Software Project Life Cycle – Management (SPLICE-M)

Splice-M is a Web based application which provides suit of Project Management services. It provides common entry point to the team for PMLC, PDLC, SCM, Quality and Time booking activities. It is developed in ASP.net technology and uses SQL database in backend. Time booking service is one of the services from the suit. It facilitates Project Managers (henceforth referred as PM) to share the Project Management Plan with the team and assign Project Tasks to Team Members (henceforth referred as TM). TMs book their time against assigned Tasks. TMs also have facility to add Non-MPP and Non-Project tasks. PMs have all the facilities which TMs do. In addition to that, PMs are provided with the dashboard where in they can view their Team Member’s Time booking. Splice-M application is secure, it neither expose any web-service nor provide direct access to database. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150611

DroidSense - Micro Environment Sensing for Smartphones

Smartphones with embedded sensors have provided a new platform for activity monitoring. These sensors are not only used for smartphone feature enhancement but now are being used for various other applications. This approach takes into consideration the Micro environment of the smartphone and the possibilities of enhancing the use of the embedded sensors in order to reduce human interaction with the smartphone. Micro environment of a smartphone can be referred to attributes from several inches around the smartphone such as light, sound, touch, etc. In this work, we created a smartphone application which records sensor hints from the smartphone’s sensor array and provide feedback without requiring any human interaction. We have implemented various classifiers in the app performing at an average true positive rates of greater than 85%. We have taken into consideration smartphone energy consumption and user friendliness. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15059

Outbreak of waterborne hepatitis E, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 2013

Introduction: Following the report of clustering of jaundice cases from Kolvan village in Pune district, Maharashtra on 16th June, 2013, we investigated the outbreak with objectives to confirm the diagnosis, to describe it and to make recommendations for the control of outbreak. Methods: We defined a suspected case of acute hepatitis as an individual presenting with acute onset of yellow eyes or dark urine with or without fever and other constitutional symptoms in a resident of Kolvan village from 28 May 2013 onwards. Following house to house survey, we prepared a line list of suspected cases. We prepared epi-curve and spot maps of cases and determined the attack rates. We tested blood and water samples and conducted environmental survey. Results: Overall attack rate was 3.3% (n=37); highest in Gavthan area of Kolvan village (14.5%) and in the age group of41-60 years (4.9%). It was more in males (4.3%) than females (2.3%). Hepatitis E IgM antibody was found in 16/ 20 (80%) case patients. Water samples from river, common water source (well) and water storage tanks confirmed presence of coliform bacteria suggesting contamination of drinking water source with faecal matter through newly constructed trench between a well and the river. Conclusions: The continuing common source outbreak occurred possibly due to drinking of faecally contaminated water from the trench. We recommended closure of the trench, temporary alternate water supply arrangement and regular chlorination of drinking water source.We focused on community education regarding safe drinking water and improving sanitation in the village