• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.267-273
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• 2015

Recently, a wide range of products incorporating cutting-edge technology are being introduced in various sectors of design. Belkin's WeMo or Phillips' Hue are representative examples. In this context, the color-responsive lighting bookcase is a design product that would satisfy the needs of contemporary consumers who seek entertainment in their purchases. By installing lightings that change color according to the user's behavior, this design reconceptualizes the bookcase as a source of entertainment rather than a mundane object of household furnishing. The lighting apparatus can be detached and reattached, serving as stand-alone equipment. The lighting bookcase is modularized, comprising extensions equipped with MCU (Micro Controller Unit), RGB LED and color sensors. The bookcase as a whole is extendable towards four directions up to nine units with the lighting bookcase at the center. The extended, multiple lighting bookcases are wired to receive power from the main bookcase, and are equipped with RGB LEDs but not with MCUs or color sensors. Receiving power and color signals from the main lighting bookcase, the sub-bookcases feature changing shades of color. Also, it includes IoT(internet of Things). This study is a proposal of a design product, modularized to control the shades of the bookcase lighting using these sensors.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.55-62
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• 2024

In this paper, we propose a thin-film hydroponic plant cultivator using HMI display and IoT technology. Existing plant cultivators were difficult to manage due to soil-based cultivation, and it was difficult to optimize environmental conditions due to the open cultivation environment. In addition, there are problems with plant cultivation as immediate control is difficult and growth of plants is delayed. To solve this problem, a cultivation environment was established by connecting the MCU and sensors, and the environment information could be checked and quickly controlled by linking with the HMI display. Additionally, a case was applied to minimize changes in environmental information. Implementation of a thin-film hydroponic cultivation system made soil management easier, improved functionality through operation and control, and made it easy to understand environmental information through the display. The effectiveness of rapid growth was confirmed through crop cultivation experiments in existing growers and hydroponic growers. Future research directions will include optimizing growth information by transmitting and storing cultivation environment information and linking and comparing growth information using vision cameras. It is expected that this will enable efficient and stable plant cultivation.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.231-237
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• 2017

This paper presents an implementation of a smart flowerpot which can adjust humidity and illumination automatically after monitoring the temperature, humidity, and illumination. We made a container of the flowerpot with a 3D printer and embedded a NodeMCU micro controller in it. We attached a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, an illumination sensor, and a water pump to the NodeMCU. We developed a control program that adjusts humidity and illumination and ran it on the NodeMCU. Also we developed an Android application and set up an MQTT server. Using the MQTT server, the NodeMCU and the Android application can exchange messages which keep sensor values and commands. Using the Android application. the user can send the proper temperature, humidity, and illumination to the smart flowerpot and monitor the sensor values.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.1300-1305
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• 2012

In this research, we propose a momentum measurement system using the accelerometer sensor, MCU, and Bluetooth to measure the exact momentum. The proposed system can figure out information for the real time travel distance. We performed various experiments, and analyzed the results using the proposed momentum measurement system. In the simulation experiments, we compared the reliability and accuracy for the existing momentum measurement systems from the analyzed results. The proposed system showed travel distance error of less than 8% as compared to the existing system with the error of approximately 13%. We expect that the proposed system apply to the commercial products.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.103-109
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• 2022

This significance of the infant care system has emerged due to sudden infant death during sleeping. This paper presented a design and implementation of a prototype model, which is a infant care device controlled by a smartphone using Bluetooth technology. Prototype Device Model consists of MCU(microcontroller unit), Accelerometer Sensor, Temperature Measuring Sensor, Sound Measuring Sensor, Bluetooth Module, and Camera Module. The proposed application transfers the information to the parent's smartphone and computers, such as infant's falling, crying, and fever detection. A test verified the availability of a prototype infant care system model using Bluetooth Low Energy with operating the low power driving.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.22-24
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• 2016

대형 구조물을 관리하는 위험에 대처하기 위해 다양한 벽면 이동 로봇이 개발되고 있지만, 장애물이 있는 벽면에서 제한적인 문제가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위한 벽면 이동로봇을 제안한다. 제안하는 로봇은 진공 모터를 부착한 6관절 다리를 네 개 사용하여, 부착을 위한 별도 장치없이 벽면에 안정적으로 흡착되어 벽면을 이동할 수 있다. 또한 카메라와 적외선센서를 이용하여 장애물을 인식하면 피하거나 건너갈 수 있다. 로봇은 각 다리를 제어하기 위한 4개의 MCU와 각 다리의 MCU를 제어하는 중앙 MCU로 구성된다. 중앙 MCU는 다리를 제어하는 MCU를 통합 관리하여 로봇 전체를 제어한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.392-402
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• 2020

This paper proposes a solar tracking system without photo-sensors. The system can be classified into four modules: Solar Tracking, MPPT, ESS, and Real-Time Monitoring. Nine solar panels, as a basic unit, are adopted with grid structures of different heights to reduce wind influence and to enable solar tracking without photo-sensors. The low-cost MCU implements MPPT method which generates PWM switching signal for boost converter. The unit of ESS consists of three-series and four-parallel lithium-ion batteries in order to enable monitoring for abnormalities in temperature and electrical characteristics of battery. Four MCUs used in the system consists of two AVR Atmega128, and two Raspberry PI, and they exchanges operation informations. Experimental results of the proposed system show the solar tracking performance, the possibility of on-site and remote monitoring and the convenience of maintenance based on IoT technology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.109-116
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• 2016

Sensing module of standing and moving human body using shutter method was developed. The module consists of Fresnel lens, pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor, interface circuit of the PIR, micro control unit(MCU), and alarm light emitting diode(LED). The principle for standing human body is chopping the thermal of human body using camera shutter. The human sensing signal in MCU by algorithm of interrupt function is detected. By unifying an apparatus and print circuit board(PCB), the developed module can be replaced as commercial moving human body detector. Experiment results show that sensing distance is about 7.0m and sensing angles is about $110^{\circ}$ at room temperature. In these condition, sending ratio was 100% and the power dissipation of the module was 100mW.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2020.08a
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• pp.172-174
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• 2020

기존의 절대위치 감지 방식은 초기위치를 알기 위하여 이동자의 위치를 초기화해야 하고 생산 단가가 높다는 단점을 보완하기 위해 MR 센서를 이용하여 비접촉 방식으로 선형모터 이동자 절대위치를 판별하는 시스템을 제안하였다. 센서값을 이용하여 절대위치를 판별해야 하기 때문에 ADC 기능과 실시간 연산 기능이 필요하다. 때문에 8bit MCU(Atmega324PA)를 이용했다. 본 논문에서 이용한 MR 센서의 출력 변동폭이 작기 때문에 Instrumentation Amplifier를 이용하여 증폭된 출력을 MCU로 읽어 사용했다. 제안 시스템의 회로 및 알고리즘을 구현하였고 이를 이론적, 실험적 분석을 통해 동작 및 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.33 no.10
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• pp.93-97
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• 2005

We have developed the FDSS (Fine Digital Sun Sensor) for the space technology of the STSAT-2 (Seience & Technology Satellite 2). The FDSS is firstly developed by using CMOS image sensor(CIS) in South Korea. The FDSS consists of the optics part, FPGA(Field Programable Gate Array) part, and MCU(Micro controller unit)part. This paper will focus on the optical characteristics of the optics part and describe the configuration of FDSS with the design of aperture. We also analyze the characteristic of optics about the pixel of the CMOS image sensor.