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A Critical Study on the Contributions of Training Program Application in the Success of Organization Development and Training Processes in Oman A Case Study of TRC
Authors: Alabri Khalid Rashid Hamed , Matriano Maria Teresa 
Published: September 2020

Most government sector in the region face the issue of lack of local training provided for the employees. Research shows the constant development in the workplace and the need to develop employee knowledge and experience through constant training. To provide an easy solution for sectors and institutions to communicate and present their needs when it comes to training programs and courses, this research aims to create a platform through mobile application to bring together government sectors and local teaching institutions to provide required training programs for employees. This is done by investigating on the issues of accessibility of the Training programs in Oman, evaluate the importance and impact of training programs on employee development, introduce a training program application and investigate on the usage benefits on the Training Program Application within government sectors. Since this research introduces a new concept, it asks: What are the issues facing organizations when it comes to training programs? To what extent does the application influence employee development? How complex is the development of a Training Program Application? And, how will government sectors benefit from the Application?
Aside from the literature review, interviews were also made with local experts from government sectors to shed light on the effect of lack of training on the current employee situation. Online surveys were distributed to a group of employees from different departments in some local government sectors. Analysis of the responses shows the need and interest of employees on the issue of training, as the majority of employees have an interest in local courses and would use the application to benefit their work experience. The results indicate the Training Program Application affects positively on the government sectors and can provide all the needed training courses with less cost and influence employees.
Health and Safety Risk Assessments in Contruction Sites in Oman
Authors: Mustafa Abdelrhman Magdy Mohammed , Joe Adams 
Published: September 2020

It is well known to everyone that construction field is a very dangerous workplace especially if health and safety regulations are not applied in a professional way. In this project a field of survey was conducted through making interviews with experts in risk management and in health and safety risk assessment in the construction field. In order to understand and evaluate the type of risks and hazards which are normally found at any construction project, the issue in sites were analyzed in five different categories. Analysis were done based on the responses from the professionals involved in the construction site through using software. The aim of this project is study the awareness of the participants of carrying out health and safety risk assessments in a professional way, to identify the most risks found in the construction field such as; working at heights, working without using the safety equipment, working on unstable roofs. From the studies, it was concluded the following points Recognize and control hazards in your workplace , set risk management standards, based on acceptable safe practices and legal requirements, save costs by being proactive instead of reactive. All the respondents who were part of this project have said that it is very important to apply the occupational risk assessment matrix with considering the local regulations of the country.
Smart Parking System using IOT
Authors: Al Qaidhi Waleed Zahir , Sohail Muhammad 
Published: September 2020

With the development of road infrastructure, there is a significant increase in number of private vehicles which results in traffic congestion, directly effecting the flow of traffic, and life of citizens. Parking becomes a significant problem in the urban areas (Cao & Menendez, 2015). The research paper proposes a smart parking system to solve the current parking problem at affordable cost. Previously automatic car parking system were proposed to reduce the space or size required for parking especially in crowded places with few spaces, such as a multi-story car park providing cars with parking on multiple levels stacked vertically to increase the number of parking spaces (Ibrahim, 2017). The proposed system utilizes the latest advancement in the Information and Communication Technologies and consists of four layers: Application, Middleware, Networking, and sensor layer. It offers environmental friendly, reduces harmful emissions during parking, and is a computerized system pre-programmed without human intervention. The research paper highlights the comparison of traditional parking system with smart parking system using IoT. The paper also proposes a framework for smart parking system.
Design of Cooling System for Storage Tank
Authors: Mutashera Saad A. , Al Maamari Reem Said Awadh , Al Shezawi Maryam Hassan Abdullah , Al Maamari Hafsa Surour Ali 
Published: September 2020

The aim of this project is to design and development sustainable system to cool down the temperature of the house tank in rang of (25 -30) oC. The system is consisted of heat exchanger which is similar to radiator of the car, solar pump, cooling fan, pipes and valves. The system is powered by a solar panel. Quality Function Deployment QFD process is used to define customer requirements and convert them into detailed engineering specifications, then generate different concepts design, and select the best design to develop. Several design criteria have been used as an example and are not limited to, easy to install and use, low cost, easy to maintain, last long time and sustainable to set the engineering specifications. SolidWork software is used to model the final design.
Propose an advanced smart system of vehicle accidents detection
Authors: AL Mukhaini Muna Khamis Juma , Al Harthy Khoula 
Published: September 2020

