scholarly journals Automatic Gun Targeting System using Face Detection, IR and Ultra Sonic Sensor

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 389-393
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Face Detection ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Automation System ◽  
Defence Mechanism ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Border Areas

In this paper, our objective is to devise a new defence mechanism using automation, which will seek to provide a viable solution to tighten the security around the border areas and simultaneously reduce the burden on soldiers. With the help of automation, we can increase the efficiency of safeguarding our borders in remote areas to a great extent, and this will also result in a better quality of surveillance due to this technological intervention. The main focus for us will be in the creation of an active and real-time device for the armed forces, which will help safeguard the relatively remote border areas where human mobility is restricted. The devised mechanism will consist of three modules: face detection of a human intruder, wireless communication, and hardware detection of an intruder. The automation system in this defence mechanism majorly consists of face detection of a human intruder, which is supported and complemented by Ultrasonic and IR Sensors. This system is implemented using Arduino microcontroller, which will be complemented with NodeMCU to provide necessary wireless communication for sending intruder detection and location information to the cloud, which will trigger the gun to shoot down the enemy. The use of wireless communication over GSM is preferred solely because the control stations receive Wi-Fi signals directly from the satellite, which is very reliable and fast. The main application of our research work is to ensure safeguarding border region around remote areas where patrolling is difficult for army personnel and will be implemented by the armed forces.

Myanmar in 2009: A New Political Era?

Asian Survey ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Seekins
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Regime ◽  
Central Command ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
House Arrest ◽  
Border Areas

The appearance of an unwanted visitor in Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside compound in Yangon gave the SPDC military regime a pretext to extend her house arrest, while the refusal of major armed groups in the border areas to accept subordination under the Tatmadaw (armed forces) central command posed serious problems for Myanmar's future stability.

Theories of Nation Building: An Analysis for Academicians and Nation Builders to Employ Nepali Army

Unity Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Anand Sing Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Historical Times

Some of the theories of nation building have been dedicated to the study of link between nation and nationalism; others are attributed to explore nation building, state building, social integration, national integration and even conflict transformation during various historical periods. However, nation building is a normative concept used by academicians and nation builders alike to study the role of armed forces in nation building in recent times. Although research has conducted on ethnicity and nation building in Nepal, a little is known about application of theoretical perspective to explore the role of Nepali Army in nation building. Apparently, this article argues that the level of theoretical awareness of academicians and nation builders needs improvement and multiple theories of nation building are relevant to explore the role of Nepali Army in nation building during various enclaves of Nepali nation. Important issues like what are the relevant theories in Nepali context to analyse nation building? Their implication during the historical times to study the link of Nepali Army with nation building needs to be studied. Hence, this paper comparatively examines a nation building theories and their relevant implications during various enclaves of Nepali nation particularly applauding the role on Nepali Army. Conceptual framework based on Saunder's Research Onion Peeled (2007) method was used with qualitative design in a way of inductive approach to conduct the research work to investigate the research questions. Comparative document study, library research, quick survey with policy makers, government employees, professors, university students APF Officers and Army Officers based on purposive sampling method have been used. Study found that Nepali nation passes through its own way of building the nation in various enclaves, none of the theories are complete to study the employment of Nepali Army to produce visible and encouraging results. The level of theoretical awareness of academicians and nation builders needs further improvement. For this, multiple theories particularly related to social transformation, infrastructural development in support of centre to periphery relation; social integration and nationalism are appropriate.

scholarly journals Telepathology in the Philippines: A Review and Future Prospects

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Arcellana-Nuqui ◽  
Paul A. Fontelo ◽  
Alvin B. Marcelo
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Underserved Population ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The University ◽  
Conducive Environment ◽  
Insufficient Number

Background. Challenged with insufficient number and maldistribution of pathologists, the Philippines seemed poised to benefit from telemedicine. Methods. The first modern Internet-based telepathology consultation was conducted between the University of the Philippines Manila and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1997. Results. While the first remote telepathology consult was a success, more than a decade after this historic referral, telepathology remains in the fringes of mainstream pathology practice despite its huge potential to benefit the underserved population. Challenges with human, organizational, and technology factors hinder its progress. Conclusions. While the original consultation faced difficulties in human capacity, connectivity and infrastructure, rapid developments in governance and technology have the potential to eliminate these problems. Substantial improvements in recent years now provide a more conducive environment to deliver telepathology services to remote areas. This paper proposes a framework for the establishment of mature telepathology services to enable its use in areas of greatest need in the country.

