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Design and development for detection and prevention of ATM skimming frauds
Authors: Khalaf Al Hattali Sultan Saleem , Mazhar Hussain Shaik , Frank Anilloy
Published: February 2020

ATM Skimming is a major concern that needs to be addressed with a specific solution. ATM Skimming is done in two steps. One is stealing the Personal Information that is stored on the Debit card / Credit card using Rain cover connected to the card reader slot (ATM’s real card slot). The second is installing a Fake keypad that can capture the pin code when the card holder enters pin details. Few researchers have proposed solutions to address the issue using Image Processing techniques. However, it does not provide a complete solution in a long term. Hence it is of paramount importance to provide ATM with high security features. In order to solve the issue of ATM Skimming, An Embedded System design is proposed. The research is carried out in two phases. One is detection phase and the second is Prevention Phase. In the detection phase, Hardware components such as Arduino Mega, Force Sensing Resistor (FSR), GPS, GSM and Buzzer are used. Arduino Mega acts as a Central Processor that processes the information received from Force sensing resistor (FSR) and send SMS Messages to ROP and Bank Officials using GSM and informing them about the ATM Location using GPS where the Fraud is taking place. Buzzer can be used at the ATM Locations to alert nearby people. In the prevention Phase, as a preventive measure a Onetime password (OTP) technique is used. If a fraudster somehow succeeds in Fixing fake key pad and Rain Cover at ATM’s real card slot, When he tries to insert debit card, An OTP will be generated and is sent to the Card Holder which in turn he can know someone is trying to make Transactions and quickly he can ask bank officials to Block his account and inform ROP about the same. Expected findings of the proposed work is to detect  Fake keypads and Fake card readers using FSR placed at the edges of Original Keypad and card reader slot. Sending messages to ROP, BANK OFFICIALS and CARD HOLDER using GSM. ATM locations are identified using GPS. Buzzers are used to alert nearby people.
Remote monitoring of a premature infants incubator
Authors: Shabeeb Ali Ghazi , Al-Askery Ali Jaber , Nahi Zainab Majid
Published: February 2020

In this paper, the air temperature and humidity levels in the infant' incubator are monitored remotely by means of Arduino microcontroller with different sensors and an open source internet of things (IoT) applications. The system is connected to a network via a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) connection to be linked to an application on the smart phone or to the computer. The system is designed using Arduino microcontroller, DHT11/DHT22 sensor for measuring the body parameters, such as the temperature and the humidity, LCD monitor, ESP8266 WiFi modules, and NodeMCU-v3.The results have shown that real time updated medical records can be transferred to the medical staff utilizing ThingSpeak IoT applications.
Approach to the choice of modernization directions for the system of geodynamic monitoring in cases of using components intensity uncertainty
Authors: Kuzichkin O.R. , Eremenko V.T. , Loginov I.V. , Eremenko A.V. , Eremenko S. V. , Grecheneva A.V. , Vasilyev G.S.
Published: February 2020

The problem of the optimum choice of the modernization directions for geodynamic monitoring systems, which is solved in the conditions of changing the parameters of natural-technical systems (NTS) is considered in the work. The solution of the task is creating a list of the components modernization directions and validate ranking the most effective of them. As criterion of modernization the value of decrease in resource intensity of subsystem application is using. The task is considering the uncertainty of quantity of the arriving tasks. Within the suggested method, it is offered to determine the effect of resource by each modernization direction. The functional dependences on its increase depending on an expense of resources of modernization. The decision is reached by minimization of total cost of modernization resources for the system in the conditions of change using components intensity at change of external conditions.
Uncertainty of the implementation time of geodynamic monitoring system in multi-criteria ranking of alternatives
Authors: Kuzichkin O.R. , Loginov I.V. , Eremenko V.T. , Eremenko S. V. , Vasilyev G.S. , Grecheneva A.V.
Published: February 2020

The paper deals with the problem of ranking alternatives to geodynamic monitoring systems in the case of uncertainty of their implementation time. The problem is characterized by the fact that the choice of alternatives and the effect of it depends on the quality properties of the applied organizational and technical solutions, taking into account the time of implementation. The ordering of alternatives is proposed taking into account the uncertainty of the implementation time factors. Ranking is realized by comparing the trees of functional characteristics of alternatives taking into account the compliance of their characteristics with time-varying requirements. The scope of the proposed method is the choice of configurations of geodynamic monitoring systems with significant differences in the implementation time of alternatives.
Improvement of LMS adaptive noise canceller using uniform Poly-phase digital filter bank
Authors: Hadi Mohammad Alaa , Che Soh Azura , Faezah Ismail Noor , Abdul Rahman Ribhan Zafira , Mohd Radzi Mohd Amran
Published: February 2020

