Roop Pahuja

National Institute of Technology Jalandhar | NITJ · Department of Instrumentation nad Control Engineering

Agriculture is important for the economy of any country, and India is considered to be an agricultural country. One of the primary goals of agriculture is to produce disease-free crops. Since ancient times, farmers and other planting specialists have had to contend with a variety of problems and current agricultural constraints, such as widespread...

Maize is ranked as the third most important food crop in India after rice and wheat. The cultivation of this particular crop and its associated agricultural practices have faced many challenges over the centuries. Maize is susceptible to Northern Leaf Blight (NLB), a highly contagious fungal foliar disease. The primary reason for the reduction in y...

The behavior of a Vehicle Ad hoc Network (VANETs) is extremely unpredictable due to the high mobility and random network topology inherent to the nature of VANETs. Several problems, including frequent connection failures, scalability, multi-hop data transfer, and data loss, impact the performance of Transmission Control Protocols (TCP) in such wire...

Rice is the primary food source for about half of the world's population, and it is cultivated around the world, especially in Asia. However, crop planting and farmers have faced various agricultural issues for centuries. The emergence of diseases that affect rice quality and production can result in crop losses. That is why the development of effe...

Vehicle ad hoc networks, also known as VANETs, are characterized by their dynamic nature, exceptional mobility, and random network architecture. The functionality of the Transmission Head Arrangement on WSN can be hindered by a number of problems, some of which include frequent connection delinquencies, adaptabilities, various-bounce, data transfer...

Both technical and commercial businesses have become increasingly interested in blockchain technology. The Internet of Things (IoT) was established out of the interconnectedness of numerous new technologies, such as wireless technology, the Internet, embedded automation systems, and micro-electromechanical devices. Manufacturing settings and activi...

The major two issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) & Vehicular Networks (VANET) remain energy and security. As a result, safeguarding these Connected Adhoc Wireless networks against DoS and Dynamic Circulated DoS (DDoS) attacks is an important security task for the Connected Adhoc Wireless networks. Traditional parcel deep sweep methods rely on...

The automated detection and classification of plant diseases based on images of leaves is a significant milestone in agriculture. Due to the increasing popularity of digital image processing, machine learning, and computer vision techniques, it has been proposed that these could be used for the early detection of diseases. However, the accuracy of...

The academic community has placed a lot of emphasis on privacy and security as a result of the expanding use of the internet of things. Security and privacy are crucial given the volume of personally identifiable information collected by Internet of Things devices, such as identification, location, phone numbers, and energy use. The application of...

Because they are in a high-risk location, remote sensors are vulnerable to malicious ambushes. A doppelganger attack, in which a malicious hub impersonates a legitimate network junction and then attempts to take control of the entire network, is one of the deadliest types of ambushes. Because remote sensor networks are portable, hub doppelganger am...

Reliable measurement of soil moisture is one of the primary requirements for agriculture, irrigation management, and the study of soil-water dynamics. To improve the accuracy of a smart soil moisture sensor beyond the manufacturer's calibration, there is a need for soil-specific recalibration and improved sensor models. This paper discusses the dev...

Wireless communication technology is advancing at a breakneck speed these days. The notion of the network of vehicles on net, which is a very enticing internet of things application, includes a linked car as a crucial component. The technology underpinning this programme includes all words used to define the Web of everything, the internet of all t...

There are many reasons why plants can lose their yield. One of these is due to pests and diseases. The identification of these diseases can aid in the prevention of losses. This paper presents an automated system that can detect and characterize the eaten leaf area of plants and measuring the severity of the leaf using different thresholding techni...

Satellite imagery plays a dominant role in assessment of geographical features of earth, vegetation and landform change detection, monitoring of weather, air pollution and water body, etc. In this work, recently available Landsat 8 Level 2 reliable products are used to extract and analyze NDVI for landform, vegetation change detection, and classifi...

Writer identification is a wide-spreading biometric which can be used as a legitimate mean to identify an individual. It facilitates the experts to automatically identify the person in many security concerns applications such as forensic science. Due to this, much attention has been drawn in this field from the last few decades. On the basis of inp...