scholarly journals Stand Alone 1-MW Microgrid for Remote locations of Armed Forces with PV-Battery-Diesel Generator

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 350-358
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Solar Power ◽  
Storage System ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Diesel Generator ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Diesel Generators

Many times, Armed Forces are deployed in bases in remote areas on the borders or Islands, which are far flung areas away from mainland. In many such cases, these areas do not have their power requirements through the main grid supply and entire power requirement of the deployment is supplied by diesel generators. These diesel generators have high environmental impact due to emission of greenhouse gases and are highly uneconomical as logistic sustenance of remote bases for supply of fuel is very challenging, Fossil fuel has to be supplied by vehicles, helicopters, boats or manually carried to hill tops. This increases the overall cost of deploying armed forces in remote areas. In recent years with the advancements in power electronic components and renewable energy, development in Microgrids (MGs) have shown a way to reduce dependency on main power grids. Hence, with the help of MGs, renewable energy can be used to fulfill power requirements of the armed forces deployed in remote places. In this work, a MG with capacity of 1MW has been designed keeping the special needs of armed forces as a major consideration. Solar power has been used as a primary renewable energy source in the proposed design. In order to mitigate the adverse effects of meteorological and extreme conditions on the solar power generation capacity, energy storage system in the form of batteries has also been provided. Batteries store power when excess power is generated from the photo voltaic (PV) system and discharge the power when power demand is higher than the PV generated power. Diesel generator sets have also been used to run critical loads, provide reliability and as backup to critical operations catering for outages, night time needs and un-expected meteorological conditions. MATLAB has been used to design and simulate the proposed MG. Working of the MG has also been demonstrated for varying meteorological and varying load conditions as well. The proposed design works satisfactory in all cases.

Appraisal of OFDM for multi-carrier, high-speed data rate wireless communication networks

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Bello Abdullahi
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Wireless Systems ◽  
Data Rate ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
High Speed Data

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is used to achieve multi-carrier signals and high- Speed data rate in free space. OFDM-based systems operate in the hostile multipath radio environment, which allows efficient sharing of limited resources. This research work was designed, developed and simulated an OFDM System using the basic blocks of Simulink in MATLAB/Simulink software, to support multi-carrier, high-speed data rates. This was achieved in backing of collection and review of high-quality research papers, which reported the latest research developments in OFDM communications networks, and its applications in future wireless systems. The research work significantly increases the speed of data rate signals, and many critical problems associated with the applications of OFDM technologies in future wireless systems are still looking for efficient solutions. This would overcome the global issues and challenges facing the limited bandwidth in wireless communication network.

A Review and Quantitative Evaluation of Small Face Detectors in Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (6) ◽  
pp. 48-1-48-8
Author(s):  
Hua Wu ◽  
Shuang Yang ◽  
Weihua Xiong ◽  
Shanhu Yu,Xinsheng Sun ◽  
Tongqi Wei
Keyword(s):  
Face Detection ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluations ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Detection Strategies ◽  
World Image

Face detection is crucial to computer vision and many similar applications. Past decades have witnessed great progress in solving this problem. Contrary to traditional methods, recently many researchers have proposed a variety of CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) methods and have given out impressive results in diverse ways. Although many comprehensive evaluations or reviews about face detection are available, very few focuses on small face detection strategies. In this paper, we systematically survey some of the prevailing methods; divide them into two categories and compare them qualitatively on three real-world image data sets in terms of mAP. The experimental results show that feature pyramid with multiple predictors can produce better performance, which is helpful in future direction of research work.

West Africa move against militants poses blowback risk

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Aid ◽  
The United States ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Warm Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
North East ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
Training Exercises

Significance Mass protests took place yesterday in Niger's capital against the insurgency, while Chad's military announced training exercises with the United States to "warm up" for the fight. Over the past year, Boko Haram militants have encroached from north-east Nigeria into remote border areas of Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The regionalisation of the insurgency and the response will see the intensity and impact of the conflict increase. Impacts Population displacements could become a significant problem, bringing added instability risks to the border region. The risk of attacks on international aid organisation personnel will grow as they seek to deliver aid to affected communities. The conflict will not yet impinge on oil operations in Chad and Niger; existing fields and infrastructure are not close to affected areas.

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