Gordon Ononiwu

A robotic expert system (RES) for energy management (EM) in community-based micro-grids is developed using a fuzzy computational scheme. Within the micro-grid multi-dimensional space, embedded algorithms for residential homes, sectors and central controller units are introduced to perform EM in a collaborative manner. Demand response and load shedd...

Generally, the need for holistic surveillance to preserve peace, orderliness, as well as safety of human lives is rapidly growing. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or quadcopters contend against external forces (like wind, gravity, and pressure) which determine design parameters. A candidate aerial quadcopter (surveillance) intervention fills this ga...

Smarthome system is one of the major growing industries that change the way people live, and most of these smarthome systems target abled young persons` seeking luxury and sophisticated smarthome platforms; but this design targets the disabled aged. This smarthome system allows the aged to wirelessly control home appliances from a centralized contr...

Smarthome system is one of the major growing industries that change the way people live, and most of these smarthome systems target abled young persons` seeking luxury and sophisticated smarthome platforms; but this design targets the disabled aged. This smarthome system allows the aged to wirelessly control home appliances from a centralized contr...

A robotic expert system (RES) for energy management (EM) in community based micro-grid is developed using fuzzy computational scheme. The architecture for micro-grid network is achieved. Within the micro-grid multi-dimensional space, embedded algorithms for residential home, sector and central controller units are introduceed to perform EM in a col...

This article addresses the challenges of routing hole and network partitioning often experiencedinhierarchicalwirelesssensornetworks(WSNs).Thisdevelopedmodelclassifies networknodesintosetsforeffectiveenergymanagementandformulatestwoclusternetworks namely:switchingandnon-switchingnetworks.Bothnetworksareco...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a rapidly developing technology due to its diverse applications. WSN is a network of nodes of sensing, computing and communication elements that can be used to measure, log, characterize, and profile occurrences of an event in monitored environments and infrastructure. The National Integrated Infrastructure Master P...

Location-dependent services (LBS) are one of the fastest growing fields in the mobile communication sector with wide application range. These new world of applications have captured the interest of the mobile users, and have also created new potential revenue streams. In Nigeria, various forms of crimes, accident and among other demanding issues th...

This paper applies IoT and embedded system technologies in enforcing accountability of generated funds from hotel room bookings and reservations. Accountability of funds generated as a result of booked rooms in hotels has become one of the prevailing challenges encountered by hotel owners in recent time. This challenge, which is as a result of comp...

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The need for reliable, robust, clean and secure electrical energy has led to developments in distributed off-grid solutions. This work considers various distributed generation sources such as; hydro, solar and wind, within the specified environment. Its aim is to ascertain the most feasible micro-grid solution for the specified campus environment....

Cloud data centers used for High Performance Computing (HPC) with volatile Internet of Things (IoT) devices absolutely requires zero-speed switching/low latency, normalized throughput, network stability with near zero packet drops during heavy traffic workload. Deadlock traffic condition found in baseline Fog nodes results when there is no dynamic...

To achieve reliability, scalability, fault tolerance, and high network capacity for remote cloud application users, data center correlation failures must be prevented. Without system reliability of data center components and systems, an incremental traffic growth and high bandwidth requirements will constantly crash the system. In this paper, a new...

Existing energy management systems places less emphasis on management of electrical energy at the consumer level while also requiring a standby operator to monitor the system. This paper presents the design, simulation and development of an energy management and control system with mobile application interface for a federated control. The embedded...

Background/Objectives: The absence of cloud based deterministic energy consumption update information usually discourages electricity consumers from satisfying their obligations to energy service providers. This work aims at achieving cloud based demand side management on consumer smart meters. Methods/Analysis: Disruptive smart green energy manage...

With the current interest in household and industrial automation, developing a smart system that monitors and controls household appliances, industrial machines, military/hospital devices and security gadgets, etc, with low latency response is pertinent. This paper proposed Mechatronics based feedback vector control with Ardinuo IoT device. An embe...

With the Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm that gathers almost every object online, huge traffic workloads, bandwidth, security and latency issues remains a concern to IoT users in today's cloud network. Besides, the scalability requirements found in the current IoT data processing (in the cloud) can hardly be used for applications such as assi...

Reactive Power Control, Voltage regulation and stability are very important for the efficient operation of the power system. This paper presents an auto-tuning regulator to enhance the performance of the Static Var Compensator at Aba Control 33/11kV Injection Substation. The controller was designed to adapt to operational dynamics of the substation...

