Data logging system for solar power plant plays a vital role to analyze the performance of plant and future research. The objective of the project is to analyze the data and to create a database in computer. The data logger is used to monitor and collect the data such as temperature, power generation, radiation, using arduino and creating database in computer. The data’s are collected from sensor like temperature sensor, LDR, VI sensor. Sensors plays a major role in data logger, which takes a reading and sent the data to arduino. An arduino processes the data and displays it in LCD, also the data's are stored in computer with the help of WIFI. The collected data’s can be used to analyze the performance of solar power plant. One of the primary benefits of using data logger is that it can able to automatically collect data on a 24hour basis. In this project, temperature sensor (LM35), LDR, voltage and current sensor are interfaced with arduino and created a database on system for temperature, radiation, voltage and current.

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A number of irreversible processes in the engine limit its capability to achieve a highly balanced efficiency. The rapid expansion of gases inside the cylinder produces high temperature differences, turbulent fluid motions and large heat transfers from the fluid to the piston crown and cylinder walls. These rapid successions of events happening in the cylinder create expanding exhaust gases with pressures that exceed the atmospheric level, and they must be released while the gases are still expanding to prepare the cylinder for the following processes. By doing so, the heated gases produced from the combustion process can be easily channelled through the exhaust valve and manifold. The large amount of energy from the stream of exhausted gases could potentially be used for waste heat energy recovery to generate power. Various methods to harness the waste heat to produce power effectively had ended up in vain. This paper proposes and implements a thermoelectric waste heat energy recovery system for internal combustion engine automobiles, including gasoline vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. The key is to directly convert the surface heat energy from automotive waste heat to electrical energy using a thermoelectric generator (TEG), which is then regulated by a DC–DC Chuck converter to charge a battery using maximum power point tracking. Hence, the electrical power stored in the battery can be maximized. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed system can work well under different working conditions, and is promising for automotive industry. With the advancement in 21st Century, there has been increase in usage of Oil and Gas leading to problems like Global Warming, climate change, shortage of crude oil, etc. Due to these reasons Automobile Companies have started doing research for making Hybrid Technology usable into the daily life. The Paper starts from brief history about Hybrid Technology and also some brief introduction on it. Paper will also discuss the technologies used in the making of Hybrid Cars such as "Hybrid Solar Vehicle", "Hybrid Electric Vehicle" and "Plug In hybrid electric vehicles". Our Paper is based on the explanation of such technologies, their function, drawback of this technology, efficiency of Hybrid Cars, Case studies on the present commercial hybrid cars such as Toyota Prius series, Astro lab etc. and the fuels and raw materials used in the Hybrid Cars. Paper concludes on the advantages and disadvantages of Hybrid Cars and how this technology will take over the world in future and would become the alternative for Petrol and Diesel Cars.

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Concrete is the most important component used in the construction industry. Due to urbanization, the uses of cement in the construction industry get increased rapidly. This necessitated adopting partial replacement of binder with supplementary cementious material viz., fly ash, slag, metakaolin, marble powder etc. In this research work, M20 grade mix of concrete (with water-binder ratio as 0.48) is adopted with marble powder as a partial replacement for cement. Marble waste is a solid waste material generated from the marble processing and can be used as a filler material in cement while preparing concrete. The amount of waste marble powder generated at the site every year is in the range of 250-400 tons. Glass fiber which is fine fiber of glass, light in weight, extremely strong and robust material is added in concrete to enhance the strength of concrete. The weight of the glass fiber added is 6% by the weight of the cement. The series of laboratory tests are to be conducted to study the effect of 5 to 20 % (in step of 5%) replacement of cement by marble powder with and without glass fiber and compared between marble powder with using glass fiber case and marble powder without using glass fiber by and workability, water absorption and compressive strength of concrete to ascertain the maximum percentage of replacement of marble powder with glass fiber.

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In this paper, we tend to suggest a completely extraordinary privateness-retaining mechanism that helps public auditing on shared data maintain on among the many cloud. Particularly, we are likely to are inclined to take abilities of ring signatures to cipher verification talents wanted to audit the correctness of shared data. With our mechanism, the entity of the signer on each block in shared data is intact personal from public verifiers, UN company unit of dimension able to successfully confirm shared information integrity whereas no longer retrieving the entire file. As well, our mechanism is in an awfully role to participate in a couple of auditing duties at constant time as an alternative of sustentative them one by one. The propose procedure Oruta, a privacy-preserving public auditing mechanism for shared information among the cloud. We are inclined to are likely to utilize ring signatures to assemble similarity authenticators, so as that a public pal is in an really role to audit shared data integrity whereas now not retrieving the entire knowledge, nevertheless it cannot distinguish UN agency is that the signer on each and every block. To spice up the effectivity of sustentative multiple auditing tasks, we are inclined to tend to any lengthen our mechanism to help batch auditing. There unit of measurement a pair of awareness-grabbing issues we are inclined to rectangular measure attending to still learn for our future work. One in each of them is traceability, which implies the capacity for the cluster manager to disclose the identification of the signer supported verification advantage in some designated matters.

