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Performance Assessment of an Extremely Challenged Mobile Infrastructure Network over the Oceans
Dhanesh Raj,
Vickram Parthasarathy,
Sethuraman N. Rao,
Maneesha V. Ramesh
January 2017
ICDCN '17: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Publisher: ACM
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A novel cost-effective network architecture for providing Internet connectivity to marine fishermen has been successfully prototyped by our research center. A pilot deployment is in progress in a coastal Indian village. This will improve the quality of life of the financially constrained marine fishermen who spend 5--7 days offshore on ...
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Smart phone, Adaptive Long range Wi-Fi Network, Opportunistic Mobile Infrastructure Network, Marine Internet, Point to Multi-Point Network
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Pilot deployment of early warning system for landslides in eastern himalayas: poster
Sangeeth Kumar,
P. Venkat Rangan,
Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
October 2016
WiNTECH '16: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation, and Characterization
Publisher: ACM
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Using wireless networks to connect and communicate between geological sensors is a more scalable and suitable way for designing landslide monitoring and warning system for larger areas spanning many acres. Added to this, if the system has the capability to function in solar power, then it becomes autonomous system with ...
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landslides, long range TDMA wifi, wireless networks, lora, remote monitoring, sensors
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QRS axis based classification of electrode interchange in wearable ECG devices
Rahul Krishnan,
Maneesha Ramesh
December 2015
MOBIHEALTH'15: Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)
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Wearable ECG monitoring is becoming a convenient way for patients as well as doctors, in tracking and diagnosing heart diseases among large population in rural areas. Wearable ECG devices along with the smartphones are used to capture and transmit ECG data to hospitals where medical practitioners diagnose and make suitable ...
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electrode misplacement, mason-likar, wireless ecg
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A Low Cost Remote Cardiac Monitoring Framework for Rural Regions
Dilraj N,
Rakesh K,
Rahul Krishnan,
Maneesha Ramesh
December 2015
MOBIHEALTH'15: Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare
Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)
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Cardiovascular diseases in rural developing countries take a large toll of human lives, due to inadequate quality health care facilities and their limited reach to the patients. The burgeoning population of developing nations make the linear organic scaling of health care facilities impractical to cater the diverse rural geography. Hence ...
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ecg monitoring, wearable m-health, patient monitoring framework
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An Assistive Device for Managing Urinary Incontinence
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Dhanesh Raj,
N. Dilraj
October 2014
I-CARE 2014: Proceedings of the 6th IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange Conference (I-CARE) on I-CARE 2014
Publisher: ACM
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Urinary Incontinence (UI) is a common and embarrassing condition affecting people of all age groups, especially women, aged population, patients with certain neurologic diseases, children born with spinal cord disorders, spinal trauma and other diseases of spinal cord, after certain pelvic and prostatic surgeries, etc., and they cause significant emotional ...
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Urinary Incontinence (UI), Wireless Power Communication, Ionic Electro Active Polymer (EAP), Power Management, Transcutaneous Energy, Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs), Sphincter control
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Modeling Diffusion of Tabletop for Collaborative Learning Using Interactive Science Lab Simulations
Raghu Raman,
Prema Nedungadi,
Maneesha Ramesh
February 2014
ICDCIT 2014: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Internet Technology - Volume 8337
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
Within the context of Roger's Diffusion of Innovation theory we propose a pedagogical framework for attributes that can significantly affect student adoption of collaborative learning environment like multi-user, multi-touch tabletop. We investigated the learning outcomes of secondary school students in India collaboratively using OLabs on a tabletop EG1 = 30 ...
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Diffusion, Laboratory, Simulation, experiments, Collaboration, tabletop, Innovation
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Design, development, and deployment of a wireless sensor network for detection of landslides
Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
February 2014
Ad Hoc Networks: Volume 13, February, 2014
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.
Wireless sensor networks are one of the most promising emerging technologies, providing the opportunity for real-time monitoring of geographical regions (remote and hostile) that are prone to disasters. With a focus on landslide detection, this work reaffirms the capability of wireless sensor networks for disaster mitigation. A complete functional system ...
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Landslide detection, Heterogeneous wireless networks, Real-time monitoring, Wireless sensor network, Power saving solutions, Satellite networks
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Wireless Sensor Network Security: Real-Time Detection and Prevention of Attacks
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Aswathy B. Raj,
T. Hemalatha
November 2012
CICN '12: Proceedings of the 2012 Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Security is a critical issue in many real-world applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This research focuses on implementing security mechanisms, against two specific types of attack that occur in a network of MICAz motes. These are 'denial-of-service' (DoS) attacks where unnecessary packets are sent causing services to appear unavailable ...
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Denial of Service, Security, Wireless Sensor Network, Symmetric cryptography, TinyOS
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Enhanced emergency communication using mobile sensing and MANET
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Anoop Jacob,
Aryadevi R. Devidas
August 2012
ICACCI '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
Publisher: ACM
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Emergency response services are often delayed due to the destruction or non-availability of the communication network. This research work proposes Mobile Adhoc NETwork (MANET) architecture integrated with mobile sensing concepts, for reviving the communication network in disaster hit areas. Mobile sensing in emergency scenarios can very well address issues like ...
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emergency communication, Android, MANET, mobile sensing
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Locating and monitoring emergency responder using a wearable device
Abishek Thekkeyil Kunnath,
Preeja Pradeep,
Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
August 2012
ICACCI '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
Publisher: ACM
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When a disaster occurs, activities like search, rescue, recovery, and cleanup are carried out by emergency responders. This paper proposes a new framework for supporting the safety and health of emergency responders by locating their position and monitoring their vital signs using a Wireless Wearable Device. As an initial step ...
