scispace - formally typeset
Search or ask a question
Institution

Mehran University of Engineering and Technology

EducationJamshoro, Pakistan
About: Mehran University of Engineering and Technology is a education organization based out in Jamshoro, Pakistan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Compressive strength & Nanofiber. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 1803 publications receiving 19217 citations.


Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: A comprehensive taxonomy of the various energy harvesting sources that can be used by WSNs is presented and some of the challenges still need to be addressed to develop cost-effective, efficient, and reliable energy harvesting systems for the WSN environment are identified.
Abstract: Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted lot of attention due to their pervasive nature and their wide deployment in Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, and other emerging areas. The limited energy associated with WSNs is a major bottleneck of WSN technologies. To overcome this major limitation, the design and development of efficient and high performance energy harvesting systems for WSN environments are being explored. We present a comprehensive taxonomy of the various energy harvesting sources that can be used by WSNs. We also discuss various recently proposed energy prediction models that have the potential to maximize the energy harvested in WSNs. Finally, we identify some of the challenges that still need to be addressed to develop cost-effective, efficient, and reliable energy harvesting systems for the WSN environment.

914 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the options to improve sustainability of the dyeing process through development of reactive dyes, modification of dyeing machinery and processes, chemical modification of cotton fibre prior to dyeing, use of biodegradable organic compounds in dyebath formulation, and effluent treatment processes.

403 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This study concludes that sustained research funding, and a shift of microalgae focus from biofuels production to bio-refinery co-products can qualify them as promising feedstocks.
Abstract: The potential of microalgae as an alternative energy source has been adequately studied. However, exclusive use of microalgae as an energy feedstocks cannot warrant their scalability and economical sustainability due to the high cost involved in their biomass processing. The co-processing of microalgae biomass with other related bio-refinery applications can offset their cost and improve their sustainability. Thus, it triggers up the need of exploring the potential of microalgae biomass beyond their typical use. Microalgae offer interesting features to qualify them as alternative feedstocks for various bio-refinery applications. Microalgae have unique abilities to utilize them for industrial and environmental applications. Thus, this review discusses to expand the scope of integrating microalgae with other biotechnological applications to enhance their sustainability. The use of microalgae as a feed for animal and aquaculture, fertilizers, medicine, cosmetic, environmental and other biotechnological applications is thoroughly reviewed. It also highlights the barriers, opportunities, developments, and prospects of extending the scope of microalgae. This study concludes that sustained research funding, and a shift of microalgae focus from biofuels production to bio-refinery co-products can qualify them as promising feedstocks. Moreover, technology integration is inevitable to off-set the cost of microalgae biomass processing. It is expected that this study would be helpful to determine the future role of microalgae in bio-refinery applications.

314 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This work explores and discusses how the various enabling technologies can be efficiently deployed to achieve a green IoT environment, and identifies some of the emerging challenges that need to be addressed in the future to enable agreen IoT.
Abstract: Recent technological advances have led to an increase in the carbon footprint. Energy efficiency in the Internet of Things (IoT) has been attracting a lot of attention from researchers and designers over the last couple of years, paving the way for an emerging area called green IoT. There are various aspects (such as key enablers, communications, services, and applications) of IoT, where efficient utilization of energy is needed to enable a green IoT environment. We explore and discuss how the various enabling technologies (such as the Internet, smart objects, sensors, etc.) can be efficiently deployed to achieve a green IoT. Furthermore, we also review various IoT applications, projects and standardization efforts that are currently under way. Finally, we identify some of the emerging challenges that need to be addressed in the future to enable a green IoT.

296 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: This paper focuses on comprehensively gathering most recent developments in UWSN applications and their deployments, and classified the underwater applications into five main classes, namely, monitoring, disaster, military, navigation, and sports, to cover the large spectrum of UWSN.
Abstract: There is no escaping fact that a huge amount of unexploited resources lies underwater which covers almost 70% of the Earth. Yet, the aquatic world has mainly been unaffected by the recent advances in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and their pervasive penetration in modern day research and industrial development. The current pace of research in the area of underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) is slow due to the difficulties arising in transferring the state-of-the-art WSNs to their underwater equivalent. Maximum underwater deployments rely on acoustics for enabling communication combined with special sensors having the capacity to take on harsh environment of the oceans. However, sensing and subsequent transmission tend to vary as per different subsea environments; for example, deep sea exploration requires altogether a different approach for communication as compared to shallow water communication. This paper particularly focuses on comprehensively gathering most recent developments in UWSN applications and their deployments. We have classified the underwater applications into five main classes, namely, monitoring, disaster, military, navigation, and sports, to cover the large spectrum of UWSN. The applications are further divided into relevant subclasses. We have also shown the challenges and opportunities faced by recent deployments of UWSN.

287 citations


Authors

Showing all 1242 results

NameH-indexPapersCitations
Muhammad Arif6382616762
Ramjee Prasad55100422849
Muhammad Zubair5180610265
Alireza Bahadori434216808
Ghulam Abbas404396396
Francesco Morichetti352594493
Seong Hun Kim342244901
Sung Hoon Jeong301134291
Kashif Ali Abro28912007
Gholamreza Zahedi26923365
Salman Qureshi25762871
Zeeshan Khatri25811526
Hoik Lee23651407
Nasrullah Memon221041240
Fujun Xu21811107
Network Information
Related Institutions (5)
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
21.2K papers, 340.9K citations

87% related

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
39.5K papers, 520.6K citations

83% related

Iran University of Science and Technology
24.9K papers, 372K citations

83% related

Amirkabir University of Technology
31.1K papers, 487.5K citations

83% related

Quaid-i-Azam University
16.8K papers, 381.6K citations

83% related

Performance
Metrics
No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20236
202219
2021302
2020286
2019328
2018226