This paper presents the Least Mean Square (LMS) noise canceller using uniform poly-phase digital filter bank to improve the noise can-cellation process. Analysis filter bank is used to decompose the full-band distorted input signal into sub-band signals. Decomposition the full-band input distorted signal into sub-band signals based on the fact that the signal to noise ratio (S/N) is inversely proportional to the signal bandwidth. Each sub-band signal is fed to individual LMS algorithm to produce the optimal sub-band output. Synthesis filter bank is used to compose the optimal sub-band outputs to produce the final optimal full-band output. In this paper, m-band uniform Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) digital filter bank has been used because its computational complexity is much smaller than the direct implementation of digital filter bank. The simulation results show that the proposed method provides the efficient performance with less and smooth error signal as compared to conventional LMS noise canceller.
DSR and OLSR routing protocol based performance evaluation and integration on MIP with MANET
Authors: Munira Sirajum , Sadia Humaira , Fahin Samara , Siddik Ashraf , Fazlul Haque A.K.M.
Published: February 2020

This paper describes the integration of mobile IP in mobile ad hoc network (MIPMANET) in large area network (LAN) between 8 nodes, where latency, delay, throughput is considered for the quality of service (QoS) consideration. For the best result of MIPMANET, the Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) and Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR) are considered. Although MANET has other routing protocols, the DSR performs better in MIPMANET integration in NS2. Mobile IP is applied for doing the dynamic topology to static topology as the nodes are flexible in an ad-hoc network. Simulation result suggests that the MANET performs better in DSR with MIP as the amount of packet drop is low and throughput is high
Development of fall detection and activity recognition using threshold based method and neural network
Authors: Siong Jun Sai , Rashidi Ramli Hafiz , Che Soh Azura , Ain Kamsani Noor , Raja Ahmad Raja Kamil , Anom Ahmad Siti , Juraiza Ishak Asnor
Published: February 2020

Falls are dangerous and contribute to over 80% of injury-related hospitalization especially amongst the elderly. Hence, fall detection is important for preventing severe injuries and accidental deaths. Meanwhile, recognizing human activity is important for monitoring health status and quality of life as it can be applied in geriatric care and healthcare in general. This research presents the development of a fall detection and human activity recognition system using Threshold Based Method (TBM) and Neural Network (NN). Intentional forward fall and six other activities of daily living (ADLs), which include running, jumping, walking, sitting, lying, and standing are performed by 15 healthy volunteers in a series of experiments. There are four important stages involved in fall detection and ADL recognition, which are signal filtering, segmentation, features extraction and classification. For classification, TBM achieved an accuracy of 98.41% and 95.40% for fall detection and activity recognition respectively whereas NN achieved an accuracy of 97.78% and 96.77% for fall detection and activity recognition respectively.
Human gait recognition using orthogonal least square as feature selection
Authors: Sahak Rohilah , Md Tahir Nooritawati , Mohd Yassin Ahmad Ihsan , Hafizhelmi Kamaruzaman Fadhlan
Published: February 2020

This study investigates the potential gait features that are related to human recognition using orthogonal least square (OLS). Firstly, video of 30 subjects walking in oblique view was recorded using Kinect. Next, all 20 skeleton joints in 3D space were extracted and further selected using OLS. Additionally, SVM with linear, polynomial and radial basis function (RBF) kernel was used to classify the selected features. As consequences, OLS was proven to be able to identify the significant features using all three kernels of SVM since all recognition accuracy attained is higher as compared to the original gait features. Results attained showed that the highest recognition accuracy was 90.67% using 48 skeleton joint points for SVM with linear as kernel, followed by 46 skeleton joint points for SVM with RBF kernel namely 88.33% and accuracy of 86.33% for 38 skeleton joint points using  polynomial kernel.
Prospects of using the UFMC technology in 5G / IMT-2020 networks
Authors: Ghazi Behadili Ahmed Sabri , Abdualsada Alshebaney Emad Jadeen , Khudhair attaby Aqeel Lateef
Published: February 2020

Subject of investigation. The article considers the technology of frequency multiplexing with universal filtering UFMC, planned to be introduced in the fifth generation of mobile communication networks, which allows maximizing the rate of decay of the side lobes of the multi frequency signal spectrum that cause out-of-band emissions. Method. As a method of investigation, a computational experiment was chosen. Main results. The parameters of the OFDM and UFMC signals were compared to determine the gain of the UFMC technology in the occupied bandwidth of the signal spectrum, as well as the number of arithmetic operations, required to generate a data symbol compared to the OFDM technology, on the basis of which, conclusions were made about the practical application of UFMC technology in networks mobile communication of the fifth generation. Practical significance. The conducted analysis can help to select the optimal number of sub-channels in groups in order to minimize the amount of computations during the UFMC symbol generation process.
Study of impact of art performance level of blue laser technology applications and its control
Authors: Ali Mohanad H. , Enad Mahmood H. , Jasim Jasim Mohmed , Abdul-Nab Rawaa A. , Alani Nadia
Published: February 2020

