• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.2107-2112
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• 2006

As growing up of elderly population, the interesting on healthcare system in normal life using W is increasing. An integrated u-healthcare service architecture with IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.15.4 based sensor network and code divisi(m multiple access(CDMA) public mobile telecommunication networks was designed and developed. Sensor nodes with electrocardiogram(ECG), body core temperature sensors are attached on the patients' body. The healthcare parameters are transferred to web server via CDMA mobile network or through existed LAN network. The existed LAN network is suggested to be used for continuous monitoring of patient's health status in hospital while mobile networks can be used for general purpose at home or outdoor where infra networks unavailable. This system enable healthcare personal to be able to continuously access, review, monitor and transmit the patients information whereever they are, whenever they want. And immediately check their status by using cellular phone and obtain detail information by communication with medical information server through CDMA. By using this developed integrated u-healthcare service architecture, we can monitor patients' health status for 24 hours.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.432-440
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• 2009

This paper presents an accelerometer based system for physical activity decision that are capable of recognizing three different types of physical activities, i.e., standing, walking and running, using by rough sets. To collect physical acceleration data, we developed the body sensor node which consists of two custom boards for physical activity monitoring applications, a wireless sensor node and an accelerometer sensor module. The physical activity decision is based on the acceleration data collected from body sensor node attached on the user's chest. We proposed a method to classify physical activities using rough sets which can be generated rules as attributes of the preprocessed data and by constructing a new decision table, rules reduction. Our experimental results have successfully validated that performance of the rule patterns after removing the redundant attribute values are better and exactly same compare with before.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.671-677
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• 2012

A black-box program was implemented in order to monitor abnormal symptoms of human body irregularly occurring during sleep. The system consists of sensor probing body signals, auxiliary devices such as the alarm, lamp, network camera, and signal monitoring computer. Various types of sensors, PPG, ECG, EEG, temperature, respiration sensor, G-sensor, and microphone were used to more exactly identify the causes of abnormal symptoms. If a symptom occurs, the system records the patient's condition to provide information being utilized in the treatment. The sensors are attached on some locations of body being proper to check a specific type of abnormal reaction. Based on the normal range and type of measurement data, criteria of signal levels were set to distinguish abnormal reaction. An abnormal signal being probed, the program starts to operate the lamp, alarm, and network camera at the same time and stores the signal and video data.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.17-22
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• 2010

As the services of ubiquitous environment has become accessible everywhere, it has been developed in various fields. Additionally interests in the u-Healthcare has sharply increased. In this paper, the BAN (Body Area Network) has been applied through ECG sensor and Zigbee communication of the existing ubiquitous sensor network environment to measure one's vital signs. The measured vital signs were then implemented in a system that enabled doctors and specialists to monitor by using 3G(WCDMA) communication. Furthermore, a location search device has been designed using the Smartphone's GPS modules to locate patients in the case of an emergency. The data field definition and designed system was based on the Smartphone's iPhone platform which has been in the spotlight for the previous months.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.646-653
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• 2021

The medical bed developed in this study consists of N keys and each is driven vertically by an actuator. Since M sensors are mounted on each keyboard to measure body pressure, the resolution of the body pressure map is determined by the MN. A sensor controller is mounted on each keyboard, and the body pressure values measured from M sensors are transmitted to the main controller through a serial communication network such as CAN (Car Area Network). Each keyboard is equipped with a servo driver that drives a motor, and it is connected to the main controller via CAN to control the height of the keyboard according to the displacement value indicated by the main controller. In addition, the maximum body pressure value and body pressure ratio applied to each part of the keyboard are calculated and used as the basic data for controlling bed comfort by artificial intelligence. As a result, the proposed system can be a foundation that can be used for the control of body comfort and pressure sore prevention by artificial intelligence to be developed in the future.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.28-37
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• 2007

IEEE 1451 standard defines an interface for network and transducer. In this paper, We propose an architectural model to configure data acquisition system and wireless smart sensor node based on IEEE 1451 standard. Proposed Network Capable Application Processor(NCAP) supports the task of data acquisition and communication for smart sensor node and network. The NCAP is able to reconfigure without interrupting the functionality of the wireless sensor node and receives the critical information of transducer using the DB. Smart sensor node is able to provide the basic information of sensor in digital format. This digital format is called Transducer Electronic Data Sheet(TEDS), is capable of plug-and-play capability of wireless sensor node and the NCAP. We simplify the format of TEDS and template to apply to wireless network environment. information of TEDS and template is transmitted using ad-hoc routing. This study system uses body temperature sensor and ECG(Electrocardiogram) sensor to provide the medical information service. The format of template is selected by data sheet of the sensor and reconfigured to accurately describe the property of the sensor. DB of NCAP is possible to register new template and information of the property as developing new sensor.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.663-673
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• 2014

The WBAN technology means a short distance wireless network which provides each device interactive communication by connecting devices inside and outside of body. Standardization on the physical layer, data link layer, network layer and application layer is in progress by IEEE 802.15.6 TG BAN. Wireless body area network is usually configured in energy efficient using sensor and zigbee device due to the power limitation and the characteristics of human body. Wireless sensor network consist of sensor field and sink node. Sensor field are composed a lot of sensor node and sink node collect sensing data. Wireless sensor network has capacity of the self constitution by protocol where placed in large area without fixed position. In this paper, we proposed the efficient addressing scheme for improving the performance of routing algorithm by using ZigBee in WBAN environment. A distributed address allocation scheme used an existing algorithm that has wasted in address space. Therefore proposing x, y and z coordinate axes from divided address space of 16 bit to solve this problems. Each node was reduced not only bitwise but also multi hop using the coordinate axes while routing than Cskip algorithm. I compared the performance between the standard and the proposed mechanism through the numerical analysis. Simulation verified performance about decrease averaging multi hop count that compare proposing algorithm and another. The numerical analysis results show that proposed algorithm reduced the multi hop better than ZigBee distributed address assignment

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.105-116
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• 2019

Recently, there has been an increase in research on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because they are easy to deploy in applications such as internet-of-things (IoT) and body area networks. However, WSNs have constraints in terms of power, quality-of-service (QoS), computation, and others. To overcome the power constraint issues, wireless energy harvesting has been introduced into WSNs, the application of which has been the focus of many studies. Additionally, to improve system performance in terms of achievable rate, cooperative networks are also being explored in WSNs. We present a review on current research in the area of energy harvesting in WSNs, specifically on the application of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a cooperative sensor network. In addition, we discuss possible future extensions of SWIPT and cooperative networks in WSNs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.342-343
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• 2007

In this paper, we developed an integrated miniaturized device which acquires and transmits the signal of ECG an interested heartbeat and body's temperature. Electrocardiogram(ECG) is a recording of the electrical activity on the body surface generated by heart. ECG & temperature measurement is collected by wireless sensor (for Ag/AgCl Thin-Film) placed at designated locations on the body. It is that dual wireless sensor will apply variously to Ubiquitous & Healthcare System.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.92-95
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• 2010

A sow has a characteristic changing in its temperature. It is a suitable time that is decreasing after sow's body temperature increased to the highest point. We observe the variation of temperature through USN(Ubiqutous Sensor Network) system using wireless sensor inserted in the womb. The wireless sensor send massage to user's server and its server send SMS massage to user's cell phone. We contribute to user's income increase as it notice to suitable fecundation.