In Oman, statistics show vehicle accidents that cause negative effects at the social and economic level, high mortality, injuries and heavy losses indirectly affect people and the property of the country and society. last year, the percentage of road accidents across Oman was about 33.3% compared to 2017, road accidents accounted for 28.8% less than in 2018. Furthermore, there are many minor accidents in difficult geographic area in Oman that resulted in deaths because of late and difficulty of rescues team to discover the accidents locations. In addition, to reduce road traffic fatalities they took an effective way, they have taken an effective approach they reduce the time between the accidents the emergency team is sent to the scene, to determine accidents was used detection system about Accidents via sensors connected in cars. The aim of this project is to proposes an advanced system for accident tracking and monitoring. This research targets the result to reduces the number of serious injuries and death tolls and from the other side will enable the competent authorities to monitor any accident in all vehicles registered at the system. The modified waterfall methodology used which it has applied. On the other hand, this form contains five different stages which contribute to the successful implementation of this system by tracking the project step by step for these stages you can refer to any previous stage in order to amend documents and jobs therein
Future of People Analytics: The Case of Petroleum Development Oman
Authors: Ishaq Zahra Bait , Matriano Maria 
Published: September 2020

High employee turnover rate has been a major issue facing many organizations in the world. This research aims to discover the effect of people analytics on employee turnover rates as well as the employee’s performance on the job. This study contains a systemic review of articles and papers on people analytics. Analytics has been taking a major factor in the everyday business operations whether that be in predicting consumer behavior in order to drive sales or to support theories by identifying patterns in the data. Therefore, it is vital for companies to capture, understand and analyze data to be able to stay competitive in the market. Big oil and gas companies focus on employee’s wellbeing and employees job satisfaction because they realize just how important employees are in the company and the role they play in operation excellence. In the case of PDO, this company depends solely on employees rather than consumers to cover the costs of operations hence, it is noticed that there is a higher emphasis on the employees and their wellbeing more than any other company. This paper focuses on the importance of people analytics in organizations and how analytics can help lower employee turnover rates and drive performance.
A Survey of Chatbot creation tools for non-coder
Authors: Al-Sinani Asia Hamdan , Al-Saidi Bayan Said 
Published: September 2020

Chatbot is a natural language conversation which is considered a major revolution in customer service automation. Chatbot is an application of artificial intelligence that has a big role in saving time and effort by automating different aspect of human life. AI framework has several tools that help the non-coder to develop the Chabot for the organization. The Chatbot becomes good solution for many organizations to communicate with their customers and to increase their productivity by serving the customers for 24x7. This will help the organization to achieve customer services with low cost. This paper give glimpses on different AI framework tools, a survey is conducted to facilitate the non-coder to select the tools from the array of open source and proprietary tools. There are a lot of open source tools, each one has different features. Additionally, some of them are useful for coder and others do not require any coding experience also they are capable to be used in different devices with different operating systems. The flexibility that is within using tools to develop the Chatbot without coding knowledge and integrated in different platform is attractive concept for each one. Thereby this survey will help the non-coder to develop the Chabot without undergoing to learn the programming aspect of developing the Chatbot
Autonomous Fire Safety System for Gas Leak Detection
Authors: Khan Jibreal , Al-Bassam Nizar 
Published: September 2020

LPG and Natural Gas are the two primary gases used in Gas cookers all over the world , when these Gases leak in high concentration in enclosed areas the results can be fatal. Keeping this situation in mind this paper proposes a solution which prevents the buildup of flammable gases in enclosed area by autonomously opening windows through linear actuators. The concentration of flammable gas in a room can be detected through the MQ-5 sensor , once the concentration of this gas exceeds the predefined threshold MQ-5 sensor sends an output to the Raspberry Pi which takes a series of steps in order to prevent the situation from taking a fatal turn. The steps include: Opening the Windows in order to prevent the buildup of flammable gas, Alerting the Residents of the house via an E-mail and an indoor alarm, Sending the precise location of the house (GPS co-ordinates) to a fire station. All these steps are done autonomously in real time , thereby responding to the situation in the most efficient way
Evaluation of the Quality of Service Muasalat Oman Company
Authors: Ali Khaliah Al Bluish  , Hussin A.M Yahia  
Published: September 2020

