Scientific method for determining age Agriculture and Food & of boiled rice

 Rice ageing commences during preharvest and continues with the postharvest storage. It dramatically involves the changes in physical and physicochemical properties of the rice grain such as cooking, pasting, and thermal properties. The present report reviews and reveals the effect of rice ageing on the changes of rice physical properties. The studi...

Portable & Smart Packing system with quality check framework

 Changes in consumer preference for safe food have led to innovations in packaging technologies. This article reviews about different smart packaging systems and their applications in food packaging, packaging research with latest innovations. Active and intelligent packing are such packaging technologies which offer to deliver safer and quality pro...

Milk pasteurization other than heat treatment

 This paper deals with milk processing with emphasis on pasteurization. The heat treatment of milk is important in terms of product quality and health safety. The goal of this paper is determination of heat consumption, inactivation effect and Pasteur criterion, by which pasteurization effectiveness is evaluated. The methodical part contains calcula...

Develop an innovative solution to conversion of excess milk to usable products

 The dairy industry generates excessive amounts of waste and by-products while it gives a wide range of dairy products. Alternative biotechnological uses of these wastes need to be determined to aerobic and anaerobic treatment systems due to their high chemical oxygen demand (COD) levels and rich nutrient (lactose, protein and fat) contents. This wo...

Artificial Intelligence enabled Agriculture, Food and Public Robotic stacker for mechanized Distribution Loading/Unloading of food grain

 The agriculture sector faces many challenges such as crop diseases, pest infestation, water shortage, weeds and many more. These problems lead to substantial crop loss, economic loss and also causes severe environmental hazards due to the current agriculture practices. The AI and Robotics technologies have the potential to solve these problems effi...

Quality assurance & traceability of milk supplied by unorganized sector

 Food processing industries are assuming greater importance and processed food is now not a matter of choice but it is a necessity. As a result there is greater awareness of safety concerns, emerging risks and challenges in the context of food products. Consumers want guarantees for food characteristics, thus, calling for transparency and effective ...

Develop an application to facilitate IPR filing for the grassroots community

 The primary driver for innovations in the formal sector is credited to the institution of patenting. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) as the extrinsic motivational factor have supported innovations by firms and industries which have a large market and resources to commercialise their products. Grassroots innovations, on the other hand, represent...

Develop an application to aid end users to get Geographic Indicators for their product

 They exist as an integral form of rural development that offers a valuable framework for GIs. These are unique expression of local agro-ecological and cultural characteristics that have come to be evaluated and protected in many countries throughout the world. A GI is a unique and important form of collective intellectual and cultural property, wit...

Develop a simple but effective Tele-consultation application for farmers to fecilitate agriculture

 Decision support tools, usually considered to be software-based, may be an important part of the quest for evidence-based decision-making in agriculture to improve productivity and environmental outputs. These tools can lead users through clear steps and suggest optimal decision paths or may act more as information sources to improve the evidence b...

Develop a platform to support One District One Product (ODOP) initiative

 The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of the economic revitalization programme, One District One Product (ODOP) implemented in the state of Uttar Pradesh of India in 2018, examine its strategy, and analyze its impact on employment generation, export promotion and economic growth of the state from 2018 to 2020. Along with extensive literature...

Statistics and Monitoring Web Application to capture Online

 The Telkomsel's RAFI/NARU dashboard problem in Sumbagsel Regional that was built with the LAMP web platform model caused a lag when page loading in the web browser, and blinking when the page refreshed and lacks support for the mobile roadmap. Therefore, this paper will design an alternative real time dashboard for monitoring the Telkomsel's RAFI/N...

App-Based solution to identify & solve disease in plants crops

 The technology based modern agriculture industries are today’s requirement in every part of agriculture in Bangladesh. In this technology, the disease of plants is precisely controlled. Due to the variable atmospheric circumstances these conditions sometimes the farmer doesn’t know what type of disease on the plant and which type of medicine provid...

Device an application to monitor Humans health issues due to increased usage of pesticides in agriculture and unethical means adopted by food processing industries

 This study provides a broad perspective on the main trends regarding the use of pesticides in developing countries and their impacts on human health and food security. Information is provided on the challenges of controlling these hazardous substances, along with the extent to which pesticides banned within the European Union (EU) are exported to t...

