• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.421-425
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• 2006

An ubiquitous healthcare system for the home care of elderly persons was designed and implemented using wireless sensor network technology. The wireless technology for home-care purpose gives new possibilities for monitoring of vital parameter with wearable biomedical sensors, and will give the patient the freedom to be mobile and still be under continuously monitoring and thereby to better quality of patient care. Emphasis is placed on recent advances in wireless ECG system for cardiac event monitoring with particular attention to arrhythmia detection in patient. This paper presents a diagnostic system for cardiac arrhythmias from ECG data, using wireless sensor technology. The system also provides an application for recording activities, events and potentially important medical symptoms. The hardware allows data to be transmitted wirelessly from on-body sensor to the base station and then to PC/PDA. Data is also transmitted to a back-end server for analysis using wireless internet connection. Experiments were conducted using the system for activity monitoring, exercise monitoring and medical screening tests and present preliminary data and results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.87-98
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• 2007

AAA protocol is an information protection technology which systematically provides authentication, authorization and accounting function not only in the existing wire network but also in the rapidly developing wireless network, various services and protocol. Nowadays, standardization of the various application services is in progress with the purpose of AAA standardization fer the mobile user in the wireless network. And various researches are being conducted fur using AAA in the roaming service and mobile IPv6 network between heterogeneous networks. In this paper uses OTP and ID-based ticket for user authentication in the mobile device under the ubiquitous environment, and service is seamlessly provided even though the mobile device moves from the home network to the foreign network. In addition, with the ticket renewed from the foreign network, the overhead of the home authentication server can be reduced, and provides anonymity of service through the anonymity ID.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.79-85
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• 2013

This paper proposes a system that utilizes USN(Ubiquitous Sensor Network), Bluetooth and smart phone to improve the function of senior houses. In typical approach, a system in a senior house either directly accesses the status of elderly people by its sensor or is alerted by elderly people who trigger an emergency bell, derive a decision and take an appropriate action. In addition, it is possible for a designated social worker to check the status of senior patients through monitoring system connected by UTP(Unshielded Uwisted Pair) cables, but the responsible person has to be present to monitor patients' status. However, the new system, suggested in this paper, embed Bluetooth function in a blood pressure gauge, thus the smart phone receives patients' health information such as blood pressure through Bluebooth, if any abnormal event occurs. Consequently, the smart phone sends SMS(Short Message Service) to a responsible social worker or a designated hospital. When this program in the paper becomes a reality, an unmanned system that is able to determine suitable actions for certain events will be established, even if a social worker were absence.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.735-740
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• 2006

유비쿼터스 가정환경에서 서비스를 제공하기 위한 다양한 장치들은 각기 고유한 인터페이스를 가진다. 사용자는 이 장치들을 제어하기 위해서 각각 다른 인터페이스에 익숙해야 하며, 결국 장치 수만큼의 인터페이스를 다루어야 한다. 이와 같은 불편을 해소하기 위해서는 하나의 입력 장치로 여러 장치들을 조작하는 사용자 인터페이스가 필요하다. 특히 유비쿼터스 가정환경에서는 다양한 장치들의 상태 및 기능 등이 동적으로 변하고, 장치가 설정되는 환경도 일정하지 않기 때문에 사용자 중심의 유비쿼터스 환경을 제공하기 위해서는 다양한 인터페이스를 통합할 필요가 있다. 사용자가 비슷하게 인지하는 이종 장치들의 기능을 통합하여 사용자 인터페이스의 동일한 입력으로 매핑한다면 사용자의 부담을 줄일 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 가정환경의 다양한 장비들과 인터페이스 사이의 입출력 관계를 분석하여 시맨틱 네트워크로 모델링하는 방법을 제안한다. 각 장치의 상태와 기능을 시맨틱 네트워크로 정의하고, 노드나 엣지 사이의 유사도를 평가하여 장치와 사용자 인터페이스 사이를 자동으로 매핑한다. 제안하는 방법을 가정환경 입출력장치에 적용하고, 입출력 매핑을 시뮬레이션하는 환경을 구현하여 유용성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.8-16
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• 2010