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Heat is energy, so energy saving is one of the key matters from view point of fuel consumption and for the protection of global environment. So, it is necessary that a significant and concrete effort should be made for conserving energy through waste heat recovery too. The main objective of this paper is to study "Waste Heat recovery system for domestic refrigerator". An attempt has been made to utilize waste heat from condenser of refrigerator. This heat can be used for number of domestic and industrial purposes. The study has shown that such a system is technically feasible and economically viable. Refrigerator which is been previously made exert a lot of amount of heat through condenser. To overcome this wastage of heat we decided to develop this machine. This heat is utilized for heating water and purifying it. In this project wastage is for useful work without disturbing refrigeration cycle.

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The impact of solar energy residual system in light of hereditary calculations is proposed for enhancing the exactness of sun based cell parameters extricated utilizing customary procedures. The approach depends on figuring the parameter extraction as a pursuit and enhancement issue. The information utilized was created by recreating a two-diode sunlight based cell model of indicated parameters. The hereditary calculation seek go that re-enacts the mistake in the separated parameters. This proposition covers plan, re-enactment and usage of a sun based vitality control framework for an on matrix vitality stockpiling gadget. The plan covers a few control strategies, for example, vitality adjusts control, working mode exchanging and information trade. A hereditary calculation is intended to improve the control framework parameters plan, and the calculation's reproduction and continuous working framework execution demonstrated practically identical outcomes. The control framework is actualized to interface a power supply to the matrix. The power supply reproduced a sun oriented board and associated with an electrical lattice by means of Energy for environmental and some economic vitality exchange qualities of some environmental factor control framework were tried. The outcomes demonstrated that the chose calculation coordinates the objective execution criteria.

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Now-a-days in this fast moving world, appliances which are completely automatic are preferred. This is the biggest ad- vantage of this project. The system is fully controlled by the micro controller. Automated dispensing machines decentralized fruits or vegetables distribution systems that provide computer-controlled storage, dispensing, and tracking of vegetables have been recommended as one potential mechanism to improve efficiency and they are now widely used in many department stores. Degrees of social status are closely linked to daily life scenario. Any Time vegetable Vending Machine is although not a new concept in its entirety, it could prove to be useful and hence important in developing countries. The objectives in this project are developing a vending machine and then insert a new payment method proposed into it. Automated dispensing machines provide secure medication storage on patient care units, along with electronic tracking of the use of narcotics and other controlled medicines.

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Cloud storage is a model of data storage in which the digital data is stored in logical pools, the physical storage spans multiple servers (and often locations), and the physical environment is typically owned and managed by a hosting company. These cloud storage providers are responsible for keeping the data available and accessible, and the physical environment protected and running. People and organizations buy or lease storage capacity from the providers to store user, organization, or application data. The Most annoying thing if you are a publisher of a blog or a website or simply want to share a file from the internet you first have to download the file to your hard-drive and then upload to the file hosting company like Google, Dropbox, etc. This thing takes up too much time plus if you are on limited bandwidth plan and also causes excessive data usage. CMS and Remote URL transfers the files directly from the internet to the file host. Google don't have any issue with you in activity and they give you maximum space. But they don't support direct file upload or URL upload .The registered user just simply has to put the URL of the file he wants to upload in the CMS and Remote Url and then click on Upload to Google Drive.

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Welding is widely used by manufacturing engineers and production personnel to quickly and effectively set up manufacturing processes for new products. This experiment discusses an investigation into the use of Taguchi's Parameter Design methodology for Parametric Study of Gas Tungsten Arc Welding of Al 6063. In this research work, bead on plate welds were carried out on Al6063 plates using gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) process. Taguchi method is used to formulate the experimental design. Design of experiments using orthogonal array is employed to develop the elements. The input process variables considered here include welding current, welding voltage & Root gap rate. A total no of 9 experimental runs has to be conducted using an L9 orthogonal array, and the ideal combination of controllable factor levels has to be determined for the hardness to calculate the signal-to-noise ratio. After collecting the data signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios were calculated and used in order to obtain optimum levels for every input parameter. Subsequently, using analysis of variance (ANOVA) the significant coefficients for each input parameter on impact & Hardness has to be determined. Depth of penetration also has to be investigated through IMAGE J software.

