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The Efficient Ship Wireless Sensor Network Using Drone

드론을 활용한 효율적인 선박 센서 네트워크

  • Hong, Sung-Hwa (Division of Navigational Information System, Mokpo National Maritime University) ;
  • Kim, Byoung-Kug (Department of Computer Software, Induk University)
  • Received : 2021.11.29
  • Accepted : 2021.12.16
  • Published : 2022.01.31
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Abstract

Currently, the drone is considered as a mobile base station of USN as a method to act as a base station using USN in existing LTE-M and LTE networks for data transmission in unmanned ships. Therefore, the drone, which is a mobile base station, is a sink node equipped with an LTE modem or a short-range communication modem, and can collect safety information of ship operation from the sensor node and transmit the safety information to the ship or transmit the information between the ships. As, if a short-range network is formed by using drones, it will form a communication network around unmanned ships and will be advantageous for collecting information using security and environmental sensors. In this paper, we propose a method to transmit environmental sensor data and to utilize communication between ships using drones to secure the surrounding information necessary for AI operation of unmanned ships in the future.

현재 무인 선박에서의 데이터 전송을 위해 기존 LTE-M 및 LTE 네트워크에서의 USN을 이용하여 기지국 역할로 동작 시키기 위한 방안으로 드론을 USN의 이동 기지국으로 사용하는 방안을 채택하고자 하고 있다. 따라서 이후 이동 기지국인 드론은 LTE 통신 모뎀 혹은 근거리 통신 모뎀을 탑재한 싱크 노드로 선박 운항의 안전 정보를 센서 노드로부터 수집하여 선박에 전송하거나 선박 간의 정보를 상호 전송할 수도 있다. 따라서 드론을 이용하여 근거리 네크워크 망을 형성하게 되면 무인 선박 주변의 통신망을 형성하게 되고 환경 및 보안 센서를 활용한 정보 수집에 유리하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 향후 무인 선박의 AI 운항에 필요한 주변 정보를 확보하기 위한 드론을 활용한 선박 주변 내의 환경 센서 데이터 전송 및 선박 간 통신 활용방안을 제시한다.

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