Engr. Dr. Fidelis C. Obodoeze

• PhD Electronic and Communication Engineering
• Principal Lecturer at Akanu Ibiam, Federal Polytechnic Unwana

Today's e-commerce has witnessed rapid and massive patronage due to high proliferation of mobile phones usage in developing economies such as Nigeria. The use of smartphones, Tablet phones, Portable Digital Assistants (PDAs) have made it easy for consumers to run e-commerce applications on-the-go without the hassles of carrying heavy and cumbersome...

The IEEE 802.15.4 specification has enabled low-power, low-cost and smart wireless sensor networks (WSNs) capable of robust and reliable multi-hop communications. By January 2005, an International Oil and Gas Company (IOC), Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), became the first multinational Oil and Gas Company operating in the Nigeria Niger...

ABSTRACT: Environmental and human health are seriously threatened by air pollutants that are released into the immediate area. The detrimental effects of air pollution are more severe in Metropolis or densely populated areas. When air pollutants such microscopic particles or particulate matters like PM2.5, PM10.0 find their it into human resp...

Credit and Debit cards have become the choice mode of payment online as a result of the proliferation of electronic transactions and advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Because of the increased use of credit cards for payment online, the number of fraud cases associated with it has also increased; scammers and fraudsters...

The protection of critical and sensitive infrastructures such as public buildings, power plants, nuclear plants, oil and gas pipelines and wells, offshore oil facilities, medical facilities, etc cannot be overemphasized especially in an area where there is high rate of vandalism and terrorism. There is a growing concern in Nigeria concerning the ra...

Total Organic Volatile Compounds (TVOCs) are gaseous organic air pollutants that pollute indoor and outdoor space and create serious health challenge to the inhabitants which may result to serious health impediments or even death. Air pollution has caused a lot of health challenge and environmental problems in recent times especially in big cities...

Accident is an unfortunate and unplanned event or circumstance, which usually occurs without informing the road users or the driver and can lead to serious injuries or even death. The time it occurs and the time of reporting should be very close to avoid death of the victims involved in the road accident. Because of the high rate of accidents invol...

Air Pollution or reduction in air quality is a very serious health threatening menace to the inhabitants of any populated city. It is equally a big threat to the immediate environment because of several adverse affects it has such as global warming and acidification of the soil and ocean water which affects the quality of crops and sea animals. Air...

This is a Technical Paper presented to the audience of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Awka Branch on Saturday, June 25, 2022 by Engr. Fidelis C. Obodoeze MNSE

Accident is an unfortunate and unplanned event or circumstance, which usually occurs without informing the road users or the driver and can lead to serious injuries or even death. The time it occurs and the time of reporting should be very close to avoid death of the victims involved in the road accident. Because of the high rate of accidents invol...

Air pollution is a very serious problem facing urban the dwellers where various types of dangerous and poisonous air pollutants are discharged directly into the atmosphere on daily basis as a result of increased industrial and human activities due to increase in population and urbanization. These pollutants have serious and adverse impact on health...

Air pollution is a huge challenge to the residents of highly populated cities and municipal managers over the years because of the serious threats it poses to human health and environment. Machine learning and deep learning are branches of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can be used to train past historical dataset to identify patterns in an o...

Gas accidents have killed thousands of people and rendered several million homeless in Nigeria within the last decade. Majority of Nigerian citizens and residents use LPG gas stored in highly compressed cylinders for cooking at homes and for industrial usage. This is because the alternatives which are kerosene stoves and electric cookers are not ef...

This paper explored the use of wireless sensors to monitor air pollutants such as the particulate matters of diameter less than 2.5 mm. The working principles of PM2.5 sensors, types of PM2.5 sensors were x-rayed. The health menace of PM2.5 air pollutants to human beings living in a polluted environment was highlighted. An experimental methodology...

