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Evaluation of quality management system by implementing quality matrix in construction using SPSS

Quality has become a very popular subject in recent years due to conceptual changes in the industry. The product in any industry should be manufactured to a required standard, one that provides customer satisfaction and value for money. Quality is one of the critical success factors in the construction industry. The need for achieving the quality of the finished product in the building construction is very important. The high cost of buildings makes it necessary to ensure the quality of the finished product. Quality is an essential element for sustainability and customer satisfaction. In construction projects, quality performance is considered as vital for client satisfaction. This study is intended to provide clients, project managers, designers, and contractors with the necessary information needed to better manage the quality of a construction building projects by identifying the factors that affect process quality of construction projects and to rank them by the degree of importance. Developing a quality system is the first step towards improving quality in the construction industry. Towards this goal, firstly a questionnaire survey will be conducted in a construction industry. From the data collected by the questionnaire survey analysis can be done by using SPSS statistics software.

Published by: Naseef VP

Author: Naseef VP

Paper ID: V4I3-1343

Paper Status: published

Published: May 12, 2018

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Design and fabrication of convertible wheelchair

It is inevitable for any country to have people with disabilities or have trouble with standing up, especially arthritis patients. The most commonly used devices for disabled people are wheelchairs. What’s more, the life quality of disabled people and patients has caught attention by society. A modernized convertible wheelchair has become a popular engineering challenge for decades. We aimed to design a new mechanical system in the wheelchair to help people stand up as well as they can rest and sleep, this mechanism should be safer, simpler in structure, less power consuming and more economic. The structure is designed for the wheelchair to fit the natural human standing, sitting and sleeping posture. The standing and sleeping convertible wheelchair we will design may help people with disability to surge self-esteem; reach objects placed high, deliver a speech on a podium. By the way, it’s boring for a person to sit for a long time.

Published by: Nirmal Mistry, Mit Panchal, Bhadresh Mangroliya, Avinash Kumar Labana

Author: Nirmal Mistry

Paper ID: V4I3-1369

Paper Status: published

Published: May 12, 2018

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Braille glove

About 37 million people across the globe are visually impaired which is a substantial proportion of world’s population In this fast developing world which is tending more towards the use of digital communication, the blind people find it really difficult to cope up with the pace of it. Although there have been some attempts made to develop several systems to help them to connect digitally with the society. Considering the present condition of the visually impaired people, we have developed a system (Braille Glove) which will help the user to send and receive text message using the standard Braille code. This paper describes a low-cost Braille Glove for blind people using touch sensors and vibration motors. This glove allows the person to type characters representing the Braille combination using the touch sensor which is placed on the palm side of the glove. This glove also allows the person to read the incoming message using the vibration motors which we have placed on the back side of the glove.

Published by: Amey B. Shinde, Kumar Shubham, Swaroop A. Raut

Author: Amey B. Shinde

Paper ID: V4I3-1370

Paper Status: published

Published: May 12, 2018

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Driver fatigue detection and accident preventing system

In today’s availing conditions many traffic accidents have been occurring due to driver’s fatigue or diminished vigilance level. Driver fatigue detection based on computer vision is one of the most hopeful applications of image recognition technology. There are several factors that reflect driver's fatigue. An eye is the most important feature of the human face. In this paper, we describe a system that locates and tracks the eyes of a driver and finds drivers fatigue and turns on the adaptive cruise control system. The purpose of such a system is to perform detection of driver fatigue by mounting a small camera inside the car, we can monitor the face of the driver and look for eye-movements which indicate that the driver is no longer in condition to drive and turns on the ACCS. Finally, experiment results show that the proposed fatigue monitoring system detects driver fatigue probability more exactly and robustly and sends the signal to ACCS.

Published by: A. Swathi

Author: A. Swathi

Paper ID: V4I3-1357

Paper Status: published

Published: May 11, 2018

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IoT based retailed shopping system using NFC

In current retail shopping systems, one witnesses long queues at the counter primarily due to limited barcode scanners for product identification and billing system. This causes inconvenience to the customers as well as can be regarded as a waste of time. Furthermore, the barcode system is getting outdated due to memory constraints. In the present paper, the concept of an IoT based retail shopping system using NFC is proposed that is time-saving. It combines the concept of Near Field Communication (NFC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) with the Internet of Things (IoT). Software technologies like Atmel Studio, PHP, Eagle, Extreme Burner have also been employed in the project. In this system, each product will be assigned a near field communication (NFC) tag which consists of all the product information. Wireless techniques and electronic tag have been used for product identification. To access this information, NFC readers will be used which come inbuilt in all the new smartphones. This system would be mounted on the trolley so that the bill can be easily generated based on the products placed on the shopping cart, using an Internet of Things (IoT) framework. Design of a novel shopping cart equipped with NFC reader and wireless module is presented which serves as a connection between the cart and the server using IoT framework. The proposed design of cart consists of an LCD, RFID reader, and EEPROM. The payment can then be made either online or through cash. Thus there remains no requirement of manual intervention and with the introduction of NFC enabled smartphones, these processes can be made automated.

Published by: Bansi G. Jani, Divyang Shah

Author: Bansi G. Jani

Paper ID: V4I3-1367

Paper Status: published

Published: May 11, 2018

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Aeroponics- A step towards sustainable farming

Aeroponic is a type of vertical farming. It is actually a process which means the cultivation of plants without the use of soil or minimal use of soil. In this method, the roots of the plant are suspended in the air and nutrients are sprayed in the nutrient chamber. This process can be done in both ways whether be it a semi-closed environment or closed environment. The circumstance is controlled and it requires a lot of care with respect to temperature, humidity, pH etc. In recent years, the Aeroponic system has been used mostly to have a pesticides free cultivation. Prediction says that in coming years Aeroponic will increase the yield and also the quality of crops grown. The set up for Aeroponic includes a proper monitoring and control system for water and nutrients distribution for utilizing the Aeroponic cultivation at its best. The monitoring system monitors the chamber’s parameters such as temperature & humidity whereas control system manages actuators in delivering water and nutrients. LCD will display the details of temperature and humidity and the data will be transmitted to a computer to facilitate easier monitoring. The microcontroller will help in the automation of the regulation of actuators for the distribution of water and nutrients.

Published by: Richa Shubham, Arpita Kumari, Bedanga Bikash Saikia, Kumari Udita, Rajeshwari P

Author: Richa Shubham

Paper ID: V4I3-1363

Paper Status: published

Published: May 11, 2018

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