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Agriculture is the main occupation and important source of national income in India. In India, every year almost 18% of the crop yield is lost due to various pest attacks like fungus, virus and bacteria which causes infection to plants and affects on quality and quantity of production. To understand the increase in harmful insects and various pest attacks on crops, farmers mainly depends on visual judgment which is less accurate. As the agriculture is backbone of Indian economy taking utmost care of food production is necessary. Hence it is important to provide advance solutions to farmers for accurate analysis of defects and insects on plants. In this paper we have detected plant leaf disease using blob detection technique and also remedies often detecting to disease.

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A product having societal acceptance is the one that helps comfort, provides efficiency and convenience in everyday life. Big shopping complexes are being developed in metro cities. Huge rush can be seen at these malls on holidays and weekends. People wanting to purchase products have to carry them in the trolleys. After finishing choosing the products, one proceeds to go to billing counter. At billing counter bill is generated by scanning the products manually using a hand assisted barcode scanner. This takes up a lot of time resulting in a long queue for billing. In this paper, we discuss a system which is being developed to aid a person in day-to-day shopping in terms of reduced time spent while purchasing. The main objective of proposed system is to provide a technology-oriented approach which is pocket friendly, scalable, and rugged system for assisting shopping.

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Single pile and groups are subjected to lateral loads due to impact of ship, wave action, wind and earthquake forces, so it is important to know the Lateral load resistance of a pile foundation. Modal tests are conducted to determine the lateral loading capacity of vertical and batter piles. The tests are conducted in cohesion less uniform fine sand. For batter piles the angle of pile is kept as 25â—¦. After conducting the tests it is observed to that the negative batter piles showed more resistance to lateral loads of a pile for a constant deflection subjected to later loads and positive batter piles showed less resistance as compared to pile. Similar effect is observed in the case of pile groups. The experimental result conducted show more deflections as compared to theoretical relations given by various researchers. Normally vertical piles are used in foundation to take vertical loads and small lateral loads. When the horizontal load per pile exceeds the limiting value, suitable batter piles are used in combination with vertical piles. Batter piles are also known as inclined piles or rank piles. An experimental investigation of the shaft resistance of single vertical and batter piles pushed into sand is conducted. A prototype laboratory setup is designed for testing relatively large model piles, inclined at an angle that varied between zero and 30degrees with the vertical. Two model piles having diameters of 38 and 76 mm are tested at a ratio of the pile's length to diameter up to 40, and subjected to axial compression loading. The pile models are instrumented to allow direct measurements of the shaft resistance. A theoretical model is developed to take into account the asymmetrical earth pressure distribution around the pile shaft, the level of mobilization of the angle of friction between the pile shaft and the sand, and the pile diameter. The results predicted by the theory developed agreed well with the experimental results of the present investigation as well as other experimental and field results available in the literature.

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Agriculture and Forestry are two broad and promising areas demanding technological solutions with the aim of increasing production or accurate inventories for sustainability while the environmental impact is minimized by reducing the application of agro-chemicals and increasing the use of environmental friendly agronomical practices. In addition, the immediate consequence of this “trend” is the reduction of production costs. Sensors-based technologies provide appropriate tools to achieve the above mentioned goals. The explosive technological advances and development in recent years enormously facilitates the attainment of these objectives removing many barriers for their implementation, including the reservations expressed by the farmers themselves. Precision Agriculture is an emerging area where sensor-based technologies play an important role.

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Android based Wheel Chair operation has been developed to control a mobile robot/wheel chair using android based Commands. The system is divided into two main unit’s Android application unit and robotic/wheel chair control unit. In the Android application, hidden Markov models are used as main method in recognizing android based commands. The robotic control unit is developed under the ARIA environment, which is provide by the robot/wheelchair manufacturer. We are taking the Android data from the microphone using a Bluetooth module. This data is stored in an array. This array is passed on to a function which extracts word from the array (i.e. Transferred data are extracted & quiet periods are dumped). These words are sent to a function which extracts frequency as a function of time. This frequency vector of the Transferred data. This vector is compared with reference vectors.one of the reference vectors would match (i.e. the inner product in this case greater than the other T The command corresponding to this reference vector is fed to the microcontroller. In this project we are getting a user dependent isolated data recognition system with a recognition accuracy of about 85% using the accuracy can be improved further & the system can be used for more number of data if during the training of the system the Bluetooth data are improved.

