Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239250
Michael B. Wooten, I. Walker
In disaster relief operations, lives can depend on timely location and safe removal of trapped and often injured people within damaged infrastructure (collapsed buildings, etc.). Further, these operations must be carried out without further collapsing structures within the environment. An emerging class of rope-like continuous backbone “continuum” robots provides new capabilities to address these critical operational problems. Continuum robots, also known as “robot trunks and tentacles”, can bend continuously along their structure, and are highly compliant. These features allow continuum robots to gently penetrate into congested spaces, navigating within complex and a priori unknown obstacle fields. This allows them to safely deploy sensors into collapsed structures, such as within debris in collapsed buildings, to assess conditions and potentially identify survivors. The further ability of these robots to use their bodies to perform whole arm grasping, wrapping safely around environmental objects, offers the possibility of using them as “active ropes” to gently pull victims out of such environments, while avoiding generation of large forces which might further collapse already damaged structures. We have developed a nine degree of freedom pneumatically actuated continuum robot, and deployed it to inspect within rubble piles and to gently grasp and retrieve human surrogates (dummies). Broader application of these kinds of “robot ropes” include remote inspection operations in Space and nuclear environments, as well as a variety of minimally invasive medical procedures.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239328
J. L. E. Honrado, Dominic B. Solpico, C. Favila, Edgardo Tongson, G. Tangonan, Nathaniel J. C. Libatique
We report on UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle)-based imaging missions over rice and corn fields in Isabela province in the Philippines. Spectral reflectance sensors were deployed for ground truthing, while aerial imagery were produced from RGB and NIR-retrofitted cameras. The ground truth sensors function as calibration points for extending the measurements over the whole imaged field. UAV-based missions deliver the high resolution and spatial scope required of imagery targeting mixed cropping regimes and multiple-farmer plots that have differing starting dates. The ledger-based monitoring systems currently employed by local government units to monitor and manage regional agriculture can be improved by such UAV imagery.
{"title":"UAV imaging with low-cost multispectral imaging system for precision agriculture applications","authors":"J. L. E. Honrado, Dominic B. Solpico, C. Favila, Edgardo Tongson, G. Tangonan, Nathaniel J. C. Libatique","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239328","url":null,"abstract":"We report on UAV(unmanned aerial vehicle)-based imaging missions over rice and corn fields in Isabela province in the Philippines. Spectral reflectance sensors were deployed for ground truthing, while aerial imagery were produced from RGB and NIR-retrofitted cameras. The ground truth sensors function as calibration points for extending the measurements over the whole imaged field. UAV-based missions deliver the high resolution and spatial scope required of imagery targeting mixed cropping regimes and multiple-farmer plots that have differing starting dates. The ledger-based monitoring systems currently employed by local government units to monitor and manage regional agriculture can be improved by such UAV imagery.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121304246","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239284
C. Scharff, Vanessa Rene, Jan Gerhard Schoepp, Nishit Kishorbhai Shah, Andrew Greenberg
This paper presents a study of mobile device literacy in Senegal within the context of the AppliCafé project. Research in this area has been mostly conducted in Anglophone countries. We designed a kiosk structure that we call AppliCafé (derived from the term cyber café) that can move between locations and is equipped with mobile technology, including training videos and a mobile application. This project aims at teaching people on how to use their smartphones efficiently. We used a qualitative approach based on surveys and interviews to gather data from users on their mobile phone usage and their opinions on the structure, mobile app and videos. We also interviewed local developers and entrepreneurs to get their perspective on mobile app adoption, usage, and the issues they meet in promoting their apps and scaling their businesses. We outline interesting mobile device usage patterns including the use of web sites rather than mobile apps to save data. We demonstrate the importance of a physical learning environment for users to improve their mobile device literacy skills and for developers to engage with users to produce better quality and fitted apps.