Develop a digital platform for assimilating data of operational performance of existing STPs CETPs ETPs through creation of data exchange interface and flashing messages against defaults Problem Statements

 Predicting future changes in ecosystem services is not only highly desirable but is also becoming feasible as several forces (e.g., available big data, developed data assimilation (DA) techniques, and advanced cyber-infrastructure) are converging to transform ecological research into quantitative forecasting. To realize ecological forecasting, we h...

Water Availability based Crop-specific

 In recent years, our insight into these shifts and their impact on water availability has increased. However, a similar detailed understanding of the seasonal pattern in water demand is surprisingly absent. This hampers a proper assessment of water stress and ways to cope and adapt. In this study, the seasonal pattern of irrigation-water demand res...

User friendly data visualization tool for interpretation of groundwater isotope data

 Management of groundwater systems requires realistic conceptual hydrogeological models as a framework for numerical simulation modelling, but also for system understanding and communicatin g this to stakeholders and the broader community. To help overcome these challenges we developed GVS (Groundwater Visualisation System), a stand-alone desktop so...

Use of digital technology or making physical prototype for micro irrigation system to improve Water Use Efficiency of Irrigation sector

 A systematic attempt to determine the conditions under which, micro irrigation (MI) systems become the “best bet technology” in terms of realizing the potential benefits, and extent of reduction in crop water requirement possible through such systems is crucial for assessing our ability to address future water scarcity at the regional and national ...

Standalone desktop application for analysis, visualization and interpretation of hydro chemical data

 Integrating advanced simulation techniques and data analysis tools in a freeware Geographic Information System (GIS) provides a valuable contribution to the management of conjunctive use of groundwater (the world's largest freshwater resource) and surface-water. To this aim, we describe here the FREEWAT (FREE and open source software tools for WATe...

Need to develop digitally the dynamic model to integrate the impact of climate change (CC) indicators with assessment of vulnerability and adaptation at localized scale for agriculture sector

 Agriculture and climate change are internally correlated with each other in various aspects, as climate change is the main cause of biotic and abiotic stresses, which have adverse effects on the agriculture of a region. The land and its agriculture are being affected by climate changes in different ways, e.g., variations in annual rainfall, average...

To develop Waste water management system in villages

 The study area where the wastewater treatment is proposed is Rajouri in Jammu And Kashmir State. The growth of population at a faster rate, lack of education, poverty especially in rural areas has polluted the environment to a great extent. Here the paper gives the details about the population of the area, the drainage details, the water supply det...

To develop new ways of Waste water management system in rural areas

 This study has been undertaken to develop Sustainable Waste Water treatment. Most of the river basins in India and elsewhere are closing or closed and experiencing moderate to severe water shortages, brought on by the simultaneous effects of agricultural growth, industrialization and urbanization. Current and future fresh water demand could be met ...

Online registration and processing of dairy farmers producing milk and other livestock products

 The study was conducted to assess the general milk production system, handling practices, processing, utilization and marketing system of raw cow milk produced in Mizan Aman, Debub and Shey Bench Districts. A total of 270 respondents (thirty respondents from each study area) were selected using simple random sampling technique and interviewed by us...

Drought Information and Management

 Drought is the most complex of all natural hazards. The lack of progress in drought preparedness planning and the development of national drought policies is a reflection of this complexity. With the demand for water increasing because of expanding population, urbanization, changes in land use, and many other factors, the time to move to a more ris...

An online platform to link potential dairy importers of the world with the major dairy product manufacturers of the Country

 Globalization remains a key force in driving Indian economy and India’s dairy industry products acknowledge the demands and preferences around the world by the consumers. New imperatives like production systems issues such as animal welfare and environmental footprint, and also product quality attributes such as traceability and product safety. Dai...

A web portal to manage and strengthen dairy infrastructure of dairy processors of the Cooperative and private dairy sector

 India is the world’s largest producer and consumer of milk and has the world’s largest dairy herd, comprised of water buffalo and indigenous and crossbred cattle. Annual growth in milk production and consumption has been a robust 4.2 percent since 2000, and India has also emerged as a small net exporter of dairy products. Water buffalo and crossbre...

System for an efficient and transparent process of buyer-seller interactions, provision for creating niche product offerings for SHG groups for all areas

 This research explores the online purchase decision-making behaviour of consumers by introducing a comprehensive approach that covers two different viewpoints: a) individual-level behaviour and b) market-level behaviour. Individual-level behaviour enhances our understanding of how purchase decision-making processes unfold and whether they differ fo...

