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Green Trust, Kilowatts for Humanity, Seattle University and General Electric's We Share the Power installed a 2.4 kW solar energy kiosk in Chalokwa, Zambia. Green Trust has kept detailed records of the kiosk expenses and revenue sources, permitting a high fidelity analysis of the different aspects of the business operations. Gross profits are presented for different revenue sources, including non-perishable...
Coastal communities constitute ∼40% of the total U.S. population, and roughly 50% of the national GDP is attributed to socio-economic activities in these regions. Port system operations and related industries constitute a majority of the industrial activities occurring in the region. This paper presents preliminary results from our work on the development of “FREIDA in Ports”: an interactive information...
Biomarkers are objective indications of a medical state that can be measured accurately and reproducibly. Traditional biomarkers enable diagnosis of disease through detection of disease-specific molecular signatures or distinct physiological or anatomical signatures. This work provides a framework for selecting biomarkers that are most likely to provide useful information about a patient's disease...
During disasters people start using social media as a platform to share and disseminate real-time disaster information to wider audiences. In order to understand the type of information that is being shared during disasters and how communities are using the technologies to respond to the disasters, we analyze two-different case studies on natural disasters using Twitter as a platform for gathering...
Water is imperative for running the field hospital during disasters. The water supply equipment is used to supply the water to patients and to ensure the self-sufficiency of the medical teams. In designing the water supply equipment, logistics is the key aspect. To improve the water supply equipment, the method to identify the field requirement is valuable. This study discusses the design and the...
This paper describes a humanitarian healthcare transformation strategy called Whole Person Integrated Care (WPIC). WPIC couples a Spreadsheet-based Software Framework (SSF) and a care delivery model that focus on increasing efficiency and effectiveness through evidence-based knowledge and action. This strategy: 1) integrates “sick care” (treatment of health problems) with “well care” (prevention and...
With the availability of medical data for large number of patients in hospitals, early detection of diseases has been made easier in the recent past. Conditions like Infertility which are hard to detect or diagnose can be now diagnosed with greater precision with the help of predictive modeling. One of the key challenges for early detection and timely treatment is in identifying and recording key...
The field of wireless sensor networks is progressing at a very rapid pace with one of its major application in the area of agriculture. Several research problems have been addressed and solutions have been proposed. Most of these works are based on single crop scenario. Research done in the multiple-cropping scenario, where two or more crops are sown in a single field in the same year, are very few...
Environmental monitoring encompasses systematic methods that observe and study conditions of natural resources such as air, land, and water. Challenges associated with traditional environmental monitoring methods include accessibility constraints imposed by harsh terrains and vast geographical areas, lack of real-time data collection and processing, and the inability to facilitate continuous monitoring...
Response time of the emergency services is vital in drastically improving the chances of survival and of meaningful recovery for the affected individuals in emergency situations. Often precious time is often lost for emergency services due to traffic, especially at traffic intersections. What we propose is a dynamic solution to the aforementioned problem using an intelligent network of smart traffic...
Whenever a natural disaster strikes, IEEE members have wanted to help. To address this commitment to serve humanity, IEEE designed and built a mobile disaster relief vehicle committed to assisting victims of natural disasters. This unit provides short-term communications, computer, and power solutions. While it has performed admirably during natural disasters, it is too large and too expensive to...
Application of crop protection materials is one of the crucial operations in agriculture to meet ever demanding food production. The drone mounted sprayer mainly consists of BLDC motors, LiPo (Lithium polymer) batteries, peticide tank, pump, and supporting frame. Six BLDC motors were mounted to hexa-copter frame to lift of 5 kg payload capacity. Two LiPo batteries of 6 cells — 8000mAh were used to...
Of late, modern lifestyle has noticeably accentuated several health hazards related to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). A simple, cost efficient but effective way out of this threatening health issue can be the prevention of these diseases beforehand by ensuring customized routine exercise and regular health checkup. In this context, we propose Wrist-Card, a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor based wrist...
In March of 2014 a committee was formed to investigate ways that the IEEE and volunteers could be of value in disaster response efforts. Through a number of focus groups, and interviews with presently active non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a working set of needs, and technical specifications to meet them, was produced. In February of 2016, our prototype vehicle, MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle)...
Biochar is a solid residue produced from pyrolysis, which is the heating of biomass in the absence (or near absence) of oxygen. The use of biochar can potentially aid in mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration and improve soil quality by the addition of nutrients, increased water holding capacity and providing a liming effect in soils. The physical and chemical properties of biochars...
Service-learning has been proven to be a high-impact educational pedagogy in many disciplines. It addresses human, and community needs through engaging in community activities. With professional engineering expertise, integrating engineering into service-learning not only can make particularly impactful community service, especially in developing countries where engineering expertise is not always...
More than 80% of the 1.2 billion individuals without electricity live in rural regions of developing countries. For many of these communities, electricity access through the traditional paradigm of power infrastructure growth, increasing generation capacity of centralized grids and installing capital intensive transmission lines, substations, and distribution lines, will be financially infeasible...
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to millions of children who face challenges in achieving their cognitive potential due to chronic poverty and other factors such as malaria and HIV infection. Scarcity of resources during early developmental stages may contribute to developmental delay in various domains, including motor, language and social-emotional, that may affect quality of life into adulthood. However,...
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