• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.60 no.4
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• pp.172-174
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• 2011

This paper is presented for robot vacuum cleaners using BLDC motors. Recently, BLDC motors which require smaller size, lower sound noise and higher efficiency have been placed in high value-added products including robot vacuum cleaners, vehicle cars and other industry applications. The DC motors have higher sound noise, higher height of the size and lower efficiency due to electro-magnetic structure using the brushes and the commutators. The proposed BLDC motors are appropriate for the motors adequate in regards to higher efficiency, longer life cycle time, and smaller height of the size when robot vacuum cleaners go to some lower height of the space like under sleeping beds and because it's power source is batteries. The paper shows the performance of the BLDC motors designed by the Finite Element Analysis(FEA) of the electro-magnetic field. This paper shows the mechanical structure and the prototype of the motor with the impeller. The performance characteristics of the BLDC motors with the hall sensor controller are verified by the experimental results.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.31.4-32
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• 2008

The microwave instruments are used many areas of the space remote sensing and space science applications. The imaging radar of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is well known microwave radar sensor for earth surface and ocean research. Unlike radar, microwave radiometer is passive instrument and it measures the emission energy of target, i.e. brightness temperature BT, from earth surface and atmosphere. From measured BT, the geophysical data like cloud liquid water, water vapor, sea surface temperature, surface permittivity can be retrieved. In this paper, the radiometer characteristics, system configuration and principle of BT measurement are described. Also the radiometer instruments TRMM, GPM, SMOS for earth climate, and ocean salinity research are introduce. As first korean microwave payload on STSAT-2, the DREAM (Dual-channels Radiometer for Earth and Atmosphere Monitoring) is described the mission, system configuration and operation plan for life time of two years. The main issues of DREAM unlike other spaceborne radiometers, will be addressed. The calibration is the one of main issues of DREAM mission and how it contribute on the space borne radiometer. In conclusion, the radiometer instrument to space science application will be considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06d
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• pp.325-327
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• 2012

배터리를 기반으로 동작하는 무선센서네트워크 환경에서는 전력이 가장 중요한 자원이다. 본고는 무선센서네트워크 환경에서 무선전력전송을 이용하여 센서 네트워크의 생명(Network Life Time)을 최대화하는 네트워크 환경을 제안하였다. 또한 전력을 전송하는 각 소스가 네트워크 생명을 최대화하기 위해 스케줄링을 결정짓는 메트릭을 제시하였다. 제안 모델은 지향성 안테나가 가지는 전송 범위의 구역을 나누고 각 영역에 대해서 그 영역의 전력 수급, 배터리 소모량, 구역의 면적당 센서 수를 이용하여 효과적으로 전력을 전달할 수 있는 메트릭을 도출하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.51-57
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• 2010

This paper is to study and design a generic electronics system for a meteorological buoy. It mainly covers the communication methods of a buoy with base station, data post processing and power design of a generic weather buoy system. The experiment result shows the design is capable to works well in term of data receive from buoy at base station, battery life time and able to work standalone without any power exhausted problem.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.948-951
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• 2008

Ubiquitous sensor network (USN) based on ZigBee communication protocol has been used in various application fields, such as home-network, intelligent building and machine, logistics, environmental monitoring, military field, security field and etc. The ZigBee is targeted at radio-frequency application that require a low data rate, long battery life and secure network. Especially, the USN system can be applied efficiently to building-indoor where the complex geometry is adopted. In this study, all 90 points of railway cabin indoor were monitored for temperature and humidity using USN technology. All sensors were pre/post-calibrated and the temperature/humidity change were analyzed in a railway cabin in real-time. The results would be useful to develop the cabin heating, ventilating and air conditing (HVAC) system to meet all passengers' thermal comfort regardless of their seat position.

• Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.55-64
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• 2015

The earthquake is a natural disaster causing loss of life or property damage and happens more often in Korea recently. Moreover, considering the increase of massive buildings, it is required to predict and visualize the information of the vibration in a building. In this paper, we developed a prototype framework to visualize the displacement information in the AR environments. In order to avoid the irregular halts of the scene and the unnatural distortion of the object, this framework uses the synchronization method at the scene update time and the interpolation of the sensor data for the displacement of vertices. In addition, we studied displacement estimation methods with the acceleration data to extend this framework to the system with accelerators.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3256-3258
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• 1999

Recently contactless ID system has emerged as new ID industry. It's called RF-ID. RF-ID is divided into active RF-ID and passive RF-ID. The passive RF-ID operates without battery and so has no limitation in its operating range and life time. But it needs the RF-OC conversion circuit. It also can be applied to batteryless sensor for many application. This paper presents the study of the RF-OC conversion circuit for batteryless system in high frequency and confirms it by simulation and experiment.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.289-293
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• 2019

This paper presents a remote patient monitoring system for diagnostic pure-tone audiometry. A pure-tone audiometer was developed for basic hearing screening; its performance was evaluated according to international standards in terms of linearity, accuracy, and total harmonic distortion. Pure-tone audiometry has a maximum hearing level of 104.9 dB HL that is comparable with other commercial products. The audiometer shows satisfactory linearity with a deviation of ${\pm}0.4dB$, an accuracy of ${\pm}0.025%$, and a total harmonic distortion (THD) of 0.21%. The remote patient monitoring systems include remote control devices based on wide area network (WAN) connections and an audiometer connected in series. Through experimentation, we successfully performed real-time diagnostic communication without delay in transferring audiometric data. This system is expected to supply domestic equipment in the audiometric market and to improve the quality of life of patients in non-clinical environments.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.351-352
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• 2013

에너지 하베스팅 무선 센서 네트워크 환경에서 센서는 에너지 하베스팅 모듈을 통하여 배터리를 충전하고 충전된 배터리를 이용하여 동작을 한다. 센서는 컨트롤러에게 고정적인 주기로 데이터와 Reclaim 메시지를 전송하고 컨트롤러는 그에 대한 응답으로 ACK 메시지를 전송한다. 본 논문에서는 센서가 컨트롤러에게 데이터와 Reclaim 메시지를 전송하는데 있어 고정적인 주기를 센서 주변의 온도 정보를 이용하여 데이터의 전송주기 및 Reclaim 메시지를 동적으로 제어하여 ACK 메시지를 선택적으로 수신하도록 하였다. 제안하는 선택적 ACK 프로토콜은 기존의 ACK 프로토콜을 저 전력화하는 방법으로써 센서의 한정된 배터리 전력을 보다 효율적으로 사용하여 에너지 하베스팅 무선 센서 네트워크의 Life Time을 연장하였다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 2021

Image processing is one of the major techniques that are used for computer vision. Nowadays, researchers are using machine learning and deep learning for the aforementioned task. In recent years, digit recognition tasks, i.e., automatic meter recognition approach using electric or water meters, have been studied several times. However, two major issues arise when we talk about previous studies: first, the use of the deep learning technique, which includes a large number of parameters that increase the computational cost and consume more power; and second, recent studies are limited to the detection of digits and not storing or providing detected digits to a database or mobile applications. This paper proposes a system that can detect the digital number of meter readings using a lightweight deep neural network (DNN) for low power consumption and send those digits to an Android mobile application in real-time to store them and make life easy. The proposed lightweight DNN is computationally inexpensive and exhibits accuracy similar to those of conventional DNNs.