• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2019년도 제60차 하계학술대회논문집 27권2호
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• pp.329-330
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• 2019

스마트 유틸리티 네트워크 (SUN)는 가정, 빌딩, 공장 등에서 사용하는 전기, 수도, 가스와 같은 유틸리티를 효과적으로 관리할 수 있는 통신 네트워크 기술이다. 본 논문은 IEEE 802.15.4g 표준에 기반하는 Wireless-SUN 네트워크를 이용하여 원격 검침과 음성 동보 시스템을 구현하는 방안을 제시한다.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2016

Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of state-of-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권10호
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• pp.1795-1803
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• 2011

Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is one of the important components to form a smart-gird, which is an advanced power system by combining the power system with the communication systems. This AMI makes it possible to exchange information between operators and consumers for the efficient and reliable operation of the power system through a smart meter or a In-Home Display. However, according to the increase of the demanded information such as the power quality, the accurate load-profile, and the billing data to help customers manage their power consumption, it is necessary to gather more accurate analytical data from each house appliances and transfer it to the smart meter for synthesizing the information and controlling each loads. In this paper, the development of the wireless data acquisition device for the individual load data metering, which is connected with the smart meter for advanced functions, is proposed. AVR, a kind of microcontroller, and Bluetooth are used and integrated into the proposed the wireless data acquisition device to transmit the detailed power data (voltage and current) to the smart meter. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed system, a hardware experiment is carried out including the confirmation of the possibility for providing the more various information by applying analysis algorithms to the obtained data. Also, the application structure of the wireless data acquisition device to gather the data from the various house appliances is presented.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.3327-3334
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• 2021

Present electric grids are advanced to integrate smart grids, distributed resources, high-speed sensing and control, and other advanced metering technologies. Cybersecurity is one of the challenges of the smart grid and nuclear plant digital system. It affects the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), for grid data communication and controls the information in real-time. The research article is emphasized solving the nuclear and smart grid hardware security issues with the integration of field programmable gate array (FPGA), and implementing the latest Time Authenticated Cryptographic Identity Transmission (TACIT) cryptographic algorithm in the chip. The cryptographic-based encryption and decryption approach can be used for a smart grid distribution system embedding with FPGA hardware. The chip design is carried in Xilinx ISE 14.7 and synthesized on Virtex-5 FPGA hardware. The state of the art of work is that the algorithm is implemented on FPGA hardware that provides the scalable design with different key sizes, and its integration enhances the grid hardware security and switching. It has been reported by similar state-of-the-art approaches, that the algorithm was limited in software, not implemented in a hardware chip. The main finding of the research work is that the design predicts the utilization of hardware parameters such as slices, LUTs, flip-flops, memory, input/output blocks, and timing information for Virtex-5 FPGA synthesis before the chip fabrication. The information is extracted for 8-bit to 128-bit key and grid data with initial parameters. TACIT security chip supports 400 MHz frequency for 128-bit key. The research work is an effort to provide the solution for the industries working towards embedded hardware security for the smart grid, power plants, and nuclear applications.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2017

스마트 그리드에서 전력 정보의 수집 및 분석은 필수적이다. 수집된 전력 정보는 발전 및 배전 등 전력을 효율적으로 이용하는데 사용될 수 있다. 전력 정보 수집을 위해서는 유무선 망을 통한 스마트 미터의 통신이 중요한 역할을 한다. 현재, 세계 여러 나라들은 수많은 스마트 미터의 전력 정보 수집을 위해서 스마트 미터 통신을 위한 국제 표준 혹은 각 국가의 고유한 표준을 정립하고 있는 중이다. 따라서, 이 논문은 스마트 미터 관련 논문 및 자료들을 조사하여 스마트 미터 통신을 위한 국제 및 여러 국가별 표준에 대해 요약한다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.7-10
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• 2014

