International Journal of Advanced Networking and Applications

5095-5101

Authors: Kummathi Chenna Reddy, Venkatesh S N, Manjula K B, Boban Mathews

The major issue in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is energy consumption. Over the past years, various protocols have been proposed to prolong the lifetime and minimize the energy consumption of the sensor node. The main limitations in WSN are limited battery capacity, communication range and storage capacity. A suitable routing protocol is required to improve the network lifetime and minimize energy consumption. In this paper, we propose an Energy Centric Clustering Routing Protocol for WSNs (EC2RP). In EC2RP, node residual energy and distance parameters are considered. Further, the data aggregation rate is proposed which allows the cluster heads (CH) nodes to aggregate the data before it sending to the next CH node or base station node. The simulation results show that EC2RP reduces energy consumption and extends the network lifetime.

5108-5112

Authors: Sajal Saha, Moinul Islam Sayed, Pradip Das, BivashKanti Mukherjee

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)has a lot of applicability in today's world, whether it is an informative field or other things. To achieve efficient data transmission, many routing protocols have been proposed where energy is always an important issue. This research aims to overcome the drawbacks of a flooding-based routing protocol by proposing a gossiping-based routing algorithm called SIG: Source Initiative Gossiping. We applied this protocol into a network and achieved that SIG is more energy-efficient than Flooding and Gossiping. It consumes about 50% less energy than flooding and 35% less energy than Gossiping. Our results indicate that SIG successfully achieves application reliability requirements in many topologies. We simulated it in MATLAB to achieve a comparing result among Flooding, Gossiping, and SIG

5119-5127

Authors: Bello A. Buhari, Bilyaminu S. Muhammad, Bello A. Bodinga, Muazu D. Sifawa

This research has taken a Quantitative, interpretive and cross-sectional designs in the form of a self-administered questionnaire through survey. The aim is to investigate the adoption of Cloud Computing by IT based small and medium scales enterprises in Northwestern Nigeria. About one hundred and fifty (150) questionnaires were distributed among seven states in the North-Western Nigeria and average of one hundred and nine (109) was responded. The result of the survey shown that most of the IT professional in these SMEs are cloud provider’s end users, continue to use cloud provider in the future, is part of their strategic effort, recommended Cloud provider to others and they are very satisfied with the cloud providers. Challenges that are preventing them from getting the maximum value out of cloud providers are lack of encouragement, poor training, application is missing and lack of executive sponsorship.

5134-5142

Authors: Abdul Rasak Zubair, Emmanuel Sinmiloluwa Olu-Flourish, Martins Obinna Nnaukwu

Generally, conventional home wiring system use simple latching switch that is being connected to the power supply for controlling electrical appliances such as fan, light, washing machine, air conditioner and television. The switch is usually located at the wall near the electrical appliance. This requires the user to move to the location of the switches to control the appliances. There is rapid increase in the number of people with special needs like the elderly and the disabled. Smart houses are considered a good alternative for the independent life of older persons and persons with disabilities. A smart home is a home that provides its residents the comfort, the convenience and the ease of operation of devices at all times, irrespective of where the resident actually is within the house. Smart Homes include devices that have automatic functions and systems that can be remotely controlled by the user. The primary objective of a smart house is to enhance comfort, energy saving, security for the residents and independent living of people at old age and people with disabilities. A low-cost prototype of a voice controlled smart home system controlling four devices by an Arduino microcontroller via a four-channel relay is presented. Voice control is one of the easiest methods to give input commands and is a more personalized form of control, since it can be adapted and customized to a particular speaker’s voice. Voice recognition is a computer software program embedded in a hardware device with the ability to decode the human voice. Most voice recognition systems require “training” (also called “enrolment”) where an individual speaker reads text or isolated vocabulary into the system. The system analyses the person’s specific voices and uses it to fine-tune the recognition of that person’s command. Upon successful recognition of the voice command, the micro controller drives the corresponding load with the help of the relay circuit. Voice or Speech Processing has been applied successfully for the control of the supply of energy to home appliances.