Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation

This book focuses on recent and emerging techniques for the enhancement of smart healthcare, smart communication, and smart transportation systems. It covers topics ranging from Machine Learning techniques, the Internet of Things (IoT), security aspects of medical documents, the performance of various protocols used in the communication and transportation environment, simulation of systems for real-time applications, and overall analysis of the previously mentioned. Applications such as transportation systems, stock market prediction, Smart Cities, and vehicular communication are dealt with.

Features:

• Covers three important aspects of smart cities i.e., healthcare, smart communication and information, and smart transportation technologies.
• Discusses various security aspects of medical documents and the data preserving mechanisms.
• Provides better solutions using IoT techniques for healthcare, transportation, and communication systems.
• Includes the implementation example, various datasets, experimental results, and simulation procedures.
• Offers solutions for various disease prediction systems with intelligent techniques.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, and data analytics.

1. Comparative Analysis of Selective Harmonic Elimination for Multilevel Inverter with CSA, PSO, BAT and SA Algorithms. 2. Design and development of an automated product retrieval system for a warehouse. 3. Implementation of Water and Air Quality Monitoring System for Smart Agriculture using LoRa. 4. Local Binary Pattern based criminal identification system. 5. Enhancing Customer Experience in Restuarants using Augmented Reality based Marketing Strategy. 6. ZETA - A Web Based Restaurant Suggesting Chatbot. 7. Obstacle avoidance and Image recognition system. 8. Town Bus Tracker. 9. Intelligent Predictive Analytics in Farming using IoT in Big data. 10. Intelligent Transportation System: A Review of VANET Applications for Urban Areas, Technologies and Protocols. 11. Observer Based Control for Rotary Servo System. 12. Stock Market Prediction Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms. 13. Service line Fault Detector and Distance Calculator for Smart Cities. 14. Heart Disease classification using MLP neural network. 15. Computer Aided Diagnosis Towards Improving Severity Assessment of Dysarthria . 16. SVM Based Demodulator for QPSK Signal Suitable for Vehicular Communication. 17. Medicinal Picture Watermarking System for Recovering Embedded Information from Therapeutic Restorative Picture. 18. Enhancement of Security and Fusion Techniques in Wireless Medical Sensor Network. 19. An exploratory data analysis on cardiovascular disease. 20. A Survey on Slight Barriers of using Blockchain in Healthcare. 21. Encountering Privacy - Sensitive Information in Medical Documents. 22. High throughput image analysis of morphological characters of Spirulina platensis using ImageJ software. 23. Fluorescent probes to visualize subcellular localization of proteins in bacterial cells.

L Ashok Kumar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from San Diego State University, California. He was selected among seven scientists in India for the BHAVAN Fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and also, he received SYST Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India. He has 3 years of industrial experience and 22 years of academic and research experience. He has published 173 technical papers in International and National journals and presented 167 papers in National and International Conferences. He has completed 26 Government of India funded projects worth about 15 Crores and currently 9 projects are in progress worth about 12 Crores. He has developed 27 products and out of those 23 products have been technology transferred to industries and for Government funding agencies. He has created Eight Centres of Excellence at PSG Tech in collaboration with Government agencies and Industries namely, Centre for Audio Visual Speech Recognition, Centre for Alternate Cooling Technologies, Centre for Industrial Cyber Physical Systems Research, Centre for Excellence in LV Switchgear, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems, Centre for Excellence in Solar PV Systems, Centre for Excellence in Solar Thermal Systems. His PhD work on wearable electronics earned him a National Award from ISTE, and he has received 26 awards in the National and in international level. He has guided 92 graduate and postgraduate projects. He has produced 6 PhD Scholars and 12 candidates are doing PhD under his supervision. He has visited many countries for institute industry collaboration and as a keynote speaker. He has been an invited speaker in 345 programs. Also, he has organized 102 events, including conferences, workshops, and seminars. He completed his graduate program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras and his post-graduate from PSG College of Technology, India, and master’s in business administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. After complet