In this paper, we present a method for detecting and recognizing certain birds that are damaging to agriculture among a large number of bird species using physical and acoustic spectrogram imagery and optimized convolutional neural network classifiers. Two CNN models are designed to automatically and hierarchically learn spatially image features us...

Vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) play an essential role in enhancing transport infrastructure by making vehicles intelligent and proficient to prevent traffic fatalities. Direction-based greedy protocols pick a next route vehicle for transmitting emergency messages (EMs) depending upon the present location of adjacent vehicles towards sink vehicl...

Bioacoustics play a major role in the field of ornithology, ecology, animal behaviour study, habitat monitoring, species conservation and design of deterrent system. This work focusses on the design and implementation and performance evaluation of an automatic, more efficient and flexible bird sound based recognition system for classifying eight sp...

Now-a-days, there is exponential growth in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks. A connected car is an ssential element of the Internet of Vehicles(IoV) vision that is a highly attractive application of the Internet of Things (IoT).The underlying technologies include Internet of Everything (IoE), artificial intelligence,machine learning, neural ne...

In today’s world, energy consumption is increasing day by day, so energy harvesting is the need of an hour. As conventional energy sources are limited and cause pollution, there is a need to find out innovative methods to generate eco-friendly, sustainable energy that can be commercially used to meet the low power requirement at certain public plac...

In this work, laboratory based virtual instrumentation (VI) system for recalibration of various smart soil moisture sensors is implemented along with modelling and performance analysis of these sensors. This semiautomatic VI system integrates the standard gravimetric method with wireless data acquisition device to ascertain gravimetric water conten...

The modern challenge faced with the global energy situation is the growing energy demand and the strong dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels. Another concurrent issue is the adverse health and socio-economic implications of adult obesity. Human Power Generation, which uses metabolized human energy to generate electrical power, could potentially...

Sepsis is one of the major causes of neonatal deaths worldwide. Majority of these neonatal deaths occurs in resource-poor countries due to inaccessibility of hospitals and absence of laboratories. Blood culture which is the gold standard to confirm sepsis is time-consuming and requires the presence of a laboratory. To start the antimicrobial therap...

Motivated by the fact that human visionary intelligence plays a vital role in guiding many of the agriculture practices, this article represents an effective use of machine vision technology for estimating plant morphological features to ascertain its growth and health conditions. An alternative to traditional, manual and time-consuming testing met...

Majority of global neonatal deaths is due to sepsis. A vast portion of these deaths occurs in developing countries due to inaccessibility of hospitals or lack of resources. Blood culture is the test to confirm sepsis, but it requires the presence of laboratory and is time-consuming. Therefore, we require simple, easy to use methods to predict sepsi...

In 2005, an international pediatric sepsis consensus conference defined systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) for children <18 years of age, but excluded premature infants. In 2012, Hofer et al. investigated the predictive power of SIRS for term neonates. In this paper, we examined the accuracy of SIRS in predicting sepsis in neonates, irr...

Purpose: As application-specific wireless sensor networks are gaining popularity, this paper discusses the development and field performance of the GHAN, a greenhouse area network system to monitor, control, and access greenhouse microenvironments. GHAN, which is an upgraded system, has many new functions. It is an intelligent wireless sensor and a...

Sustainable energy systems are necessary for the economic growth and a healthy environment. India is currently suffering from an economic slump and acute fuel shortage. To overcome these issues the use of renewable energy resources needs to be enhanced manifold. The main purpose of this paper is to present a tracking system which will cause better...

A novel method of monitoring the quality i.e. the percentage of purity of diesel fuel in real-time environment in smart vehicles is presented here. The method incorporates temperature compensated density measurement using a dual load cell and temperature sensor. The mass of the small fixed volume of diesel sample and temperature of diesel are measu...

This paper discusses the implementation of greenhouse climate control simulator based upon dynamic model with intuitive user interface that provides various options to simulate greenhouse climate under open and closed loop control conditions. The simplified greenhouse climate model based upon mass and energy balance equations, encapsulates the real...

Wireless sensor networks are an important pervasive computing technology invading the earth environment. A greenhouse is a complex, multivariable interactive system. Because of local weather fluctuations, the plant-growing process and its interaction with internal climatic conditions, and the use of different climate control equipment, the greenhou...