• Spatial Information Research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.441-453
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• 2008

With the rapid progress of location based services, GIS, and ubiquitous computing technologies, the space that we are dealing with is no longer limited to outdoor space but being extended to indoor space. Indoor space has some differences from outdoor space, therefore to provide integrated spaces and seamless services, it is required to establish new theories, data models, and systems. For this reason, ambitious project has been launched last year to establish a theoretical background, develop a core technologies and systems, and provide services of indoor spatial awareness. In this paper, we present an overall sketch on the project and major research topics. First, we present the ISA (indoor spatial awareness) project with its goal and research topics. Second, a simplified 3D spatial model, called prism model, is proposed as a basic data types and operators of indoor spatial DBMS. Third, a indoor feature data model, developed T. Kolbe et al. who is a member of this project team, is introduced in this paper. This model provides a basis for the integration of different spaces.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.32-39
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• 2012

In this paper, the implementation of location based services (LBS) using S-DMB (satellite-digital multimedia broadcasting) system was proposed. In S-DMB System, the frequency of transmitted signal is about 2 GHz which has a characteristics of strong straightness but weak diffraction so that there are many shade areas such as indoors and underground spaces. Therefore the signal transmitted from the satellite should be retransmitted by the earth repeaters called as gap filler. Because each gap filler has its own identification value, the gap filler ID introduces the area in which the gap filler was installed. Generally, the 51st data symbols of S-DMB pilot signal transmitted from the satellite are padded by dummy value and gap filler ID is embedded in this pilot symbol by the gap filler when S-DMB signals are retransmitted by gap fillers. So using gap filler ID of S-DMB system, LBS such as region registration, distance and time to destination, alarm of local area information could be implemented. In the experiment to prove the performance of the proposed LBS system using the gap filler ID of the S-DMB system, the firmware of S-DMB chip composing of RF and baseband parts was lightly modified so that application processor was able to manipulate the gap filler ID and the its related regional information.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

Indoor space is a new horizon of spatial information services. With recent progress of indoor positioning technologies and mobile devices such as smart phones, indoor spatial information services become available and an emerging market. Accordingly, exchanging and sharing indoor spatial information between independent services become an important issue. For this reason, a standardization working group, called IndoorGML has been launched last year in OGC with the aim of publishing IndoorGML standard by September, 2013. Its primary goal is to provide a framework for representing network topology in indoor space, which is a fundamental element of indoor LBS. In this paper, we will explain the basic concepts of indoorGML and discuss the modeling issues. And several application use-cases of IndoorGML will be also presented in this paper.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.61-68
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• 2011

가시광 무선 통신 기술은 LED의 반도체 특성을 이용하여 디지털 신호를 송신하고, 빛의 유무를 판단할 수 있는 PD를 이용하여 광전 변환을 통해 디지털 데이터를 수신할 수 있는 차세대 무선 통신 기술로 평가받고 있으며, 이에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본고에서는 특히 가시광 무선 통신 기술을 활용할 수 있는 응용서비스 분야를 설명하고, 특히 실내/실외 위치 측정 기술의 국내외 연구 동향에 대해 소개한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.10c
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• pp.700-702
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• 2004

최근 유비쿼터스 네트워크 환경을 통해 새롭고 다양한 서비스가 개발되고 있다. 그 중, 위치기반 서비스(Location Based Services: LBS)는 GPS나 이동 통신망을 사용해 사용자나 사물의 위치를 파악하고 이를 기반으로 유용한 서비스를 제공하는 기술이다. 이 기술은 공공 안전 서비스나 위치 추적, 항법 서비스, 정보제공 서비스 등에 적용되어 사용될 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 위치 기반 시스템은 실내 및 건물 밀집지역에서 위치 인식이 쉽지 않고 사용자의 위치 정보가 누출될 위험성이 있다는 문제점을 가진다. 본 논문에서는 이동 통신망과 무선 근거리 통신망에서 동작하는 이동 에이전트를 이용하여 위치기반 서비스를 구성하였다. 본 기법은 Hybrid Peer to Peer 방식을 이용하여 건물 밀집 지역이나 지하, 실내에서도 정확한 위치측정이 가능하고 개인의 위치 정보도 노출되지 않으며, 나아가 개인 이동 단말기의 상황 인식 컴퓨팅(Context-Aware Computing) 환경 구축에도 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 기대 된다.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.13-23
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• 2015

