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    Med-e-Tel 2014

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    Telemedicine

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    Telemedicine is a rapidly evolving field as new technologies are implemented for example for the development of wireless sensors, quality data transmission. Using the Internet applications such as counseling, clinical consultation support and home care monitoring and management are more and more realized, which improves access to high level medical care in underserved areas. The 23 chapters of this book present manifold examples of telemedicine treating both theoretical and practical foundations and application scenarios

    Enhancing system performance through objective feature scoring of multiple persons' breathing using non-contact RF approach

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    Breathing monitoring is an efficient way of human health sensing and predicting numerous diseases. Various contact and non-contact-based methods are discussed in the literature for breathing monitoring. Radio frequency (RF)-based breathing monitoring has recently gained enormous popularity among non-contact methods. This method eliminates privacy concerns and the need for users to carry a device. In addition, such methods can reduce stress on healthcare facilities by providing intelligent digital health technologies. These intelligent digital technologies utilize a machine learning (ML)-based system for classifying breathing abnormalities. Despite advances in ML-based systems, the increasing dimensionality of data poses a significant challenge, as unrelated features can significantly impact the developed system’s performance. Optimal feature scoring may appear to be a viable solution to this problem, as it has the potential to improve system performance significantly. Initially, in this study, software-defined radio (SDR) and RF sensing techniques were used to develop a breathing monitoring system. Minute variations in wireless channel state information (CSI) due to breathing movement were used to detect breathing abnormalities in breathing patterns. Furthermore, ML algorithms intelligently classified breathing abnormalities in single and multiple-person scenarios. The results were validated by referencing a wearable sensor. Finally, optimal feature scoring was used to improve the developed system’s performance in terms of accuracy, training time, and prediction speed. The results showed that optimal feature scoring can help achieve maximum accuracy of up to 93.8% and 91.7% for single-person and multi-person scenarios, respectively

    Is Malaysia ready for Industry 4.0? Issues and Challenges in Manufacturing Industry

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    Despite as a strong manufacturing economist in ASEAN, manufacturers in Malaysia are the beginners who are lack of proper understanding of the concepts and practices of Industry 4.0. The purpose of this paper is to identify the issues and challenges of Industry 4.0 from industry-based companies' aspect by conducting a literature review. This paper also highlighted the comparison between the potential challenges stated in the Malaysia National Policy on Industry 4.0 with the challenges proposed by previous studies of other countries. This paper is a literature review on previous studies regards to challenges or issues on implementation of Industry 4.0 from 2015 to 2019. Total 11 challenges in the processes of implementation Industry 4.0 into manufacturing companies are reviewed. Compared to previous studies, Malaysia National Policy on Industry 4.0 overlooked 3 challenges on Industry 4.0. This is the first review paper to compare the existing challenges in Industry 4.0 with the potential challenges stated in the Malaysia National Policy on Industry 4.0. &nbsp

    An innovative intelligent system for child care & safety applications using ZigBee Wireless Sensing Networks

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    The focus of this paper is to outline the research undertaken of Wireless Sensor Net-works and how they can be used to assist in home health and safety applications. The particular area of interest is a computer controlled system that tracks a wireless sensor attached to a child indoors for the purpose of alarming when the child enters a prede-termined unsafe area. The system must also define boundaries and have the ability to alert a parent/guardian in the case of the boundaries being breached. A thorough review of the available literature was undertaken which gave the author background information as to techniques for localisation and their suitability in indoor applications. An empirical approach to localisation using the Profiling/Fingerprinting method was used. A centralised system design was implemented and an application called Adapt-able Infant Monitoring System was written and tested to perform the localisation and boundary alarming and to provide the ability for remote location retrieval via storing relevant data in a database. Algorithms were proposed to reduce the localisation error. These algorithms have been rigorously tested in two scenarios. A baseline test was applied to create a benchmark, then testing was applied to a real residential situation. The results are analysed and discussed. The results concluded that localisation using the specified hardware and the finger-printing technique was inadequate for the application domain. Factors attributing to the localisation error have been discussed including irregular radio signal propogation which has been earmarked for further work. The localisation accuracy does not render the research work invalid. Providing an omni-directional radio signal and additional research and testing will see the full potential of the system design. The system proposed in this research allows for user-defined boundaries to be set for the alarming mechanism. This feature alone provides, versatility and expandability which is one of a kind and has potiential to enter the market-place covering unlimited application scenarios

    Intelligent Circuits and Systems

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    ICICS-2020 is the third conference initiated by the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University that explored recent innovations of researchers working for the development of smart and green technologies in the fields of Energy, Electronics, Communications, Computers, and Control. ICICS provides innovators to identify new opportunities for the social and economic benefits of society.  This conference bridges the gap between academics and R&D institutions, social visionaries, and experts from all strata of society to present their ongoing research activities and foster research relations between them. It provides opportunities for the exchange of new ideas, applications, and experiences in the field of smart technologies and finding global partners for future collaboration. The ICICS-2020 was conducted in two broad categories, Intelligent Circuits & Intelligent Systems and Emerging Technologies in Electrical Engineering

    Assessment of the Opportunities and Challenges for the Adoption of E-Banking Service in Ethiopia: A study with reference to selected commercial Banks

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    Despite the growth of e-banking adoption worldwide, Ethiopian banks continue to conduct most of their banking transactions using traditional methods. The general objective of the study was assessment of the current extent and practices, benefits realized by banks, driving forces, opportunities and challenges for the adoption of e-banking service in Ethiopia. From this general objective, five specific issues were explored. An exploratory research design was employed to conduct this study. Both primary and secondary qualitative data were collected for the purpose of this study from the IT manager’s of each bank at the head office level and bank web sites respectively. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive analysis such as tables and percentages. From an analysis of the collected data, the findings revealed that: balance inquiry, cash withdrawal, funds transfers, statement printing are among the major practice of e-banking among those banks that are providing the service to the customer. The different e-banking channels by which banks are using to provide these services to the customer are ATM card, debit card, credit card, salary card, visa card, master card, Internet banking and Mobile or SMS banking. Cost reduction, coverage of wide geographical area, customer satisfactions etc are among the benefits of adopting the system from the viewpoint of the bank. Among the different driving forces that initiate banks to adopt e-banking services: existence of high competition in the banking industry, desire to improve organizational performance, desire to reduce transaction cost, desire to cover wide geographical area, and desire to build organizational reputation are among others. Chances of risk, Lack of suitable legal and regulatory framework, absence of financial networks that links different banks, Low level of internet penetration and poorly developed telecommunication infrastructure, high cost of internet, security concerns are among the major challenges for the adoption of e-banking service in the country. However, late adopter opportunities, improvement in the banking habit of the society, commitment of the government to facilitate the expansion of ICT infrastructure and willingness among banks to cooperate in building infrastructure are the major opportunities for the adoption of the system in the banking industry
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