• 센서학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.439-443
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• 2013

A wireless optical fiber interferometer arterial pulse wave sensor system is developed for remote sensing. The wireless optical fiber sensor system consists of Zigbee communication modules and an optical fiber interferometer arterial pulse wave sensor. The optical fiber arterial pulse wave sensor is an in-line Michelson interferometer enclosed with steel reinforcement in a heat-shrinkable tube. The Zigbee communication modules are composed of an ATmega128L microprocessor and a CC2420 Zigbee chip. The arterial pulse waves detected by the optical fiber sensor were transmitted and received via the Zigbee communication modules. The experimental results show that the wireless optical fiber sensor system can be used for monitoring the arterial pulse waves remotely.

• 센서학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.142-149
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• 2007

Wireless sensor network technology is an emerging technology consisting of small, low power, and low cost devices that integrate limited computation, sensing, and radio communication capabilities. An ad-hoc home network system based embedded system for home environment monitoring was fabricated and tested. The wireless sensor node consists of a MCU, RF transceiver and sensors (temperature, humidity and light). Wireless sensor nodes run application software for data sampling and wireless communication, that was developed using 'nesC language' which runs on TinyOS. In our tests, acquired sensors data were monitored on 6.4" TFT-LCD of base-station through IEEE802.15.4 standard wireless communication. Also, the sensor data can be monitored by client user at the terminal PC to monitor environmental status of home in real time.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:정보통신
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.207-214
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• 2008

무선 센서네트워크를 이용한 많은 응용 시스템이 연구되고 있는 가운데 무선 센서네트워크 시스템의 신뢰성 확보에 대한 문제점이 대두되고 있다. 이러한 문제점은 센서네트워크의 활용범위를 확장하는데 장애 요인으로 작용하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 초소형 카메라 모듈과 무선 센서네트워크 노드를 이용하여 무선 센서네트워크의 신뢰성 확보를 위한 시스템과 저속의 무선 센서네트워크 상에서 효율적으로 영상정보를 전송하는 방법을 제안하였다. 또한 이러한 기술을 이용하여 무선 이미지 센서네트워크 기반 화재 감시 모니터링 시스템을 구현하였다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제4권7호
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• pp.235-238
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• 2015

IEEE 802.15.4는 무선 센서노드들 사이의 연결을 가능하게 하는 대표적인 표준이다. 그러나 이 IEEE 802.15.4를 기반으로 하는 무선 센서네트워크는 기본적으로 숨은노드 충돌에 매우 취약하다는 약점을 갖고 있는데 이는 무선 센서네트워크 자체가 제한된 통신 반경과 짧은 배터리 수명을 갖고 있기 때문이다. 본 논문에서는 IEEE 802.15.4 기반의 무선 센서네트워크에서 노드들의 클러스터링을 통한 숨은노드 충돌 회피 및 성능향상 기법을 제안하다. 이 방법에서 사용되는 클러스트링은 각각의 무선 센서노드들이 갖고 있는 채널 품질 정보를 바탕으로 수행된다. 그리고 클러스터에 어느 정도의 무선자원을 할당해야 하는 문제도 다룬다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.1390-1405
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• 2014

This paper investigates optimal relay selection and power allocation under an aggregate power constraint for cooperative wireless sensor networks assisted by amplify-and-forward relay nodes. By considering both transmission power and circuit power consumptions, the received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the destination node is calculated, based on which, a relay selection and power allocation scheme is developed. The core idea is to adaptively adjust the selected relays and their transmission power to maximize the received SNR according to the channel state information. The proposed scheme is derived by recasting the optimization problem into a three-layered problem-determining the number of relays to be activated, selecting the active relays, and performing power allocation among the selected relays. Monte Carlo simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme provides a higher received SNR and a lower bit error rate as compared to the average power allocation scheme.