Intelligent energy management strategy for cost optimization offers a new paradigm for energy users in Nigeria. This research developed Arduino based energy consumption rate meter for residential homes using multidisciplinary concepts in Mechatronics. The system features real time demand side management using composite design methodology (CDM). It...

Currently, the high-performance processors in Spine-Leaf, Mesh, and Router layer-3 (SLMR-3) backend server domain have multiple cores, but data offloading from processor to the peripherial is not keeping pace with the required Quality of Service (QoS) needed to balance the workload on a Warehouse Scaled Computer (WSC) running a developed Enterprise...

Currently, the high-performance processors in Spine-Leaf, Mesh, and Router layer-3 (SLMR-3) backend server domain have multiple cores, but data offloading from processor to the peripheral is not keeping pace with the required Quality of Service (QoS) needed to balance the workload on a Warehouse Scaled Computer (WSC) running a developed Enterprise...

Computer systems with time are prone to hardware faults. The essence of this research is to develop a conceptualized model whose knowledge base diagnostic mechanism incorporates an artificial neural network. The conceptual model emphasizes an automated system that has been trained to give the correct diagnoses based on a list of hardware faults sym...

Mobile Network Operators (MNO) can significantly improve their profitability growth rates and financial stability by constantly monitoring, analyzing and optimizing the radio network performance to provide better subscriber quality. A real time non-intrusive performance evaluation of the network allows the operator to identify performance issues an...

There is an ongoing campaign for consolidated workload management for cloud resource pools (CPU, RAM, I/O, storage, etc). This is the most important consideration in today's Internet of Everything (IoE) paradigm. This paper modeled cloud based network architecture for the deployment of Enterprise Energy Analytic Tracking Cloud Portal (EETACP). Disc...

An over-riding factor in the operation of the power system is the desire to maintain security and except-able reliability level in all the sectors- power generation, transmission and distribution. Steady state power system insecurity such as generator outage causes transmission elements cascade outages which may lead to complete blackout. The secur...

This work tries to evaluate a digital communication system using quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) modulation and demodulation. It also shows the effect of an Addictive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel with variable frequency offset on the transmitted signal. The work was carried out using MATLAB QPSK model and the effect of varying the frequ...

This paper presents the design and implementation of an aerial surveillance quadcopter for search and rescue applications. The aim of this research is to develop a real-time, compact and cost-effective drone that will be capable of search and rescue operations. The first phase of the paper considered modeling of the quadcopter while the second phas...

This paper presents the design of an auto tuning regulator that enhances the performance of the Static Var Compensator (SVC) technique. The Control law presented in this paper is based on the difference between a set point and measured system parameters. The scheme works on real time measurements from Instrument transformers, obtained from samples...

This paper presents the design and implementation of a quadcopter capable of payload delivery. A quadcopter is a unique unmanned aerial vehicle which has the capability of vertical take-off and landing. In this design, the quadcopter was controlled wirelessly from a ground control station using radio frequency. It was modeled mathematically conside...

Nigeria lags behind most other developing nations in terms of grid – based electricity consumption. According to the World Bank, about 56 percent of the Nigeria’s 185 million people are off the national grid and those who are connected to the grid face incessant power outages and interruptions, forcing many Nigerians to either look for alternative...

In today’s private cloud networks, data theft and various attack payloads remains a challenge yet to be fully addressed. A novel strategy to attack vectors, payloads and mitigation procedure for organizational models is presented. The work approached computer forensics from the perspective of cyber digital evidence generation using a developed appl...

Radio propagation models are important tools adopted for the characterization and optimization of wireless communication signals in a propagation environment. In this paper, the Cost 231 model was optimized for 3G wireless communication signal in Aggrey Road (04˚45̀04˚45̀ .06˝N, 07˚02̀07˚02̀ .24˝E), a suburban area in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Phone-...

The shortage of spectrum resource availability in wireless communication network due to the rapid increase in the number of subscribers and multimedia applications has given rise to the need for effective spectrum utilization of the licensed spectrum. Cognitive Radio Technology (CRT) was adopted for the system analysis due to its dynamism in accomm...

Radio propagation models are important tools adopted for the characterization and optimization of wireless communication signals in a propagation environment. In this paper, the Cost 231 model was optimized for 3G wireless communication signal in Aggrey Road (04˚45̀04˚45̀ .06˝N, 07˚02̀07˚02̀ .24˝E), a suburban area in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Phone-...