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Sketch-based searching is a method that allows users to draw generic search queries and return similar drawn images, giving more user control over their search content. Sketch-based image retrieval often needs to optimize the trade-off between efficiency and precision. Index structures are typically applied to large-scale databases to realize efficient retrievals. However, the performance can be affected by quantization errors. Sketch-based image retrieval systems that preserve the index structure are challenging. In this work, an effective sketch-based image retrieval approach with re ranking and relevance feedback schemes is implemented. The current approach makes full use of the semantics in query sketches and the top ranked images of the initial results. It also apply relevance feedback to find more relevant images for the input query sketch. The integration of the two schemes results in mutual benefits and improves the performance of sketch-based image retrieval.

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Plug-in communication between rescue workers and trapped survivors using Smartphone. In Smartphone contains two component loke message system and self-rescue system, message system run on rescue workers mobile and self-rescue system runs on rescue run on trapped survivors mobile. In the workers enter the network continuously moving some distance like coverage area and then back to back send broadcast message like "hello" In case in the area made an emergency in earthquake trapped survivors automatically form a group with nearby trapped survivors and waiting for rescue worker. In this group choose one head node .In the head node based on high energy and battery. Head node contain have all other trapped survivors information .Once rescue worker enter the disaster region after rescue worker broadcast message "hello" send to disaster region. Once trapped survivors receive the message from worker and survivors broadcast message "hello" send to disaster region. Once trapped survivors receive the message from worker and survivors to command center. In the command center find the route between rescue workers in disaster region using AODV routing protocol. After finding the path between rescue worker nodes are communication with ad-hoc network.

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Honey word mechanism is used to detect an adversary who attempts to login with cracked passwords. We propose a simple method for improving the security of hashed passwords: the maintenance of additional "honeywords" (false passwords) associated with each user's account. An adversary who steals a file of hashed passwords and inverts the hash function cannot tell if he has found the password or a honeyword. The attempted use of a honeyword for login sets off an alarm. An auxiliary server (the "honeychecker") can distinguish the user password from honeywords for the login routine, and will set off an alarm if a honeyword is submitted. This paper does a survey on how the passwords are stored on the server. This paper also discusses the different password composition policies implemented by different systems. Finally, this paper discusses about various approaches to overcome the challenges in the current authentication systems.

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To maintain the two different ground level retaining wall are constructed. Retaining wall is basically design for lateral force acting on it due to pressure force exerted by backfill retained by the wall and pressure force due to traffic. In the study of effect of traffic load and unit weight of backfill in stability of retaining wall design philosophy is based on Indian standard code IS 456. Traffic load and unit weight of backfill taken as variable to know the effect in stability.

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Authentication has become one of the most critical issues in today’s Computer based communication systems. Face is one of the basic characteristics which can distinguish a person from others. Due to increase in the rate of cyber-crimes, human face recognition has grown as an enormously important method of biometric verification in context of computer vision, pattern recognition, fraud detection, surveillance, network security and content based video processing. The techniques to exploit this characteristic have improved a lot since the advent of image processing techniques. Attendance management is done in each and every class in all colleges and schools. In the traditional approach for attendance management, the professor calls student name and records the attendance, thereby managing the system manually. The sole aim of the system described in this paper is to deviate from the traditional system by using a new approach which will take attendance of the students using image processing. This paper describes the working of a Student’s Attendance System in a classroom environment which uses Principal Component Analysis (PCA) algorithm as the face recognition technology to distinguish a face from another one and various other objects. The proposed biometric system records and maintains the attendance of the students along with providing the faculty the access to that information at ease.

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This research aims to explore significance of Green Supply Chain Management of an organization operating in manufacturing sector. The main focus of this research is to investigate GSCM practices and its impact on the operational efficiency of the manufacturing unit as part of Corporate Social Responsibility policies. The study is conducted in a major tyre manufacturing group operating in south India, Apollo Tyres Ltd. The primary research question is whether green supply chain management is effective in attaining corporate reputation and sustainable development that leads to competitive advantage. The major objectives of the research that is formulated to answer the research question are to explore Green Supply Chain Management strategies and practices of Apollo Tyres as part of CSR policies, examines how GSCM contributes to improve the performance of the company especially operational efficacy and to examine whether GSCM offers corporate reputation and sustainable development for the company.

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An automatic irrigation system is to be designed which switches the motor ON/OFF on sensing the moisture content, temperature and pH of the soil. Due to global warming and many climate changes, nowadays there is no fixed time of rain and the amount of rain so there is a great chance of the crops getting destroyed. Less rain leads to under irrigation and excessive rain leads to over irrigation and both these would result in yield reduction. In this paper we introduce a system which can control the irrigation according to the need. The advantage of using this method is to reduce human intervention and ensure proper irrigation. The system is powered by a renewable source of energy i.e. SOLAR ENERGY. This system is connected to the user by IOT (Internet of Things) and user can check the status and control the system from the android mobile phone. There is also a LCD which displays the moisture, temperature and the pH of the soil.