This paper explored the use of wireless sensors to monitor air pollutants such as the particulate matters of diameter less than 2.5 mm. The working principles of PM2.5 sensors, types of PM2.5 sensors were x-rayed. The health menace of PM2.5 air pollutants to human beings living in a polluted environment was highlighted. An experimental methodology...

Internet-of-Things (IoT), the interconnected networks of millions of smart and intelligent objects, machines, sensors, actuators have evolved in solving myriads of problems in different human domains. Of recent is the proliferation of IoT paradigm in environmental monitoring systems such as air and sound quality of smart cities. Sensors can be...

COVID-19 pandemic has dealt devastating blows to world's Nations and their economies; millions of people have died or are sick and almost all the world's economies have been distorted. A means to recover from the negative effects experienced in the last two years due to the outbreak of re-emerging covid-19 pandemic is paramount. This paper presents...

Photodetectors have found useful applications in various power and electronic fields such as in microwave power amplifications and fibre optic data communications. Different types of photodetectors, especially the PIN photodiodes and Avalanche photodiodes, are the most useful photodetectors in microwave and fibre optic communications. In this paper...

Over the years, there have been a gradual increase in the electricity generation capacity of Nigeria, with more gas power plants installed between 1999-2003 to augment power supply from the existing hydro and thermal power plants installed in the 1970s but despite gradual increase in Mega Watts (MW) of electric power generated, Nigerian electricity...

Over the years, there have been a gradual increase in the electricity generation capacity of Nigeria, with more gas power plants installed between 1999-2003 to augment power supply from the existing hydro and thermal power plants installed in the 1970s but despite gradual increase in Mega Watts (MW) of electric power generated, Nigerian electricity...

There is an increasing demand by the populace living in residential areas, offices and industrial locations in Nigeria, where public power supply from the elevenelectricity power distribution companies (DISCOs) have become erratic and unpredictable. Due to the rampant and frequent fluctuation of public power supply in Nigeria, changing from public...

with the rapid advancement in Near Field Communications (NFC) technology, very soon in Nigeria, mobile phones using NFC will replace car keys. It will then be possible for drivers and car owners to lock and unlock their vehicles using their mobile phones via NFC technology. This technology has promising and enormous potential applications for vehic...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications in the industry, domestic and commercial sectors are becoming quite interesting and exciting. For instance, since January 2005, major International Oil and Gas companies (IOCs) operating in Nigeria Niger Delta region have made wireless sensor network the defacto monitoring system for their vast oil and gas...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is advancing rapidly and the world community has undergone a fundamental changes. Activities, jobs, skills, cultures, needs and have changed and been affected by this technology. Entrepreneurship is undoubtedly a major contribution and has had a special role in the development of these technologies; ho...

Nigeria’s electoral system has been fraught with several challenges from the time of changing from manual accreditation/voting to electronic voters’ accreditation/voting since March 2015. Prior to 2015, Nigeria has tried several voters’ registration and voting system, not limited to the manual open-ballot option-A4 brought about by the then General...

ICT-Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has touched virtually all spheres of life and sectors of several national economies and agriculture is not left out. Nigeria has come of age in the applications of ICT in several sectors of her economy but its application in agriculture still has many challenges and roadblocks. The capacity of ICT...

Energy is the live-wire of modern economies and societies. As such, the management and development of energy resources should provide an absolute priority for a sustainable development perspective, which is the key to sustainable skill and entrepreneurial development in Nigeria. Renewable energy technologies can spur solar energy for various privat...

With increasing public consciousness and concern for the environment, recent pipeline leak incidents across the globe have proved cost incurred by company can be far more than the downtime and clean up expenses as such more stringent statutory regulations are getting introduced, cost effective and reliable leak detection systems are in demand. This...

Foreign language/second language can serve as a veritable vehicle towards the sustenance and growth of foreign policy in the life of any nation. Foreign language helps many nations towards the direction of integration, international diplomacy, foreign relations, trade and direct foreign investments. These yardsticks can be used to measure the robus...