This research proposes measuring of BCG(ballistocardiogram) to monitor heart activities in a non-constrained environment, at home or work. Unlike with ECG, measuring BCG does not require the attachment of leads on the subject's body and allows signal measuring in a non-constrained state. It enables effective long-term monitoring of cardiac conditions. In this study a chair type BCG measurement system to continuous monitor the activity of the heart is implemented. The instrument consists of upper petal and ready for press of chair load cell sensor is attached to measure the change of the object's weight. In order to extract the output ballistic signal from the weight and force sensor signals. Beside the signal processing circuit for the digital conversion, the ballistic signal is detected using DAQ equipment. Signal processing algorithm including wavelet transforms for noise cancellation, template matching for normalization and peak detection in BCG is developed. ECG and BCG were concurrently measured to evaluate the performance of the system, and comparing the characteristics of the two signals verified the possibility of the system in non-constrained and nonconscious health monitoring.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.99-108
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• 2007

Context-Aware system using ontology is able to infer a context from help by reasoning engine. It can solve the ambiguity of intention reasoning of context-aware system as it is being made a reasoning rule followed reasoning grammar and being helped by reasoning engine, Also, it has a merit that is easy to apply to new environment by excluding reasoning algorithm from the program. In this paper, we are present context-aware system using ontology, We have tested and implemented it at home basis environment to verify of its effectiveness.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.310-314
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• 2009

In this paper we propose the U-VR Simulator which seamlessly connects entities in real and virtual environments by exploiting context, based on the concept of ubiquitous virtual reality. Using the U-VR Simulator, a smart home environment can be simulated and new virtual entities such as sensors, actuators, and services can be added to existing real entities. The proposed approach is fast and cost-effective because the simulator effectively utilizes both existing and simulated devices. In addition, our approach allows application developers to rapidly develop U-VR applications and extend them to relevant domains. As a future work, we will expand our simulator to intelligently augment virtual entities into real environments.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.325-331
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• 2007

Personal identification is essential for the automatic measurement of biosignal information in home healthcare systems. Personal identification is usually achieved with passive radio frequency identification (RFID), which does little more than store a unique identification number. However, passive RFID is not ideal for automatic identification. We present a user identification system based on radio signal strength indication (RSSI) using ZigBee for active RFID tags. Personal identification is achieved by finding the largest RSSI value from aggregated beacon messages that are periodically transmitted by active RFID tags carried by users. Obtaining reliable person!'.! identification without restricting the orientation requires a certain distance between the closest active RFID tag from the ZED and the second closest tag. The results show that the closest active RFID tag from the ZED and the second closest tag must be at least 70 cm apart to achieve reliable personal identification.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.786-798
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• 2007

As we go about our daily lives, people often collect surrounding information and adapt to the situation. Computer development trends show that one wants computers to work like human beings, i.e. computers can sense its context and adapt corresponding to context changes. To implement this expectation, a context aware service layer is needed. In this layer, sensors capture its environment and send this information to the service center. Considering received information as its context, the service center seeks the suitable operation according to the context. Tills paper presents a context aware service which is applied in controlling air-conditioner. The air-conditioner includes sensors which are installed at some special positions in a room. Each of these sensors gathers comfort-influenced information like temperature, humidity and sends them to air-conditioner. The air-conditioner adapts its operation to the environment according to the sensed information. To control the air-conditioner effectively, we use a genetic algorithm which is suitable in adaptation issues. The simulation shows that the room condition can be maintained at a comfortable level by using context-aware services in the operation of the air-conditioning system.

• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.48-54
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• 2007

A network-based robot [1] is a robot that explores service servers in the network environment for analyzing sensor data and making decision. Since network-based robot architecture was proposed, it's possible to reduce costs of robots. We hope robots would be all around at home environment. Therefore, normal users who are not experts need to be able to control those robots by using easy commands. We developed a scripting language, named CCSLR, to help users and developers who control various robots in ubiquitous environment. We focused on how to design the common language for various robots and how to translate a CCSLR script into a sequence of low-level commands of the target robot. In this paper, we propose scripting methods, with three layers. The CCSLR system reads the profile information from the knowledge representation database. Users don't have to know all about kinematical and mechanical details of a robot. Then again, the CCSLR system will use the profile information to translate the script into separated executable library commands. The CCSLR system manages robot's changing state every time a robot executes a command.