2022
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Publication Embargo An Online Dashboard Platform for Weather Data of Major Sri Lankan Cities, and Global Climate Trends(IEEE, 2022-12-08) Pemasinghe, S; Dayarathna, D; Panditharathna, P M R A; Saparamadu, S; Wickramarathne, JHaving easy access to vital weather information and latest climate trends can be of utmost use for a myriad of stakeholders specially for sectors such as fishing community and the agricultural sector. In this paper we have mainly focused on major Sri Lankan cities and providing a one-stop station for easily accessing useful weather information for all the major Sri Lankan cities scattered over 25 administrative districts via a series of dedicated dashboards for each of the cities. The parameters that are displayed in the dashboards have been decided via surveys covering major stakeholders. Steps have been taken to disseminate not only the weather information but also information about latest climate trends regarding stratospheric ozone concentration and global land and ocean temperature anomalies, and providing all this information in one place with a lot of potential to extend the breadth of information provided in terms of weather and climate changes in the years to come.Publication Embargo Energy and Operations Optimization for Effective Greenhouse Management(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Prihan Nimsara, K. I.; Bodaragama, J.; Roshan Maduwantha, K. A.; Fernando, S. D.IoT technology-based process automation that can be applied to a greenhouse leads to making condition management and status monitoring more robust while leading to saving energy and resources. The proposed system which is based on IoT technology and MQTT protocol can set optimal growth conditions for plant and seed growth within the greenhouse. The sensor-based inputs are to be transformed into the processed values based on the defined logic and the standard benchmarks gathered from the local agricultural authorities. The key areas of condition monitoring to be done via temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and lighting can ultimately yield an increased harvest having supported both the plant and seeds-based implementations for multiple types of plants. One of the most important factors to consider is that the farmers can have energy savings through the proposed solution by controlling the actuators in an optimal manner and reducing manual intervention by a considerable amount. The excess usage of electricity by lights and cooling fan usage in the greenhouse can be controlled with real-time data tracking and better analytics. The use of water can be properly maintained for the plants by putting only the required amount will make the soil wet and spraying the required amount to air will make better humidity control. Thus, the real-time condition-based controlling of the actuators leads to making the greenhouse operations more optimal and better utilization of resources and energy which ultimately results in financial benefits for the greenhouse owner. Based on the evaluated power consumption of the greenhouse power usage before and after the system was installed, the newly introduced system can save energy by having optimal control of actuators by performing algorithmic calculations to meet only the required level of weather conditions. This is to be proven experimentally by implementing the proposed system for a defined period of time under the monitoring of energy usage.Publication Embargo CertiMart: Use Computer Vision to Digitize and Automate Supermarket with Fruit Quality Measuring and Maintaining(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Rathnayake, W.P.D.N. P; Geeth Dulanjana, D; Punchihewa, A.V.B.W. G; Anjana, N.W. G; Suriya Kumari, P. K.; Samarakoon, USri Lanka has a tropical environment, which makes it easy for fruit and vegetable plants to thrive. Vitamins, proteins, and other nutrients are abundant in fruits. However, there is a time when the fruit is considered to be fresh. During this time, many fruit supplier firms continue to supply fruit that is unsafe for ingestion due to inaccuracy in the sorting process when the fruit is taken from the plantation and the introduction of other fruit into an incorrect packing. As a result, detecting food rotting from the point of production to the point of consumption is critical. Inside the market we realize that there is unavailability of sorting of fruits. Just after receiving the fruit into the supermarket, we should have a way to measure freshness of fruit and maintain it. In addition to this ripened method identification and disease identification will be great help to this help.Publication Embargo Face Skin Disease Detection and Community based Doctor Recommendation System(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Udara, M.A.A.; Wimalki Dilshani, D.G.; Mahalekam, M.S.W.; Wickramaarachchi, V.Y.; Krishara, J; Wijendra, DIn our country, skin diseases are more common than other diseases because of the climate. Skin diseases are occurring almost on all groups of ages among people. It is one of the most common