With the introduction of the Internet of things (IoT), the number of wireless devices and volume of wireless data traffic has skyrocketed. The system proposed in this paper focuses on Internet of things (IoT) performance and security analysis based on Wi-Fi systems. In order to perform this analysis,...

Nowadays, thieves aim for a vehicle’s wheel rims because it has the least security among all parts of the vehicle. It can cost up to a thousand ringgit for sports rims especially. Products are available in the market with lug-nut structured key which may help to secure wheel rims. However, they are not...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been investigated widely to recognize characters in images for various applications including license plate recognition. Several limitations and distortions are available in images such as noise, blurring, and closed characters (alphabet and numbers) which makes...

Emotion recognition system (ERS) is a technology that enables machines to recognize human’s emotion. The machines use various modalities as input such as facial expression, voice intonation, gait, brain’s electroencephalogram (EEG) and heart’s electrocardiogram (ECG) to interpret human’s current state...

In indoor positioning, the real-world scenario often involves a multi-floor indoor environment, resulting in the construction of a large Bluetooth low energy (BLE) fingerprint database. Subsequently, high computational complexity and increased computational time are usually associated with such a large...

Health and energy are two important elements of life that must be constantly monitored. In the present pre-endemic or post-pandemic age, it is critical to monitor individuals to ensure that crucial standard operating procedures, such as wearing face masks, are followed. Furthermore, any measures to reduce...

A dramatic increase in the number of devices that are connected to the wireless networks has seen many challenging issues. One of them is the security problem. Enhancement in physical layer security has shown promising results to improve these security issues in the existing wireless networks. This paper...

Material removal rate (MRR) can indicate how efficiently the lathe machine is cutting the workpiece, and surface roughness can indicate the quality of the machined part. In this study, the material removal rate (MRR) and surface roughness (Ra) of the turning of aluminium alloy were investigated using...

The overarching goal of this final year project are to design and fabricate a composite glass fibre reinforced with three different types of polymers (epoxy, polyester, and vinyl ester) followed by studying the crashworthiness characteristic under quasi – static load by using a universal testing machine....

The millimeter-wave of 5G will usher in a new era in Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication. The ensuing radiation from a millimeter-wave of 5G bounces off most visible things, creating enriched multi-directional environments, particularly in sub-urban scenarios. Physical impediments were once primarily...

Drowsiness is one of the most critical factors contributing to a high number of crashes in Malaysia. Several types of driver drowsiness detection (DDD) systems have been developed to tackle this problem. They are based on vehicle diagnostics, physiology, or facial recognition. However, these systems...

In recent years, the research community around the globe has contributed significantly to improve the brain-computer interface based assistive technologies. Electroencephalographic brain-computer interface enables the person to communicate with the outside world by creating an advanced communication...

Human emotions are essential to recognize the behaviour and the state of mind of a person. Emotion detection through speech signals has started to receive more attention lately. Living alone could be hard for some people due to the lack of social interaction, as they might develop a series of negative...

Vehicle type recognition in night-time scene is a challenging issue to be resolved due to insufficient luminance, complex lighting environment in night-time and scarcity of public night-time vehicle dataset. Hence, in this paper, we analyse and evaluate the performance of several state-of-the-art model...

E-commerce is blooming in Malaysia. Benefited from the blooming of e-commerce, courier industry gained rapid growth in Malaysia as well. One of the challenges in delivery services is failed delivery attempt. Smart mailbox is a potential solution for this challenge. With the rising of Internet of Things...

Diabetic Retinopathy is damage to the retina caused by complications of diabetes mellitus. Exudates are the primary sign of Diabetic Retinopathy identified on the opthalmoscope as white or yellowish areas with varying sizes, shapes and locations in the retina. Early detection can potentially reduce the...

