Saraju P. Mohanty

University of North Texas | UNT · Department of Computer Sciences & Engineering

ADHD is a prevalent disorder among the younger population. Standard evaluation techniques currently use evaluation forms, interviews with the patient, and more. However, its symptoms are similar to those of many other disorders like depression, conduct disorder, and oppositional defiant disorder, and these current diagnosis techniques are not very...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) technology’s fast advancements aided smart healthcare systems to a larger extent. IoMT devices, on the other hand, rely on centralized processing and storage systems because of their limited computational and storage capacity. The reliance is susceptible to a single point of failure (SPoF) and erodes the user c...

Recently, harvesting natural energy is gaining more attention than other conventional approaches for sustainable IoT. System on chip (SoC) power requirement for the internet of things (IoT) and generating higher voltages on chip is a massive challenge for on-chip peripherals and systems. In this paper, an on-chip reliable energy harvesting system (...

In recent years the importance of Smart Healthcare cannot be overstated. The current work proposed to expand the state-of-art of smart healthcare in integrating solutions for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Identification of OCD from oxidative stress biomarkers (OSBs) using machine learning is an important development in the study of OCD. Howe...

It is estimated that over 60% of people around the globe consume alcohol and cigars daily. Many people use them beyond the permitted limit, which causes lung cancer, liver and kidney failure. If there is a system that could monitor their intake level, it will alert them in case of excess consumption, which could help them control the intake. To hel...

Groundwater overuse in different domains will eventually lead to global freshwater scarcity. To meet the anticipated demands, many governments worldwide are employing innovative and traditional techniques for forecasting groundwater availability by conducting research and studies. One challenging step for this type of study is collecting groundwate...

It is a known fact that large quantities of farm and meat products rot and are wasted if correct actions are not taken, which may lead to serious health issues if consumed. There is no proper system for tracking and communicating the status of the goods to their respective stakeholders in a secure way. Consumers have every right to know the quality...

This paper presents a Hardware-assisted security primitive that integrates Physically Unclonable Functions (PUF) and IOTA Tangle for device authentication in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT). The increasing market and scope for the IoMT is due to its potential in enhancing and improving the efficiency of health services across the globe. As th...

By 2050, 60% more food will be required to feed a world population of 9.7 billion. Producing more food with traditional agriculture will stress the earth’s limited natural resources. To avoid such a scenario, greener, sustainable, and modern agricultural practices should be followed. More efficient food production along with a reduction of food was...

Plant diseases reduce agricultural production. They negatively affect fruit and crop quality and reduce yield, causing food shortages. A drop in production harms the global agricultural economy. However, early detection and disease severity estimation are key to disease management, containment, and prevention. Damage localization is the first step...

The impending arrival of quantum computers will bring both benefits and risks to the computing industry. The potential threat comes in the form of cryptanalysis attacks by adversaries who can make use of quantum computers in the future to break vulnerable algorithms such as RSA and ECC, resulting in the compromise of confidentiality and integrity o...

To accelerate the execution of Machine Learning applications, recent GPUs use Tensor cores to speed up the general matrix multiplication (GEMM), which is the heart of deep learning. The Streaming Processors in such GPUs also contain CUDA cores to implement general computations. While the Tensor cores can significantly improve the performance of GEM...

Smart vehicles-enabled intelligent transportation system (ITS) supports a wide range of applications, such as, but not limited to, traffic planning and management, collision avoidance alert system, automated road speed enforcement, electronic toll collection, and real-time parking management, to name a few. However, it suffers from various types of...

Globalisation has facilitated different industries to eliminate geographical boundaries and equipped organisations to work collectively to produce goods. Pharmaceuticals is one such industry which has majorly benefited from globalisation to reduce costs and increase profitability at different aspects of research, development, manufacturing of drugs...

This article presents the first-ever hardware-assisted blockchain for simultaneously handling device and data security in smart healthcare. This article presents the hardware security primitive physical unclonable functions (PUF) and blockchain technology together as PUFchain 2.0 with a two-level authentication mechanism. The proposed PUFchain 2.0...

Natural disasters impact agriculture. Farmers incur large losses due to crop damage. Climate/weather-driven natural events or disasters are happening often and are causing billions of dollars in losses. Crop insurance provides economic stability to the agricultural industry to make up for losses. A crop insurance claim is an extensive process and i...

The recent COVID-19 outbreak highlighted the requirement for a more sophisticated healthcare system and real-time data analytics in the pandemic mitigation process. Moreover, real-time data plays a crucial role in the detection and alerting process. Combining smart healthcare systems with accurate real-time information about medical service availab...

Ring Oscillator (RO) is widely used to address different hardware security issues. For example, using RO-based physical unclonable function (PUF) generates a secure and reliable key for the cryptographic application, RO-based aging sensor for efficient detection of recycled ICs. This paper uses a conventional CMOS inverter with two voltage control...

The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has paved the way for safety-critical cyber-physical systems to enter our everyday activities. While such systems have changed the way of our life, they brought new challenges that can adversely affect our life and the environment. Safety and security are two such challenges that can hamper the...

The advancement of technology in several fields has given the opportunity to change the conventional ways of the daily services and activities to a better, easier, efficient, and fully or partially automated manner. Cyber-physical system (CPS) application interactions using distributed ledger technology (DLT) will enrich the conventional ways. We p...