In this work; we present an enhancement in blue laser diodes with new factors and applications for modern technology such as underwater telecommunications, bio-sensor and bio-medical systems etc. Years of advance meanwhile have much enhanced laser performance, and extremely improved their diversity, making lasers significant parts in scientific research, telecommunications, engineering, bio-medical imaging, materials working, and a swarm of other applications. This article viewing how laser technology has progressed to chance application requirements. The enhanced blue laser building diagrams to get a peak efficiency% at room temperature with modification. Moreover, we have as well estimated electro-optical performance packing of blue laser diodes been significantly various associated to GaAs laser method and novel developments and performances are required to enhance the optical power from anther laser diodes. Researchers need enhanced approaches to accurately make new the blue laser applications to use control of modern experimental measurements and optical communication.
Identification of mobile vehicle through multilayer intercommunication
Authors: Goyal Ranjan , Gnanaprakasam Anuradha , Singh Paritosh Pal
Published: February 2020

In the recent times of data transmission, applying the Internet of Things (IoT) device, networking to the various IoT modules is still a great challenge with the deployment stage. Very few localities in the world have the deployed IoT module integrated in its communication, but still maximum of the location are in testbed. As a practical application, the IoT modules can be used to collect the information about either the drunken person who is driving the vehicle or the heavily loaded vehicles. The vehicle that we are about to search should be integrated with the IoT module. In this paper, a novel approach for object tracking specifically the drunken driving person and the heavily loaded vehicle is proposed to ensure the follow of rules and prevent any mis happening. The task is to identify the exact vehicle which does not follow the rules which can be tracked and eliminated. For that we are proposing a simple methodology on identifying the vehicle by the tracking the locality of the vehicle as a cluster of nodes where the cluster provides the key inference on how the vehicles are interrelated in the learning environment.
Z shaped like resonator with crystal in the presence of flat mirror based standing wave ratio for optical antenna systems
Authors: Sadegh Amiri Iraj , Rashed Ahmed Nabih Zaki , Yupapin Preecha
Published: February 2020

This study has outlined the Z resonator shaped with Brewster crystal in the presence of flat mirror for measuring the standing wave ratio. Stability parameter and beam radius are simulated versus thickness, refractive index of the crystal and first and second folding ranges. Beam radius variations are studied against phase angle and curvature radius of spherical mirror in T and S planes. Intermode beat frequency of the system is 216.276 MHz and total cavity length is 693.078 mm. It is important the standing wave ratio is dependent on stability parameter and beam radius variations. 
Closed-loop ring resonator topology for bandpass filter applications
Authors: Ab Wahab Norfishah , Md Tan M. N. , N. Hushim M.
Published: February 2020

This paper presents a single mode pseudo-elliptic bandpass resonator based on closed-loop ring topology. The resonator is built from six quarter wavelength transmission lines to form a square closed-loop ring structure. This structure creates transmission zeros at the lower and upper sidebands so that high selectivity bandpass filter response is achieved. The advantage of this topology is that the design is less complex since no perturbation is needed on the ring lines for creation of transmission zeros. Higher-order filters can be constructed by introducing quarter-wavelength coupled-lines, coupled at both input and output of the closed-loop ring resonator. For proof of concept, the filters are designed at 10 GHz up to 3rd order, simulated using full-wave electromagnetic simulator on microstrip substrate, FR-4 with characteristics given as Ԑr = 4.70, h = 1.499 mm and tan δ = 0.012.  The filters are simulated and responses are found to be agreeable with the proposed idea.
Design of compact reconfigurable UWB antenna with WiMAX and WLAN band rejection
Authors: F. Miswadi N. , T. Ali M.
Published: February 2020

Two reconfigurable UWB antennas with band rejection characteristics are presented in this paper. By applying concept of parasitic element and etching slot in these two proposed antenna design WiMAX and WLAN band rejection are obtained, respectively to avoid potential electromagnetic interference (EMI). The proposed antennas are printed on 30mm x 40 mm Rogers5880 substrate. Furthermore, ideal switches are employed to achieve switchable band rejection UWB antenna.In this paper, two designs of reconfigurable UWB antenna with band rejection were proposed; namely a reconfigurable UWB antenna with WiMAX band rejection (Antenna 1), reconfigurable UWB antenna with WLAN band rejection (Antenna 2). The proposed antennas were successfully simulated, fabricated and measured. The Antenna 1 have impedance bandwidth from 2.99 GHz to 10.58 GHz with band rejection at 3.52GHz by utilizing C-shaped parasitic stripline. Meanwhile, Antenna 2 achieved an operating bandwidth from 2.99 – 10.82GHz with VSWR less than 2 except for the WLAN band operating at 4.92 – 5.84 GHz.The measured results for both antennas show good agreement with simulated ones.
Internet data traffic analysis for identifying usage trends on each day of the week in a university
Authors: Adekitan Aderibigbe , Awosope Claudius
Published: February 2020

