{"title":"Contactless IoT Doorbell for Covid-safe Household","authors":"Simran Dadhich, Pritsam Dabre, Ruben Dabreo, Prachi Raut","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641565","url":null,"abstract":"The Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be the most disastrous pandemic in the history. Millions of people have lost their lives sending nations into lockdown and economic slowdowns. Given the fact that no specific anti-viral treatment is yet suggested for treating Covid-19 infection, “Social distancing” is probably the most effective tool so far in stopping the virus spread. This paper has proposed an IoT based doorbell which alerts the house owner about arrival of a visitor having fever and who could be a Covid-19 patient. The system uses NodeMCU and MLX90614 non-contact infrared temperature sensor. FireBase online database is used to log all the readings of the system and a companion mobile App is also provided. The system was extensively tested using an experimental set up under various conditions. The system works with 99% average accuracy of body temperature measurement.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122706691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rabbi Sudheer Zacharias, A. S. Prasad, DS Sai Rohith, G. N, M. Jayaram
{"title":"Brain-Computer Interfacing: A method to detect pain signals in the brain of a patient under operation","authors":"Rabbi Sudheer Zacharias, A. S. Prasad, DS Sai Rohith, G. N, M. Jayaram","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641628","url":null,"abstract":"This is a study of the brain waves of a subject when he or she goes through any medical procedures. When a person undergoes any operation or surgical intervention for his health the surgeon will provide A paralyzing agent and a numbing agent which serves the purpose of paralyzing the specific body part where the operation is to be done so that the patient does not move his/her body during the operation, and the numbing agent is given at that specific region where the operation is to take place. Sometimes the paralyzing agent might work, and the numbing agent might not work. In this case, the patient needs to undergo the operation with experiencing the pain but will not be able to convey his pain as subject is paralyzed. So, the EEG (electro-encephalograph) device is fitted to the head of the patient immediately after both the agents are given to the patient before the commencement of the operation. Based on the study of the signals coming from the patient's brain we try to understand whether the patient is going through any pain or not. The captured signals are amplified to a range where calculations can be performed. From the known information about the pain signal, the remaining signals are filtered out using a narrow bandpass Butterworth filter of second order and this output is sent to a triggering circuit. This pain signal represents a logic high in the circuit which can be used to obtain the required output.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123160722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amareshwar Karatagi, B. R., Manjula R. Bharamagoudra, Yash Modi, Palem Niharika, Chinnareddy Geetha sai
{"title":"Modern Way of Learning Using Augmented Reality (AR)","authors":"Amareshwar Karatagi, B. R., Manjula R. Bharamagoudra, Yash Modi, Palem Niharika, Chinnareddy Geetha sai","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641639","url":null,"abstract":"The main objective for developing this project is to build a platform for children that enables learning in a very efficient way. It encourages a next level of education that is free, creative and convenient. Introduction of virtual learning to the primary schools can provide a joyful learning experience to the students. The project is built using Augmented Reality technology. This technique involves 3D learning that aids the learning process and has a greater impact on the children's learning, as they are more likely to remember the facts and lessons learned. It helps children identify and organize visual information and learn skills easily. It's simply because visuals hold more appeal than plain text to those curious and intuitive young minds. Understanding and grasping concepts in their curriculum is made simple and fun with this technique of learning. The software technology used to build this application is unity3D (software) and Vuforia web portal (to create a database) as a prerequisite. Some image targets are set so that the camera can recognize the images and display a 3d model based on it. It can be done by adding some 3D assets in required fields and it is altered accordingly. After setting all these we will be able to extract an apk file from the scene created in software which can be installed in Android or iOS mobile devices or tabs. The user will be able to operate it just by scanning the specific image targets. This project is implemented at school level which can benefit in various ways. It helps to spark kids' interest in subjects. This approach promotes active learning and can encourage kids to use their creativity for their own pleasure. As they get older, the creative skills they developed in the process can be used to solve every day or even global problems. This project has a wider scope and can further be implemented in various other fields.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123000811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Mahmud, Khan Md Hasib, S. Sakib, Md. Imran Hossain Showrov
