Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239332
J. Conrad, M. E. Randall, G. Randall, Gregg Vaughn, Percy F. Shadwell
In March of 2014 a committee was formed to investigate ways that the IEEE and volunteers could be of value in disaster response efforts. Through a number of focus groups, and interviews with presently active non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a working set of needs, and technical specifications to meet them, was produced. In February of 2016, our prototype vehicle, MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle) was completed. At that point we had only supposition as to how well our design would address the needs at a disaster location. We needed to validate the performance of our design, and its usefulness as an adjunct to existing disaster response technologies. Secondarily, it was important to determine how we could mobilize IEEE member volunteers to complete this relief package. This paper reviews our experience at six disaster sites at which the MOVE was deployed in the last year. A great deal has been learned about the problem domain from interacting with victims, NGOs, and governmental agencies. All of these have found the MOVE to be of value in a disaster situation. This paper should prove valuable in developing future plans for our organization, and for others who may wish to replicate this work to some degree.
{"title":"The IEEE MOVE disaster relief vehicle: Lessons learned from one year of operation","authors":"J. Conrad, M. E. Randall, G. Randall, Gregg Vaughn, Percy F. Shadwell","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239332","url":null,"abstract":"In March of 2014 a committee was formed to investigate ways that the IEEE and volunteers could be of value in disaster response efforts. Through a number of focus groups, and interviews with presently active non-governmental organizations (NGOs), a working set of needs, and technical specifications to meet them, was produced. In February of 2016, our prototype vehicle, MOVE (Mobile Outreach VEhicle) was completed. At that point we had only supposition as to how well our design would address the needs at a disaster location. We needed to validate the performance of our design, and its usefulness as an adjunct to existing disaster response technologies. Secondarily, it was important to determine how we could mobilize IEEE member volunteers to complete this relief package. This paper reviews our experience at six disaster sites at which the MOVE was deployed in the last year. A great deal has been learned about the problem domain from interacting with victims, NGOs, and governmental agencies. All of these have found the MOVE to be of value in a disaster situation. This paper should prove valuable in developing future plans for our organization, and for others who may wish to replicate this work to some degree.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"16 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":"114693037","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.2017.8239222
Yasuhiro Soshino, A. Miyata
Water is imperative for running the field hospital during disasters. The water supply equipment is used to supply the water to patients and to ensure the self-sufficiency of the medical teams. In designing the water supply equipment, logistics is the key aspect. To improve the water supply equipment, the method to identify the field requirement is valuable. This study discusses the design and the field deployments of the water supply equipment for the foreign field hospital.
{"title":"Design and development of the water supply system for the red cross field hospital","authors":"Yasuhiro Soshino, A. Miyata","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239222","url":null,"abstract":"Water is imperative for running the field hospital during disasters. The water supply equipment is used to supply the water to patients and to ensure the self-sufficiency of the medical teams. In designing the water supply equipment, logistics is the key aspect. To improve the water supply equipment, the method to identify the field requirement is valuable. This study discusses the design and the field deployments of the water supply equipment for the foreign field hospital.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"11 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":"124161534","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.2017.8239319
W. Harris, M. Ehsani
More than 80% of the 1.2 billion individuals without electricity live in rural regions of developing countries. For many of these communities, electricity access through the traditional paradigm of power infrastructure growth, increasing generation capacity of centralized grids and installing capital intensive transmission lines, substations, and distribution lines, will be financially infeasible. Instead decentralized, stand-alone microgrids provide a financially feasible option for providing electricity access. The fundamental challenge of rural electrification is how to deliver modern electricity to low income communities in a financially viable way. This paper explores some of the distinctive socio-economic design challenges of microgrid design in a rural electrification context and highlights the importance of more complex financial models for economic viability than levelized cost of electricity. A case study is presented of a model village with a population of 450 households. Business and technical frameworks are presented and discussed for the model village based on a hybrid DC microgrid with both a biomass gasifier and solar panels. The microgrid is optimally sized through minimizing the amount each household must pay per month for electricity to provide basic lighting and cell-phone charging. The results of the case study provide evidence that mini-utility startups require more sophisticated economic modeling in technical design than net present cost and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) to achieve long-term sustainability due to the constraints created by minimal income of end-users.