Internet data traffic monitoring and management are important requirements for ensuring top notch quality of service in a network. Data traffic logs contain useful hidden information that can be harnessed and interpreted as a resource for making informed network management decisions. In this study, logged internet data traffic for both the upload and download traffic in a university for one year was analysed using statistics and partial least squares approach to structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Time series plots, statistical properties and trends for each day of the week over a 51-week period were developed. The result shows that the most data was downloaded on Thursdays while the most upload occurred on Mondays. A path model was developed using Smart PLS3, and the performance of the model was evaluated using the construct reliability and validity of the model. The results reveal that the weekly variance is majorly accounted for by usage variations on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. An overall model R-square value of 0.876 was observed.
New insider threat detection method based on recurrent neural networks
Authors: Nasser Al-mhiqani Mohammed , Ahmad Rabiah , Zainal Abidin Zaheera , Yassin Warusia , Hassan Aslinda , Natasha Mohammad Ameera
Published: February 2020

Insider threat is a significant challenge in cybersecurity. In comparison with outside attackers, inside attackers have more privileges and legitimate access to information and facilities that can cause considerable damage to an organization. Most organizations that implement traditional cybersecurity techniques, such as intrusion detection systems, fail to detect insider threats given the lack of extensive knowledge on insider behavior patterns. However, a sophisticated method is necessary for an in-depth understanding of insider activities that the insider performs in the organization. In this study, we propose a new conceptual method for insider threat detection on the basis of the behaviors of an insider. In addition, gated recurrent unit neural network will be explored further to enhance the insider threat detector. This method will identify the optimal behavioral pattern of insider actions.
Improved storage area network method for backup approach
Authors: K. Ibrahim Sarmad , A. Abdulhussien Saif
Published: February 2020

Storage Area Network (SAN) could be a dedicated storage network which carries the info between servers and storage devices. SAN offers flexibility to implement and share data between servers and remote devices instead of the traditional method that reduced the performance of service. This paper improves SAN backup method to increase the CPU utilization and reduce the load on the link; the result shows that the improved method is better than of traditional in terms of response time in FTP about 36% while the traffic data is about 3%.
Methods for database ciphering
Authors: Ali Naji Maitham , Mohsin Hammood Dalal Abdul , Razik Al Debagh Nuha Abdul
Published: February 2020

In this paper Caesar and Vigenere methods have been used for table ciphering. Each record has unique and independent keys to the next record to get high security. The cipher text stored in script file that separates the content of fields by semicolon. The second part is the process of creating a new database using the Object called Data Access Object (DAO) and then create table and it is fields. The program gets plaintext of the table by applying the decryption rules of two methods.
Design and implementation of a feedback programmable spin coating system
Authors: Kadhim Ahmed , Swadi Salah M. , Ali Ghusoon M
Published: February 2020

In this work, a speed controlled, the programmable, low-cost, high-efficiency spin coating system is designed and implemented. The system is built from commercially available hard disk drivers DC motor, vacuum pump, speed sensor, brushless driver circuit carries Toshiba's TB6575FNG IC, PIC18F47J53 Microcontroller and using the interactive user interface to communicate with a user. Three different voltage stages and pulse width modulation techniques were used to guarantee accurate spinning speed and time. This system provides a wide range of precise and stable multi-step speeds rang of 1500 to 8,000 rpm. To evaluate the implemented system, ZnO thin films have been deposited by the sol-gel method on a glass substrate. Homogenous and uniform thickness films were obtained. The outstanding features of this system are the stability, accuracy, low energy consumption and durability, and the simplicity of adjusting multi-step spinning speed and time by using the interactive user interface.
A conceptual integrated health information systems framework in postnatal care for modern and traditional malay medicine
Authors: Raja Ikram Raja Rina , Salahuddin Lizawati , Mohd Naim Mohd Hariz , Idris Ariff , Zainal Abidin Nor Afirdaus , Ishak Nadiah , Ab Hamid Noor Raihan
Published: February 2020

This paper proposes an integrated health information systems framework for Traditional Malay Medicine (TMM) and modern medicine in the field of postnatal care. A qualitative study was conducted via healthcare experts in the field of modern medicine and Traditional Malay Medicine to assess the current situation and identify the research gap and point of isolation between both traditional and modern medicine field. A total of 26 healthcare practitioners whom represented five different set of healthcare organisations participated in this study. The healthcare practitioners consist of modern and traditional Malay medicine background with and without proper training. Results show that there is a gap in the current people, process and technology areas of the current framework. A novel conceptual framework, MyPostnatal, proposes the existence of a sufficiently generic, extensible in-formation model where new data sources can be integrated without major changes to the data scheme. Human and organization factors are also highlighted to stimulate the adoption towards electronic health records.
An advance encryption standard cryptosystem in IoT transaction
Authors: Kasiran Zolidah , Abdullah Shapina , Mohd Nor Normazlie
Published: February 2020

