Abstract More than 2.2 million Ghanaian families in rural areas depend on firewood and charcoal as fuel for cooking [1]. This high dependency is taking a toll on forest resources due to rampant deforestation. “Ghana's forest cover, which stood at 8.2 million hectares in 1900, has now been reduced to about 1.2 million hectares, with an estimated loss of 65,000 hectares of forest annually” [2]. More so, Ghana has been facing energy challenges with the birth of frequent load-shedding, termed...
Abstract Music has been a mode of communication and a source of identity for many cultures, especially in Africa. The sound from the guitar is one of the many components that make up music, The electric guitar is a musical instrument, usually made up of six strings which is connected to amplifiers to produce sound. Technological advancement has led to the creation of Guitar effects pedals. However, manufacturers keep making new models of guitar effects pedals with a continuous increasse in co...
ABSTRACT An Automated toll collection system is the system that helps in eliminating the heavy traffic caused in the Metropolitan countries. It is one of the flexible methods used to manage the flow of traffic in big cities of today. An Automated toll collection system is proposed, and the RFID technology is used. It is an innovative method that uses electromagnetic waves to easily identify and track the tags that are attached to the windshield of the vehicle. The main focus of this project i...
Abstract The leading cause of child mortality globally is prematurity. These deaths mostly occur due to unavailable or high cost of keeping babies in clinical incubators, which provide controlled environment for premature neonates. The aim of this project is to develop a cheap and portable wireless incubator for premature babies. The project focuses on reducing the causes of preterm death and, as such, incorporates measures to minimize such factors. Hence, the incubator’s other functions ar...
Abstract Following the discovery of Oil in Ghana the upstream industry of the Oil and Gas has received a jumpstart and is augmenting the older and more established midstream and downstream industry. The midstream and downstream industries involve the processes that refine, transport, and distribute oil and other crude products and as economic activities increase there is an urgent need to vamp up production, and this can be done by increasing the efficiency of storage processes. This paper ex...
Abstract Pneumonia has been the leading cause of death among children under the age of five in subSaharan Africa, killing more children than the number of children dying from HIV/AIDS. The current methods of diagnosing pneumonia are limited by poor sensitivity and accuracy and they are also expensive. In this project, a low-cost biomedical device was designed and developed to improve the accuracy in diagnosing pneumonia hence assisting in correct prescription of drugs to children. Sounds wave...
Abstract The project intends to increase vehicle operator awareness with the integration of a Low-Cost Driving Assistance system in older car models. Situational awareness during driving significantly reduces the number of road traffic accidents, as proved by literature. A 4-wheel mobile robot is used as the plant representing a vehicle for easier and rapid prototyping. The plant is controlled by a Raspberry Pi3 to achieve the desired control choice as well as do all required computational pr...
Abstract Solar Energy is the fastest growing renewable energy source in the world. The soaring production and the significant technological breakthrough of solar energy in certain countries like China and India has brought about a drastic reduction in the cost of its exploitation. Today, the price of solar PV panels in China has declined by as much as 50%. Despite this immense progress in the solar energy industry, the question of how solar energy has evolved in Ghana and Africa at large, rem...
Abstract This paper describes the design and fabrication of an epileptic seizure detection watch for the timely detection of Generalized Tonic-Clonic (GTC) seizures; using skin conductance (SC) signals. The watch’s circuit was designed in EasyEDA and implemented on a Breadboard to showcase the dispatch of a seizure event alert to a phone via a Bluetooth module; in the event of an ongoing seizure and vice versa. Due to the unavailability of SC signal databases, Electroencephalography (EEG) s...
Abstract Traffic management systems at road intersections of most African cities is based on fixed timings where equal length of green light is assigned to each lane at the intersection. This method of traffic management is inefficient because it causes unnecessarily long waiting times for vehicles at the intersections especially during periods when some lanes have few or no vehicles passing through them. In this project, an affordable density based traffic management system is designed and i...
Abstract Travelers without prior information about the bus they are waiting, often waste time at bus stations which affects their day activity plan. GPS receivers are used to address this problem by providing real-time about the location of the bus, however, it is quite expensive and power consuming to use and every bus needs to have a GSM/GPRS module to be able to send the information to the internet. This project suggests a low-cost and less power consuming approach of using LoRa technology...
Аbstrаct Іmprοvіng еnеrgy еffіcіеncy іs bеcοmіng іncrеаsіngly crіtіcаl tο rеducе thе еnеrgy cοnsumptіοn аnd tο sοlvе thе еnvіrοnmеntаl crіsіs. Thе fοllοwіng cаpstοnе rеpοrt dеscrіbеs а mіxеd-іntеgеr lіnеаr prοgrаmmіng οptіmіzаtіοn аlgοrіthm tο mіnіmіzе thе pеаk dеmаnd аt thе mіcrο grіd lеvеl аnd tο rеducе thе cοst functіοn іn а smаrt hοmе еnvіrοnmеnt. Thе οptіmіzаtіοn mеthοds...
Abstract Compound housing is a housing arrangement that stemmed from cultural family living settings. Over the years, it has evolved to denote a group of different households that share a number of utilities including electricity. Electricity bills and payments are a concern in such living units due to the inability to split bills fairly. Previous work done to solve this are either expensive, or do not take into consideration the complexity of electricity connections in such houses. This thes...
ABSTRACT Most organizations are deploying e-business solutions because of its numerous advantages, such as, increased productivity, reduced transactions costs, wider coverage and increased speed to market. The present academic offices in developing countries still use paper-based approach for most of their activities. Data and information are logged into files, folders and excel sheets which are printed, bound and saved into drawers that are rarely used again for other purposes. In the un...
Abstract The aim of this work is to characterize properties and microstructure of stainless steel used as a coating on welding of carbon steel sheets. Two carbon steel plates were set as the metal base and the stainless steel coating was applied on the weld bead. The applied process used was the submerged arc welding (SAW) and tests were carried out for the tensile strength and Vickers hardness, in addition to observation of the microstructure by optical microscopy. The results indicated that...