types of diseases where some can be painful, and some can cause fatal to human life. The delay of the disease detection, difficulties of identify the infected area, Ignorance of the spread of the disease and treatments may threat to the patient’s life. Most of the time this process is performed manually which can lead to human errors and takes days for providing the results. This paper reports a smart solution that assists the patients by detecting the disease, identify the current infected area of the disease, recommend best doctors, provide community-based prevention guidelines, and predict the future risk. Also due to this economic crisis, we suggest that it’s much easier if the patient can do these skin check-ups systematically to continuously monitor and detect skin disease to get proper medical attention. As treatment procedures can be different from each doctor and impact will be different, we are working on community-based platform where we can get patients’ reviews about doctors and preventive guidelines. Depending on the performance evaluations, the results obtained from the proposed method for disease identifications are in the range of 90% - 95% of accuracy.Publication Embargo Success Factors of Requirement Elicitation in the Field of Software Engineering(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Attanayaka, B; Nawinna, D; Manathunga, K; Abeygunawardhana, P. K. WRequirement elicitation (RE) is a cognitively challenging and time-consuming task in software development due to the numerous challenges associated with it including conflicting requirements, unspoken, or assumed requirements, difficulty meeting with relevant stakeholders, stakeholder resistance to change, and not enough time set aside for meetings with all stakeholders. The prime causes of software implementation failure have been identified as inadequacies in the treatment of requirements. Without collecting the quality requirement, cannot achieve the goal of a quality software product. Through identifying the success factors affecting requirement elicitation, the paths to the quality requirements can be identified. The success factors identify through this research are experience, business analyst skills, stakeholder relationship, organizational elicitation process. This study aims to identify the factors affecting requirement elicitation based on the data collected from business analysts and similar positions in the software industry through a survey, interviews, and analyzed data to provide the initial validation for the identified factors. Through the analysis, we identified the main factors affecting successful requirement elicitation with a perfect significance value of less than 0.05 for all factors.Publication Embargo AI-Based Child Care Parental Control System(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Jayasekara, U; Maniyangama, H; Vithana, K; Weerasinghe, T; Wijekoon, J; Panchendrarajan, RDue to the prevalence of the COVID-19 epidemic around the globe, children were compelled to engage in remote learning through online platforms, hence mobile phone has become one of their predominant devices. Mobile device with Internet access offers a major outlet for education, entertainment, and social connection, but this combination can lead to several significant bad sequences such as online exploitation, harmful addictions, and other negative impacts of online social networking. To address harmful effects, parental controls are becoming more crucial, yet Sri Lankan parents are less aware of this. Consequently, this study proposes a parental control system to monitor their child’s activities. Android, Microsoft Azure, Java, Python, OpenCV, MySQL, and FastAPI are among the most prominent technologies utilized in the proposed application’s development. The suggested approach focuses primarily on the Sri Lankan context and aims to enhance parental digital literacy while safeguarding children from cyber threats. Yielded results showed the proposed mobile application for the identification of toxic words, drugs & alcohol content, game character images, and Instagram Sinhala comments severity as 94%, 95%, 97%, and 55% respectively in controlled experiments.Publication Embargo TRIPORA: Intelligent Machine Learning Solution for Sri Lanka Touring Access and Updates(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Legrand, T.R; Bandara, K.M.R.A.I; Stefania Crishani, J.A.D; Uvindu, L.W.P; Amarasena, N; Kasthurirathna, DSri Lanka is one of the top tourist destinations in the world. However, tourists face various inconveniences due to the obsolescence of facilities. There are various tools designed to solve such problems. But they are scattered in different places and users have to use different tools. The biggest issue in the tourist sector is that travelers are unable to get the most out of their tours since there may be days when a large number of people visit the same location, causing the location to become overcrowded, and preventing tourists from enjoying their visit as anticipated. There are seasons when natural disasters occur, as well as human-centered crises. Also, there are