IoT create an ecosystem that can be useful to the world with its various services. That make the security of IoT is more important. This paper presents a proposed technique to secure data transaction from IoT device to other node using cryptography technique. AES cryptography and IoT device model ESP8266 is used as a client to send data to a server via HTTP protocol. Security performance matrices used eavesdropping attack with Wireshark sniffing and brute-force attack. will be simulated to the proposed method in order to ensure if there is any possibility it can be cracked using those attacks and to evaluate the performance of ESP8266, several experiments were be conducted. Result gather from this experiment was evaluated based on processing time to see the effectiveness of the platform compare to different data size used while adapting this technique.
Improving Graph-based methods for computing qualitative properties of markov decision processes
Authors: Mohagheghi Mohammadsadegh , Salehi Khayyam
Published: February 2020

Probabilistic model checking is a formal verification method, which is used to guarantee the correctness of the computer systems with stochastic behaviors. Reachability probabilities are the main class of properties that are proposed in probabilistic model checking. Some graph-based pre-computation can determine those states for which the reachability probability is exactly zero or one. Iterative numerical methods are used to compute the reachability probabilities for the remaining states. In this paper, we focus on the graph-based pre-computations and propose a heuristic to improve the performance of these pre-computations. The proposed heuristic approximates the set of states that are computed in the standard pre-computation methods. The experiments show that the proposed heuristic can compute a main part of the expected states, while reduces the running time by several orders of magnitude.
Design and development of Bi directional power meter using microcontroller
Authors: Ikra Rahman Tasnim , Fariha Rashid Anika , Rahman Md. Habibur
Published: February 2020

The significance of power or energy measurement has been very acute in recent times with the increase of Grid-Tied Solar PV system that needs Net-Metering. Power can be flown in both directions, from grid to load or from load (PV- Panel) to grid line. If power flow from both side is not calculated and surplus power which is not being used at the time instant is not stored, accurate billing is not possible. That is why a bidirectional power meter is required which can measure both the positive and negative power at any instant. The aim of this paper is to develop a bidirectional power meter using microcontroller. The work of this paper constitutes a microcontroller, a current sensor, bulbs as load and a display. The rms values of voltage and current is determined and showed in the display. Then the calibration is done inside the developed program. After that the power is calculated and showed in the display. Then the direction of the power is determined depending on the direction (whether positive or negative) of the power which is also dependent on the phase difference between the voltage and current. If there is no phase difference between the voltage and current, then the power is positive and leaving from the grid. If there is 180 degree phase difference between the voltage and current, then the power is negative and entering to the grid. The direction of the power flow is very important for efficiently of the proposed meter. For some defined load the accuracy of the developed meter is calculated as 94%.
A novel approach to assess radial distribution system for optimal sizing of microgrid
Authors: Chaphekar Shalaka , Dharme Anjali A.
Published: February 2020

The performance of Radial Distribution System (RDS) is enhanced by maintaining the appropriate Penetration Ratio (PR) of Distributed generation.  However, it has been observed that Penetration Ratio cannot be useful to analyze the impact of a Microgrid on performance of RDS. Hence a new index ‘Relief Factor’ (RF) is defined in this paper and the impact of Microgrid at different RF is studied. This paper presents an approach to compute daily energy losses variation when Microgrids of varying RF are connected to RDS having different maximum demands.  A methodology has been proposed for finding optimal RF and location of Microgrid.  In addition, the impact of maximum demand of RDS on optimum RF is analyzed. This paper gives the novel concept of assessing the RDS for integration of Microgrid based on maximum demand of RDS as well as Microgrid and sizing of Microgrid based on optimum Relief Factor.
Islanding detection of integrated distributed generation with advanced controller
Authors: Rajesh Reddy J , Pandian A , Dhanasekaran R , Ch Rami Reddy , Prasanna Lakshmi B , Neelima Devi B
Published: February 2020

Grid integration of non conventional energy resources is increasing in day to day life to supply the global energy utilization requirement. The major problem with such integrated Distributed Generation (DG) is islanding. The islanding is originated in the integrated system when a part of the power system is disconnected from the grid and continue to feed the local load. The islanding is not safe to field persons and equipment. As per IEEE 1547 standards, the islanding should be detected within 2 seconds with the equipments associated with it. In this paper, a new islanding detection method is proposed with fuzzy rule based approach with inputs as the change in frequency and power. This method classifies the islanding and non islanding events efficiently compared to other passive methods. The simulations are carried on Matlab/ Simulink 2018b environment.
Recent advances in phase-locked loop based synchronization methods for inverter-based renewable energy sources
Authors: Sardar Kamil Haval , Said Dalila Mat , Mustafa Mohd Wazir , Miveh Mohammad Reza , Ahmad Nasarudin
Published: February 2020