{"title":"Socioeconomically sustainable rural microgrid engineering design","authors":"W. Harris, M. Ehsani","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239319","url":null,"abstract":"More than 80% of the 1.2 billion individuals without electricity live in rural regions of developing countries. For many of these communities, electricity access through the traditional paradigm of power infrastructure growth, increasing generation capacity of centralized grids and installing capital intensive transmission lines, substations, and distribution lines, will be financially infeasible. Instead decentralized, stand-alone microgrids provide a financially feasible option for providing electricity access. The fundamental challenge of rural electrification is how to deliver modern electricity to low income communities in a financially viable way. This paper explores some of the distinctive socio-economic design challenges of microgrid design in a rural electrification context and highlights the importance of more complex financial models for economic viability than levelized cost of electricity. A case study is presented of a model village with a population of 450 households. Business and technical frameworks are presented and discussed for the model village based on a hybrid DC microgrid with both a biomass gasifier and solar panels. The microgrid is optimally sized through minimizing the amount each household must pay per month for electricity to provide basic lighting and cell-phone charging. The results of the case study provide evidence that mini-utility startups require more sophisticated economic modeling in technical design than net present cost and levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) to achieve long-term sustainability due to the constraints created by minimal income of end-users.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"122 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":"116601407","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.2017.8239342
P. Durga, Gayathri Narayanan, B. Gayathri, M. Ramesh, P. Divya
The field of wireless sensor networks is progressing at a very rapid pace with one of its major application in the area of agriculture. Several research problems have been addressed and solutions have been proposed. Most of these works are based on single crop scenario. Research done in the multiple-cropping scenario, where two or more crops are sown in a single field in the same year, are very few. Here, a unique solution for multiple cropping scenarios, in a system design perspective is proposed. The system forms a closed loop by including MAC protocol, data aggregation, routing and localization developed specifically for this scenario.
{"title":"Modelling a smart agriculture system for multiple cropping using wireless sensor networks","authors":"P. Durga, Gayathri Narayanan, B. Gayathri, M. Ramesh, P. Divya","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239342","url":null,"abstract":"The field of wireless sensor networks is progressing at a very rapid pace with one of its major application in the area of agriculture. Several research problems have been addressed and solutions have been proposed. Most of these works are based on single crop scenario. Research done in the multiple-cropping scenario, where two or more crops are sown in a single field in the same year, are very few. Here, a unique solution for multiple cropping scenarios, in a system design perspective is proposed. The system forms a closed loop by including MAC protocol, data aggregation, routing and localization developed specifically for this scenario.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"5 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":"122267188","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.2017.8239276
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Nijad A. Al-Najdawi, Jean-Laurent Martin, Sara Tedmori, I. Omondi, Y. Hamad
The inherent geographic nature of displacement in refugee camps is requiring further use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for community-based information and asset management. Additionally, refugees have a fundamental need for livelihood development in host countries due to the protracted nature of displacement. This paper presents our work on the Refugee GIS or ‘RefuGIS’ project that addresses these two topics via a training and capacity building education program and community mobilization efforts. RefuGIS is currently at the prototype level of development in the Za'atari Syrian Refugee Camp in northern Jordan. RefuGIS is the one of world's first efforts at enabling GIS capacity among refugees themselves and was funded by a grant from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Innovation fund. Specifically, this paper will discuss (a) design of the RefuGIS educational program via utilization of a non-profit GIS software donation, hardware procurement and customized GIS educational curriculum, (b) selection of refugee participants through spatial thinking aptitude testing, (c) practical experiences and lessons learned from education, training, and capacity building of refugees on the topics of GIS and related information technology skills, (d) insights into use of GIS as a community information and asset management tool by refugees themselves as demonstrated by evaluation of project outputs such as reference mapping products and field surveys conducted by refugees. Lessons learned from the RefuGIS project, even at the prototype stage, have potential to inform other refugee community information and asset management projects. Since creation of the project, refugees in Za'atari camp have been able to obtain cash-for-work GIS jobs in Za'atari using the skills learned via the RefuGIS project. The RefuGIS project demonstrates the refugee livelihood potential that training and capacity building around GIS can build as well as the empowerment effect that technology education and livelihood development can bring to refugees.
