• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.42-51
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• 2023

Freeze and burst water meter in winter causes many social costs, such as meter replacement cost, inability of water use, and secondary damage by freezing water. The government is making efforts to modernize local waterworks, and in particular, is promoting SWM(Smart Water Management) project nationwide. In this study suggests a new freeze risk notification information service based on the temperature by IoT sensor inside the water meter box rather than outside temperature. In addition, in order to overcome the quantitative and regional limitation of IoT temperature sensors installed nationwide, and AI based temperature prediction model was developed that predicts the temperature inside water meter boxes based on data acquired from IoT temperature sensors and other information. Through the prediction model optimization process, a nationwide water meter freezing risk information service was convinced.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2022

As meters become digital and smart, energy data such as electricity, gas, heat, and water can be accurately and efficiently measured with a smart meter, providing consumers with data on energy used, so that real-time demand response and energy management services can be utilized. Although it is developing from a simple metering system to a smart metering industry to create a high value-added industry fused with ICT, illegal counterfeiting of electronic meters is causing problems in intelligent crimes such as manipulation and hacking of SW. The meter not only allows forgery of the meter data through arbitrary manipulation of the SW, but also leaves a fatal error in the metering performance, so that the OIML requires the validation of the SW from the authorized institution. In order to solve this problem, a quantitative confirmation device was developed in order to eradicate the act of cheating the fuel oil quantity through encoder pulse operation and program modulation, etc. In order to prevent the act of deceiving the lubricator, a device capable of checking pulse forgery was developed, manufactured, and verified. In addition, the performance of the device was verified by conducting an experiment on the meter being used in the actual field. It is judged that the developed quantitative confirmation device can be applied to other flow meters other than lubricators, and in this case, accurate measurement can be induced.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.829-836
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• 2017

This paper is a study on development of a new structured AMR/AMI(automatic meter reading/advance metering infrastructure) system. The developed system has a faster reading and is cheaper and easier to install compared to the existing AMR/AMI system. The system can be applied to AMR/AMI for five kinds of meters, electricity, gas, water, hot-water and calorie meter, which are used in most Korean households. Test results show that the developed system is both economical and reliable both in theoretical and practical applications. The resuts also show that the developed system is more suitable than existing system for AMR/AMI applications.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.773-777
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• 2005

This article is about using information technology to apply with water loss inspection system in District Metering Area (DMA). Inspector can check Flow rate and Minimum Night Flow; NMF via Smart Phone or PDA include sending SMS Alert in case the Pressure, Flow rate and NMF is over the range of controlling. This will be used as equipment to implement water loss in international proactive and can keep on water loss reduction more efficiency. The system consists of Data Logger which collects data of Flow rate from DMA Master Meter. PC is Wap Server which dial via modem in order to get data through FTP Protocal that will convert text file to Microsoft Access Database. Wappage will use xhtml language to show database on Wapbrowser and can show the result on Smart Phone or PDA by graph and table for system analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.419-419
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• 2021

수자원 관리 패러다임은 공급 위주에서 수요관리로 전환되고 있다. 가용한 수자원은 한정적이나 급속한 인구증가와 도시화로 인한 물 수요의 증가로 수요관리의 효율성이 중시되고 있기 때문이다. 기존 상수도시스템은 노후화로 가동효율이 점차 낮아지고 있으며, 인력으로 월 또는 격월로 소비자의 물 사용량을 검침해 실시간 관리가 불가능하여 수요와 공급의 불균형을 초래한다. 이러한 문제를 해결할 대안으로 IT 기술과 전통적인 물관리 기술을 접목한 Smart Water Grid는 양방향 통신장치를 이용해 실시간으로 소비자의 물 사용량을 모니터링한다. 물 사용 특성을 잘 파악하면 보다 정확한 물 수요 예측이 가능하다. 특히 소비자들의 시간별, 평일, 주말, 그리고 주별 물 사용 특성을 파악하면 미래 물 수요 예측에 도움이 된다. 예측된 물 수요량에 따라 물 공급 배분 계획을 수립하여 운영 효율성을 높일 수 있다. 물 수요예측 방법 중 k-mean 군집분석은 시간별 물 사용량을 이용해 서로 유사한 여러 개의 부분집합으로 할당하여 분류하는 Machine learing 방법으로 물 사용의 유사성을 파악할 수 있다. SWG 연구단은 2019년 Vietnam Hai Duong province에 SWG Pilot plant를 구축하고 27개의 Smart water meter를 설치하여 운영하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 소비자의 물 사용 특성을 분석하기 위해 27개 SWM로부터 수신된 2019년 11월 14일부터 2020년 12월 3일까지 1시간 단위의 물 사용량 데이터를 수집하였다. 그리고 k-mean 군집 방법을 이용해 시간별, 평일, 주말, 그리고 주별 물 사용 특성을 분석하였다. 이 때 최적의 군집 개수 결정을 위해 Elbow 방법을 적용하였다. 분석 결과 각 소비자의 물 사용량 특성에 따라 평균 물 수요패턴 추정이 가능하며, 향후 물 수요 예측에 도움이 될 것으로 사료된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.394-394
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• 2022