Recently, researchers have shown an increased interest in renewable energy sources (RESs) to improve power quality, reliability and stability of the power system. However, RESs require proper control strategies to ride through grid disturbances and stay connected to the main grid for the stability contribution. Moreover, the control of them relies mainly on the synchronization algorithms to precisely detect the voltage phase angle, magnitude and frequency. Throughout the years, various synchronization schemes have been introduced and developed. In the renewable-based generation sources, the phase-locked loop (PLL) is a well-known technique for operating grid-tied power converters for the estimation of the synchronization information and grid voltage monitoring. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the recently developed PLL algorithms for grid synchronization applications. At first, various estimation techniques are discussed. Then, a comparison between various PLLs and possible future works are recommended.
Achieving robust global bandwidth along with bypassing geo-restriction for internet users
Authors: Islam Gazi Zahirul , Juman Aman Ullah , Emran Al- Nahian Bin , Khan Md. Abbas Ali , Hossain Md. Fokhray , Habib Md. Tarek
Published: February 2020

Not all Internet Service Providers provide a sufficient amount of bandwidth to their users. Although the amount of local bandwidth is reasonable, global bandwidth is not satisfactory at all. Based on bandwidth allocation, location and price; service providers capped their users’ global bandwidth i.e., reducing global internet speed. As a consequence, we observe severe global bandwidth limitation among Internet users. In this article, we implement a flexible and pragmatic solution for Internet users to bypass global bandwidth restriction. To achieve robust global bandwidth, we utilize a combination of communication technologies and devices namely, Internet Exchange Point, Virtual Private Network, chain VPN technology etc. In this project, we show that internet speed of international route i.e., global bandwidth can enhance significantly if there are multiple ISPs use a common IXP and at least one of those ISPs provides pleasant global bandwidth. Usually, regional ISPs use a common IXP to route their local traffic using local bandwidth within the region without wasting global bandwidth. We show that using our proposed method global internet speed of a user can raise several times effectively utilizing assigned local bandwidth. In addition, we also implement a geo-restriction bypassing technique integrating an offshore ISP with local ISP using VPN. Thus, we enjoy tremendous Internet speed along with unrestricted access to the websites.
Gap analysis business process model by using structural similarity
Authors: Cahyapratama Afrianda , Sungkono Kelly Rosa , Sarno Riyanarto
Published: February 2020

Gap analysis process model is a study that can help an institution to determine differences between business process models, such as a model of Standard Operating Procedure and a model of activities in an event log. Gap analysis is used for finding incomplete processes and can be obtained by using structural similarity. Structural similarity measures the similarity of activities and relationships depicting in the models.  This research introduces a graph-matching algorithm as the structural similarity algorithm and compares it with dice coefficient algorithms. Graph-matching algorithm notices parallel relationships and invisible tasks, on the contrary dice coefficient algorithms only measure closeness between activities and relationships. The evaluation shows that the graph-matching algorithm produces 76.76 percent similarity between an SOP model and a process model generating from an event log; while, dice coefficient algorithms produces 70 percent similarity. The ability in detecting parallel relationships and invisible tasks causes the graph-matching algorithm produces a higher similarity value than dice coefficient algorithms.
Simulation modeling for heart attack patient by mapping cholesterol level
Authors: George Jossy P , Gaikwad Suhas M
Published: February 2020

Cholesterol is a complex structural material made up of four-fused hydrocarbon rings. There is a hydrocarbon tail linked at one end of the structure, while the hydroxyl group linked to each other on the other end. To one end of the structure, a hydrocarbon tail linked and to the other end, a hydroxyl group linked to each other. High cholesterol level is one among the major risk factors of a heart attack. It is feasible to compute and control the cholesterol level of a cardiovascular patient by making use of intended Mathematical modeling in System Dynamics (S.D.). Moreover, by simulating proposed set of equations for a heart attack patient, recovery accomplished at a faster pace. Because of S.D., a substantial amount of reduction in the patient's Cardiovascular Disease achieved by control over the sterol level of the heart patient. This simulation modeling is an attempt made in translational research domain and is useful in the healthcare industry health care industry. It will minimize the risk of heart stroke and maintain a healthy life.
Indexing intelligence using benchmark classifier
Authors: S Mouneshachari , MB Sanjay Pande
Published: February 2020

Human being as a parameter for assessment is a complex component for any researcher, since the field of medical sciences opens up too many unsolved queries. In this context if emotions are to be quantified it involves both scientific and certain Non-scientific issues. In terms of medical concept Electroencephalogram (EEG) helps in understanding specific regions of the brain. Since functional capabilities of regions of the brain can be understood by the probes attached to that particular region which intern provides the electrical responses. In the present work, It has been tried to encapsulate the signals in EEG to create an Index of quantification to understand the basic feelings of emotion of an Individual. As a researcher perspective to deduce any mathematical equation, a benchmark data is a major requirement. Hence to enumerate the algorithm, a specific classification model using k-NN has been taken up which enables to understand the similarity and dissimilarity factor of the recorded signals of an individual with the benchmark data. 
An extensive review of energy storage system for the residential renewable energy system
Authors: A. Mustaza M. S. , M. Ariff M. A. , Najwa Ramli Sofia
Published: February 2020