{"title":"Exploring mobile device literacy in Senegal","authors":"C. Scharff, Vanessa Rene, Jan Gerhard Schoepp, Nishit Kishorbhai Shah, Andrew Greenberg","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239284","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study of mobile device literacy in Senegal within the context of the AppliCafé project. Research in this area has been mostly conducted in Anglophone countries. We designed a kiosk structure that we call AppliCafé (derived from the term cyber café) that can move between locations and is equipped with mobile technology, including training videos and a mobile application. This project aims at teaching people on how to use their smartphones efficiently. We used a qualitative approach based on surveys and interviews to gather data from users on their mobile phone usage and their opinions on the structure, mobile app and videos. We also interviewed local developers and entrepreneurs to get their perspective on mobile app adoption, usage, and the issues they meet in promoting their apps and scaling their businesses. We outline interesting mobile device usage patterns including the use of web sites rather than mobile apps to save data. We demonstrate the importance of a physical learning environment for users to improve their mobile device literacy skills and for developers to engage with users to produce better quality and fitted apps.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123925319","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239329
L. Bustamante, Betty Ikalany, Acuku Helen Ekolu, Daniel J. Sweeney
Over 95% of the population in Uganda relies on solid fuels for their cooking and heating needs [1]. These are burned in a variety of cooking appliances, ranging from three stone fires to improved cookstoves (ICS). Appropriate Energy Saving Technologies (AEST Ltd.) is a social business that manufactures and distributes Makaa fuel briquettes and charcoal cookstoves in Soroti, Uganda. This work summarizes collaboration with AEST to design for improved performance, usability, and manufacturability of their Makaa cookstove product. Two prototypes were selected and laboratory performance tested. The prototypes included engineered insulation materials which were compared to the current Makaa stove with mineral insulation. Techno-economic analyses were also performed in order to estimate and compare the production cost for each stove model. Combining the performance results with the cost analyses indicates that the most cost-effective design is a combination of the metal grate and vermiculite models. This design maximized performance and usability while also minimizing the time and cost of production. Recommendations were made for further product development, and an open-access cost-analysis tool was made available online to carry out similar techno-economic analysis.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239295
Prakruti V. Bhatt, Sanat Sarangi, S. Pappula
Timely and robust diagnosis of plant diseases and nutrient deficiencies play a major role in management of crop yield. Automation is a low cost alternative to human experts and can help to detect early onset of crop diseases which aids faster decision making and in giving recommendations to farmers to curb yield loss. We have developed a smart-phone based participatory sensing application for agriculture which is used by farmers to scout their fields for events of interest, especially those related to crop health. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have emerged as a prominent technique in computer vision related challenges and such deep-learning based models could prove as an important tool to do just-in-time assessment of crop health. With a view to building state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities on the phone, we present analysis of CNN models in terms of accuracy, memory, and inference time. Effects of change in hyperparameters have been evaluated in terms of accuracy. The trained model gives 99.7% classification accuracy with satisfactory inference time and model size which assures the application of CNN architectures for real-time crop state diagnosis on a large scale with limited hardware capabilities.
{"title":"Comparison of CNN models for application in crop health assessment with participatory sensing","authors":"Prakruti V. Bhatt, Sanat Sarangi, S. Pappula","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239295","url":null,"abstract":"Timely and robust diagnosis of plant diseases and nutrient deficiencies play a major role in management of crop yield. Automation is a low cost alternative to human experts and can help to detect early onset of crop diseases which aids faster decision making and in giving recommendations to farmers to curb yield loss. We have developed a smart-phone based participatory sensing application for agriculture which is used by farmers to scout their fields for events of interest, especially those related to crop health. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have emerged as a prominent technique in computer vision related challenges and such deep-learning based models could prove as an important tool to do just-in-time assessment of crop health. With a view to building state-of-the-art diagnostic capabilities on the phone, we present analysis of CNN models in terms of accuracy, memory, and inference time. Effects of change in hyperparameters have been evaluated in terms of accuracy. The trained model gives 99.7% classification accuracy with satisfactory inference time and model size which assures the application of CNN architectures for real-time crop state diagnosis on a large scale with limited hardware capabilities.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130948809","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239279
M. LaBiche, Sherina Munyana
