• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.242-249
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• 2009

High-rise construction sites, especially those situated in spatially constrained urban areas, have difficulties in timely delivery of materials. Modern techniques such as Just-in-time delivery, and use of information technology such as Project Management Information System (PMIS), are targeted to improve the efficiency of the logistics. Such IT-driven management techniques can be further benefited from state-of-the-art devices such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags and Ubiquitous Sensor Networks (USN), which has resulted in notable achievements in automated logistics management at the construction sites. Based on those achievements, this research develops USN hardware toolkits for construction lifts, which aims to be automated the vertical material delivery by sensing the material information and routing it automatically to the right place. The gathered information from the sensors can also be used for monitoring the overall status. The developed system will be tested in the actual high-rise construction sites to assess the system's feasibility. The proposed system is being implemented using Zigbee communication modules and RFID sensor networks which will communicate with the intelligent palette system (previously developed by the authors). To support the system, a lift-mountable intelligent toolkit is under development. Its feasibility test will be conducted by applying the implemented system to a test bed and then analyzing efficiency of the system and the toolkit. The collected test data will be provided as a basis of autonomous vertical transport equipment development. From this research, efficient management of the material lift is expected with increased accuracy, as well as better management of overall construction schedule benefited from the system. Further research will be expected to develop a smart construction lift, which will eliminate the need for human supervision, thus enabling a real 'autonomous' operation of the system.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.129-135
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• 2009

Most Hospitals develop a Medical online appointment system for u-Hospital which system based on Web Application. Web 2.0 technology has good user interface and fast response time in a web service. This paper proposed a Mobile Medical Online Appointment System using Web 2.0 Technology. This system improve the page view, convenient UI and fast response time. We test this system with evermedi, other hospital system in iwebtools service and show that it can improve the efficiency and perfomance. The proposed technology can improve the efficient mobile service because it can be extended to ubiquitous mobile application.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.361-372
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• 2016

The soil-concrete interface shear strength, although has been extensively studied, is still difficult to predict as a result of the dependence on many factors such as normal stresses, surface roughness, particle sizes, moisture contents, dilation angles of soils, etc. In this study, a well-known rigorous statistical learning approach, namely the least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) realized in a ubiquitous spreadsheet platform is firstly used in estimating the soil-structure interface shear strength. Instead of studying the complicated mechanism, LS-SVM enables to explore the possible link between the fundamental factors and the interface shear strengths, via a sophisticated statistic approach. As a preliminary investigation, the authors study the expansive soils that are found extensively in most countries. To reduce the complexity, three major influential factors, e.g., initial moisture contents, initial dry densities and normal stresses of soils are taken into account in developing the LS-SVM models for the soil-concrete interface shear strengths. The predicted results by LS-SVM show reasonably good agreement with experimental data from direct shear tests.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2136-2137
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• 2006

RFID(Radio Frequency IDentification)는 전파신호를 이용하여 사물의 정보를 주고받을 수 있는 기술로서, 기존 바코드의 느린 인식속도, 인식률, 저장능력의 한계를 극복하여 사물의 정보화를 촉진함으로서 물류 유통분야에 혁신적인 변화를 가져올 기술로 주목받고 있으며, 유비쿼터스 환경에서 핵심기술로 활용될 것이다.[1] 2004년부터 파급효과가 큰 국방, 조달, 환경 등 12개 분야에서 시범사업이 추진되고 있으며, 최근 한국전산원을 중심으로 USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) 응용 서비스 모델을 발굴하기 위하여 총 8개 과제를 추진하는 등 차세대 국가 기간 기술의 요소 기술로서 공급기반을 확충하고 수요활성화 기반을 구축함으로서 세계적 수준의 RFID/USN 인프라를 조기에 구축하기 위한 노력을 경주하고 있다.[2] 본 연구에서는 전력설비관리를 대상으로 RFID/USN의 적용가능 대상을 분석하고, 테스트베드를 구축하여 RFID/USN의 적용 가능성을 판단하고자 한다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.321-330
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• 2013