• 센서학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.297-305
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• 2010

A home healthcare system based wireless sensor network, which can continuously monitor and manage the elderly's electrocardiogram(ECG) signal at any space at home without space limit is proposed. The communication coverage of wireless network is expended by multi-hop wireless sensor network. In order to send the elderly's ECG data wirelessly, a small size ECG sensor node was designed to forward the ECG data over multi-hop relay network. The packet acquired by mobile ECG node is transmitted through wireless intermediate nodes to base station for analyzing the packet reception rate. Modified minimum cost forwarding(MMCF) protocol and flooding protocol are designed and implemented to check the transmission efficiency of a packet in a wireless sensor network. The developed MMCF protocol shows an advantage of high reception rate by reduced network traffic.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.3641-3655
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• 2016

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide a promising approach to monitor the physical environments, to prolong the network lifetime by exploiting the mutual correlation among sensor readings has become a research focus. In this paper, we design a hierarchical network framework which guarantees layered-compression. Meanwhile, a data sorting-based adaptive spatial compression scheme (DS-ASCS) is proposed to explore the spatial correlation among signals. The proposed scheme reduces the amount of data transmissions and alleviates the network congestion. It also obtains high compression performance by sorting original sensor readings and selectively discarding the small coefficients in transformed matrix. Moreover, the compression ratio of this scheme varies according to the correlation among signals and the value of adaptive threshold, so the proposed scheme is adaptive to various deploying environments. Finally, the simulation results show that the energy of sorted data is more concentrated than the unsorted data, and the proposed scheme achieves higher reconstruction precision and compression ratio as compared with other spatial compression schemes.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.867-875
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• 2009

A wireless sensor network inherently comprises a plurality of sensor nodes widely deployed for sensing environmental information. To add new functions or to correct some faulty functions of an existing wireless sensor network, the firmware for each sensor node needs to be updated. Firmware update would be quite troublesome if it requires the gathering, reprogramming, and redeploy of all of already deployed sensor nodes. Over-the-air programming (OTA) facilitates the firmware update process, thereby allowing convenient maintenance of an already-deployed sensor network. This paper proposes and implements a remote firmware update mechanism for a TDMA-based wireless sensor network, in which the firmware for sensor nodes constituting the TDMA-based sensor network can be easily updated and the update process can be conveniently monitored from a remote site. We verify the validity of the proposed firmware update method via experiments and introduce three wireless sensor networks installed in outdoor sites in which the proposed firmware update mechanism has been exploited.

• 센서학회지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.361-368
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• 2007

Small size real-time ECG signal analysis function by QRS-complex detection was put into sensor nodes. Wireless sensor nodes attached on the patient’s body transmit ECG data continuously in normal u-healthcare system. So there are heavy communication traffics between sensor nodes and gateways. New developed platform for real-time analysis of ECG signals on sensor node can be used as an advanced diagnosis and alarming system for healthcare. Sensor node does not need to transmit ECG data all the time in wireless sensor network and to server PC via gateway. When sensor node detects suspicion or abnormality in ECG, then the ECG data in the network was transmitted to the server PC for further powerful analysis. This system can reduce data packet overload and save some power in wireless sensor network. It can also increase the server performance.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2007년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.518-521
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• 2007

TinyOS기반의 u-헬스케어를 위한 무선센서노드 어플리케이션을 구현하였으며 이를 이용하여 기존의 지속적인 데이터 전송방식과 성능 비교를 하였다. 무선센서노드에서 QRS-complex 넓이와 R-R간격을 이용하여 비정상적인 ECG를 감지하였다. 사용된 ECG 데이터는 MIT/HIB Database 100, 112, 119번을 이용하였다. 정상적인 ECG 데이터를 가지고 있는 100레코드를 기준으로 지속적인 데이터 전송 시 발생되는 패킷량과 전원 소모율을 측정 후, 본 연구에서 구현된 문선센서노드 어플리케이션을 이용하여 각각의 ECG데이터를 이전과 같은 방법으로 성능 평가하여 비교분석 하였다. 비교분석 결과, ECG 데이터 발생량, 전원 소모율이 획기적으로 감소된 것을 알 수 있었다.