Agriculture is the backbone of African economies, especially in rural areas where over 70% of people rely on subsistence farming for their livelihood. In Rwanda and Uganda, where Africa Development Promise (ADP) works, 90% of economically active women work in the agricultural sector. Overall women work more and longer hours compared to men because of additional household responsibilities such as preparing food, collecting fuelwood and water. This time deficit leaves no time for education or productive endeavors. The paper argues that access to new technologies that save time, especially tedious and laborious work, can have a significant positive impact on women's efficiency, productivity and income-generating potential. It shares ADP's shift from a single-entry economic development approach to a holistic approach that incorporates access to solar energy to support women's economic endeavors. The paper is shared with organizations addressing similar challenges, but more importantly to seek feedback from development practitioners.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239315
Gabriel I. Lopez-Avina, E. Barocio, J. Huegel
Improving in the quality of life by expanding functionality and durability while continually reducing the fabrication costs and maintaining the possibility of local fabrication, these are the four key design requirements for lower-limb prosthetics with humanitarian applications. Currently, however, there are few foot prostheses that meet these requirements. The solutions available world-wide include passive-static solid-ankle cushion-heel (SACH), passive-dynamic, and active prostheses. Perhaps the best solution available is the injection-molded one-size-fits-all Niagara foot but it is both unstable for heavier patients and not suitable to interface with patient footware, thereby limiting its acceptance in footware conscious cultures. This research focuses on demonstrating the functionality and durability of the Tec-LIMBS fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) prosthetic foot designed with the aforementioned four-fold objective. We hypothesize that a low-cost FRP passive-dynamic prosthetic foot can be manufactured locally while still meeting durability, energy-return requirements and being socially aesthetic. The prosthesis is validated first, for energy-return via static tests as compared to two other commercial products, and second, for durability through a 500,000 gait-cycle fatigue test based on the ISO 22675 standard. Both tests are conducted employing a universal testing machine. The work reported herein is a continuation of prior prototyping that compared the prostheses via roll-over shape. The designed prosthesis has a comparatively higher energy-return characteristic for both keel and heel — above the two common competitors — and has successfully passed the fatigue test without deformation. The reported testing further demonstrates that the prosthesis design is ready for in-field patient testing and manufacture.
{"title":"Pseudo fatigue test of passive energy-returning prosthetic foot","authors":"Gabriel I. Lopez-Avina, E. Barocio, J. Huegel","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239315","url":null,"abstract":"Improving in the quality of life by expanding functionality and durability while continually reducing the fabrication costs and maintaining the possibility of local fabrication, these are the four key design requirements for lower-limb prosthetics with humanitarian applications. Currently, however, there are few foot prostheses that meet these requirements. The solutions available world-wide include passive-static solid-ankle cushion-heel (SACH), passive-dynamic, and active prostheses. Perhaps the best solution available is the injection-molded one-size-fits-all Niagara foot but it is both unstable for heavier patients and not suitable to interface with patient footware, thereby limiting its acceptance in footware conscious cultures. This research focuses on demonstrating the functionality and durability of the Tec-LIMBS fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) prosthetic foot designed with the aforementioned four-fold objective. We hypothesize that a low-cost FRP passive-dynamic prosthetic foot can be manufactured locally while still meeting durability, energy-return requirements and being socially aesthetic. The prosthesis is validated first, for energy-return via static tests as compared to two other commercial products, and second, for durability through a 500,000 gait-cycle fatigue test based on the ISO 22675 standard. Both tests are conducted employing a universal testing machine. The work reported herein is a continuation of prior prototyping that compared the prostheses via roll-over shape. The designed prosthesis has a comparatively higher energy-return characteristic for both keel and heel — above the two common competitors — and has successfully passed the fatigue test without deformation. The reported testing further demonstrates that the prosthesis design is ready for in-field patient testing and manufacture.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131233149","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239336
J. Dhivvya, V. Jayakrishnan, Ebin K. Thomas, M. Ramesh, P. Divya
Educational institutions, should set a role model, in the reduction of the carbon foot print, to protect mother earth. In this paper we focus on designing a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based system, which can efficiently conserve the energy of class rooms and labs. We have identified temperature, light, pressure sensors to be utilized for this application. Infra Red receiver and transmitter is used to detect an event whether a person is leaving the room or not. Server room is checked for humidity, temperature, smoke by an integrated sensor, which sends the sensed data to the cloud. So all the sensors send the data periodically to the cloud, which processes the collected data and send the triggered response to the necessary output device and message the facility manager to take administrative actions. The status of each room in each floor is ultimately received at the central monitoring station at the ground floor of the building. The proposed system is designed in such a manner, it can be replicated cost-efficiently in multiple buildings within a campus by using low cost sensors and with the existing communication devices. Therefore this Green Campus System (GCS) design based on wireless sensor networks help in meeting the target of sustainable cities by reducing the overall energy consumption and improving the efficiency in the energy resource management.