situations when travelers feel helpless because they are unable to find the best tour guide for them. We developed a cost-effective, automatic, and efficient Machine Learning-based recommendation system as a result of this research. Based on past data on tourists and data received from the SLTDA, this research can provide the best trip plan with the tour guide and provide destination news alerts on regular basis. Furthermore, in order to achieve the best accuracy through the system, unique machine learning approaches were used in this study.Publication Embargo Smart Advertising Based on Customer Preferences and Manage the Supermarket(IEEE, 2022-12-09) Wickramasinghe, A.Y.S. W; Eishan Dinuka, W.H.A.; Weerasinghe, W.S. H; Karunaratne, K.P. G; Liyanapathirana, C; Rupasinghe, LAs a developing country, Sri Lanka needs to go along with cutting-edge technologies. In the beginning phase of this digital advertising, multiple advertisements were displayed on the users’ feeds, including advertisements despite their preferences. This was a terrible user experience for the users. However, smart advertising based on customer preferences can manage the flow of advertisements on the feed as per the users’ preferences. This same technique can be used in handling advertisements while shopping at supermarkets. These advertisements can be directed based on demographic characteristics like face and gender and previous customer transactions. Additionally, providing the nearest supermarket they can reach based on their current location. Queue management is the next most crucial facility that needs to be provided to a supermarket. However, the manual system of queue management is not effective. But with a modernized queue management system, overcrowded supermarkets can be managed effectively. This proposed system also considers providing a chatbot service to manage customer inquiries in a reliable strategy. In this system, we mainly used the Keras model called VGGFace for face detection, the Conventional Neural Network and Keras-based model for gender detection, the TensorFlow model called Single Shot MultiBox Detection MobileNet for queue and crowd detection, the Apriori algorithm base model for predicting the buying pattern, a Keras-based model for Artificial Intelligence chatbot and finally, google map Application Programming Interface for the nearest supermarket finding are models and technology. This system was developed to manage a supermarket properly.Publication Embargo Algorithmically Navigating Complex Tabular Structures in Images for Information Extraction(IEEE, 2022-12-26) Nugawela, M; Abeywardena, K. Y; Mahaadikara, HComputer vision has been in the forefront of automating workflows to replace manual repetitive tasks with convenience and accuracy. Recognizing text from images of commercial documents through optical character recognition (OCR) form the initial step of most such workflows where majority of their information are in the form of complex data structures such as tables and nested tables. Although OCR technology has evolved to effectively capture text from images, there is still room for improvement in recognizing complex data structures and extracting tabular data from images. This paper proposes an algorithmic approach based on keyword detection and the position of words relative to each other in order to recognize nested structures and successfully extract tabular data into a program and human readable format, which aims to take a different approach as opposed to using machine learning models or pre-defined templates for layout recognition. Furthermore, this approach is shown to yield successful results in correctly comprehending the layout and data of nested table structures in multiple rows in a table.Publication Embargo COVID-19 Infection Risk Assessment for Shoppers in Retail Stores(IEEE, 2022-12-26) Rathnayake, B. R. M. S. R. B.; Senadheera, R.I.A.; Ranasinghe, R.A.K.H.; Sameer, U.M.; Wickramarathne, JOver the last few years, a large number of smartphone apps have been developed to “flatten the curve” of the rising number of COVID-19 infections. Knowledge of potential symptoms and their distribution enables the early identification of infected individuals. We developed a mobile app-based crowdsourcing methodology to assess the COVID-19 infection risk through shopping habits at indoor retail stores. The app’s goal is to instil trust in customers to visit stores, which will assist small and medium businesses to survive their operations in the near term. According to the literature, there are several implementations for COVID-19 infection risk estimations for such scenarios. A mobile app prototype was developed, and the risk was calculated using the COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Estimator model established by the University of Colorado Boulder. The developed prototype mobile app was tested with end users to gather their feedback through a questionnaire. In comparison to the complex implementation associated with AI-based alternatives, this solution could be delivered at a lower cost with adequate accuracy of COVID-19 infection risk assessments.