UAV charging station placement in opportunistic networks

SS Bacanli, E Elgeldawi, B Turgut, D Turgut - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are now extensively used in a wide variety of
applications, including a key role within opportunistic wireless networks. These types of …

Upscaling fog computing in oceans for underwater pervasive data science using low-cost micro-clouds

F Dar, M Liyanage, M Radeta, Z Yin, A Zuniga… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Underwater environments are emerging as a new frontier for data science thanks to an
increase in deployments of underwater sensor technology. Challenges in operating …

GEESE: Edge computing enabled by UAVs

M Liyanage, F Dar, R Sharma, H Flores - Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2021 - Elsevier
Pervasive applications are revolutionizing the perception that users have towards the
environment. Indeed, pervasive applications perform resource-intensive computations over …

HIPPO: Pervasive Hand-Grip Estimation from Everyday Interactions

Z Yin, M Liyanage, AR Ottun, S Paul, A Zuniga… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Hand-grip strength is widely used to estimate muscle strength and it serves as a general
indicator of the overall health of a person, particularly in aging adults. Hand-grip strength is …

LIZARD: Pervasive sensing for autonomous plastic litter monitoring

F Dar, M Olapade, AR Ottun, Z Yin… - 2024 IEEE/ACM …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Littering is a significant environmental concern that causes significant damage to the natural
ecosystem and contributes adversely to human health. Monitoring litter accumulation is …

Characterizing everyday objects using human touch: Thermal dissipation as a sensing modality

H Emenike, F Dar, M Liyanage… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We contribute MIDAS as a novel sensing solution for characterizing everyday objects using
thermal dissipation. MIDAS takes advantage of the fact that anytime a person touches an …

Evaluation of Smart environmental protection systems and novel UV-oriented solution for integration, resilience, inclusiveness and sustainability

H Yuan, Z Yin, C Zhao, Z Yang, S Gao… - … on Universal Village …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, rapid urbanization is bringing convenience and high efficiency to our daily lives,
but the increase in GDP comes with the cost of high metabolic rates, high waste per capita …

Underwater Acoustic Ranging Between Smartphones

T Chen, J Chan, S Gollakota - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01780, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present a novel underwater system that can perform acoustic ranging between
commodity smartphones. To achieve this, we design a real-time underwater ranging …

The MIDAS touch: Thermal dissipation resulting from everyday interactions as a sensing modality

F Dar, H Emenike, Z Yin, M Liyanage, R Sharma… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2022 - Elsevier
We contribute MIDAS as a novel sensing solution for characterizing everyday objects using
thermal dissipation. MIDAS takes advantage of the fact that anytime a person touches an …

Deep Transfer Learning Application for Intelligent Marine Debris Detection

KY Chia, CS Chin, S See - International Conference on Engineering …, 2023 - Springer
This paper aims to evaluate the state-of-the-art object detection network; YOLOv5s (You
Only Look Once version 5 small) for the detection of underwater marine debris using AUVs …