The problem of voting is still critical in terms of safety and security. This project deals with the design and development of a web based voting system using fingerprint in order to provide a high performance with high security to the voting system also we use web technology to make the voting system more practical. The proposed EVS allows the voters to scan their fingerprint, which is then matched with an already saved image within a database. The software is completely implemented in matlab. Upon completion of voter identification, voters are allowed to cast their vote using voting website. Casted vote will be updated immediately. The result shows that the proposed electronic voting system is fast, efficient and fraud free.

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The power available at the output of solar arrays keeps changing with solar insolation and ambient temperature. The solar arrays must be operated at maximum power point (MPP) continuously for economic reasons. So, that the different MPPT (maximum power point tracking) Controllers are using for track the maximum power point. Also that these control techniques vary in many aspects as simplicity, sensor required, convergence speed, range of effectiveness, popularity, cost and other aspects. This poster presentation in details comparative study between two MPPT controls techniques are Perturb and Observe (P&O) and Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC). Two different converter are using for comparative in this study. Few comparisons such as efficiency, voltage, current, and power output for each different combination has been displayed. Multi changes in irradiance, temperature by keeping voltage and current as main sensed parameter been done in the simulation Matlab simulink tools have been used for performance evaluation on energy point. Simulation will consider different solar irradiance and temperature variations.

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Data mining and knowledge engineering is to predict the analysis of data for the purpose of verdict certain informational patterns that can be used for the benefits of an educational institution. Data mining methods are often implemented at higher education engineering colleges / universities today for analyzing available data and extracting information and knowledge to support decision-making. Data mining is used to improve graduate students’ performance and overcome the problem of failures, due to the problematic subject in low grades marks and failures for engineering graduate students. The main scope of this paper are to identify the data analysis for engineering students evaluation performance based on skills in academic subject and process, the information gathered through this research can be used by the educational institution to improve its services and became top engineering college and universities in Tamil Nadu. Here, the classification, association, clustering are used to evaluate student’s performance. By using these methods to extract the knowledge description database that describes students’ performance in the end of the university examination. It also helps earlier in identifying the dropouts engineering course and students who need special attention and allow the professor to provide appropriate advising and counseling.

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A wireless sensor network that consists of different nodes in hierarchy are considered. Some of these nodes have higher processing power and more energy. They are called manager nodes or super nodes. The second type of nodes has normal power and less energy and is called ‘normal’ node. In this paper, an energy-efficient method is presented. This method entrusts manager nodes with the responsibility of selecting relay nodes till the sensor nodes. This algorithm is effective in reducing energy consumption and increasing network lifetime. As none of the nodes save information related to routing table and relay nodes, therefore it will have less overload and complexity.

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In this paper instead of a classical multilevel inverter, a hybrid multilevel inverter is proposed to drive three phase induction motors. The proposed topology includes a three-phase inverter supplied by a DC voltage and three single-phase H-bridge inverters each supplied by separate DC sources. To maximize the output voltage levels of the hybrid multilevel inverter, the voltage of the single-phase inverters is half of the value of the three phase bridge inverter DC source [1][2]. In SPWM, POD technique is used to generate the gate pulses. A three phase induction motor is connected as load and its performance characteristics are analysed. Simulations have been carried out in MATLAB–Simulink R2013a (8.1.0.604) to study the performance of the proposed prototype.

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The use of alternative aggregate is a natural step in solving part of depletion of natural aggregates. The investigation on alternative material for concrete making started much before than half a century. Use of hazardous waste in concrete making will lead to green environment & sustainable concrete technology, Concrete made from mound ash (sikka thermal power plant waste) as fine aggregate will be studied for workability, compressive strength, tensile strength and Flexural strength Further, study of its durability will ensure greater reliability in its usage. So here in my project, I will use mound ash (sikka thermal power plant waste) as replacement of coarse aggregate by different percentage for making concrete of different grade from lower to higher like M-20, and M-30. The percentage replacement will be 0%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70% 80%, 90% and 100% with natural fine aggregates. I will use OPC-53 grade cement in making concrete with super plasticizer as an admixture to get proper workability for higher strength concret.

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Detecting eye signal with different eye movement is a difficult task. By implementing this technique as an application for the paralyzed person those who cannot make any body movement or cannot speak. Human brain mainly works on electric signals transmitting all over the body to send the information in order to operate the body parts. Even while rotating eye ball body increases or decreases the resistance near eye area. This variation in electric signals can be measured using EOG dry electrodes. A brain-computer interface (BCI) in a set of hardware devices to reach an interface human brain/computer. This new communication channel only uses brain waves; consequently, it is particularly suitable for Paralyzed person. This project will help paralyzed person to overcome their problem by communicating with doctors through EOG based device.