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Safety is one of the most important factors for all beings in this world. To provide safety in the aspects of travelling for school students this project 'Real time outdoor safety management system' is proposed. It also intimates regarding accidents if occurred to nearby hospitals and authorities, also prevents drunk and drive situations by using the technologies like GPS, GSM, RFID, PIC and SENSORS. Once the student enters into the bus using the RFID reader intimation to their parents about the arrival and departure of their wards is sent through message using GSM. It ensures maximum safety and security to all beings. Thus the objective of the project is achieved rightly and successfully. An advanced vehicle monitoring and tracking system is designed for monitoring the school vehicle from any location A to location B at real time and provide safety environment to the traveler. The proposed system would make good use of new technology that based on embedded board namely PIC and its advanced feature. The proposed system works on Global Positioning System (GPS) and Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) which is used for vehicle tracking and monitoring mechanism. For this purpose SIM908 Module is used which includes all the three things namely GPS GPRS GSM. The GPS gives current location of the vehicle; GPRS sends the tracking information to the server and the GSM is used for sending alert message to vehicle's owner mobile. The proposed system would place inside the vehicle whose position is to be determined on the web page and monitored at real time. In the proposed system, there is comparison between the current vehicle path and already specified path inside the file system of Raspberry pi. Hence if the driver drives the vehicle on the wrong path then the alert message will be sent from the proposed system to the vehicle's owner mobile and if the vehicle's speed goes beyond the specified value of the speed, then also the warning message will be sent from system to the owner mobile.

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In the recent times Data mining has expand a lot of reputation due to the accessibility of huge sets of data, which grows day by day. The need to transform this data into valuable information has lead to the development of various data mining algorithms. Finding frequent dataset in real time dataset like billing suggestion play a major role for all retail shop Apriori algorithm has been successfully used for finding the frequent items of data sets in the database this paper is about finding frequent patterns and associations among sets of data items in the transaction database. The apriori algorithm is equally beneficent for finding the large data item sets by finding associations and correlations between the different items that customers place in their "shopping basket".

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Designing the device is dealing with a thought of blending emotions with technology of unbeatable standards. The essence of scientific advancements is purely put through vigorous thought process considering and exploring all possibilities. Manually operated device; helping the physically challenged in their mundane life makes the work dogmatic. Therefore, for an engineer, it becomes a task of elephantine proportions to put forth some of the technological developments which can render flexibility and robustness for the endemics. Hence, the rise of the idea of making an "EYEMOUSE" which can be regulated by EYE-BALL movement. So an individual can control his/her device and can mitigate the dependency. Although, it requires some amount of complex integration of electronics-software components with certain programming skills yet can turn out to be dexterous task for simplifying the movement of device. The objectives of this project is to design and build an "Intelligent" device that must be able to make decisions and respond to situations completely on its own. Navigation and control serves as the major limitation of the overall performance, accuracy and robustness of an intelligent vehicle. This project will address this problem and will provide unique navigation and control scheme for an automatic device using concepts of Image Processing and other guiding technologies.

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Biodiesel is an alternative fuel for internal combustion engines. It can reduce carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC) and particulate matter (PM) emissions, compared with diesel fuel, but there is also an increase in nitrogen oxides (NOx) emission. This work is aimed to compare the effect of applying a biodiesel with either 10% blended ethanol or 20% fumigation ethanol. The biodiesel used in this study is converted from jatropha plant oil. Experiments performed on diesel engine. The effects of ethanol fumigation (i.e. the addition of ethanol to the intake air manifold) and ethanol± diesel fuel blends on the performance and emissions of a single cylinder diesel engine investigated experimentally and compared. An attempt made to determine the optimum percentage of ethanol that gives lower emissions and better performance at the same time. This was done by using a simple fumigation technique. The modification and testing of a compression ignition engine using diesel and ethanol as fuel has been carried out. Tests on the engine fuelled with diesel only were made, and the performance evaluated to form a basis for comparison for those of ethanol ± diesel dual fuelling. Modifications were made in the introduction of the ethanol and air. A carburetor was used to vaporize ethanol into the engine. The effect of preheating the intake ethanol ± air mixture was also investigated. Performance was evaluated in terms of engine horsepower, brake specific fuel consumption, brake thermal efficiency, the exhaust gas temperature, lubricating oil temperature and exhaust emissions.

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