Abstract The recent advancement in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology has brought new distributed sensing applications such as water quality monitoring. With sensing capabilities and using parameters like pH, conductivity and temperature, the quality of water can be known. This paper proposes a novel design based on IEEE 802.15.4 (Zig-Bee protocol) and solar energy called Autonomous Water Quality Monitoring Prototype (AWQMP). The prototype is designed to use ECHERP routing protocol an...
ABSTRACT The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning has been the main target for public and private schools in Tanzania since the beginning of the 21st century. Since then, however, the achievement of using ICT on teaching and learning has been relatively unsatisfactory due to several reasons including incompetence and poor understanding of teachers on ICT. This study intends to understand ICT literacy level, use of ICT tools in delivering contents, an...
ABSTRACT The use of ICT in education has been proved to be a key milestone in improving the learning process in different levels of education. To tap this opportunity, the government of Tanzania has implemented a number of projects aimed at introducing and using ICT in different levels of education. There have been similar initiatives in the private institutions as well. However, such initiatives have been facing different challenges particularly on the readiness of using ICT for education f...
INTRODUCTION The advancements in information system technologies into today’s society have given rise to several concerns regarding data security and privacy. However, these concerns relate to protective measures taken with respect to digital privacy and the protection of unauthorised access to databases of information. Regarding information system technologies, computer games have been designed in such manner to collect, process and store personal data of the gamers. This raises several co...
ABSTRACT The dramatic progress of studies in human action recognition has being attributed to challenges inherent with conventional methods such as bag-of-words based description. As a result, researchers in the field of computer vision are still making efforts towards achieving structured interpretation of complex activities between multiple objects. This study proposes Pyramid of Histogram Oriented Gradients (PHOG) computed from Depth Motion Maps in a video stream as a new feature descripto...
ABSTRACT The increasing demand for road transport in Nigeria and the huge Government investment on roads have generated the need to encourage road maintenance and sustainability. This project work covers the importance of managing information and the importance of keeping past records for the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) and how to improve on it. And it also cover the following areas: work monitoring process file, staff information file, road and bridge maintenance file, amount spe...
With today’s ubiquity of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, more and more businessesdevelop and use mobile applications. Multiple platforms including Android and iOS form the market of mobiledevices, so it can be important to be able to deliver software for more than one platform. Vendor-supported SDKsare feature-rich but incompatible with other platforms. We compared a number of cross-platform frameworks formostly platform-independent development on mobile platforms, by evaluat...
ABSTRACT Smartphones are nowadays becoming more acceptable due to many features it offers as compared to traditional mobile phones due to the clamor for a portable and faster means of communication. The rate at which the device is being acquired has resulted in significant increase in the number of mobile phone subscribers globally. Therefore, there is a need to ascertain the rate of smartphone acquisition and its effect on the number of people accessing the internet and the resultant...
Distributed digital manufacturing of free and open-source scientific hardware (FOSH) used for scientific experiments has been shown to in general reduce the costs of scientific hardware by 90–99%. In part due to these cost savings, the manufacturing of scientific equipment is beginning to move away from a central paradigm of purchasing proprietary equipment to one in which scientists themselves download open-source designs, fabricate components with digital manufacturing technology, and the...
This is a survey of neural network applications in the real-world scenario. It provides a taxonomy of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and furnish the reader with knowledge of current and emerging trends in ANN applications research and area of focus for researchers. Additionally, the study presents ANN application challenges, contributions, compare performances and critiques methods. The study covers many applications of ANN techniques in various disciplines which include computing, science...
The use of metaheuristic search technique for generation of test data has been a burgeoning interest for many researchers in recent times. There has been a previous attempt to automate the test data generation process has been limited, having been constrained by the size and complexity of software, and the fundamental facts that in totality test data generation is an undecideable problem. Metaheuristic search technique is high level frameworks, which utilizes heuristic to seek solution for co...