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In this paper, a new medium voltage power converter topology using a diode rectifier, three-level boost converter and neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverter is proposed for a high-power permanent magnet synchronous generator-based wind energy conversion system. A significant improvement in the grid power quality is accomplished as the NPC inverter no longer controls the dc-link neutral point voltage. A model control strategy is proposed to control the complete system where the discrete-time models of the proposed power electronic converters are used to predict the future behavior of control variables. These predictions are evaluated using two independent cost functions, and the switching states which minimize these cost functions are selected and applied to the generator- and grid-side converters directly. In order to comply with the high-power application, the switching frequencies of the BOOST converter and NPC inverter are minimized and maintained below 1.5 and 1 kHz, respectively.

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India is one of the countries which is rich in granite reserves and mining of granite in India takes the country to compete in the international market level. In today’s scenario the granite stone become the building block for the construction field .The apartments, hotels, MNCs are got Royalty and attractive looks because of these granite infrastructure. The Granite Industry has received a wider publicity and corporate importance in the last few years. As the demand for the granite is more the factories are aim to produce maximum production out of the machinery but the problem which some of the granite factories are facing is they lagging in production, they not able to produce the estimated production out of the machine. This project is to study of the factor which affects the production rate and taking the corrective action in order to produce estimated production. The optimization is done by general inspection method and vibration analysis.

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Solar still is a useful device that gives puredistillated water from impure and brackish water using solar energy. Solar energy is non-conventional, inexhaustible, freely available and easily accessible energy so this device can be easily used in remote area where people are struggling to have pure drinking water or in the area where water purification plant can’t be established due to geographical limitation. Product water from solar still that is pure distillated water can be used for commercial purpose also. To get maximum output from the system we changed, modified and introduce four parameter which are: 1) Reflector 2) Flat Plat Collector (FPC)3) Condenser and 4) Lower Depth Solar Still. Integral effect of all these parameter can lead to better output rate and increased efficiency of solar still.

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In recent years, we have seen dramatic progress in the field of Hand Gesture Recognition, yet these applications have some drawback. Keeping in view the trend of making application more interactive and simple, easy to use as well as cost efficient, a Hand Gesture Recognition based system is developed to allow interactive control of application using hand gesture. This paper presents a framework for hand gesture recognition based system which controls the mobile application. The working of this framework is based on the information fusion of 3 Axis Accelerometer (ACC) and Surface Electromyography (SEMG) sensors. A Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Fast Dynamic Time Warping Algorithm (FDTW) are utilised to get the final result. In addition the system including a wearable hand gesture sensing device which is worn on the forearm and an algorithmic framework for the smart phone to recognise the hand gesture. The Armband which is worn on the forearm is able to manipulate 11 predefined gesture or even the personalised ones. The results suggest that the developed prototype responded to each gesture within 300 ms on the mobile phone, with average accuracy of 96%.

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This project deals with the thyristorised soft starting of 3 phase Induction Motor. Three phase induction motors of ratings beyond 50KW when started directly from a 3 phase supply draws 3 to 5 times the rated current and starting torque can be 2 times larger than in the normal operation. These high starting current will cause overheating of the windings and a large voltage drop and influence the normal operation of the motor when connected to the main power supply. Large starting torque pulsations may cause severe mechanical stress on the shaft of the motor and the load. So it is necessary to control motor starting current value. Solid state starters or Soft Starters are designed to control such starting current of the motor. Soft starter is done by connecting SCR s in antiparallel in each phase. The voltage to the stator terminals can be controlled by varying the conduction period of thyristors. The high starting current can be considerably reduced by soft start, thereby the electrical and mechanical stress on the motor can be minimized. Energy saving during starting can also be achieved and hence losses can also be minimized. The soft starter is developed for 3 Phase, 440V, 50Hz 1HP induction motor and is tested in laboratory. The starting current of the induction motor with and without soft starter are observed and tabulated. It is observed that the starting high inrush current is reduced to 30 to 50% of its rated value thus minimizing the starting torque pulsations and increasing the life of the motor.

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The road transportation increases year by year, but the rate of road crashes also increases with it. India is one of the developing countries, where the rate of road crashes is more than the critical limit. This paper presents road accidents situation in India and literature review related to road accident and safety. In this paper also highlights of the objective of study, methodology and accidental data of a case study on Dahod to Jhalod section of N.H.113.