Critical public assets such as oil and gas pipelines, public buildings, power plants, nuclear plants, public water utility etc needs to be monitored in real time so as to ensure their availability, dependability, safety and security. In this paper, we examined the basic components and architecture of real-time system, which includes real-time contr...

The Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) networks contain computers and applications that perform key functions in providing essential services and commodities to citizens such as electricity, natural gas, crude oil and refined petroleum products, waste-water treatment and transportation. This paper looks at SCAD its architecture and fu...

The internet of things (IoT) is everywhere. It's in our homes, cars, offices and most commonly around our wrists. It's changing the way factories are run, how health care is delivered and how cities operate. With an estimated 5.5 million new "things" connected each day, and an expected 6.4 billion in circulation by the end of 2018, the IoT will inc...

Nigeria, with a huge population of about 170 million people, has become a dumping ground for both brand-new and fairly-used imported electrical and electronic products and equipment such as ICT , telecom and household appliances-monitors, computers, TVs, mobile handsets, refrigerators, washing machines, DVD/CD Players, Computer storage media but to...

This paper investigates the challenges facing the ICT automation (adoption and usage) among Small and Medium Scale Industries (SMIs) in the manufacturing and logistics sectors in South East Nigeria. The paper identifies about seven key ICT components or tools that are required to ensure successful industrial automation. The researcher visited and s...

Vehicle fault detection has always been done by manual method. This process simply involves trial and error processes where a mechanical engineer or auto technician is called in to diagnose automotive device (vehicle) to detect the fault(s). Though there have been recent developments in the fault detection system (FDS) which involves the use of an...

This paper x-rays the various possible deployments of smart micro wireless sensors in industrial applications especially in Nigeria. This paper focuses more on wireless

This book Modern Trends in Digital Computer Maintenance First Edition was designed and written primarily to fill the gaps in the teaching and learning of Digital Computer Maintenance in both theory and practicals in Nigeria universities and polytechnics. The book was deigned to cover some syllabuses of Nigerian University Commission (NUC) and Nati...

This work is aimed at developing a device which can be used for multipurpose temperature monitoring and control. At the heart of the circuit is the 8051 microcontroller which controls all its functions. A temperature sensor LM7805 is used for sensing the temperature of the environment and the system displays the temperature on a LCD in real time. T...

This work is aimed at developing a device which can be used for multipurpose temperature monitoring and control. At the heart of the circuit is the 8051 microcontroller which controls all its functions. A temperature sensor LM7805 is used for sensing the temperature of the environment and the system displays the temperature on a LCD in real time. T...

Due to proliferation on the usage of mobile computing devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, Tablet PCs and Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) in Nigeria and world over, it is expected that these light-weight, powerful, low-cost computing devices will pave way for data-driven applications in mobile environments. These portal mobile devices can...

2016 looks set to be the year for revolution of Internet-of-Things (IoT) worldwide. Several smart objects or things are now being connected together to communicate to drive business, guarantee collaboration and enhance security and Nigeria cannot be left out. Not with the challenging economy in 2016 as a result of the decline in prices of crude oil...

Due to proliferation on the usage of mobile computing devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, Tablet PCs and Portable Digital Assistant (PDA) in Nigeria and world over, it is expected that these lightweight , powerful, low-cost computing devices will pave way for data-driven applications in mobile environments. These portal mobile devices can...

this paper explores the recent applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), especially Underwater WSNs (UWSN), by International Oil Companies (IOCs) in monitoring underwater oil pipelines in Nigerian oil rich Niger Delta region. It examined the different architectures for monitoring underwater pipelines, their challenges and how to overcome the...

this paper explores the recent applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), especially Underwater WSNs (UWSN), by International Oil Companies (IOCs) in monitoring underwater oil pipelines in Nigerian oil rich Niger Delta region. It examined the different architectures for monitoring underwater pipelines, their challenges and how to overcome the...