{"title":"Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Za'atari refugee camp, Jordan for refugee community information management and mobilization: The RefuGIS project","authors":"Brian M. Tomaszewski, Nijad A. Al-Najdawi, Jean-Laurent Martin, Sara Tedmori, I. Omondi, Y. Hamad","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239276","url":null,"abstract":"The inherent geographic nature of displacement in refugee camps is requiring further use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology for community-based information and asset management. Additionally, refugees have a fundamental need for livelihood development in host countries due to the protracted nature of displacement. This paper presents our work on the Refugee GIS or ‘RefuGIS’ project that addresses these two topics via a training and capacity building education program and community mobilization efforts. RefuGIS is currently at the prototype level of development in the Za'atari Syrian Refugee Camp in northern Jordan. RefuGIS is the one of world's first efforts at enabling GIS capacity among refugees themselves and was funded by a grant from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Innovation fund. Specifically, this paper will discuss (a) design of the RefuGIS educational program via utilization of a non-profit GIS software donation, hardware procurement and customized GIS educational curriculum, (b) selection of refugee participants through spatial thinking aptitude testing, (c) practical experiences and lessons learned from education, training, and capacity building of refugees on the topics of GIS and related information technology skills, (d) insights into use of GIS as a community information and asset management tool by refugees themselves as demonstrated by evaluation of project outputs such as reference mapping products and field surveys conducted by refugees. Lessons learned from the RefuGIS project, even at the prototype stage, have potential to inform other refugee community information and asset management projects. Since creation of the project, refugees in Za'atari camp have been able to obtain cash-for-work GIS jobs in Za'atari using the skills learned via the RefuGIS project. The RefuGIS project demonstrates the refugee livelihood potential that training and capacity building around GIS can build as well as the empowerment effect that technology education and livelihood development can bring to refugees.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"591 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":"132866435","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.2017.8239225
Muhammad Hanan Daudpota, A. A. Sahito, A. M. Soomro, Faheem Shafeeque Channar
Blindness is a natural curse but it does not mean blind people are not able to experience the world that a normal person does. Around 2 million people are visually challenged in Pakistan. They have to tackle daily routine tasks with such a precision including walking which poses a number of different obstacles hindering their passage. Generally, a blind person takes a white-cane as a supporting tool, which helps him to shun obstacles coming up front. However, it is a challenge to design white-cane which is both supportive and smart in nature to offer multiple services to predict more accurately and timely to avoid obstacles both on the ground level and above the waist. The development of an Intelligent White-Cane is a recent requirement as it helps preempt its user from potential dangers. This paper deals with an innovative design of Intelligent White-Cane that is capable of tracking and signal receptor services. A model of smart white-cane has been designed at our end whereby its smartness has extra unique features such as Navigation system to better guide family members of blind one to be known for his location. The cost of intelligent assembly can be reduced to 30%. The cane can recognize the obstacle present within the range of 300m.