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This paper investigate the proportion of ground granulated blast furnace slag(GGBS) to be used to attain a good pervious geopolymer concrete . It was prepared from fly ash class-C, sodium silicate , sodium hydroxide solution and coarse aggregate various ratio of fly ash and GGBS was used. The physical and mechanical properties of pervious geopolymer concrete (PGC) will be beneficial for the forthcoming use of fly ash and GGBS geopolymer in the construction field of pervious concrete which will lead to reduce the cement consumption and environmental issue.

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Property management is entrusted with the responsibility of protecting and preserving commercial buildings. Constant attention is required to minimize adverse impact due to fire. Fire safety system is the essential part of any building although its been not taken into considerations by the building developers and planners, thus it is necessary to take initiatives for development of fire safety system.The present fire safety system of surat city is good but have some of the lackings as it is not developed as per the municipal corporation norms, so more cases of fire bursting out has been arised due to improper fire safety system and also due to less maintainance . Thus at the time of fire the building structure gets damage heavily and there are chances of casualities. In these project the commercial buildings suffered by the fire problems would be surveyed and compared with SMC norms and lackings in the safety system will be shown and its upgradatiopn will be given so as to provide a better and safer fire safety system. Also upgradation and lacking in comparision with international fire safety norms will be given so as to develop the building life to its maximum. Thus properly designed, installed, and maintained, these upgraded systems can overcome deficiencies in risk management, building construction, and emergency response. These may also provide enhanced flexibility of building design and increase the overall level of fire safety.

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The increase in the number of banks and their customers has resulted into a bigger database as well as additional requirement of security for the database. Moreover, use of online banking, loans and transactions involving large amount of money has increased a lot. The security issues has therefore increased. With increase in the number of frauds, it has become important for banks to have a safe and secure method to keep a tab on the user, their transactions as well as curb the amount of frauds in various transactions. The proposed system implements the three basic attributes of a human body which cannot be hacked into. The system BEST an acronym of Bank Encryption Security Technology uses the retina scan module, finger print module and voice enabled password. All the three have been used individually but BEST combines all the technology in one system and generates a user specific code. The code is an encrypted form of the three data that was collected. The code generation algorithm samples out the various values from the three attributes of the user and forms a code or a password which is unique to a person. The same password should then be said vocally so that a double verification can be performed. The above technology can be implemented using a database, but it becomes very difficult to handle and store databases of large number of customers. So the code will work real time. During the registration of a customer all the three values will be recorded and a code will be generated which will be attached to the customer’s account. When the customer wants to make large transactions either in the form of cheque or online payment, his finger print, retina image and vocal password will be recorded and the software will generate a code. Since the user being registered in the bank, the generated code will match the code that is attached to his account. In this way the user will be authenticated to use his account and make transactions.

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Recommender systems play an important role in today’s applications which need to satisfy diverse user needs. Recommendation systems are widely used in web applications, e.g. online book shop, movie recommendation etc. It also plays an important role in the field of database systems, where users retrieve interesting information from database by submitting SQL queries. In this case such a system suggests potentially useful queries to the user. In this paper we have presented a system which follows collaborative filtering technique. We have converted the queries submitted by user into general form which is suitable for further calculations. Our system maintains sessions of users. Session is nothing but sequence of queries submitted by the user. We first determines the past session which is similar to current user session, and subsequently use queries in that session to give recommendations.

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Image compression plays a very vital role in the transmission and storage of image information. The main aim of image compression is to represent an image in the smallest number of bits without losing the essential information content contained by an original image. The image compression techniques are used to trim down the file size. The Proposed method for image compression uses Outline detection, wavelet encoding and bit plane encoding. The outline detection is accomplished by determining the maximum gradient value of a pixel from its three adjacent pixels. Wavelet encoding is a weighted averaging and differencing scheme. Bit Plane Encoding uses the data as sets of significant bits: the most significant bit of each piece of data forms the first “bit plane”, the second most significant bit of each item forms the second bit plane, and so on. It allows the user to determine the quality of the compressed image during the compression process.

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An error-correcting code is an algorithm for expressing a sequence of numbers such that any errors which are introduced can be detected and corrected based on the remaining numbers.The Convolution code helps to improve the error performance or reduce the power consumption.The stored data is protected with error-correcting codes (ECC) for reliability reason.This method is proposed to improve the latency for information encoded with ECC. Therefore the chip area and power is reduced by the Convolution code.The proposed code examines whether the incoming data matches the stored data if a certain number of erroneous bits are detected and corrected for more than two bit.