This paper presents a new framework for fast and intelligent diagnosis of pipeline field sensors by Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The software agents are responsible for efficient operation of the pipeline sensors as well as the detection of anomaly in the pipeline infrastructure such as presence of vandals (whose intention it to steal the crude oil a...

Oil pipeline vandalism is on the increase in the oil rich Nigeria Niger Delta region with over 400,000 barrels of crude oil lost to crude oil bunkerers as a result of rampant rupturing and vandalisation of pipelines transporting crude oil and refined products from one point to another in the region. In this paper automated electronic pipeline vanda...

Cloud computing offers a promising technology paradigm for business organisations and government ministries, departments and agencies to reduce running costs, improve service delivery and generally improve national economy but in Nigeria despite these prospects, there are daunting challenges such as infrastructural deficits, data and information se...

Since October 1st 2011, when Nigeria Federal Government marked Nigerian’s 51st National Independence celebration at Eagles Square Abuja that witnessed the first bomb blast in the country, there have been a catalogue of avalanche of security challenges throughout the country ranging from bomb blasts, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, kidnapping f...

The IEEE 802.15.4 enabled Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have found useful applications in mission-critical environments especially in Nigeria oil and gas field monitoring, Niger Delta region, to perform real-time monitoring and surveillance of critical oil and gas pipelines, plants, wells and flow stations. Outputs from quantitative sensors such...

Just recently wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being widely used in many applications especially in the effort to automate industrial processes and operations. In this paper, we x-rayed different applications of WSNs and actuators in industrial automation efforts, especially in Nigeria oil and gas industry. We also proposed deployment and contro...

Since the inception of mobile telecommunication in Nigeria in 2002 as Global System for mobile Telecommunication(GSM) and Code Division for Multiple Access(CDMA), there has been a meteoric rise in the number of subscribers as well as the security challenges affecting the mobile telecommunication platforms. Security challenges such as hackers’ attac...

With the increasing use of extensive IT and Telecommunication systems for sensitive or safety-critical applications, the matter of IT and Telecommunication security is becoming more important. For the computer system, and its related applications, including data, to be trustworthy, it must be secured. This paper covers all aspects of Computer Syste...

Wireless application protocol is a protocol that makes it possible to surf the Internet from a cellular phone or other handheld wireless devices. Many that surf the Internet from home with a 56 kbps modem think that it is slow but a cell phone only uses 9.6 kbps. So, wireless application protocol (WAP) has to take the lesser bandwidth into consider...

Just recently the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued directives for the complete digitization and transformation of Nigeria's cash-based economy to electronic or cashless economy but the security challenges that will follow the implementation will be enormous and unprecedented as witnessed during the era of transition to ATM electronic cash-payme...

In recent times, computer networks have experienced a wide range of attacks ranging from network protocol compromise, network communication loss, information compromise, and information theft. Therefore, the paper examined the use of Distributed Agent Approach (DAA) in solving most of the network intrusion challenges. To implement this architecture...

Automation is the process of changing the manual handling of materials and parts in and out of machines to automatic handling. Automation helped spur the boom in industrial applications in Western Europe in the 1950s. Automation can equally help resuscitate Nigeria’s industrial concern if properly harnessed and applied. This technical paper examine...

In the industrial application of robots, path planning plays a very crucial role in determining the precise and accurate robot’s manipulator trajectory and motion control. This helps robots to move in their location precisely without colliding with stationary or moving objects or targets in within their working domain. Robot planning also plays an...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and globalization have spawned new sets of crimes, the computer related crimes, the cyber crimes. Cyber crimes involve the theft and/or destruction of information resources, funds utilizing computers, computer networks, and the internet. Cyber crimes equally involve the invasion of privacy and fundamen...

With the increasing use of extensive IT and Telecommunication systems for sensitive or safety-critical applications, the matter of IT and Telecommunication security is becoming more important. For the computer system, and its related applications, including data, to be trustworthy, it must be secured. This project covers all aspects of Computer Sys...