{"title":"Giving blind a smart eye: Designing and modeling of intelligent white cane for blind people","authors":"Muhammad Hanan Daudpota, A. A. Sahito, A. M. Soomro, Faheem Shafeeque Channar","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239225","url":null,"abstract":"Blindness is a natural curse but it does not mean blind people are not able to experience the world that a normal person does. Around 2 million people are visually challenged in Pakistan. They have to tackle daily routine tasks with such a precision including walking which poses a number of different obstacles hindering their passage. Generally, a blind person takes a white-cane as a supporting tool, which helps him to shun obstacles coming up front. However, it is a challenge to design white-cane which is both supportive and smart in nature to offer multiple services to predict more accurately and timely to avoid obstacles both on the ground level and above the waist. The development of an Intelligent White-Cane is a recent requirement as it helps preempt its user from potential dangers. This paper deals with an innovative design of Intelligent White-Cane that is capable of tracking and signal receptor services. A model of smart white-cane has been designed at our end whereby its smartness has extra unique features such as Navigation system to better guide family members of blind one to be known for his location. The cost of intelligent assembly can be reduced to 30%. The cane can recognize the obstacle present within the range of 300m.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"40 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":"132937750","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.2017.8239331
J. Conrad, A. Bowman, Henrique Weh, Tomás Ortiz, G. Randall, M. E. Randall, Gregg Vaughn
Whenever a natural disaster strikes, IEEE members have wanted to help. To address this commitment to serve humanity, IEEE designed and built a mobile disaster relief vehicle committed to assisting victims of natural disasters. This unit provides short-term communications, computer, and power solutions. While it has performed admirably during natural disasters, it is too large and too expensive to deploy in hundreds of locations worldwide. Many IEEE volunteers have requested a smaller, perhaps even highly portable, version of the vehicle. This “Modular MOVE” model has the benefit of being replicated hundreds of times for deployment by hundreds of IEEE Sections around the world. This paper provides the requirements and initials designs of such a disaster relief device. A modular approach fits the needs for different disaster events in different parts of the world, for example, Caribbean hurricanes, Indian floods, or California earthquakes. IEEE Sections can store these subsystems locally, and then deploy them quickly when needed.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-01DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239307
Hernan Lara-Padilla, Xavier Sanchez Sanchez, T. A. Paucar
The socioeconomic impact of limb disabilities produced by injuries, traumas or congenital defects is evident in low-income countries, where there are often inadequate systems of trauma care and rehabilitation. The most medical schools in developing countries do not include a disability and rehabilitation component in their curricula. Even worst, many institutes do not have facilities or equipment to develop professional skills in their students. Designing and fabricating medical rehabilitation equipment, and training professional rehabilitation staff could be considered a pragmatic solution for most of the low-income countries to improve their physical rehabilitation services. Assisted rehabilitation technologies improve the functional capacity of persons with limb disabilities using prostheses, orthoses, in combination with computer software and hardware. In this work, a low-cost mechatronics system is presented as a proof-of-concept which can be used by students and professionals in physical therapy training, and by engineers to design and fabricate orthopedic and orthotic devices focusing in upper and lower limbs. The basic concepts of biomechanics are presented and evaluated using theoretical approach (finite element method) and experimental approach (construction of prototype). The proposed system emerges as a practical tool in the education and training in rehabilitation systems for upper and lower limbs. The holistic collaboration among rehabilitation professionals, engineers, and scientists in developing countries is essential to implement appropriate and sustainable rehabilitative services and devices.
