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Natural disasters have destructive impacts on individuals and communities globally, particularly for most densely populated countries/regions. Governments must have intervention strategies in place to minimize the disruptive effects of a natural disaster, for instance: the vulnerability assessment. This type of assessment supplies government with a compulsory tool for pre-hazard baseline health surveillance,...
The foundation of this research is a push to familiarize youngold (65-85) with technology that will facilitate social connections as they age. This research analysed the acceptation and use of the readily available mature tablet applications, Skype and DropBox as an aid to facilitate communication between seniors and their various support networks. The usability of existing apps took place in Australia...
Access to information is predicated on the access to a digital infrastructure. However, access to electricity and the Internet remain elusive for a significant percentage of the world's population, let alone a sustainable access in one’s local language, local context, and relating to local culture. This paper examines the issues of resource constraints, and proposes a framework to classify them. It...
Kerala Chief Minister Mr. Oommen Chandy (2011- 2016) conducted Mass contact Programs for Public Grievance redressal (popularly called as Jana Samparka Paripadi) in 2011, 2013 and 2015. While 2011 edition used paper petitions and processing, 2013 edition made use of Information Technology – on line submission of petitions and online processing. 2015 edition went one step further by Direct Beneficiary...
With decreasing strenuosity and increasing sedentariness in today’s life styles, combined with excessive food intake, the modern society is at a brink of major health concerns like obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. An ageing society increases this further with millions worldwide forecasted to suffer from the health issues. The biggest challenge thus faced by the health industry is how to...
Business organizations across the world are increasingly articulating their commitment to build sustainable enterprises. Environmental stewardship, conscious and responsible consumption of natural resources required for day-to-day operations, is integral to this agenda. In this paper, we illustrate how a multinational enterprise has made significant strides in monitoring, conserving and improving...
This paper presents a low cost gesture recognition system that acts as URC (universal remote control) for multiple consumer electronic appliances. A sensor based glove for recognition of touches is the input module to the system. It consists of contact sensors, positioned at the finger tips to detect gestures signed. This glove communicates the gesture signed to the master unit through Radio Frequency...
'Prayatna' a web based tool, is an innovative attempt to introduce the power of ICT in vocational training and assessment of persons with mental retardation. Training and evaluation of persons with mental retardation has many challenges. The most significant challenges are the identification of an appropriate vocational opportunity, suitable work environment and assessing the person's readiness to...
Gender equality and empowerment of women is accepted universally as an important aspect of development. In India there is a high gender gap in literacy, high dropout rate in girl students, high incidence of crime against women, high negligence in economic freedom, low involvement in decision making and very low recognition for their efforts and contribution in agriculture and allied sectors. The scenario...
In July 2016, the Registrar General of India (RGI) released Census 2011 data on disabled population. Out of 2.68 crore disabled persons in India, 20% have movement disability, followed by persons with seeing and hearing disability, at 19% each. Majority of the disabled population i.e. 63.66% either do not work due to their dependency on others or are not skilled enough to do the work. Only 54.5% are...
Potential disruption stemming from self-driving vehicle (SDV) technology may change not just vehicles, but the foundations of our mobilities. As an example of analysing SDV technological development, this paper focuses on SDV intersection control. The starting premise is that technological development requires an understanding of previous developmental trajectories and potential future needs, rather...
The paper explains how IoT processors can be used to implement Autonomous Long Distance Trains (ALDT) that can out-perform the traditional trains in four important areas, namely, (a) better safety to itself and to other trains (b) better safety to others like bridges, objects at level crossings etc (c) efficient service to the train users and (d) better environment for the Railway authorities to improve...
Green Information Technology (IT) is the study of environment friendly practices in the IT context. Science and technology has brought in many benefits over the years but we failed to see the environmental degradation that is happening due to anthropogenic activities. In recent times, there exists an enthusiasm in sustainable activities among people but its relationship with their day to day work...
The availability of energy is a key factor affecting sustainable development. Consumers losing electricity supply due to constraints on electrical power utilities is very common in developing countries. In this paper, the technical and economic feasibility of using solar photovoltaics (PV) as a grid independent backup power source (which can match the existing consumer load profiles) is investigated...
Fully integrated electronic health records (EHR) provide healthcare providers and patients access to records across a health care system and promise efficient and effective provision of health care. However, fully integrated records have proven to be very expensive and difficult to establish. Currently. EHR’s have been developed largely to accommodate Western medicine events. These barriers impact...
Widespread use of sustainable energy sources is a necessary economic decision in the face of tightening supplies of fossil fuel sources like coal and restrictive exploitation of large hydroelectric schemes. As a perennial solution Distributed Energy Resources centred on renewable energy has become an established energy sourcing strategy even in developing economies. Still there are certain areas,...
Embedded radio-frequency identification, sensor technologies, biomedical devices and a new breed of nanotechnologies are now being commercialized within a variety of contexts and use cases. As these technologies gather momentum in the marketplace, consumers will need to navigate the changing cybernetic landscape. The trichotomy facing consumers are: (1) to adopt RFID implants as a means of self-expression...
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