{"title":"A Study of Satellite Networks and Educational Technologies for Ubiquitous Education","authors":"S. Ramesh, Natarajan Krishnaier","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318695","url":null,"abstract":"Indian educational satellite, EDUSAT, launched from GSLV was the world's first dedicated satellite to provide education to rural and urban students through Virtual Classrooms. Around 15 million students across 26 States of India receive education each year. UNESCO's Institute for Statistics (UIS) suggests that, over 68 million trained school teachers will be needed across the world to achieve the objective of Universal Education Goal. To realize this, we require conventional education, as well as Satellite Networks that foster interactive and inexpensive distance education through e-learning. This type of learning process will provide education for all. The Indian educational satellite networks are compared with those of other nations to understand the methodologies to improve literacy. The value addition provided by educational technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Augmented Reality, Virtual Classroom, etc. in association with satellite networks, is also investigated. In the urban areas and Smart Cities, high tech education is best implemented by using high bandwidth satellite networks in conjunction with high speed terrestrial optical fiber links and modern EdTech. This paper examines the synergistic utilization of educational technologies with ubiquitous connectivity of satellites to provide education to tribal as well as remote hilly regions like the recently created Union Territory of Ladakh. This study gives input to the initiatives of the Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) of the Government of India for the proposed New Education Policy (NEP), which envisages equitable and inclusive education for all.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"385 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131836074","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":"Urban Flood Mapping with C-band RISAT-1 SAR Images: 2016 Flood Event of Bangalore City, India","authors":"V. S. K. Vanama, S. Shitole, Y. S. Rao","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318710","url":null,"abstract":"Flood mapping in urban areas is a rigorous and crucial task in disaster management. Bangalore, one of the Indian megacities, has experienced severe flooding in July 2016. To analyze this flood event, RISAT-1 satellite images were acquired before and after the flood. Various change detection methods were applied to the processed SAR images to identify the flood area. Horizontal like polarized data (HH) is highly sensitive to identify permanent water bodies and also flood affected areas. Permanent water bodies and high elevated areas extracted from DEM were masked out form the results for accurate urban flood mapping. The results show that the spatial distribution of flood was better identified by Normalized Change Index (NCI) method. The results reveal that difference and ratio change detection methods ensued in over and underestimation of flood area, which may be due to the use of moderate resolution RISAT-1 SAR images. In urban areas, the use of images acquired with RISAT FRS mode may give better results due to its high spatial resolution.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114668390","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":"Exploratory Search Behaviors in Linear List Visualization","authors":"Zhouyu Yang, Ningyue Peng, Chengqi Xue","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318717","url":null,"abstract":"Presenting hyperlinks in the form of linear lists is the mainstream visualization method of semantic information space. Users need to click hyperlinks and jump to multiple pages to forage information and perceive the relation between pages and the connectivity within information space. The jumping process would interfere with the learning and understanding of the semantic information space, increase cognitive load of information retrieval and degrade user experience. In this paper, an experiment is conducted to investigate the exploratory search behaviors in linear list visualization. We create two exploratory search tasks, and use process analysis and questionnaire surveys to study users' disorientation, their search behaviors, and search preferences. Results confirm the learning characteristic of exploratory search, which is specifically manifested in their continuous searching through multiple interactions with the searching system, and adjusting search strategies and methods until the search task is completed. Two search preferences based on retrieval keywords and literatures are observed in the search. Through observations and surveys, we find it is difficult for users to build the mental map between hyperlinks and the information space using a linear list visualization. They will get lost with deeper information searching. This paper can inspire the information retrieval and multimedia system designers to be more considerate of users' learning abilities and their perceptual bottleneck.