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Information gathering during a disaster management has a crucial role in designing the disaster response mechanism. Several factors such as geography, infrastructure, and population influence the information gathering process. The task is particularly complex when disasters strike a shanty town. A shanty town terrain is characterized by its high population density, considerable level of under-development,...
Indian Railway (IR), one of the world's largest railway network has sophisticated and modern facilities for handling ticket reservation process. But the reservation chart used for passenger verification and attendance marking carried by TTE is printed on paper. This proposal tries to replace the existing paper chart with a handheld device. Since chart printing holds the major share of paper usage...
Accidents at the unmanned railway crossings have always been a matter concern all around the world. This concern is further increased in India, due to its large population of the unmanned railroad crossings. Almost 40% of the level crossings present in India are unmanned. Hence this calls for an efficient, robust and stable automatic gate closure system. This paper proposes an intelligent level crossing...
Over the past decade, we have witnessed a huge upsurge in social networking which continues to touch and transform our lives till present day. Social networks help us to communicate amongst our acquaintances and friends with whom we share similar interests on a common platform. Globally, there are more than 200 million visually impaired people. Visual impairment has many issues associated with it,...
With an immense amount of data and growing array of end-user devices, the security and privacy in healthcare is becoming a challenge. Shifting technologies and changing regulations are required to refocus on security techniques for the protection of sensitive healthcare data. For the storage and exchange of healthcare data, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is widely used. But, while using the XML...
Recently, it is observed that the maximum attention is paid towards the problem of the data hacking. For that, various numbers of techniques are available in the market, like the steganography. In this process, the data is embedded in the image and that image is transformed to the receiver. But there are some problems such as after data extraction the image quality is hampered due to some noise. The...
Cloud resource providers provide the compute, storage and network resources in an on demand manner from cloud infrastructure. Resource Provisioning is one of the biggest challenging tasks in the cloud infrastructure, due to the dynamic nature of cloud resources and on demand user application requirements. However, in the cloud infrastructure, failure is one of the most essential factors that plays...
Functional electrical stimulation applied via surface electrode can be used for hand rehabilitation particularly for enabling grasp in patients with stroke or spinal cord injury. The use of multi-pad electrode and multi-channel electrical stimulator based improve the effectiveness of conventional FES. Such a system consists of a multi-pad surface electrode and a matching multi-channel stimulator....
This paper presents a smart appliance control system aimed at reducing electricity wastage and achieving energy savings. Air conditioners consume about 40% energy in residential and commercial sectors. Adding to this wastage are human errors such as frequently changing cooling temperature, letting the AC run in user absence, lack of awareness about the surroundings such as leaving windows opened and...
A serious impediment in E-Learning is that these systems seem to have failed to consider the advantages of the supervision of a teacher. Teachers are able to monitor the progress made by several students, irrespective of their learning abilities and attempt to channel all students towards a common learning goal. E-Learning systems today don't possess a monitoring component. Most approaches customize...
Exploiting non-renewable energy to fulfill the huge demand of human race is an ever increasing burden on the atmosphere of the earth. To lessen this burden several renewable energy sources are used — one of which is photovoltaic energy. The source of solar/photovoltaic energy is the radiation of the sun which is abundant in nature. A solar cell produces electric energy when sunlight is incident on...
This paper describes a robust, distributed, virtualized fault-tolerant framework for rapid response to catastrophic events such as earthquakes, land-slides, flooding, fire, and epidemics. The approach is distinguished in that fault tolerance in computing, communications, and storage, and the availability of relevant information content at the edge specific to the disaster scenario and location is...
Proper operation schedule at hybrid power plants helps to utilize conventional and renewable energy resources in an optimal manner. The optimal utilization of these resources is essential to minimize the lifecycle cost and environmental impacts of generation units. MATLAB simulations to minimize the overall generation cost with restricted amount of pollution from a hybrid power system (HPP) that contains...
In last few years' terrorist and illegal attacks across many country borders has increased which led to security and strict passport verification process. This turned down legitimate travelers. Many countries are in process of implementing electronic passports to travelers for travelling, automating passport verification process and increasing border security. The e-passport deploys two popular technologies:...
With the advent of wearable technology, it is now possible to implement numerous and extremely creative ideas to serve humanity in unprecedented ways. Thus inspired, we have developed a smart system which would be able to serve as best friend to the hearing and speech impaired person. The primary goal of this paper is to design and implement a low cost wired interactive glove, interfaced with a computer...
The LED Solar Simulator is an equipment used to determine the characteristics of solar cells indoors by replicating the spectrum of sunlight with an LED light source. This paper presents an algorithm for simulating two important performance parameters of solar simulators, namely spectral match and spatial non-uniformity. It can be used to determine the uniformity of light falling on a plane kept below...
Microgrids integrate distributed energy resources to provide reliable, environment friendly and economic power to small/medium sized urban communities or to large rural areas. Due to the existence of generators at all levels of the distribution system and two distinct operating modes, i.e. grid connected and islanded modes, the fault currents in a system vary substantially. With appropriate relay...
The study presented here targets the development of a low power hearing aid that helps an individual, with conductive type of deafness, to hear naturally, clearly and intelligibly. It uses a piezoelectric actuator that helps in direct oscillation of the stapes with the arrival of sound wave resulting in sound demonstration much superior to that of conventional hearing aid. The hydraulic amplification...
In this paper, we propose and assess SWAPN, a useful, novel and intelligent dream tool to study the impending multimedia technologies and to help the visually challenged as well as aged persons to overcome their disabilities. Recently, there were many research studies conducted related to human-machine systems available to help visually challenged people to reassure themselves to the outside world...
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