the road. In this paper, we propose a low-power TDMA MAC protocol that reduces energy consumption while guaranteeing the real-time vehicle detection information in the vehicle detection system. The performance evaluations are conducted through a real testbed of a vehicle detection system, and it proves that the proposed low-power protocols provides 5 year lifetime by improving energy efficiency up to about 62%.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.229-235
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• 2023

Recently, for drones to be used for agricultural applications, it is necessary to increase the payload and extending flight time. Currently, the payload and extending flight time are limited by the battery technology for solar paper drone. In addition, charging or replacing the batteries may be a practical solution at the field that requires near continuous operation. In this paper, the procedure to optimize the main power system of an electric hybrid drone that consists of a battery and electric motor is presented. As a result, the solar paper drone flied successfully for 2-3%. The developed solar paper drone consumes and average of 55W when cruising and can receive up to 25W of energy during the day, and its extending flight time was verified through flight tests.