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129145058","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":"Health Monitoring and Analysis using IPFS and Blockchain","authors":"Harshit Singh, Dhyanikumar Ravindra Palan, Ruhi Shinde, Mudra Doshi","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318651","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318651","url":null,"abstract":"India currently has no central health monitoring system in place which can provide a single platform for storing Medical records of all the citizens of our country in a systematic and secured manner. In this research, we develop a system that will not only provide a record storing platform rather, a system that can be used to perform analysis on the records stored and produce output by the means of data mining which could be used for multiple agencies like Government, Pharmaceuticals Company, and Hospitals to benefit from services like Epidemic predictability based on Preset benchmarks, help in maintaining appropriate stock of medicine, serve as Electrical Medical Records (EMRs), etc. The highlight of this research is the use of two emerging paradigm changing technologies in the medical domain, which are Blockchain and IPFS. The use of these two technologies along with the architecture model suggested in this paper can efficiently reduce the problem of security breaches faced by most of the health record systems maintained by other countries.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132561857","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":"Autonetics and Administration for IT Laboratories","authors":"V. Karthikeyan, Uddhabendra Maity, Atharv Shetty, Sameer Nanivadekar, Vishal Sahebrao Badgujar","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318644","url":null,"abstract":"Majority of IT labs in today's academic institutions face operational issues in the management of multiple systems simultaneously. The best example would be when a particular software needs to be installed in the labs, it becomes a tedious and time consuming process for the lab assistant to manually install the software in each and every system in the lab. Also in some cases where the students forget to shutdown their respective computers, it becomes the responsibility of the lab assistant to shutdown the PCs manually. These challenges cause lack of access control and inadequate security. Moreover, there is lot of work pressure which leads to sub-optimal work schedules. To keep track of access records of the systems, we would also be designing a web-based GUI which records and displays the access information of PCs too. Thus a well thought out design for automating these various operational tasks inside the IT lab environments has been implemented and worked upon. In this paper we've discussed the roles and benefits of automating the IT labs for the students as well as lab instructors.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125319585","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}
R. Kadam, Vishakha Vidhani, Anushree Bane, Bhavika Valecha, N. Giri
{"title":"Land Records System Using Hybrid Blockchain","authors":"R. Kadam, Vishakha Vidhani, Anushree Bane, Bhavika Valecha, N. Giri","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318693","url":null,"abstract":"Maintaining land records is a difficult task for countries with large area and population. Having a central database server is not a 100% safe alternative to paper-based traditional records as it is susceptible to cyber-attacks and frauds. This paper proposes an idea to solve this issue using blockchain. The proposed land records system is based on a hybrid blockchain network. The existing land records are put on the blockchain by the government. All land sales transactions are recorded on this hybrid blockchain. These transactions are mined (verified) by a miner which is run on government authorized peers or nodes. These records or transactions cannot be tampered with. The citizens can view their owned lands and corresponding transactions but cannot make changes to any data on the blockchain. Being based on hybrid blockchain, this system is benefitted by advantages of both the types of blockchain-public and private and is more secure and reliable than databases and paper records.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129269871","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":"Bridge Health Monitoring Using CNN","authors":"Nileema Pathak","doi":"10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCDW45521.2020.9318674","url":null,"abstract":"Structural Health Monitoring of various constructions like long bridges, high rise buildings, heritage structures etc is the need of the hour in metro cities today. The condition of these structures deteriorates due to many reasons like over utilization of the public structures, poor maintenance, improper use of materials etc. Preventive maintenance has to be planned and executed after the monitoring phase, so as to avoid disasters and accidents. Monitoring the bridge structure for visible cracks and damage can be done by periodically collecting the images of bridge, processing the images to detect anomaly. In image processing methods like texture analysis, segmentation and Support Vector Machines (SVM) are used to identify the cracks on the surface area images. Convolution Neural Network (CNN) is the latest technology that can be used for image classification. CNN gives accurate results when there is a huge dataset of images for a particular area that needs to be analyzed for presence of cracks and damage. Setting up the CNN is a tedious task when the in-depth analysis is required, but its major advantage is that it can learn the features of an image automatically.","PeriodicalId":282429,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Convergence to Digital World - Quo Vadis (ICCDW)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129413853","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}