Recent Patents on Engineering - Volume 15, Issue 2, 2021

Background: Patents suggest that groundwater contaminated with chemicals, bacteria, oils or gases etc. leads to many types of diseases in people. Fresh and clean water plays a significant role in human life. In this study, water samples were collected from different regions of the Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh. Methods: Water samples were collected in plastic bottles with a tight cap washed with distilled water. Totally, 57 Read More

Background: Diagnosing diseases is an intricate job in medical field. Machine learning when applied to health care is capable of early detection of disease which would aid to provide early medical intervention. In heart disease prediction, machine learning techniques have played a significant role. Analysis of disease has become vital in health care sectors. The massive data collected by healthcare sectors are preprocessed an Read More

Background: Hyperspectral (HS) image data comprises of tremendous amount of spatial and spectral information which offers feature identification and classification with high accuracy. As part of the Deep Learning (DL) framework Stacked Autoencoders (SAEs) has been successfully applied for deep spectral features extraction in high dimensional data. HS deep image feature extraction becomes complex and time consuming du Read More

Background: Trustful message transmission within the Vehicular ad-hoc Networks is needed as traffic related safety applications needs successful and reliable delivery of messages. The biggest issue is how only the trustworthy parties can be retained and the misbehaved are revoked. From the background analysis, it gives a detailed view of various vulnerabilities in these networks and the techniques used by the researchers to i Read More

Background: With the advent of IoT, the deployment of batteries with a limited lifetime in remote areas is a major concern. In certain conditions, the network lifetime gets restricted due to limited battery constraints. Subsequently, the collaborative approaches for key facilities to reduce the constraint demands of the current security protocols. Objective: This work covers and combines a wide range of concepts linked by IoT Read More

Background: The Modified Intelligent Water Drop algorithm incorporated with the proposed heuristic function to enhance the characteristics of randomness, individual diversity to minimize the total energy required to broadcast the data from each sensor node towards the sink node in a network. Objective: The Modified Intelligent Water Drop Algorithm has been designed to achieve the divergence to find out an optimal M Read More

Background: Agile is not a methodology neither can it be considered as a peculiar way of developing any software also it is neither a framework nor a process. Agile is a mindset or a collection of beliefs that can be used by the teams for taking the decisions while working on any software development. Agile mindset adopted for the development of software has gained attention of the researchers and industries across the Read More

Background: Diabetic Retinopathy is the leading cause of vision impairment and its early stage diagnosis relies on regular monitoring and timely treatment for anomalies exhibiting subtle distinction among different severity grades. The existing Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) detection approaches are subjective, laborious and time consuming which can only be carried out by skilled professionals. All the patents related to DR detecti Read More

Movies, advertisements, and promotional videos are Intellectual Property (IP) and are often shared on open access medium as part of the business. Fueled by the advancements in technology, piracy has become more rampant and a widely spread crime in many countries. Movie piracy is more dangerous to mega-budget producers who struggle to receive the maximum profit of their films, making them compete with smaller fil Read More

Background: Power failure and its related challenges is the cause of low economic development in most developing countries. Power failure is sometimes caused by the constant technical problems experienced by power network components which are being used for electric power transmission and distribution. Most distribution and transmission substations operate at medium voltages. Medium Voltage (MV) cables p Read More

Objective: This paper provides the basics of Android malware, its evolution and tools and techniques for malware analysis. Its main aim is to present a review of the literature on Android malware detection using machine learning and deep learning and identify the research gaps. It provides the insights obtained through literature and future research directions which could help researchers to come up with robust an Read More

Background: In a wind farm, the wind speed of the downstream wind turbine will be lower than the wind speed of the upstream wind turbine due to the influence of the wake. Therefore, the wake of wind turbines is one of the uncertain factors predicting the annual power generation of the wind farms. The study on the wake can effectively improve the efficiency of power generation. The arrangement of vertical axis wind turbines Read More

Background and Objective: VANET is an application used for the intelligent transportation system which improves traffic safety as well as its efficiency. We have reviewed the patents related to vehicular Ad-Hoc Network and their issue. To avoid road accidents a lot of information we need in advance. This paper has developed a framework which minimizes the possibilities of the black hole attack in VANET. According to us, t Read More