Kushal Aniket Prasad

University of the South Pacific | USP · School of Engineering and Physics

Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are two of the emerging techniques used in creating more significant opportunities in smart dairy farming (SDF). Currently, the demand for milk is continuously increasing due to the world's growing population. Thus, some suppliers are inclined towards adopting fraudulent practices such as in...

As the global interest in renewable energy generation continues, the need to develop new and innovative solutions is being explored every day throughout the world by researchers and innovators. Hybrid renewable energy innovations are gaining progressive interest not only because of the threat of climate change but also due to the technological adva...

The automobile industry and technology are putting a great significance in improving vehicles to become more fuel economical, but with incremental costs relative to conventional vehicle technologies; these new vehicles are electric vehicles (EV), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). However, their significant...

The growing interest in being environmentally conscious and enabling sustainability had prompted an increasing number of developed countries to support public and private financing of renewable energy (RE) projects. Also, the abundant availability of renewable resources and cost-effective energy conversion technology favored this growth. Among the...

Integrated Work System (IWS) and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) are two popular approaches used by production firms to identify and eliminate production losses. In a highly competitive business environment, companies must increase their efficiency in the manufacturing process to support resilient business continuity. While OEE is widely used...

Background: The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) highlights the global health emergency. To limit the rate of COVID-19 transmission to health care workers, adequate personal protective equipment's (PPE's) are required. Emerging reports indicate that the widespread usage of PPE during the COVID-19 outbreak has exacerbated plastic contamin...

Farm machinery like water sprinklers (WS) and pesticide sprayers (PS) are becoming quite pop-ular in the agricultural sector. The WS and PS are two distinct types of machinery, mostly pow-ered using conventional energy sources. In recent times, the battery and solar-powered WS and PS have also emerged. With the current WS and PS, the main drawback...

Various renewable energy resources (RERs) require common platform for integration, which evolves the concept of microgrid. The microgrid is considered as an open energy system in which power flow is bidirectional in nature; hence, control is more complex. The effective operation, i.e., stability, frequency and power-sharing, of microgrid is primari...

Due to the rapid growth in power consumption at domestic and industrial appliances, distributed energy generation units face difficulties in supplying power efficiently. The integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) and energy storage system (ESS) provide a solution to these problems using appropriate management schemes to achieve optimal...

Today, the increasing necessity for integrating Renewable Energy Resources (RERs) in electric power generation resolves the existing dependency on imported fossil fuel (FF) resources. The need to protect nature and minimize the environmental contamination brought about by FF emissions has prompted the inescapable certainty of utilizing incorporated...

Increase in demand for electricity plays a vital role in adapting to global warming. The increase in distributed generation, such as wind, solar, fuel cells, and biomass, will create a significant impact on future power generation. In such cases, the microgrid and the distributed generator and its loads are a single block of the control system to i...

Smart grid (SG), an evolving concept in the modern power infrastructure, enables the two-way flow of electricity and data between the peers within the electricity system networks (ESN) and its clusters. The self-healing capabilities of SG allow the peers to become active partakers in ESN. In general, the SG is intended to replace the fossil fuel-ri...

With the ever-increasing demand for energy and a growing concern for the non-renewability of the energy sources as well as the environmental pollution, renewable energy harvesting systems have emerged as one of the energy technologies globally. In this context, this research work addresses a novel, clean and environmentally friendly renewable energ...

Reinforced Concrete (RC) is globally used to make the building structure strong and more durable. Civil and structural engineers face major challenges as concrete structures deteriorate and get weaker. Recent development in field of assessing and monitoring the health condition of the building structure have shown that corrosion in concrete reinfor...

Amongst all the energy sources from human motion, footstep has the potential of producing electrical energy as an alternative source to non-conventional renewable energy. Researchers have shown that human footstep kinetic energy can be converted to electrical energy by devised mechanism for low power application such as powering lights, radio and c...

Traditionally, remote and urban communities worldwide have been supplied electricity almost completely by fossil fuel generators to accommodate for electricity needs. Currently, the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into the current power generation systems can offer attractive economic and environmental merits, including considerable...

Traditionally, remote and urban communities worldwide have been supplied electricity almost completely by fossil fuel generators to accommodate for electricity needs. Currently, the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into the current power generation systems can offer attractive economic and environmental merits, including considerable...

One of the biggest global challenges is the ability to separate the level of materials consumed from the growth of the economy. Consequently economic growth is linked to increased waste generated across the planet. Waste management warrants the attention of passionate and co-creative design by people from different levels of living standards. With...

Reinforced Concrete (RC) is globally used to make the building structure strong and more durable. Civil and structural engineers face major challenges as concrete structures deteriorate and get weaker. Recent development in field of assessing and monitoring the health condition of the building structure have shown that corrosion in concrete reinfor...

The corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete often leads to huge unbudgeted expenses for maintaining, monitoring and renovating an infrastructure. This is mainly due to the presence of salts or chemical chlorides that pose a danger to the concrete structures. The determination of the existence of these corrosive salts is vital for defining the...

A portable Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) sensor for non-destructive concrete corrosion estimation is disclosed. The sensor, which uses a Multiple Loop Coil (MLC), is able to detect and differentiate the chemical contents present in a concrete structure. The sensor is integrated with various component such as batteries, measuring sensor head, micr...