International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The journal is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world.
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A Model Unavailability Perspective of Existing Nigerian Township Electricity Distribution
Melodi Adegoke Oladipo;
Temikotan Kehinde Olusesan
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp77-85
The study aimed to investigate and obtain model values of system unavailability and cost of energy not supplied in existing Nigerian township electricity distributions using a robust representative system. Outage data was obtained from system records for analysis using frequency distribution statistics to identify the causes of outages, and the contribution of each cause of outage to the overall system outage. The cost of energy not supplied (CENS) due to faults, was evaluated at a rate of NGN6 per kWHr. An analysis of the results shows that in a distribution feeder (and system) unavailability is mainly due to load shedding arising and faults; feeder unavailability involving load shedding is 0.25, and 0.1 without load shedding. Compared with standard UA value for well managed systems of less than or 0.01, the obtained unavailability values for a feeder show that downtime management was poor, and the corresponding cost – prohibitive. In view of the regular load shedding on the feeders and poor downtime management, this study recommends a need to obtain model loadflow perspective of township electricity distribution to ascertain load carrying capacity, and the application of distribution automation system or other effective strategies to mitigate downtime.
Human Data Acquisition through Biometrics using LabVIEW
K Nishanth Rao;
N. Vasudheva Reddy
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp225-229
Human Data Acquisition is an innovative work done based on fingerprints of a particular person. Using the fingerprints we can get each and every detail of any individual. Through this, the data acquired can be used in many applications such as Airport Security System, Voting System, and Employee login System, in finding the thieves etc. We in our project have implemented in Voting System. In this we use the components such as MyDAQ which is data acquisition device. The coding here is in done in a Graphical Programming language named LabVIEW where the execution of any program is done in a sequential way or step by step according to the data received.
Improvement at Network Planning using Heuristic Algorithm to Minimize Cost of Distance between Nodes in Wireless Mesh Networks
Shivan Qasim Ameen;
Ravie Chandren Muniyandi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp309-315
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) consists of wireless stations that are connected with each other in a semi-static configuration. Depending on the configuration of a WMN, different paths between nodes offer different levels of efficiency. One areas of research with regard to WMN is cost minimization. A Modified Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (MBPSO) approach was used to optimize cost. However, minimized cost does not guarantee network performance. This paper thus, modified the minimization function to take into consideration the distance between the different nodes so as to enable better performance while maintaining cost balance. The results were positive with the PDR showing an approximate increase of 17.83% whereas the E2E delay saw an approximate decrease of 8.33%.
Serious Games Adaptation According to the Learner’s Performances
Amine Belahbib;
Lotfi Elaachak;
Mohamed Bouhorma;
Othman Bakkali Yedri;
Slimani Abdelali;
Elouaai Fatiha
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp451-459
Basically, serious games provides enjoyment and knowledge, several researches in this field have focused into joining these two proprieties and make the best balance between them, in order, to provide the best game and enjoyable game experience and ensure the learning of the needed knowledge. Players differ and their knowledge background can be a lot different from one to the other. This study focused on how the SG adapts and provide the needed knowledge and enjoyment. The game should analyze players behavior from different angles, thus it can add difficulty, information, immersion or enjoyment modules to fit the player skills/knowledge.
A Study of Shading Effect on Photovoltaic Modules with Proposed P&O Checking Algorithm
Rozana Alik;
Awang Jusoh;
Tole Sutikno
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp29-40
Sun irradiation levels and associated temperature changes are the main factors that influence the conversion of solar energy into electricity. Most energy is produced during a hot sunny day as the sun irradiation is at the maximum level and uniform throughout the solar photovoltaic (PV). However, most solar PV were frequently get shadowed, completely or partially, by the neighbouring buildings, trees and passing clouds. Consequently, the solar PV has lower voltage and current output; hence, multiple maximum power points (MPP) are existed on the PV curve, which could cause confusion to the conventional Maximum Power Point Tracker (MPPT) to track the true MPP for the PV system. Thus, it is important to examine the impacts of partial shading on the solar PV in order to extract the maximum possible power. This paper presents a MATLAB-based modelling for simulation and experimental setup to study the I-V and P-V characteristics of a solar module under a non-uniform irradiation due to partial shading condition (PSC). Furthermore, this study is also proposed an effective method (a variable step size of P&O with checking algorithm) that is low cost and higher tracking efficiency. Thus, this study is essential in improving and evaluating any new MPPT algorithm under the PSC.