최근 스마트 수도미터의 보급을 통해 수용가구별 물 사용 자료를 수집할 수 있다. 이런 수용가구별 물 사용 패턴은 주말, 날씨 등 다양한 요인으로 인해 비선형적 특성을 가지고 있다. 그로인해 전통적인 시계열 예측 모형인 ARIMA 모형으로 적용하기 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 딥러닝 기반의 LSTM 모형을 통해 수용가구별 물 소비량 예측 모형을 개발하였다. 이 모형은 비선형적인 물 소비 패턴을 학습하기 위해 다양한 변수를 고려하였다. 서로 다른 종류의 4개 type (A : 단독주택, B: 아파트, C: 음식점, D : 초등학교)의 수용가구에 대한 ARIMA 모형과 LSTM 모형을 개발하였고, 학습에 사용되지 않은 새로운 데이터를 적용하여 정량적으로 예측성능을 비교했다. 그 결과, 모든 수용가구에서 LSTM 모형이 ARIMA 모형보다 성능이 우수하였다 (상관계수 : 평균89% | RMSE : 평균 5.60m³). 따라서 본 연구에서 제안한 모형은 수용가구별 물 사용량을 예측하는데 높은 활용도를 보일 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.288-290
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• 2022

As part of the SOC digitization for smart water management and flood prevention, the government reported that automatic and remote control system for drainage facilities (180 billion won) to 57% of national rivers and established a real-time monitoring system (30 billion won). In addition, they were also planning to establish a smart dam safety management system (15 billion won) based on big data at 11 regions. Therefore, research is needed for smart water management and flood prevention system that can accurately calculate the flow rate through real-time flow rate measurement of rivers. In particular, the most important thing to improve the system implementation and accuracy is to ensure the accuracy of real-time flow rate measurements. To this end, radar sensors for measuring the flow rate of electromagnetic waves in the United States and Europe have been introduced and applied to the system in Korea, but demand for improvement of the system continues due to high price range and performance. Consequently, we would like to propose an improved flow rate measurement and flood forecast system by developing a radar sensor for measuring the electromagnetic surface current meter for real-time flow rate measurement.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.2736-2744
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• 2013

In this paper, we present a Smart Water Treatment Plant using Zigbee USN devices and a real-time monitoring system in K-water Flow Meter Calibration Center Building. For verification, the data of vertical type WTP such as flow rate, pressure, water level and water temperature are obtained by the Zigbee USN devices, operating in 2.45 GHz band, and be wirelessly surveilled by the real-time monitoring system. The received data from the sensor is transmitted to the data processing device, and then the processed data can be monitored on a smart phone. Consequently, the pilot plant based on the low-cost and high-efficiency USN has been developed with the performance analysis for the communication network and remote monitoring system on mobile devices.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.249-256
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• 2017

Recently, application areas based on M2M (Machine-to-Machine communications) and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies are expanding rapidly. Accordingly, water flow and water quality management improvements are being pursued by applying this technology to water and sewage facilities. Especially, water management will collect and store accurate data based on various ICT technologies, and then will expand its service range to remote meter-reading service using smart metering system. For this, the error in flow rate data transmitting should be minimized to obtain credibility on related additional service system such as real time water flow rate analysis and billing. In this study, we have identified the structural problems in transmitting process and protocol to minimize errors in flow rate data transmission and its handling process which is essential to water supply pipeline management. The result confirmed that data acquisition via communication system is better than via analogue current values and pulse, and for communication method case, applying the industrial standard protocol is better for minimizing errors during data acquisition versus applying user assigned method.

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.347-361
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• 2023

Water utilities are making various efforts to reduce water losses from water networks, and an essential part of them is to recognize the moment when a pipe burst occurs during operation quickly. Several physics-based methods and data-driven analysis are applied using real-time flow and pressure data measured through a SCADA system or smart meters, and methodologies based on machining learning are currently widely studied. Water utilities should apply various approaches together to increase pipe burst detection. The most intuitive and explainable water balance method and its procedure were presented in this study, and the applicability and detection performance were evaluated by applying this approach to water supply pipelines. Based on these results, water utilities can establish a mass balance-based pipe burst detection system, give a guideline for installing new flow meters, and set the detection parameters with expected performance. The performance of the water balance analysis method is affected by the water network operation conditions, the characteristics of the installed flow meter, and event data, so there is a limit to the general use of the results in all sites. Therefore, water utilities should accumulate experience by applying the water balance method in more fields.