{"title":"Impact of Pedal Powered Vehicles on Average Traffic Speed in Dhaka City: A Cross-sectional Study Based on Road Class and Timestamp","authors":"J. Mahmud, Khan Md Hasib, S. Sakib, Md. Imran Hossain Showrov","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641636","url":null,"abstract":"Traffic congestion has become one of the burning issues in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. Despite being a megacity, the lack of adequate road space, uncontrolled vehicles, and dense population have left Dhaka stranded. Rickshaw, a three-wheeled pedal-powered slow vehicle, famous to the city dwellers, can be found running on most Dhaka city roads. So, rickshaw plays an indispensable role in estimating the average traffic speed of Dhaka city. This paper studies traffic patterns of Dhaka city intensively and calculates the average traffic speed of the town considering two significant aspects- 1) three road classes (primary, secondary and tertiary), and 2) four timestamps in a day (midnight, morning, afternoon and night). The timestamps are chosen so that it can reflect the condition of traffic intensity in Dhaka city based on the urbanites' quotidian activities. This paper estimates the average traffic speed on those three different road classes for each of the four different timestamps using 1,56,630 records traced from 25 different road segments for 15 days. The paper also estimates the rickshaw free roads' average speed and the non-rickshaw open roads to be 20 km/h and 11 km/h, respectively. Although the infrastructures are not the same for all streets, the findings in this paper possess an excellent estimation for the individual road and the whole city.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"179 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122543649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ronnie S. Concepcion, Jonnel D. Alejandrino, Maria Gemel B. Palconit, Ivan Lamboloto, E. Dadios, Bernardo Duarte, Sandy C. Lauguico
{"title":"Identification of Philippine Maize Variety Using Convolutional Neural Network with Kernel Morphological Phenes Characterization","authors":"Ronnie S. Concepcion, Jonnel D. Alejandrino, Maria Gemel B. Palconit, Ivan Lamboloto, E. Dadios, Bernardo Duarte, Sandy C. Lauguico","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641688","url":null,"abstract":"Maize variety significantly increased due to hybridization and the characteristics of individual seed overlap causing the non-uniformity problem in agricultural production. Non-destructive optical techniques already exist but some have high operation requirements. This study developed a nondestructive RGB imaging model for classifying Philippine maize varieties, namely IPB VAR 6, NSIC CN 282, and PSB CN 97–92, using a 17-layer convolutional neural network (CNN) with 7.040858x106 extracted parameters. CIELab thresholding was performed to extract the morphological phenes (roundness, compactness, solidity, shape factors) that were also used as input predictors in feature-based predictive machine learning modeling. The developed CNN model outperformed the optimized decision tree, Naïve Bayes, linear discriminant analysis, k-nearest neighbors, and MobileNetV2 models based on the accuracy (96.667%), sensitivity (96.667%), and specificity (96.970%) in discriminating 300 kernels provided by the Philippine Bureau of Plant Industry. Based on the morphological phenotyping, the IPB VAR 6 has the most prominent shape factors 1 and 2 which are based on major and minor axis lengths of the kernel. NSIC CN 282 is the roundest, most compact, and has significant shape factors 3 and 4, while PSB CN 97–92 has the highest average solidity value. This developed approach has a great advantage for in situ classification and phenotyping without requiring performing laboratory procedures and shelling out huge expenses for the technology.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129045754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image Analysis of Ventriculomegaly and White Matter Deterioration in Alzheimer's disease","authors":"Akhila Madhu, Jhinuk Chatterjee","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641701","url":null,"abstract":"Upgradation in imaging technology has facilitated advanced healthcare provisions in various fields of medicine. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one such ailment caused by the decaying of brain cells. For early detection, it is necessary to consider MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of different sections of the brain. In our research, we analyse biomarkers like ventriculomegaly and white matter deterioration in AD brains in comparison to the cognitively normal (CN) brain using the Image Processing Toolbox in MATLAB. Image segmentation and image batch processing is applied to a wide range of image sets and have been used to get a comprehensive result based on the area of the region of interest.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130283882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asif L. Jamadar, Shubham R. Bharamgonda, Vikas R. Kesarwani, Omkar S. Randive, Kishor D. Kadam, Rohan G. Kharbude