Real Time Location System(RTLS)는 실시간으로 사물의 위치 정보 측위를 통해 다양한 서비스를 제공하는 시스템을 말한다. RTLS 시스템은 물류, 헬스케어, 생산 시설 등 사물인터넷(IoT, Internet of Things)과 관련된 다양한 분야에서 활용되고 있다. 최근에는 경마, 미식축구 및 발레 등 여러 스포츠 종목에 도입하고자 하는 시도가 늘고 있어 동계올림픽의 각 종목을 위한 훈련, 분석, 서비스 등에의 적용을 위한 개발을 적극적으로 검토할 필요가 있다. 통상적으로 실시간 위치 추적 시스템(RTLS)은 근거리 및 실내와 같은 제한된 공간에서의 위치 확인 및 위치 추적 시스템을 통칭하고, 이동통신망 기반의 위치기반 서비스(LBS) 처럼 사람 또는 사물의 위치를 확인하지만 주로 제한된 공간에 활용되므로 '실내위치 추적 서비스(IPS: Indoor Positioning System)'라고 불리기도 한다. 본고에서는 먼저 RTLS의 기술과 이를 스포츠에 접목하기 위한 사례를 중심으로 그 동향을 분석한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.47 no.4
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• pp.109-117
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• 2010

With the advent of new technologies such as HSDPA, WiBro(Wireless Broadband) and personal devices, we can access various contents and services anytime and anywhere. A location based service(LBS) is essential for providing personalized services with individual location information in ubiquitous computing environment. In this paper, we propose mapping algorithm for error compensation of indoor localization system. Also we explain filter and indoor localization system. we have developed mapping algorithms composed of a map recognition method and a position compensation method. The map recognition method achieves physical space recognition and map element relation extraction. We improved the accuracy of position searching. In addition, we reduced position errors using a dynamic scale factor.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.601-604
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• 2014

GPS 난청지역인 실내 LBS(Location Based Service)의 수요가 증가하고 있으며, 신뢰할 수 있는 정확도를 가진 실내 측위 방법론이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 오프라인 매장의 진열 상품 정보를 나타내는 전자가격 표시기(ESL)의 신호정보를 이용한 위치 측위 방법 및 위치 기반 서비스를 제안한다. 기존의 실내 위치기반 서비스의 주요 측위매체였던 WiFi에 비하여 월등한 측위 매체의 개수를 기반으로 1m 내의 측위 오차를 가짐을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.5
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• pp.407-412
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• 2014

Concerns and demands for the Location Based Services (LBS) using Global Positioning System (GPS) and Wi-Fi are largely increased in the world in the present. In some experimental results, it was noted that many errors are frequently occurred when the distances between an anchor node and a mobile node acre measured in indoor localization environment of Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). In this paper, localization compensation algorithm based on maximum measurement value ($LCA_{MMV}$) for moving objects in WPAN is proposed, and the performance of the algorithm is analyzed by experiments on three scenarios for movement of mobile nodes. From the experiments, it was confirmed that the average localization accuracy of suggested algorithm was more increased than Symmetric Double-Sided Two-Way Ranging (SDS-TWR) and triangulation as average 40.9cm, 77.6cm and 6.3cm, respectively on scenario 1-3.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.15 no.9
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• pp.1112-1125
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• 2012

To realize LBS (Location Based Service), typically GPS is mostly used. However, this system can be only used in out-sides. Furthermore, the use of the GPS in sensor networks is not efficient due to the low power consumption. Hence, we propose methods for the location positioning which is runnable at indoor in this paper. The proposed methods elaborate the location positioning system via applying K-NN(K-Nearest Neighbour) Algorithm with its intermediate values based on IEEE 802.15.4 technology; which is mostly used for the sensor networks. Logically the accuracy of the location positioning is proportional to the number of sampling sensor nodes' RSS according to the K-NN. By the way, numerous sampling uses a lot of sensor networks' resources. In order to reduce the number of samplings, we, instead, attempt to use the intermediate values of K-NN's signal boundaries, so that our proposed methods are able to positioning almost two times as accurate as the general ways of K-NN's result.