{"title":"Design and evaluation of a low-cost mechatronic system to study upper and lower limbs biomechanics","authors":"Hernan Lara-Padilla, Xavier Sanchez Sanchez, T. A. Paucar","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239307","url":null,"abstract":"The socioeconomic impact of limb disabilities produced by injuries, traumas or congenital defects is evident in low-income countries, where there are often inadequate systems of trauma care and rehabilitation. The most medical schools in developing countries do not include a disability and rehabilitation component in their curricula. Even worst, many institutes do not have facilities or equipment to develop professional skills in their students. Designing and fabricating medical rehabilitation equipment, and training professional rehabilitation staff could be considered a pragmatic solution for most of the low-income countries to improve their physical rehabilitation services. Assisted rehabilitation technologies improve the functional capacity of persons with limb disabilities using prostheses, orthoses, in combination with computer software and hardware. In this work, a low-cost mechatronics system is presented as a proof-of-concept which can be used by students and professionals in physical therapy training, and by engineers to design and fabricate orthopedic and orthotic devices focusing in upper and lower limbs. The basic concepts of biomechanics are presented and evaluated using theoretical approach (finite element method) and experimental approach (construction of prototype). The proposed system emerges as a practical tool in the education and training in rehabilitation systems for upper and lower limbs. The holistic collaboration among rehabilitation professionals, engineers, and scientists in developing countries is essential to implement appropriate and sustainable rehabilitative services and devices.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"16 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":"134164424","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.2017.8239258
Xiaoting Liu, Kyle Takeuchi, T. Ogunfunmi, Shivakumar Mathapathi
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SIDS, is the leading cause of mortality in infants from one month to one year of age. We propose a video-based baby monitoring system with Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to help shorten the response time of SIDS cases. Using a video amplification technique developed at MIT dubbed “Eulerian Magnification” to amplify subtle movements, we can compare pixel color differences in frames for breathing detection in a recorded video of a baby. When abnormal movement is detected from the baby, an alarm will be generated to notify the parents or guardians. The expected accuracy is over 98% for a baby monitor that is intended to be a noninvasive, low cost and efficient solution. The major monitoring situation we considered is during night time, therefore we used a night vision camera for the tests. The camera frame was focused in the size of a crib, and hence there is no concern about losing the sight of the infant which would cause monitoring failure. Currently our team has accomplished the algorithm design and alarm generating design. We consider that making it works in real-time and on an independent IoT board are the future work to complete this project.
{"title":"Video-based IoT baby monitor for SIDS prevention","authors":"Xiaoting Liu, Kyle Takeuchi, T. Ogunfunmi, Shivakumar Mathapathi","doi":"10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2017.8239258","url":null,"abstract":"Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as SIDS, is the leading cause of mortality in infants from one month to one year of age. We propose a video-based baby monitoring system with Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to help shorten the response time of SIDS cases. Using a video amplification technique developed at MIT dubbed “Eulerian Magnification” to amplify subtle movements, we can compare pixel color differences in frames for breathing detection in a recorded video of a baby. When abnormal movement is detected from the baby, an alarm will be generated to notify the parents or guardians. The expected accuracy is over 98% for a baby monitor that is intended to be a noninvasive, low cost and efficient solution. The major monitoring situation we considered is during night time, therefore we used a night vision camera for the tests. The camera frame was focused in the size of a crib, and hence there is no concern about losing the sight of the infant which would cause monitoring failure. Currently our team has accomplished the algorithm design and alarm generating design. We consider that making it works in real-time and on an independent IoT board are the future work to complete this project.","PeriodicalId":248924,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)","volume":"260 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":"122088716","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.2017.8239340
A. Karthik, Deepu George Koshy, Lakshmi Rajagopal, A. Luke, M. Meera, N. Shibu
OceanNet project uses a hierarchical point-to-multi-point backhaul network using long range Wi-Fi technology to provide extended offshore connectivity for fishing vessels. This work is aimed to understand the interrelationship between the design parameters and the reason for considering specific parameter values for the OceanNet solution. The research work explores the communication systems theoretical limits on received power with respect to the variation due to transmitted power, distance, antenna type, frequency, and modulation schemes. These different models that explain the interrelationship are simulated to gain deeper understanding to the design of communication systems. This paper discusses the variation in received power and transmitted power with respect to change in distance for a given frequency, comparison of channel bandwidth with channel capacity, analysis of signal to noise ratio and its impact on different modulation schemes. We also analyse different antenna types used for the deployment and how the performance is affected due to congestion in the nodes. This paper also details the results and analysis of the simulation performed based on fishing vessel scenario.
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