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As Linux is an operating system and it is the choice for innumerable number of fields ranging from personal computer to the portable hand held devices, this project deals with design and implementation of the device driver for GPIO and USB in host as well as in Device. The data will be sent to the Host from the Device through USB when enumeration is successful. The device driver is written for the GPIO, USB Device as well as USB Host which is platform independent that means the driver written will work for any development boards. This device driver which is to be implemented is in compliance with Linux version 3.13.0-24.

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Extracting useful information from the web is the most significant issue of concern for the realization of semantic web. This may be achieved by several ways among which Web Usage Mining, Web Scrapping and Semantic Annotation plays an important role. Web mining enables to find out the relevant results from the web and is used to extract meaningful information from the discovery patterns kept back in the servers. Web usage mining is a type of web mining which mines the information of access routes/manners of users visiting the websites. Web scraping, another technique, is a process of extracting useful information from HTML pages. The content is presented in a human-readable layout and is not intended to be processed by automatic systems. Therefore, it is necessary to separate the content in a web forum discussion from the layout before doing any further information mining. In this paper, explore and discuss some information extraction techniques on web like web usage mining, web scrapping for a better or efficient information extraction on the web illustrated with examples

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Past few years, almost the whole world has seen a tremendous growth in the accidents occurring on roads. Developed and developing countries all around the world and mainly India has experienced increasing number of injuries and deaths due to unawareness of road conditions, unhealthy driving behaviours and increasing traffic. We cannot ignore the important contribution of science made in road safety by introducing advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), warning systems, in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) and other such safety systems for minimizing occurring road hazards. Yet existing and new innovations feel the need of more improvements for tackling the road anomalies. Mobile devices or say mobile phones are found to be one of the reasons for road accidents, but in this paper we wish to present a multi-purpose Smartphone as an innovative remedy for preventing road accidents. Most of the safety systems that have been developed are formed by studying different accidental situations after they have occurred. By using a Smartphone mobile device, working on android, we try to provide a pictorial representation of road conditions with different road anomalies on routes shown by Google map. By implementing such an idea we try to make the vehicle operator aware of safe driving behaviours and different road problems on routes to be travelled.

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The main objective of this paper is to control the speed of an induction motor by using five level Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter to obtain high quality sinusoidal output voltage with reducedharmonics.An open loop speed control can be achieved by changing switching frequency. Two topologies of cascaded multilevel inverter have been proposed. 1st topology requires separate DC sources and the 2nd topology requires only a single DC power source, capacitors. The inverters with a large number of stepscan generate high quality voltage waveforms. The higher levels can follow a voltage reference with accuracy and with the advantage that the generated voltage can be modulated in amplitude instead of pulse-width modulation. The simulation results shows that the proposed topologies effectively controls the motor speed through reduction in total harmonic distortion(THD).The simulation of three phase five level inverter fed induction motor model is done using Matlab/Simulink. The performance of MLI is also compared with conventional inverter in terms of THD. The FFT spectrums for the outputs are analyzed to study the reduction in the harmonics.

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The Smart antenna systems plays an important role in wireless communications systems. This paper begins with a brief introduction about a smart antenna and majorly in this paper different type of DOA algorithms. Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation plays a significant role in several applications. Beamforming is that the most prominent technique to estimate DOA. During this survey, a study of varied beamforming techniques and algorithms to estimate the direction of arrival of a signal is formed. An assessment on the background sturdy algorithms using Nyquist rate and its Compressive sensing different is completed. It’s famed that Bearing estimation algorithms acquire only a small number of direction of arrivals (DOAs) among the entire angle domain, once the sources are spatially distributed. Hence, it should be ended that, the ways those specifically exploits this spatial sparsely property is advantageous. These ways use a very small variety of measurements within the form of random projections of the sensing element knowledge beside one full wave form recording at one amongst the sensors.

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The present paper investigates the performance and combustion characteristic of diesel engine running with karanja oil by using Computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Biodiesel is an alternative fuel of diesel is mentioned as methyl ester fatty acid from vegetable oils or animal fats. The objectives of the paper is to reduce higher viscosity of Pongamia pinnata (Karanja) oil using esterification followed by transesterification and to assess the performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine. The idea of using vegetable oils as fuel for diesel engines is an old technique. Appropriate crude oil fractions were reined with the arrival of petroleum to serve as fuel and diesel fuels and diesel engines evolved together. From the investigation it can be concluded that the CFD simulation is used to evaluate the combustion performance of the engine and biodiesel can be used as an alternative to diesel in a compression ignition engine without any engine modifications.

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