Public transportation is one of the significant contributor towards the economic growth and development of a country as it facilitates the movement of people, labour, products and services and raw materials among others. With the increasing competition and options in the public transportation sector, the customers have become highly demands and expect to be served better by the companies. There are many factors affecting the customer perception and the customer satisfaction level considering the public transportation including the quality of the buses, timing and punctuality of the business. The aim of this research is to examine the degree of service quality and customer satisfaction in the transport service industry in Oman, a case on Mwasalat Bus Way Company. The data was collected via the questionnaire distributed among the medium among the travelers. The data collected has been transformed into numerical format for ease of analysis using the SPSS software 23. The researcher has relied on the software for conducting the reliability test, frequency distribution test, cross tabulation and correlation analysis for assessing the potential relationship between different variables of the study. The research finding has indicated that through Urban transportation sector in Oman is focused on offering high quality service to the customers, there is need for the sector to offer additional benefits to reflect their adoption of market trends as in the free Wi-Fi access while travelling, electronic devices charging points and the latest means of payments like over the phone among others.
An investigation of risk management practices in electronic banking in Sultanate of Oman
Authors: Al Siyabi Amira Mohammed Musabah Nasser , Al Araimi Sarah Muslem Mubarak , Pandey Jitendra 
Published: September 2020

The growth in Internet has led to expansion of e-banking, forming online services, like financial services, account opening and facilities (Kolodinsky et al, 2004). Banks manage risks in some areas like: strategy, credit, market, liquidity etc. (Gorgisco, 2006). However, the growth of e-banking become vulnerable to the challenges it faces. All organisations conducting their business on-line have to focus on controlling the associated risks; e-banking is no exception. Malisuwan (2006) categories these e-banking risks into three main areas to be managed: Board and Management Oversight, Security Controls and Legal and Reputational Risk Management based on the fourteen “risk management principles” identified by the Electronic Banking Group (EBG) of the BCBS. Georgescu (2006) suggests that the competitive pressure to launch new innovative products in very short time scales intensifies the management challenge to ensure that adequate strategic assessment, risk analysis and security reviews are undertaken. Over the past two decades, e-banking has become an increasingly important area of interest, with the risks associated with e-banks during this period of significant growth requiring effective risk management processes. Based on the results of our research, the security risks are clearly identified as the most important as banks are working hard to mitigate the risks and this is very encouraging and effective.
The main objectives are to investigate the risks of e-banking services in Oman, and their impact on population. Initially a semi-structured interview is conducted as a pilot study with four knowledgeable and experienced staff from one of the leading banks in Oman, to study employee views on risk management issues in e-banking. After the pilot study, the questionnaire was developed and used in major banks in Oman to determine whether it operates in line with basic risk management principles.
Why Business Intelligence Is the New Oil for the Upcoming Enterprise
Authors: Al Anasri Azza Qais Abdullah , Al Balushi Saja Mohamed Murad , Pandey Jitendra 
Published: September 2020

Much has been said about data being the new oil that will fuel businesses in the future. But the reality is that it’s not about the amount of data that organizations have access to, but how effective their decisions are based on that data. Therefore, data alone will not be the new oil, rather intelligence will fuel the digital economy, and organizations that can create intelligent business processes to deliver contextualized and consent-based experiences will win in this new data-driven world. As intelligence (and technology in general) increasingly underpins future business models, there is a big question around the role of IT moving forward. The CIO needs to be part of boardroom discussions driving decision-making around the broader business (and digital) strategy. This raises yet another debate about the role of the CIO in this context. In parallel, there is clearly an emerging role in a digital platform architecture to drive “moments of truth” into these intelligent business processes. The next phase of the application landscape evolution is going to all be about integration, and IDC believes that integration and extension capabilities are critical to drive the business-process orchestration strategy enabling future business processes. This platform will provide a unified set of connection points across multiple systems’ applications and digital apps that might be distributed across on-premises, hosted, or public clouds. Based on these capabilities, the digital platform can be used to fast-track integration and trigger new workflows/business processes, leveraging applications that could be a mix of legacy on-premises and SaaS applications.
The proposed research focusses on how Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence could potentially play out in many futuristic organizations.
IoT Based Framework for Remote Monitoring of Heartbeat Alert System by Using Arduino
Authors: Al-Musheifri Sharouq Aamir Mohammed , Ahmed Syed Ateeq 
Published: September 2020

The heart is one of the most important organs of the human body. It acts as a pump that circulates the blood, carrying oxygen and nutrients in the body to keep it functioning. Today, several advanced methods have emerged in the field of medicine, which aim to improve the efficiency of the medical services. And these new methods are akin to a technical identification of the disease with high precision, a new radiological technology and a fashionable identification of medical health. In the medical department, several studies are underway to provide the latest technologies. There are some people suffer from bradycardia or tachycardia. Might their lives are in danger if the patients are alone. In this research paper, a framework is developed to solve and improve equipment that constantly monitors heart rate and prevent casualties due to the heart related problems. The research is done to reduce deaths resulting from irregular heartbeat. Uneven heart rating which is greater than determined value raises an alert and messages with heart readings are sent to doctors and other related persons. It also provides this information via Bluetooth and exposes it in the Arduino application platform to ensure the information is not corrupted and recalled on demand. Doctor can remotely access the sensing element. For this reason, Arduino-based sensors dealing with these problems are used in this smart application. An Arduino-based sensing element evaluates the patient's heart rate. Coupled with this, doctors remotely follow the patient and take quick action to save patients life.
Green Home: New Application for Monitoring Indoor Air Quality Using Arduino Platform
Authors: Al-Fazari Ameera Ali , Al-Risi Mahra Said Ahmed , AbdulWahhab Rasha 
Published: September 2020

