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Son Hoon of KAIST wins June Korea Science and Technology Award for infrastructure sensor
Son Hoon (손훈), a professor at KAIST, has been selected as the June winner of South Korea\'s Science and Technology Award for developing sensor technology that detects small movements in medium and small social infrastructure facilities in real time. The Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation said the technology supports disaster warnings and improves infrastructure safety by combining millimeter-wave radar and MEMS accelerometers to measure acceleration, tilt and displacement with high precision at low cost.