Ammonia is a chemical compound that made up of two gases which is nitrogen and hydrogen. Ammonia can be found in several advantages and disadvantages toward human and environment. The advantages of ammonia can be seen from it is very useful that can be used in many industries such as in agriculture, food processing, petroleum, rubber, and other industries. For example, we can see that from agriculture, it is used for livestock feeds, fertilizer, and crop protection. In petroleum, it is used for the protection of equipment to avoid corrosion.

However, during the manufacturing process from industry, there will produce wastewater that contains a concentration of ammonia. When ammonia reacts to water, there are two chemical species exist in water which is in un-ionized form, NH3 and ionized form, NH4. The unionized form is called ammonia whereas ionized form is called ammonium. These two forms which together are called total ammonia nitrogen or in short forms TAN. At the same time, the weak base is formed which means the pH value is greater than 7. It is very important to know that the unionized form is toxic. Therefore, this toxicity will bring negative effect to the environment and may harm aquatic life.

In this project, remote optical sensor towards ammoniacal nitrogen in water will be developed to give an alert if ammoniacal nitrogen is detected in water. For the cloud including the server, database, and the interconnection between it, FAVORIOT IoT platform will be used.

[Note: This project is being developed by UPM, our FAVORIOT’s University’s collaborator. Article was written by Ng Foo Guan]

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Human detection and tracking system are one of the most fundamental tasks in computer vision field where motion detection and tracking are coupled to locate human through the video captured by an observer (installed camera). Optical flow algorithm is one of the methods that used to analyze the path of pixels and reflects and the apparent changes of the targeted moving object between previous and current locations. It is frequently applied in human detection and tracking system since it is easier to be applied to input sources and variations-effective. However, detecting humans in sequences of frames or even in a real-time video is still very challenging due to their appearance variations and different poses adoptions.

Security is becoming the main concern of society in urban cities since the scarcity of jobs raise, which indicates that property of residents is being threatened by thefts and destruction. Traditional surveillance systems need human operators to differentiate all activities and behaviors of objects for forensic investigation purpose and require significant judgment and decision for an event happening, there is a probability of mistake due to a long period of passive watching which results in negligence. Besides, a huge amount of data received is impossible to be handled and extracted due to time-consuming and high expenses. Therefore, this project is proposed to develop a computer vision system for real-time human detection and tracking using optical flow algorithm.

Human will be identified and tracked with classifier with the features extracted by the human descriptor. Human behaviors will be analyzed and interpreted based on video frames obtained from the observer (camera). Raspberry Pi 3 board is selected to develop and implement detection and tracking and FAVORIOT middleware will be used as a communication media that allows all data from IoT end device to be uploaded and used as administration references.

[Note: This project is being done by UPM, our FAVORIOT’s University’s collaborator]

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Have a TT-IOT with the CEO and Co-Founder of FAVORIOT, Dr. Mazlan Abbas for an exchange of ideas related to IoT technology, business opportunities, talent development or product updates among industry peers. A limited number of seats. Registration is FREE. Will inform the exact date. Expected time 3.00pm-5.00pm weekdays at FAVORIOT Office in Puchong, Malaysia. Starts in March 2018 (either weekly or bi-weekly basis depending on demand). You may register your interest HERE.