Real-time transaction to be introduced for SHGs and their Federations

 The last two decades has witnessed a phenomenal growth in the number of Self Help groups (SHGs) and SHG federations in India. There were an estimated 1, 78,664 SHG federations in India1 during 2013-14. SHG federations emerged as important institutions to take over the functions formerly provided by SHG promoting organizations. Placed in a situation...

Real time visualization of location wise financial transactions (volume and amount) for various schemes[such as PMAY(G), MGNREGS, PMGSY,NRLM, DDU-GKY]

 In this paper we are proposing an adaptive and real-time approach to resolve real-time fnancial data integration latency problems and semantic heterogeneity. Due to constraints that we have faced in some projects that requires real-time massive fnancial data integration and analysis, we decided to follow a new approach by combining a hybrid fnancia...

Provide easy and realtime access of information on housing typologies for area selected by Individuals for House construction

 The purpose of the study is to determine the specifics of housing construction at various stages of its evolutionary development in the context of the needs of the population in socially acceptable housing conditions. The methodological basis of the study is systematic, abstract-logical approaches and economic-statistical analysis. The main results...

Mechanism to help rural people to self select for receiving benefit offered under Govt. scheme

 Rural development is a very dynamic process which includes in improving the socio-economic, political, environmental, and well-being of the poor people living in rural areas. In India more than 70 percent people living in rural areas, the concept of rural development assume great significance. The Molakalmuru taluk is one of the most backward taluk...

Mechanism to effectively track and capture Attendance at work sites for MGNREGS workers using IRIS based attendance monitoring system

 Attendance management is the act of managing attendance or presence in a work setting, which maximizes and motivates employee attendance thereby minimizing loss. Not only does it affect productivity, it can cost the company profits or even additional contracts. For the industrial sector attendance management system can develop alacrity among the wo...

Mechanism for linking of works under convergence in Rurban with multiple DBs (e.g.MGNREGS, PMUY, DDU-GKY, PMAY etc.)

 India’s development trajectory is marked by growing economic prosperity but high inequality, which often exacerbates the existing rural– urban divide. One of the current policy instruments to address this divide is the National Rurban Mission, which aims to improve infrastructure and service provision, facilitate regional development and attract in...

Identification of missing LSBs which can be added in the road network to minimize the travel time

 A wide range of relatively short-term disruptive events such as partial flooding, visibility reductions, traction hazards due to weather, and pavement deterioration occur on transportation networks on a daily basis. Despite being relatively minor when compared to catastrophes, these events still have profound impacts on traffic flow. To date there ...

Identification of Missing Bridges which would increase the connectivity between regions

 The development of linear infrastructure such as pipelines can have a dramatic impact on forest connectivity through canopy fragmentation. Because many forest animals are arboreal and spend their lives in the forest canopy, fragmentation caused by linear infrastructure may isolate animals on either side. Here we present our findings on linear infra...

Identification of Flood Prone Roads

 The availability of new technologies far the measurement of surface elevation has addressed the lack of high-resolution elevation data, which has led to an increase in the attraction of automated procedures based on digital elevation models (DEMs) far hydrological applications, including the delineation of floodplains. In particular, the exposure t...

An app which helps in automating the permission needed for development works like building permission, spatial lands etc according to the development norms

 The building permission process is to a large extent an analogue process where much information is handled in paper format or as pdf files. With the ongoing digitalisation in society, there is a potential to automate this process by integrating Building Information Models (BIM) of planned buildings and geospatial data to check if a building conform...

Design a system generating the total no of people eligible for receiving pensions under NSAP (Indira Gandhi National Old Age Pension Scheme) but are not included(area wise)

 The National Social Assistance Programme consists of five social assistance transfers, which form the core of India’s fledgling minimum social protection floor. These transfers have been scaled up over the last decade and further steps will soon be taken towards their universalization with exclusion criteria. This paper provides a rigorous evaluati...

Create a system to recognize and understand local dialect by Computer or other IT devices to deliver voice

  Computer as a medium for language learning has been acknowledged by many educators in the past years. Using computers for language learning has proved not only interesting but also positive and stimulating for many language teachers and learners. The present paper tries to show the impact/s of computers in the field of second and foreign langua...