In order to develop smart grid communications infrastructure, a high level of interconnectivity and reliability among its nodes is required. Sensors, advanced metering devices, electrical appliances, and monitoring devices, just to mention a few, will be highly interconnected allowing for the seamless flow of data. Reliability and security in this flow of data between nodes is crucial due to the low latency and cyber-attacks resilience requirements of the Smart Grid. In particular, Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Fuzzy Logic, Bayesian Inference, Neural Networks, and other methods can be employed to enhance the security gaps in conventional IDSs. A distributed FPGA-based network with adaptive and cooperative capabilities can be used to study several security and communication aspects of the smart grid infrastructure both from the attackers and defensive point of view. In this paper, the vital issue of security in the smart grid is discussed, along with a possible approach to achieve this by employing FPGA based Radial Basis Function (RBF) network intrusion.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제60권6호
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• pp.1261-1267
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• 2011

Electricity meters using in Korea are about 1.8 million units. From among these, electronic meters for high voltage, about 170 thousand units were installed to the digital type meter and ones for low voltage installed hundreds of thou-sands of meters through a model project. Recently, low voltage meter are expected to complete the installation within several years. Domestic power metering technology is being beyond a simple framework with an electronic type and is rapidly evolving to intelligent smart metering systems in conjunction with promotion of a national smart grid project. Accordingly, it is important to ensure an immunity of meter for electromagnetic field and environmental noise at the installation site. In this paper, we are going to check the validity of international standard that focusing on RF electromagnetic field immunity of meter to secure the quality and improve the reliability in field operation of meter. And we will verify the validity of test specification focused on actual installation environment and are going to offer the improvement plan of test standard.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.829-836
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• 2017

본 논문은 새로운 구조의 AMR(원격검침)/AMI(첨단계량인프라)를 시스템 개발에 관한 연구이다. 개발된 시스템은 기존시스템 보다 가격이 저렴하고, 검침 시간이 단축되고, 설치가 용이하다. 개발된 시스템을 적용하면 한국의 일반 가정에서 기본으로 사용하고 있는 전기, 수도, 가스, 온수 및 난방의 5종 계량기의 계량값을 원격검침 하고 이에 대한 AMI 적용이 가능하다. 제안된 시스템이 이론과 실제 적용에 있어서 경제성과 신뢰성 모두 우수함과, AMI 적용에 기존 시스템보다 더 적합함을 테스트 결과에 보여준다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2009년도 제40회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1956_1957
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• 2009

전 세계적인 에너지 확보 위기와 $CO_2$ 과다 배출로 인한 지구 온난화 문제에 당면한 현재의 전력산업이 다음 세기에도 지속적으로 성장해 가기 위해서는 에너지 효율 향상과 신 재생에너지에 바탕을 둔 분산전원의 활성화를 통한 환경과의 조화와 더불어 미래 디지털 시대의 에너지 조건을 충족시키기 위한 IT기술과 전력기술의 융합을 통한 자동화되고 지능화된 전력시스템 즉, 스마트그리드로의 변화가 절실히 요구되고 있다. 스마트그리드의 주요 분야 중에서 AMI(Advanced Metering Infrastructure)는 최종 전력 소비자와 전력회사 사이의 전력서비스인프라로, 지능형 전력망(Smart Grid) 구현에 필수적인 핵심 인프라 시스템이며, 공급-수요 상호 인지 기반 수요반응(Demand Response) 실현을 위한 중요 수단이라 할 수 있으며, 다양한 유형의 분산전원체계, 배전지능화시스템 등과 정보 연계 등 미래 지능형 전력망 운용을 위해 요구되는 최우선 지능화 전력망 인프라로 인식되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 AMI 시스템의 해외 구축 동향과 관련 기술 그리고 국내 적용을 위한 방안에 대하여 기술하고자 한다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.218-226
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• 2019

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is the key to operate a change from the traditional manual reading of water meters and sensors to an automated system where high frequency data is remotely collected and analyzed in real time, one of the main components of a Smart Water Grid. The recent boom of ICT offers a wide range of both wired and wireless technologies to achieve this objective. We review and present in this article the most widely recognized technologies and protocols along with their respective advantages, drawbacks and applicability range which can be Home Area Network (HAN), Building Area Network (BAN) or Local/Neighborhood Area Network (LAN/NAN). We also present our findings and we give recommendations on the application of ICT in Smart Water Grids and future work needed.