Energy storage system (ESS) plays a prominent role in renewable energy (RE) to overcome the intermittent of RE energy condition and improve energy utilization in the power system. However, ESS for residential applications requires specific and different configuration. Hence, this review paper aims to provide information for system builders to decide the best setup configuration of ESS for residential application. In this paper, the aim is to provide an insight into the critical elements of the energy storage technology for residential application. The update on ESS technology, battery chemistry, battery charging, and monitoring system and power inverter technology are reviewed. Then, the operation, the pro, and cons of each variant of these technologies are comprehensively studied. This paper suggested that the ESS for residential ESS requires NMC battery chemistry because it delivers an all-rounded performance as compared to other battery chemistries. The four-stages constant current (FCC) charging technique is recommended because of the fast charging capability and safer than other charging techniques reviewed. Next, the battery management system (BMS) is recommended to adapt in advance machine learning method to estimate the state of charge (SOC), state of health (SOH) and internal temperature (IT) to increase the safety and prolong the lifespan of the batteries. Finally, these recommendations and solutions aimed to improve the utilization of RE energy in power system, especially in residential ESS application and offer the best option that is available on the shelf for the residential ESS application in the future.
Simulation and analysis of improved direct torque control of switched reluctance machine
Authors: Krasovsky Alexander
Published: February 2020

Direct torque control of electric machines widely used in modern electric drives. Switched reluctance machines (SRM) are different from traditional electric machines, so we cannot apply well-known technical solutions to them. Simulation can provide a powerful approach for investigating the control of switched reluctance machines, and Matlab / Simulink allows it successfully implemented. This paper presents a description of the model and the simulation results of the proposed new algorithms for direct control of the instantaneous torque of SRM in the motor and braking modes. In comparison with the known control algorithms, the proposed algorithm uses one common for all phases relay regulator with a smaller number of switching thresholds and, therefore, it has greater reliability and is easier to set up. 
Battery health and performance monitoring system: a closer look at state of health (SoH) assessment methods of a Lead-Acid battery
Authors: Selvabharathi D , Muruganantham N
Published: February 2020

Batteries are one of the most compact and reliable sources of sustainable energy. Lead-Acid batteries are the battery-powered sort of batteries concocted during the 1980s. The significant utilization of lead-acid battery is in beginning, lighting and start frameworks of vehicles.To guarantee the health and to dodge potential disappointments of a battery it is important to examine its Territory of health precisely. This examination expects to give efficiently evaluating the accessible writing on the condition of health estimation techniques. This study focuses on many factors and provides a suggestion for the defended battery manufacturing process. This study provides increasing efforts toward the advancement of battery interms of specific power, energy density, durability, invulnerability, economics, and performance in various applications.
Noncontact monitoring of heart rate responses to taste stimuli using a video camera
Authors: Mohamed Masnani Bt , Yoshizawa Makoto , Sugita Norihiro , Yamaki Shunsuke , Ichiji Kei
Published: February 2020

Pleasant or unpleasant feeling stimulated by taste usually expressed to describe the acceptance or rejection of food and beverages intake by a human. Since it stimulates the emotional reactions, therefore it also induces other response such as heart rate variations. Traditional sensory tools used only subjective measurement such as self-report, to estimate the feeling of tasting. This method sometimes failed to show some differences between the pleasant and unpleasant type of feelings unconsciously. Previous unconscious measurement methods used the intrusive technique by placing some sensors in contact with the body, which may affect the results of sensory analysis. This study was conducted to avoid the effects of using contact sensors and validate the contact-less method of monitoring heart rate due to emotional changes by extracting plethysmographic signal from the green component of the video images. The videos were recorded while the subject responded to pleasant, unpleasant and neutral stimuli. The findings indicated that the heart rate was significantly related to taste stimuli that also reflected the subjective feelings. The unpleasant-taste influenced heart rate to increase more compared to pleasant-taste and neutral-taste. This proposed approach can be used to remotely detect the feeling/emotion that not overtly express through facial expression, speech or gestures.
Retina blood vessel extraction based on kirsch’s template method
Authors: Syazlin Zolkifli Nur , Nazari Ain , Marzuki Mustafa Mohd , Wan Zakaria Wan NurShazwani , Surayahani Suriani Nor , Hafsha Wan Kairuddin Wan Nur
Published: February 2020