Fuel Cell Impedance Model Parameters Optimization using a Genetic Algorithm
Mohamed Sélmene Ben Yahia;
Hatem Allagui;
Arafet Bouaicha;
Abdelkader Mami
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp184-193
The objective of this paper is the PEM fuel cell impedance model parameters identification. This work is a part of a larger work which is the diagnosis of the fuel cell which deals with the optimization and the parameters identification of the impedance complex model of the Nexa Ballard 1200 W PEM fuel cell. The method used for the identification is a sample genetic algorithm and the proposed impedance model is based on electric parameters, which will be found from a sweeping of well determined frequency bands. In fact, the frequency spectrum is divided into bands according to the behavior of the fuel cell. So, this work is considered a first in the field of impedance spectroscopy So, this work is considered a first in the field of impedance spectroscopy. Indeed, the identification using genetic algorithm requires experimental measures of the fuel cell impedance to optimize and identify the impedance model parameters values. This method is characterized by a good precision compared to the numeric methods. The obtained results prove the effectiveness of this approach.
Streaming Big Data Analysis for Real-Time Sentiment based Targeted Advertising
Lekha R. Nair;
Sujala D. Shetty;
Siddhant Deepak Shetty
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp402-407
Big Data constituting from the information shared in the various social network sites have great relevance for research to be applied in diverse fields like marketing, politics, health or disaster management. Social network sites like Facebook and Twitter are now extensively used for conducting business, marketing products and services and collecting opinions and feedbacks regarding the same. Since data gathered from these sites regarding a product/brand are up-to-date and are mostly supplied voluntarily, it tends to be more realistic, massive and reflects the general public opinion. Its analysis on real time can lead to accurate insights and responding to the results sooner is undoubtedly advantageous than responding later. In this paper, a cloud based system for real time targeted advertising based on tweet sentiment analysis is designed and implemented using the big data processing engine Apache Spark, utilizing its streaming library. Application is meant to promote cross selling and provide better customer support.
An Improved Similarity Matching based Clustering Framework for Short and Sentence Level Text
M. John Basha;
K.P. Kaliyamurthie
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp551-558
Text clustering plays a key role in navigation and browsing process. For an efficient text clustering, the large amount of information is grouped into meaningful clusters. Multiple text clustering techniques do not address the issues such as, high time and space complexity, inability to understand the relational and contextual attributes of the word, less robustness, risks related to privacy exposure, etc. To address these issues, an efficient text based clustering framework is proposed. The Reuters dataset is chosen as the input dataset. Once the input dataset is preprocessed, the similarity between the words are computed using the cosine similarity. The similarities between the components are compared and the vector data is created. From the vector data the clustering particle is computed. To optimize the clustering results, mutation is applied to the vector data. The performance the proposed text based clustering framework is analyzed using the metrics such as Mean Square Error (MSE), Peak Signal Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Processing time. From the experimental results, it is found that, the proposed text based clustering framework produced optimal MSE, PSNR and processing time when compared to the existing Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) and Pairwise Random Swap (PRS) methods.
Performance Evaluation of GaN based Thin Film Transistor using TCAD Simulation
Shashi Kant Dargar;
J K Srivastava;
Santosh Bharti;
Abha Nyati
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp144-151
As reported in past decades, gallium nitride as one of the most capable compound semiconductor, GaN-based high-electron mobility transistors are the focus of intense research activities in the area of high power, high-speed, and high-temperature transistors. In this paper we present a design and simulation of the GaN based thin film transistor using sentaurus TCAD for the extracting the electrical performance. The resulting GaN TFTs exhibits good electrical performance in the simulated results, including, a threshold voltage of 12-15 V, an on/off current ratio of 6.5×107 ~8.3×108, and a sub-threshold slope of 0.44V/dec. Sentaurus TCAD simulations is the tool which offers study of comprehensive behavior of semiconductor structures with ease. The simulation results of the TFT structure based on gallium nitride active channel have great prospective in the next-generation flat-panel display applications.
Novel Resonant Structure to Compact Partial H-Plane Band-Pass Waveguide Filter
Elahe Mohhamadi;
Habib Ghorbaninejad
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 1: February 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i1.pp266-270
In this paper partial H-plane band-pass waveguide filter, utilizing a novel resonant structure comprising a metal window along with metal posts has been proposed to compact the filter size. The metal windows and posts have been implemented transversely in a partial H-plane waveguides, which have one-quarter cross section size compared to the conventional waveguides in the same frequency range. Partial H-plane band-pass waveguide filter with novel proposed resonant structures has considerably shorter longitudinal length compared to the conventional partial H-plane filters, so that they reduce both cross section size and the total length of the filter compared to conventional H-plane filters, in the same frequency range. In the presented design procedure, the size and shape of each metal window and metal posts has been determined by fitting the transfer function of the proposed resonant structure to that of a desired one, which is obtained from a suitable equivalent circuit model. The design process is based on optimization using electromagnetic simulator software, HFSS. A proposed partial H-plane band-pass filter has been designed and simulated to verify usefulness and performance of the design method.