A simulation model of microwave photonic filters (MPF) based on Brillouin Raman fiber laser (BRFL) is demonstrated. A wide tunability filter in terms of its bandwidth and free spectra range is achievable by controlling BRFL optical channel numbers and wavelength spacing thanks to the high optical channels...

Object detection uses computer vision technique to identify and locate objects in an image or video. This feature can help to improve the security level as it can be deployed to detect a dangerous weapon with object detection methods. Driven by the success of deep learning methods, this study aims to...

With the soaring prices for fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas, renewable energies become hot energy resources to pursue to sustain the energy consumption demand worldwide. Among different types of renewable energies, solar energy is deemed as a promising energy resource due to the abundancies...

The crashworthiness of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) crash box structure subjected to quasi-static axial loading was investigated by finite element method. Glass Fibre Reinforce Plastic (GFRP), ST37 mild steel and Aluminum 6061-T6 were analyzed for comparison. In this study, the influence of...

Water is an important resource required by all living things to stay alive. Water conservation is an important agenda throughout the world. Agriculture sector consumes lots of water resources to grow crops, vegetables and etc. Hence, a water saving irrigation system is desirable. The main objective of...

Document forgery is a common method that has been used by many people for their own benefits. Document often has its own unique identity which contains a very sensitive content. The current problem related to document is about the document forgery where advanced technology capable in duplicating and...

The emergence of both multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems and Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiplexing (OFDM) is crucial to the recent rapid development of wireless communication, especially cellular communication. However, this MIMO-OFDM system inherits a significant disadvantage of using...

5G new radio (NR) is a new radio access network technology that will enable ultra-high speed, ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency mobile services. The deployment of 5G NR is actively ongoing now in many regions worldwide. Nevertheless, the public is still concerned about the electromagnetic...

Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) has gained much attraction due to their outstanding physical and mechanical properties and it is widely used for various industry. The main objective of this present studies is to investigate the change of angle in taper round tube onto its energy absorption and...

This paper presents the effect of different substrate materials and proof mass configurations through a simulation of a bimorph cantilever beam that consists of one-layer substrate material sandwiched between two layers of piezoelectric material (PZT-5A) to harvest the vibration energy. To evaluate the...

Dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) are an important part of research on renewable energy sources as they are less complicated to manufacture and cost less than several other types of solar cells. The performance of DSSC with a combination of mesoporous zinc oxide and natural dyes are simulated using...

In stingless beekeeping, monitoring the temperature and humidity in the beehive is crucial to increase the honey yield and ensure the survival of the bee colony. However, the conventional method of checking the beehive is laborious and time-consuming. This paper proposes an IoT-based real-time remote...

A distributed and decentralized smart water storage and trading platform based on blockchain technology for sustainable water supply has been demonstrated in this work. Users in the platform are able to share water resources by selling off or buying in the amount of water that they need. All transactions...

Automatic Dependent Surveillance―Broadcast (ADS-B) is an emerging means of aeronautical surveillance for air traffic control, in which aircraft periodically broadcast positional updates to ground stations. ADS-B is high performance, but anomaly positions should be detected and removed for safety and...

Every year many people die in road accidents. One of the reasons on the deaths caused by road accidents is the victims do not receive treatments within the golden hour. Hence, the detection of road accidents can help in reducing the number of deaths caused by road accidents. There are solutions to detect...

The recent surge in adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated integration and Internet access beyond smart devices, which in turn has made the Internet more and more pervasive in our daily lives and IoT devices open up endless new possibilities and simplify lives. Unfortunately, the current...

Personal safety is concerned to be as a crucial part for the industrial workers while working in an industrial environment. Industries provide personal protective equipment to their workers to ensure their safety, similarly the workers are also meant to wear and follow all the regulations regarding the...

A popular alternative to using fossil fuels to generate power is to use a photovoltaic (PV) system. However, the efficiency of PV system is very sensitive to the environmental conditions and frequent maintenance is needed to achieve the best performance. In practice, data of both the surrounding environment...