Statistics indicate that 40% of road accidents are due to driving while intoxicated or due to driving under influence. With the improvements in science and technology, secure solutions with improvised, practicable, feasible mechanisms should be proposed to eliminate the occurrences of accidents. Keeping this in mind, BACTmobile a fully automated, s...

The rise of global temperatures, over the past few decades, has disrupted the usual balance of nature. As a result of increasing temperatures, wildfires have destroyed millions of acres of land, thousands of structures, and homes. The pollution and toxic gases produced by the wildfires are carried out to thousands of miles, thus threatening the liv...

With the rapid growth of new technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), it opens new doors for many applications in the modern era for the betterment of human life. One of the recent applications of the IoT is the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) which helps to see unprecedented growth of connected vehicles on the roads. The IoV is gai...

The pandemic of novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is widespread all over the world causing serious health problems as well as serious impact on the global economy. Reliable and fast testing of the COVID-19 has been a challenge for researchers and healthcare practitioners. In this work, we present a novel machine learning (ML) integrated X-r...

Access to essential medication is a primary right of every individual in all developed, developing and underdeveloped countries. This can be fulfilled by pharmaceutical supply chains (PSC) in place which will eliminate the boundaries between different organizations and will equip them to work collectively to make medicines reach even the remote cor...

Consumer technologies have changed human life through various products for smart healthcare management. The evaluation of Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) has provided the closed loop control system for point of care mechanism. The hardware security of medical devices has drawn the attention where any security breach could have catastrophic impact...

Falls are constant threats to older adults and can minimize their ability to live independently. To help mitigate the occurrences and effects of such unfortunate accidents, it is imperative to find an accurate, reliable, robust and convenient solution to make life easier for elder adults who may have visual or hearing impairments. In order to reduc...

Advancements in artificial intelligence, and especially deep learning technology have given birth to a new era of multimedia forgery. Deepfake takes it to a whole new level. This deep learning based technology creates new images with features which have been acquired from a different set of images. The rapid evolution of Generative Adversarial netw...

Crop monitoring systems are one of the important aspects of Smart Agriculture. Due to explosive growth of population there is an increase in demand for food products while urbanization is causing shortage in manual labor. As the yield of a crop is greatly affected by many climatic and environmental parameters, there is an urgent need for efficient...

In a recent Special Section published in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics we introduced smart electronics [1] . We presented a set of papers which were selected after rigorous review with a scope of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) approaches used for various levels of system abstractions, from device-level to system...

Within vehicles, the Controller Area Network (CAN) allows efficient communication between the electronic control units (ECUs) responsible for controlling the various subsystems. The CAN protocol was not designed to include much support for secure communication. The fact that so many critical systems can be accessed through an insecure communication...

The world population is anticipated to increase by close to 2 billion by 2050 causing a rapid escalation of food demand. A recent projection shows that the world is lagging behind accomplishing the "Zero Hunger" goal, in spite of some advancements. Socio-economic and well being fallout will affect the food security. Vulnerable groups of people will...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have developed rapidly in recent years, contributing to an efficient integration between the cyber and physical worlds in intelligent and connected city environments. However, efficient mobility in a CPS is not well solved. Here, we present a prototype for a privacy-aware secure human-centric mobility-aware (SHM) model...

“Smart Cities” are a viable option to various issues caused by accelerated urban growth. To make smart cities a reality, smart citizens need to be connected to the “Smart City” through a digital ID. A digital ID enables citizens to utilize smart city facilities such as healthcare, transportation, finance, and energy with ease and efficiency. In thi...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are gaining tremendous attention due to their flying nature. To complete the task efficiently, multi UAV systems are a good choice as compared to a single UAV system. However, multi-UAV systems introduce issues such as high dynamics, limited battery, and frequent changes in topology. Software control is required to s...

An accurate and reliable technique to predict rechargeable battery health proves helpful in battery-operated, low-resourced industrial IoT devices. The existing data-driven battery health prediction techniques often require a comparatively large amount of computational power for predicting the State of Health (SOH) and the Remaining Useful Life (RU...

In medical practices, the detection of diseases highly depends on different medical tests. Electrocardiogram (ECG) technique is commonly used for heart disease diagnosis. Doctors can measure pulse and other heart boundaries with the aid of it. Fast and precise detection of forms of arrhythmia is critical while identifying heart disease. In this wor...

Consumer electronics hardware is designed and manufactured following a global supply chain which opens doors to their security challenges. Even with the advanced methods of formal verification and coverage analysis, there is still a chance of hiding malicious hardware/software which can degrade performance, leak data, or even stop functionalities....

In the field of smart agriculture health monitoring of livestock is an important field of research. Maintaining the good health of cows is very much essential for the steady growth of milk production. Unfortunately, in a large dairy cow farm, day-to-day monitoring of the health status of individual cows is a complex and time-consuming activity. Thi...

We have been seeing use of word “smart” before almost anything that we can think of in our day-to-day life: smart phone, smart TV, and smart appliance. At a bigger scale smart cities, smart villages, smart healthcare, and smart agriculture, are used to describe new generation of these physical entities. So, an obvious question: What is smart? From...