Air pollution is one of the most serious problems facing the atmosphere on the planet. Air pollution is defined as a collection of harmful chemicals and an organic material from factories are emitted in the atmosphere layer and causes many different diseases such as cough, eye irritation and even death. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the number of deaths per year due to pollution from gases is about 3.5 million. The main objective of this research is to develop a real time air pollution monitoring web application able to detect indoor toxic gases titled Aircom. The proposed application has a special feature in which IoT technology is embedded in one of its units. The main purpose of using such technology is to help individual to check and get real time information about air’s parameters such as Methane, Ethanol, Toluene, CO2, CO, Alcohol, Acetone, LPG, NH4, Benzene and Hexane along with the temperature, humidity and dust. Aircome will be implemented as an integrated pollution monitoring application which consist of MQ-2, MQ-3, MQ-135, MQ-9, GP2Y1010AU0F, GPS,DHT11, ESP8266 Wi-Fi, Arduino Uno board and web server. All the collected data form the suggested sensors are transmitting using Wifi technology to IoT module and in an online database. Moreover, the collected data later can be viewed using web browser which is installed in any of electronic media. The retrieved data will be displayed in the form of tables and graphs. An alert will be send by Aircom instantly in case the level of air‘s parameters reach above normal level. Generally speaking, Aircom will be developed by using different languages such as C++, Arduino, Java, Java script, PHP, html and MySQL. For further verification of our proposal, we employed a quantitative study to check if what we proposed will have positive impact among different samples in the society. The outcome of the survey indicates that using such application helps to protect individuals from the bad air quality and decreases the potential health problems.
Innovations in the design of sewage treatment plants-A review
Authors: Al Maawali Fatema Abdullah Said , Al-Sheidi Ryan Said Abdullah Saif , Al Risi Mayasah Saud Nasser , Al Balushi Fatema Ali Muhammed , Shahulhameed Binumol 
Published: September 2020

Rapid growth in the population and development of cities led to the increase in the quantity of waste water which in turn causes critical environmental issues. Management of wastewater and sludge will affect economic growth of any nation and challenges associated led to the research in this field. Innovative methods for sewage treatment were developed in many countries to solve the problems arising as a result of enormous production in waste water and sludge. Different approaches and techniques were evolved as a result of the studies conducted in order to attain a unique solution for maintaining a safe environment. The main aim of this paper is to provide details regarding the various researches in planning and design of sewerage systems in Oman. Various regulations in the treatment of waste water and sludge as well as policies adopted for the management are discussed in detail. Based on the discussions and related review, it is clear that over decades the sewage treatment is considered to be a major issue in Oman. Further, applications related to the better utilization of the wastewater and the sludge in agriculture and other related fields are in progress in various parts of Oman. Research projects were ongoing in different universities of Oman on the sustainable utilization of the waste products and innovative methods to be adopted in the sewage treatment process.
The Effects of Using Ceramic Waste Powder and Palm Fiber on Mortar properties
Authors: AL-RUQAISHI AL-AZHAR ZAHIR MOHAMMED , Khaleel Omar R. 
Published: September 2020

There are multiple industries that generate ceramic in the world. The ceramic waste ends as a landfill; and there is no it’s recycle. Moreover, palm fibers can be used for various purposes such as it can be mixed with mortar in order to minimize cracks. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of using ceramic waste powder and palm fiber on properties of mortar. OPC is partially replaced with ceramic waste powder with different percentages such as 10%, 20%, and 30% and palm fiber is added with 10% of replacement only at 0.5%, 1% and 1.5% of the weight of cement. The specimens are compared with the reference mix in the water absorption test under 105co for 24/h and compressive strength test after 7 and 14 days. The results showed that the optimum percentage of cement replacement with ceramic powder was 10%. Regarding the fiber, the percentage of water absorption got increased while increasing the fiber. The compressive strength of mortar with fiber was obtained more than the normal. More percentage of fiber led to more strength of mortar.