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Introduction
Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), ICT4D, ICT4SD
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Current institution
Current position
- Senior Lecture and National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) Associate Member
Additional affiliations
January 2017 - December 2021
June 2021 - March 2022
Belgium iTVersity Campus
Position
- Senior Lecturer
May 2021 - January 2022
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Publications (16)
The safety and well-being of students are critical in educational institutions. Like many universities, Walter Sisulu University (WSU), is grappling with crime, gender-based violence, and medical emergencies that affect campus quality of life. Preliminary investigation found that existing reporting methods used for fire, crime/violent incidents, an...
Abstract: Chronic diseases such as diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis poses significant health challenges. Often, patients have difficulty adhering to prescribed treatment plans due to busy schedules and too much medication leading to forgetting. Intrinsically, to address this problem of forgetting, this research developed a medication re...
The social media revolution has made it simple to get and access information in seconds as it happens. X (Twitter) among other social media platforms has led this revolution due to its advantages of algorithms that sort feeds of interest and users can choose chronological feeds which makes it a “continuous, breaking news” platform. Although X has t...
Pneumonia remains the most common reason for inpatient stays and fatalities among adults and children in the world. It became worse during Covid 19 pandemic. Most African countries like South Africa were and are still seriously affected. The situation is worse in rural areas because of several reasons, among them; not having enough X-rays machines,...
Dissemination of Climate Information: Insights from a
Case of Rural Small-Scale Farmers in Raymond Mhlaba
Municipality, South Africa
Since its inception in 2012, fog computing has played a dominant role in addressing the quality of service (QoS). However, with the emergence of the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies, which create a “smart world” where everything is automated, offering quality of service alone is no longer sufficient as it does not offer a...
Climate change information plays a pivotal role in decision-making on what crop to plant, what time to water the plant/mulch the field, what type of fertilizer to apply, and at what time. As such, small-scale rural farmers need to get climate information in real-time and in their mother language since English is a barrier. Therefore, this study ass...
Covid 19 and forced lockdowns in 2020 acted as a catalyst
forcing the South African (SA) education sector to fully adopt technology in
teaching and learning with the banner “let’s save the academic year”. This
paper provides reflections on where the SA education sector is coming from,
where it is, student perspective, and where it ought to be if th...
With the advent of the paradigm of the Internet of Things, many computing elements need many modifications to promote Quality of Service (QoS). Quality of Service is a pillar that promotes real-time reaction to time-critical tasks. Any impediments to QoS should be resolved and handled. In 2012, fog computing was implemented to enhance QoS in curren...
This work presents a data mining prediction model which was developed using Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) software. The intention was to come up with a prediction model that will identify early students who are likely to fail and help them thus minimising dropouts which had become a major threat in Higher Education Institutes (H...