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incident commander, position estimation, localized node, monitoring centre, unlocalized node
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Performance comparison and node failure assessment of energy efficient two level balanced and progressive sensor networks
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
A. G. Sreedevi,
Kamalanathan Kandasamy,
P. Venkat Rangan
August 2012
ICACCI '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
Publisher: ACM
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This research is concerned with the design of Tree WSNs. This research proves that configuration plays a vital role in energy optimisation, node failure and network lifetime when designing a Tree WSN. We compare a Progressive Two Level Tree WSN with a Balanced Two Level Tree WSN. Our simulation results ...
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network lifetime, two level balanced network, wireless sensor networks (WSN), energy consumption, node failure, two level progressive network
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A swarm intelligence based distributed localization technique for wireless sensor network
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
P. L. Divya,
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni,
Rekha Manoj
August 2012
ICACCI '12: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
Publisher: ACM
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Wireless sensor network (WSN) refers to a group of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors for monitoring and recording the physical conditions of the environment and organizing the collected data at a central location. Sensor Localization is a fundamental challenge in WSN. In this paper localization is modeled as a multi ...
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comprehensive learning particle swarm optimization (CLPSO), wireless sensor networks (WSN), localization, particle swarm optimization (PSO)
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Efficient Patient Monitoring for Multiple Patients Using WSN
Rajesh Kannan Megalingam,
Divya M. Kaimal,
Maneesha V. Ramesh
August 2012
MNCAPPS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Network, Communication and Its Applications
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Real motivation of this research work is to develop an efficient system that can monitor multiple patients' health parameters simultaneously and can effectively deliver the data to a patient monitoring system where it is stored permanently. Current traditional health monitoring is accomplished by individual PCs attached to each patient's bed. ...
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multiple health parameters, patient monitoring system, real-time monitoring, sensors, wireless sensor network
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Performance Enhancement in Distributed Sensor Localization Using Swarm Intelligence
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Divya P.L.,
Rekha P.,
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni
August 2012
MNCAPPS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Network, Communication and Its Applications
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of distributed autonomous devices which sense the environmental or physical conditions cooperatively and pass the information through the network to a base station. Sensor Localization is a fundamental challenge in WSN. Location information of the node is critically important to detect an event or to ...
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Particle Swarm Optimization, Comprehensive Learning Particle Swarm Optimization, Localization, Wireless Sensor Network
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Mobile Software Platform for Rural Health Enhancement
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Sruthy Anand,
Rekha P.
August 2012
MNCAPPS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Network, Communication and Its Applications
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
The patients in rural areas lose their lives due to the unavailability of proper healthcare at the right time. This research work aims to develop a system suitable for continuous and real-time monitoring of rural patients to enhance healthcare facilities. The proposed system integrates existing and freely available mobile technology ...
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smartphones, mobile phone, energy optimization, health monitoring
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Low Power Intelligent Wearable Cardiac Sensor Using Discrete Wavelet Compression
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Ragi G.R.,
Abishek T.K.
August 2012
MNCAPPS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Network, Communication and Its Applications
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Claiming 17.1 million lives a year, cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of death in the world especially in rural India. Conventional ECG monitoring instruments are quite bulky and if we are able to miniaturize them, then they can be used to collect data in scenarios that were ...
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ECG, noise, interference, power, filter, wavelet, DWT
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Security Enhancement in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Machine Learning
Aswathy B. Raj,
Maneesha V. Ramesh,
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni,
Hemalatha T.
June 2012
HPCC '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication & 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
Ensuring the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is vital for monitoring real-time systems. One of the major security flaws experienced by WSNs is denial of service (DoS) which can even lead to the breakdown of the complete system or to wrong decisions being made by the system that can ...
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Wireless Sensor Networks, Security, Denial of Service, Neural Network, Support Vector Machine
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ADEN: Adaptive Energy Efficient Network of Flying Robots Monitoring over Disaster Hit Area
T. K. Abishek,
K. R. Chithra,
Maneesha V. Ramesh
May 2012
DCOSS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
The post disaster mitigation is the immediate task to be carried out in disaster affected areas in order to reduce the extent of damage and for early rehabilitation and reconstruction. This paper proposes a design framework for an optimal control strategy to efficiently perform surveillance over a wide disaster hit ...
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Flying robots, Mobile ad-hoc network, Energy efficient, Routing protocol
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Smart distribution electrical grid for India
Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas,
Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
December 2011
ACWR '11: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief
Publisher: ACM
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The smart grid is a new technology that adds efficiency to the electrical grid system. The smart distribution grid architecture proposed in this research work solves major problems faced by the Indian electrical grid such as wastage of energy by the careless usage of consumers, poor power theft and line ...
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distribution system, smart grid, single phase, wireless sensors, electrical grid
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Real-time monitoring of explosives using wireless sensor networks
S. Simi,
Maneesha V. Ramesh
September 2010
A2CWiC '10: Proceedings of the 1st Amrita ACM-W Celebration on Women in Computing in India
Publisher: ACM
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An increase in bomb attacks in present era has boosted the need to have a continuous monitoring of explosives in public places. This paper proposes an effective warning mechanism for security threats in public places such as railway stations so that security corps can take immediate action against bomb threats. ...
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explosive detection, real-time monitoring, wireless sensor network