Website and Application For convergence with MoLE initiatives

 The term Web 2.0 describes web-based applications such as social networking sites, wikis, and blogs that facilitate collaboration, creativity, and sharing among users. Web 2.0 applications are often enabled by reusing content from other web-based applications or web services. This trend is largely parallel to the principles of service-oriented arch...

Develop an ICT enabled mechanism to monitor quality of houses constructed under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana– Gramin (PMAY-G) in most cost-effective way

 Rapid growth of the urban population leading to housing shortages and poor urban living conditions is a prime challenge for the government of India. Recently launched affordable housing scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) -Housing for All (Urban) is drawing attention of the researchers in critically analysing the programme. The focus of this ...

Develop a system for high compression and decompression of Photograph and documents without loss of Quality

 JPEG Decompression methods are exceptionally helpful in 3G/4G based markets, handheld gadgets and frameworks. There are many testing systems in already proposed decompression techniques, as high computational cost, and overwhelming distortion in ringing and blocking artifacts which makes the picture imperceptible. To enhance the visual nature of th...

Create a Visualisation for Streamlining of Reporting Framework for Mahatma Gandhi NREGS reports

 This study has evaluated the differentiating impact of MGNREGA on the extent of fulfilment of the basic entitlements such as days of employment, wages and earnings and the extent of coverage of social groups like dalits, adivasis and women and poverty alleviation. This study has disaggregated state level data to discern the factors that make a diff...

Suggest a solution to help the ULBs/State/UT Governments to monitor or control the growth of slums in the country and develop a self-sustained environment to ensure affordable housing in order to avoid growth of slums in future

 Slums have become an unavoidable reality in many countries of the world, particularly the developing world. Although there are various slums upgrading models and approaches to address the urban poverty in developing countries, the number of slum dwellers has actually grown and the problem is expected to become worse. Other public policies have to e...

Student Innovation

 Innovation in the workplace has been claimed to be a key factor in organizational survival and success. As future workers, university students are a major source of future innovations in organizational settings. Before they enter the labour market, it is in the context of Higher Education that they start developing some of their long-term behaviour...

Smart Buffer Stock Solution

 The price volatility and scarcity have been became a great problem in the distribution system of seasonal staple food produced by agro industry. It has salient supply disparity during the harvest and planting season. This condition could cause disadvantages to the stakeholders such as producer, wholesaler, consumer, and government. This paper propo...

Fishing boat Activity Clustering and Timeline Studying (FACTS)

 Design of fishing boat for Pelabuhanratu fisherman as one of effort to increase production of capture fisheries. The fishing boat should be proper for the characteristic of its service area, as ;capacity of fishing boat up to 60 GT, the fishing boat has minimum 6 fish holds and location of fish hold in the middle body, the fishing boat hull has the...

Development of a happiness index for schools (including mental health and well-being parameters, among others) with self-assessment facilities

 Schools are increasingly concerned with the well-being of the whole child – likely, more so since the COVID-19 pandemic – and goals here were to document the psychometric properties of a brief new measure of adolescent mental health, the Well-Being Index (WBI). The measure assesses 4 symptom areas, 2 each of internalizing and externalizing symptoms...

Automated Identification of Fish Species (AutoFiS)

 There is a need for automatic systems that can reliably detect, track and classify fish and other marine species in underwater videos without human intervention. Conventional computer vision techniques do not perform well in underwater conditions where the background is complex and the shape and textural features of fish are subtle. Data-driven cla...

Automated Animal Identification and Detection of Species (AAIDeS)

 Image sensors are increasingly being used in biodiversity monitoring, with each study generating many thousands or millions of pictures. Efficiently identifying the species captured by each image is a critical challenge for the advancement of this field. Here, we present an automated species identification method for wildlife pictures captured by r...

APP FOR GOVERNMENT ASSET MANAGEMENT

 The aim of the study is to identify the opportunities and challenges a local government public asset manager is most likely to deal with when adopting the appropriate Public Asset Management Framework especially in developing countries. In order to achieve its aim, this study employs a Case Study in Indonesia for collecting all data i.e. interviews...

An unique solution that would help to include informal vendors in the public space development without compromising on the Urban Design

 Public spaces go beyond the typical definition of being an open space. They reflect the diversity and vibrancy of the urban fabric and hold the power to create memories. Among all public spaces, streets emerge as the most public. Streets are engines of economic activities, social hubs, and platforms for civic engagement. They break socio-economic d...