APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPREHENSIVELY MONITORING SLOPES BASED ON WIRELESS NETWORK

• US 20140159915A1
• Filed: 08/22/2013
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: MOON, Young-Bag, HONG, Sang-Gi, KIM, Nae-Soo
• Application Number:
  US13/973,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20140159915A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.07
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 9/00 Arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station, in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom

Abstract

A method of comprehensively monitoring slopes based on a wireless network in a sensor node is provided. The method includes acquiring sensing data of first sensing frequencies for determining a risk to the slopes, transmitting the acquired sensing data of first sensing frequencies to an analysis server through a gateway, acquiring sensing data of second sensing frequencies for determining the risk to the slopes when operation mode received from the analysis server through the gateway is precision mode, and transmitting the acquired sensing data of second sensing frequencies to the analysis server through the gateway.

Claims

1. A method of comprehensively monitoring slopes based on a wireless network in a sensor node, the method comprising:

acquiring sensing data of first sensing frequencies for determining a risk to the slopes;

transmitting the acquired sensing data of first sensing frequencies to an analysis server through a gateway;

acquiring sensing data of second sensing frequencies for determining the risk to the slopes when operation mode received from the analysis server through the gateway is precision mode; and

transmitting the acquired sensing data of second sensing frequencies to the analysis server through the gateway.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the sensing data of first sensing frequencies includes transmitting the sensing data of first sensing frequencies using power less than a predetermined threshold value and communication at a speed lower than a predetermined threshold value.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the sensing data of second sensing frequencies includes transmitting the sensing data of second sensing frequencies using communication at a speed higher than a predetermined threshold value.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining presence or absence of the risk to the slopes by analyzing the sensing data of second sensing frequencies.

5. A method of comprehensively monitoring slopes based on a wireless network in an analysis server, the method comprising:

analyzing sensing data transmitted from at least one sensor node;

determining a risk to the slopes in accordance with the analysis result;

deciding an operation mode of the sensor node in accordance with the determination result; and

transmitting the decided operation mode to the sensor node through a gateway.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

storing the sensing data in a database.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the deciding of the operation mode includes deciding the operation mode as a precision mode when a safety factor of a slope is less than a predetermined threshold value.

8. A sensor node comprising:

a wireless communication unit;

at least one low sampling sensor configured to acquire sensing data for determining a risk to a slope with first sensing frequencies;

at least one high sampling sensor configured to acquire sensing data for determining the risk to the slopes with second sensing frequencies; and

a control unit configured to transmit the sensing data of the at least one low sampling sensor to an analysis server through the wireless communication unit, acquire the sensing data from all of the at least one low sampling sensor and the at least one high sampling sensor when operation mode transmitted from the analysis server is precision mode, and control the acquired sensing data to be transmitted to the analysis server.

9. The sensor node of claim 8, wherein the at least one low sampling sensor includes at least one of a soil moisture measurement sensor, a tilt measurement sensor, a soil temperature measurement sensor, a debris flow analysis sensor, and a flow rate detection sensor.

10. The sensor node of claim 8, wherein the at least one high sampling sensor includes at least one of a vibration sensor for detecting vibration of the ground surface, an acoustic sensor for detecting underground water flowing noise, and an acoustic sensor for detecting plosive sounds due to forest soil sediment disaster.

11. The sensor node of claim 8, wherein the wireless communication unit includes a low-speed communication unit configured to transmit the sensing data to a gateway through multi-hop communication in a short-range wireless network with power less than a predetermined threshold value, and a high-speed communication unit configured to transmit a large amount of the sensing information of the at least one high sampling sensor to the analysis server in real-time.

12. The sensor node of claim 11, wherein the control unit transmits the sensing data from the low sampling sensor through the low-speed communication unit, and transmits the sensing data from the high sampling sensor through the high-speed communication unit.

13. The sensor node of claim 12, further comprising:

a power adjustment unit configured to control power less than a predetermined threshold value to be applied to the low sampling sensor and the low-speed communication unit, and power larger than the predetermined threshold value to be applied to the high sampling sensor and the high-speed communication unit in accordance with the operation mode.

14. The sensor node of claim 8, wherein the control unit acquires the sensing data from the high sampling sensor and performs precision analysis to determine presence or absence of the risk to the slopes.

15. An analysis server comprising:

a communication unit;

a data analysis unit configured to analyze sensing data transmitted from at least one sensor node;

an operation mode deciding unit configured to determine presence or absence of a risk to a slope in accordance with the analysis result and decide an operation mode of the sensor node; and

an operation mode transmitting unit configured to transmit control information in accordance with the decided operation mode to the sensor node through a gateway.

16. The analysis server of claim 15, further comprising:

a database configured to store the transmitted sensing data.

17. The analysis server of claim 15, wherein the operation mode deciding unit decides the operation mode as a precision mode when a safety factor of a slope is less than a predetermined threshold value.