{"title":"Towards energy conservation in campus using Wireless Sensor Network","authors":"J. Dhivvya, V. Jayakrishnan, Ebin K. Thomas, M. Ramesh, P. Divya","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239336","url":null,"abstract":"Educational institutions, should set a role model, in the reduction of the carbon foot print, to protect mother earth. In this paper we focus on designing a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) based system, which can efficiently conserve the energy of class rooms and labs. We have identified temperature, light, pressure sensors to be utilized for this application. Infra Red receiver and transmitter is used to detect an event whether a person is leaving the room or not. Server room is checked for humidity, temperature, smoke by an integrated sensor, which sends the sensed data to the cloud. So all the sensors send the data periodically to the cloud, which processes the collected data and send the triggered response to the necessary output device and message the facility manager to take administrative actions. The status of each room in each floor is ultimately received at the central monitoring station at the ground floor of the building. The proposed system is designed in such a manner, it can be replicated cost-efficiently in multiple buildings within a campus by using low cost sensors and with the existing communication devices. Therefore this Green Campus System (GCS) design based on wireless sensor networks help in meeting the target of sustainable cities by reducing the overall energy consumption and improving the efficiency in the energy resource management.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126830308","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239237
A. Krishna, Bharath A. Kartha, Vishnu S. Nair
Response time of the emergency services is vital in drastically improving the chances of survival and of meaningful recovery for the affected individuals in emergency situations. Often precious time is often lost for emergency services due to traffic, especially at traffic intersections. What we propose is a dynamic solution to the aforementioned problem using an intelligent network of smart traffic lights which all turn green in anticipation of an approaching emergency vehicle, thus providing unhindered passage to it. Further, so to facilitate the implementation of the aforementioned logic in non-smart traffic networks, a wireless embedded system based hardware solution is proposed to convert existing autonomous traffic light systems into a networked one.
{"title":"Dynamic traffic light system for unhindered passing of high priority vehicles: Wireless implementation of dynamic traffic light systems using modular hardware","authors":"A. Krishna, Bharath A. Kartha, Vishnu S. Nair","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239237","url":null,"abstract":"Response time of the emergency services is vital in drastically improving the chances of survival and of meaningful recovery for the affected individuals in emergency situations. Often precious time is often lost for emergency services due to traffic, especially at traffic intersections. What we propose is a dynamic solution to the aforementioned problem using an intelligent network of smart traffic lights which all turn green in anticipation of an approaching emergency vehicle, thus providing unhindered passage to it. Further, so to facilitate the implementation of the aforementioned logic in non-smart traffic networks, a wireless embedded system based hardware solution is proposed to convert existing autonomous traffic light systems into a networked one.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126728826","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}
Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239268
A. Mickelson, R. Kenyon, Bennett Miller, Heinz Ulrich Boehmer Fiehn, Mark A. Hinkle, Kaitlin Yahime Mazotti, Stefano Costa, N. Bollen, Christian N. Dizon
Four 5.8 GHz band transceivers at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) were first operated as a wide area local area network (WLAN) in April of 2017. The purpose of this WLAN is to serve as a testbed for installations to be made in the developing world as a part of the IEEE Smart Village program. The configuration of the components is discussed in detail. The testbed is self-powered by solar micro-grids that are present at each node. Evidently, the micro-grids are designed for fail-safe 24/7 operation. Test data is presented on the operation of the network when used to provide information on demand from a central server to any of the remote stations. The network provides continuous data on the operation of the micro-grids including their innovative energy storage systems (ESSs) that are based on lithium ferro-phosphate battery technology. This test data resembles that of a smart system monitoring multiple islanded micro-grids. Plans for expanding the testbed to include a mobile station as well as longer distance arms are also presented. A primary purpose of the testbed is to determine the suitability of components, power levels and protocols for application of wireless LANs (WLANS) in remote areas. Discussion of what the testbed test results say about component applicability conclude the paper.
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