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LoRa LPWAN Sensor Network for Real-Time Monitoring and It's Control Method

실시간 모니터링을 위한 LoRa LPWAN 기반의 센서네트워크 시스템과 그 제어방법

  • 김종훈 (한국시설안전공단 시설성능연구소) ;
  • 박원주 (한국시설안전공단 특수교관리센터) ;
  • 박진오 (동일기술공사 기술연구소) ;
  • 박상헌 (동일기술공사 기술연구소)
  • Received : 2018.10.17
  • Accepted : 2018.10.25
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

Social infrastructure facilities that have been under construction since the country's high-growth period are undergoing rapid aging, and safety assessments of large structures such as bridge tunnels, which can be directly linked to large-scale casualties in the event of an accident, are necessary. Wireless smart sensor networks that improve SHM(Structural Health Monitoring) based on existing wire sensors are difficult to construct economical and efficient system due to short signal reach. The LPWAN, Low Power Wide Area Network, is becoming popular with the Internet of Things and it is possible to construct economical and efficient SHM by applying it to structural health monitoring. This study examines the applicability of LoRa LPWAN to structural health monitoring and proposes a channel usage pre-planning based LoRa network operation method that can efficiently utilize bandwidth while resolving conflicts between channels caused by using license - exempt communication band.

국내 고도성장기 이후 본격 건설되기 시작한 사회 기반 시설물은 노후화가 빠르게 진행되고 있다. 특히 사고 발생 시 대량 인명 피해로 직결될 수 있는 교량, 터널 등의 대형 구조물들에 대한 안전성 평가가 필요하다. 하지만, 기존의 유선 센서 기반의 SHM을 개선한 무선 스마트 센서네트워크는 짧은 신호도달거리로 인해 경제적이고 효율적인 시스템 구축이 힘들다. 따라서 LoRa LPWAN시스템은 사물인터넷의 확산과 더불어 저전력 장거리통신이 각광을 받고 있으며, 이를 구조건전성 모니터링에 응용함으로써 경제적이면서도 효율적인 SHM 구축이 가능하다. 본 연구에서는 LoRa LPWAN의 구조건전성 모니터링에 적용 가능성을 검토하고 비면허 통신 대역을 사용함으로 인해 발생하는 채널간의 충돌을 해결하면서 대역폭을 효율적으로 활용할 수 있는 채널 기반의 LoRa 네트워크 운영방법을 제안한다.

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