Lately, in accordance with the improvement of living standards and income level, concern about the health is continuously increasing and the desire is also becoming diverse. This study focused on the user's acceptance of converged smart u-health system. For the study purpose, this paper analyzed the health and technology factors influencing the user's acceptance on u-health system. Thus this study was carried out by using covariance based SEM in order to test the model fitness and path coefficient. As the results, the health management experience among HPM factors and perceived usefulness among TAM had a positive effect on attitude and the perceived usefulness had a direct effect on behavioral intention.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

As ubiquitous computing is evolving, RFID/USN technology is largely applied to various fields. Although there has been much research on the improvement of educational environment using RFID/USN technology, there has been little research on the learning improvement using it. So, in this paper, we used RFID/USN technology to find out the location and situation of students for Chinese situation learning system. We developed a mobile RFID middleware for Chinese situation learning system reflecting Chinese characteristics compared with English on PDA. In USN environment, we designed a USN system, which gets the situation information through a sensor network with sensors and sends them for helping learners study in situation learning. We took a pilot test to a small group for the analysis of the system.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.688-694
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• 2009

In this paper, we present the results of a preliminary study on the piezoelectric energy harvesting performance of a Zr-doped $PbMg_{1/3}Nb_{2/3}O_3-PbTiO_3$ (PMN-PZT) single crystal beam. A novel piezoelectric beam cantilever structure is used to demonstrate the feasibility of generating AC voltage during a state of vibration. The energy-harvesting capability of a PMN-PZT beam is calculated and tested. The frequency response of the cantilever device shows that the first mode resonance frequency of the excitation model exists in the neighborhood of several hundreds of hertz, which is similar to the calculated value. These tests show that several significantly open AC voltages and sub-mW power are achieved. To test the possibility of a small scale power source for a ubiquitous sensor network service, energy conversion and the testing of storage experiment are also carried out.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.133-139
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• 2011

lots of problems are emerged on the conventional surveillance systems at urban railway infrastructure. Many projects and research activities have been processing on those problems. Moreover, The interest in Intelligent Video Surveillance System that provides accident prevention and safe driving in urban railway service is dramatically increasing. This paper represents a drawback of existing studies and introduces a new solution using RFID TAG technology to improve the existing problems. Finally, it describes the practice test of automatic notification system based USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network) for a dangerous situation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.89-97
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• 2009

Embedded systems widely used in ubiquitous environments usually employ an event-driven programming model instead of thread-based programming model in order to create a more robust system that uses less memory. However, as the software for embedded systems becomes more complex, it becomes hard to program as a single event handler using the event-driven programming model. This paper discusses the implementation of non-preemptive real-time scheduling theory for the design of embedded systems. To this end, we present an efficient schedulability test method for a given non-preemptive task set using a sufficient condition. This paper also shows that the notion of sub-tasks in embedded systems can overcome the problem of low utilization that is a main drawback of non-preemptive scheduling.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.40 no.7
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• pp.613-621
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• 2016

This research connected network equipment, including CCTV, PAGA, IP-PBX, and Legacy, in order to enable the operation and configuration of internal IP-based network equipment in maritime plants and vessels, both in the field and from remote places, and to allow for the support of remotely controlling such equipment. It also realized an operating program for the integrated network equipment management system to enable the monitoring and control of equipment status, operation condition, and notifications from distant places. By applying the operating program to satellite stations and vessels sailing on the sea, a performance test was conducted to evaluate data loss and transmission/reception delay in the communication section between the land and vessels. As a result, this research verified the normal operation of CCTV control and of real-time monitoring and control of the network equipment, including PAGA, IP-PBX, and Legacy under the FBB and MVSAT environments. It was observed that the transmission of CCTV video images with a large volume of data as well as the transmission and reception of voice data were found to be slightly delayed, indicating the need to develop technology to compress and convert data for real-time transmission and reception.