Author:Mnguni, S; Pragasen, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Adigun, MDate:Mar 2021LoRa Networks is one of the fast-growing and promising technologies to enable communications for the Internet of Things (IoT) devices on a large scale or long-range communication. Spreading Factors (SF) plays a significant role in enabling ...Read more
Author:Alimi, OA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, SDate:Jan 2021Currently, ensuring that power systems operate efficiently in stable and secure conditions has become a key challenge worldwide. Various unwanted events including injections and faults, especially within the generation and transmission domains ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, KE; Hofsajer, IW; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Cheng, LDate:Jan 2021The optimal integration of electrical units, such as distributed generation units, power electronic devices, and electric vehicles, is a significant development of smart grids. This development has effectively transformed the traditional grid ...Read more
Author:Mattheus, J; Grobler, H; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Motion segmentation has applications in, amongst others, robotics, traffic monitoring, sports analysis, inspection, video surveillance, compression, and video indexing. However, the performance of most methods is limited compared to human ...Read more
Author:Albertyn, J; Cheng, L; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Increasing electricity prices in South Africa and the imminent threat of load shedding due to the overloaded power grid has led to a need for Demand Side Management (DSM) devices like smart grids. For smart grids to perform to their peak, ...Read more
Author:Thothela, NP; Markus, ED; Masinde, M; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2020Food security in Africa and the rest of the globe has come under tremendous threat, meaning that agriculture which is the driving force behind many economies is under threat. Seventy per cent of the food produced in sub-Saharan Africa is ...Read more
Author:Lehong, C; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020The Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) is used in LoRaWAN to ensure optimized data rates and transmission powers for static end devices. However, its implementation is still new, and therefore, its functionalities are limited. Multiple proposals have ...Read more
Author:Skosana, Vusi J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2020Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) make possible diverse and demanding monitoring and surveillance applications. The WMSNs have to operate with significant energy, memory and processing power constraints. These constraints make video ...Read more