{"title":"Smart Water Distribution with Disaster Management","authors":"Asif L. Jamadar, Shubham R. Bharamgonda, Vikas R. Kesarwani, Omkar S. Randive, Kishor D. Kadam, Rohan G. Kharbude","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641519","url":null,"abstract":"Experienced operators, who are familiar with the installed facilities and requirements of society can forecast daily water demand based on the date and weather information for traditional water distribution systems. However, with the widespread withdrawal of skilled operators and municipal mergers, more efficient water supply, distribution operations, maintenance of facilities, and managements were lately needed. The efficient application of any water system with diverse configurations, water distribution automation system ensures that it is an acceptable and steady water supply function. This paper presents a strategic method for water distribution automation with disaster management techniques. This technique is used to manipulate the water supply in case of disasters such as fire and leakage in the vicinity of the supply area, and hence available resources are utilized effectively.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124534359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vishal V Kurup, K. Rahul, Rahul G Kartha, Elna T Thampi, Gylson Thomas, P. J. Ajish
{"title":"Low-Cost Portable Emergency Mechanical Ventilator Proposed for Covid-19 Patients","authors":"Vishal V Kurup, K. Rahul, Rahul G Kartha, Elna T Thampi, Gylson Thomas, P. J. Ajish","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641670","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in severe shortages of ventilators around the world. COVID-19 patients with extreme acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) have an unmet requirement for quickly transportable, emergency-use ventilators with adequate functionality. We present the design and validation of a simple, compact, and low-cost ventilator with features such as automatic dual mode switching and Advanced closed loop feedback control for the intelligent adult respiratory circuit. It involves the design and making of a prototype that will provide oxygen-regulated, volume and pressure controlled air for mechanical ventilation with sensors providing feedback signals for a closed loop control.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125843745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Landmine Detection Using A Mobile Robot","authors":"V. Prakash, Pramod Sreedharan","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641540","url":null,"abstract":"Given the scale and damage to human lives both physical and economic, landmine detection and inspection have been an important domain for human aid response. This process has led to the invention and development of various safe and effective methods for landmine detection, marking, and cleanup. But most often the tools used are expensive, costly to operate, and require skilled technicians. For a very long time, a large part of this process was carried by human personnel. These methods and very conventional and place humans and human life at risk. Operating with such conventional methods requires extensive training and caution. To minimize human interaction modern methods use mobile robots to detects the buried landmines. The mobile robot is equipped with different types of sensors for landmine detection and autonomous navigation. The paper presents the design and implementation of a simulated mobile robot that detects the buried landmines on the battlefield to reduce human intervention. The mobile robot has various sensors for obstacle avoidance and mine detection. The simulation and visualization are carried out in ROS Gazebo and RViz.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127347207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tomato Plant Leaf Disease Detection using CNN","authors":"R. Kodali, Princy Gudala","doi":"10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/R10-HTC53172.2021.9641655","url":null,"abstract":"Agriculture is a vital revenue source for a developing nation like India. India is the world's second-largest tomato producer. Tomatoes are the world's most common crop, and they can be found in any kitchen in various ways, regardless of the cuisine. It is the third most widely grown crop after potato and sweet potato. However, owing to numerous diseases, the standard and abundance of the tomato crop suffers. Leaves are essential for rapid growth of any plant and increased crop production. Farmers and researchers alike face difficulties in identifying diseases in plant leaves. Leaf diseases in plants must be identified at an early stage and predictive methods implemented to make them stable and prevent losses to the agri-based industry. A Convolution Neural Network (CNN) based approach is used for disease identification and classification. The classified accuracy ranges from 76% to 100% depending on the class, and the proposed model's average accuracy is 98.2 % for the nine disease and one healthy class.","PeriodicalId":117626,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE 9th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127377028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}