Analysis on the retina blood vessels from fundus images have been widely used in the medical community to detect the disorder condition in the blood vessels. An automated tracing of retina blood vessel can help to provide valuable computer-assisted diagnosis for the ophthalmic disorders. Thus, it helps to reduce the time for the ophthalmologist to analyses and diagnose the result of the fundus image of patient. The purpose of this research is to build an algorithm to trace the retina blood vessels. The method to be used in this research consist of two parts which are the pre-processing part and the feature extraction by using the Kirsch’s template. Combining the pre-processing at the early stage and feature extraction at the next stage is applied to extract the edges of the blood vessels.  The proposed algorithm was verified by using two online databases, DRIVE and HRF to validate the performance measures. Hence, proposed method is capable to extract the retina blood vessel and give the accuracy of 0.7917, the sensitivity of 0.9077 and the specificity of 0.7215. In conclusion, the extraction of the blood vessels is highly recommended as the early screening stage for the eye diseases beneficially.
Type-2 fuzzy logic controller optimized by wavelet networks for mobile robot navigation
Authors: Affane Fatma , Zemalache Meguenni Kadda , Omari Abdelhafid
Published: February 2020

In this work, we will use a new control strategy based on the integration of a type-2 fuzzy reasoning optimized by wavelet networks as part of a navigation system of a mobile robot. The proposed approach is able to facilitate the navigation task in an autonomous manner, in order to determine which commands must be sent at each moment to the mobile robot. This operation must take into account convergence towards a goal with the shortest possible path in the minimum delay between the starting position and the target position. Once the goal is reached, the robot stops. 

 
A wearable antenna based on fabric materials with circular polarization for Body-centric wireless communications
Authors: I. Ashyap Adel Y. , Z. Abidin Z. , Haimi Dahlan Samsul , Mohd Shah Shaharil , A. Majid Huda , See Khee Yee , Abdul Malek Norun
Published: February 2020

A compact and simple structure antenna for wearable application at 2.4 GHz is presented and studied. The felt fabric material is used in this paper due to its suitable thickness and dielectric constant. This material provides high flexibility which can be easily worn on a body and incorporated into our daily clothes. In view of the fact that the design will work on a moving person, therefore a circularly polarized antenna is desired to optimize the off-body communication link. The Cicular Polarization (CP) is achieved by introducing truncated corners on the patch. The antenna size is 60 × 60 × 2 mm3. The Axial Ratio (AR), the Front to Back Ratio (FRB) and the realized gain are 0.96 dB, 10.5 dB, and 4.62 dB, respectively indicating a good performance of the antenna at the desired frequency. Furthermore, the antenna was investigated when operating near the body. The obtained result shows that the design has performance similar to the case of free space. This is due to the present of the full ground plane that acts as a shielding between the antenna and body. Finally, the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is carried out and showed that the antenna has a level less than the limits fixed by the FCC standard. Therefore, the antenna could be useful for wearable applications.
Employment of baby sign language in interactive learning for Hearing-impaired people in Malaysia
Authors: J. Ong N. T. , H. A Ali S. , H. M. Yusoff A.
Published: February 2020

Communication is very important for people including adults and babies to exchange their thoughts, views and information. They can express their thoughts verbally and non-verbally. Baby sign language is non-verbal type that consists of a set of standard and organised form of hand gestures motion to represent different word. This language allows the children who have hearing impairment problem to communicate with others. In addition, it can also be taught to normal babies to convey their need before they have the ability to speak. It is very challenging for adults to understand babies and children with hearing impaired problem. Thus, a real-time hand gesture recognition system has been developed for adult to interactively learn the baby sign language. Firstly, the face region was detected in order to use the skin colour model of the face to detect the hand. After that, the hand shape was determined by finding the palm centre and convex hull. Convexity defects which representing gaps between the fingers were used to determine the number of fingertips whereas the movement of the hand was detected based on motion analysis. By setting the background colour to blue and adding extra light in front of the laptop, the system successfully obtained an accuracy higher than 85% rate for sign “mom”, “eat” and “milk” when tested on Malay, Chinese and Indian races in Malaysia.
RFID-GPS based mechanism using aodvrp for stolen vehicle detection in vanet
Authors: Chand Varun , J Karthikeyan
Published: February 2020

The traffic on the road was in the rise for the past few years, with more and more vehicles enter the road there was less scope of having better traffic. However, it could be maintained with the implementation of the proper system. The other major concern was on the theft of the vehicles and the accidents the drivers succumb to while in the road. This paper recommends the novel RFID-GPS mechanism based on AODV Routing Protocol algorithm in the hybrid VANET configuration that was working as a decentralized Ad hoc. The algorithm was framed in such a manner that it could be effective in maintaining traffic through communication among Vehicles and vehicles (OBUs) to the Roadside Unit (RSU). The RSUs would generate the possible route by Ad hoc On-demand Distance vector routing protocol and control the signals within the accessible limit if there were an emergency. The information about the stolen vehicles and the driver would be sent to the police station and hospital respectively that aid to track the vehicle by the Radio Frequency Identification-Global Positioning System (GPS) information and save the driver in case of an accident. The performance of the RFID-GPS mechanism based on AODV algorithm based on VANET was analyzed in NS2 and is related to the existing Zigbee. The outcomes exhibited that the proposed method was better in all performance metrics especially in throughput.