One of the most important requirements for effective performance of a power system network is to make the network secure against unanticipated outages. It is very important to be able to predict the extent of violations that can occur in the network in the event of unprecedented contingencies. Contingency Analysis is useful both in the network desi...

A previous work on Airport Information Resource Management System (AIRMS) established that sophisticated attacks in the form of Denial of Service (DoS), Distributed DoS (DDoS), and related attacks are becoming the most effective schemes used by cyber terrorists on such enterprise systems. Similarly, a novel Smart Green Energy Management Distributed...

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) published well-tested models and data set for the prediction of fading (or attenuation) due to multipath and rain based on measurements on radio links across the globe. In respect of rain attenuation, ITU released ITU-R PN.837-1 recommendation in which ITU split the globe into 15 regions according to...

With the Nigeria Power Sector going through reforms, it is very important to be able to predict the extent of violations that can occur in the network in the event of unprecedented contingencies. This is usually achieved through contingency analysis of the network in order to make for adequate provision of infrastructure to ensure system security i...

Mobile wireless communication providers are expected by their numerous subscribers to provide network that can allow higher data rates, and good voice quality. However, this may be restricted due to some technical problems such as limited availability of radio frequency spectrum, bandwidth, channel capacity, geographical areas and transmission prob...

This work presents the design and construction of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), to be used as an autonomous guided security system for civilian applications in areas such as surveillance and gathering. The UAV was designed to be powered by a DC battery and to carry a maximum payload of 1.9kg. It is equipped with a microcontroller, actuators and...

In this paper a web application that integrates social network functionalities into e-learning platform is presented. The web application named Educate has functionalities that include among others; sharing files, sharing updates, creating courses, adding courses, participating in discussions, submitting assignments and participating in surveys. Th...

Video surveillance over the years has grown in increasing complexity and efficiency with no significant reduction in the cost of acquiring such security systems. This work illustrates an attempt to implement the functionalities of existing surveillance systems and improvements with a significant reduction in cost and free video streaming. The entra...

A simplified computation scheme for available transfer capability (ATC) that incorporates an improved management scheme for power transfer is presented. The scheme selects appropriate line voltage stability (LVS) index model to compute the proximity to collapse of a chosen transmission line using successive incremental loading of the line. The ATC...

Data on the rate of water discharge and head of a river is of critical importance to the determination of the hydroelectric potential of the river and these important quantities vary with climate change and time. When there is a long break in data collection of the flow rate of a river, researchers become skeptical about the authenticity of the old...

This paper assesses the reliability, stability and efficiency of the proposed (post reform) 10,000MW capacity 330kV grid and the extent to which it will provide solution to the numerous problems that presently plague the existing (pre reform) grid. Using MATLAB, load flow studies are first conducted on both the 31 bus system pre reform grid and the...

Many-core processors can now be used as an alternative hardware platform for implementing embedded media devices. However, a lack of generic tools for application development may hamper their rate of adoption by industry. This work has contributed towards the solution by providing an abstraction from the many design constraints facing application d...

With the growing demand for electric power supply in Nigeria, there is a need to look into all possible means of electricity generation especially renewable ones. It is an established fact that methane gas is a major product of the anaerobic digestion of human waste and the combustion of this gas can be used to generate electricity. This paper pres...

Electric power distribution systems are expected to function at all times, even under fault conditions. However, When they operate under fault conditions, the system operator receives information which makes it very difficult to make decisions on whether to restore a tripped feeder to normal operation. To cope with this uncertainty in decision maki...

Many-core processors will provide system developers on embedded platforms with the best means of achieving system flexibility, shorter time to market, longer device life cycles and overcome the hardware productivity gaps of familiar hardwired and semi-hardwired implementations. However, the lack of portable tools for application development may ham...

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is a technology that uses radio waves to transfer data from an electronic tag, called RFID tag or label, attached to an object, through a reader for the purpose of identifying and tracking the object. RFID technology which is a matured technology that has been widely deployed by various organizations as part of...

Abstract Portable stream programming language (PSPL) is a language for baseband application programming on reconfigurable architectures. The first step in its development has been completed. A parser has been provided for the front end of the PSPL compiler. The syntax of the language has been fixed to allow for easy parses. The scanner and the pars...