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This paper describes the humanitarian effort to help bring clean water and solar power to people in need along the Amazon River in Nauta, Peru. George Fox University partnered with JungleMaster Ministries to create a long-term development plan, beginning with a full prototype of the system at the NGO's house in Nauta. The engineering design, installation, and test of the system are discussed in detail,...
mHealth4Afrika is a collaborative research and innovation project, co-funded under Horizon 2020. It is focused on supporting Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Horizon 2020 Societal challenges by developing, researching and evaluating the potential impact of co-designing an open source, multilingual enabled mHealth platform to support quality community-based primary maternal healthcare delivery at...
Malawi Children's Village (MCV) operates a secondary school of approximately 560 students in Mangochi, Malawi, and its strategic goal is to add computer studies into its curriculum. The first step to achieving this goal is for MCV to establish and sustain a teachers-only computer lab. This case study examines the process by which a team of volunteers identified this as the first step, the team's recommendations...
Improving in the quality of life by expanding functionality and durability while continually reducing the fabrication costs and maintaining the possibility of local fabrication, these are the four key design requirements for lower-limb prosthetics with humanitarian applications. Currently, however, there are few foot prostheses that meet these requirements. The solutions available world-wide include...
Increasing dependence on groundwater as a reliable source of water in the rural areas has resulted in its indiscriminate extraction without considering the recharging capabilities of the aquifers as well as other environmental factors. As the availability of groundwater is highly inconsistent and exhibits substantial variations across the country, management of groundwater resources in the Indian...
This paper presents the development and national deployment of hydro-meteorological monitoring devices, termed as HydroMet Stations, for flood warning and monitoring applications. We describe various challenges encountered during the course of implementation particularly those related to transportation, local logistics, location, and security. We also discussed lessons learned such as the early involvement...
The socioeconomic impact of limb disabilities produced by injuries, traumas or congenital defects is evident in low-income countries, where there are often inadequate systems of trauma care and rehabilitation. The most medical schools in developing countries do not include a disability and rehabilitation component in their curricula. Even worst, many institutes do not have facilities or equipment...
In support of L'Institut Technique de la Cote Sud (ITCS), with funding through the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee, a team from the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) has led the design/install of a photovoltaic system to provide for daily educational electrical needs while simultaneously serving as a living laboratory for hands-on teaching at the vocational training institute for...
Geovisualization, with its capacity to provide tools for visual spatial analysis, has wide-ranging domain applications to support sense and decision making in humanitarian crisis management. The need for such tools is manifest in the Middle East in light of the Syrian civil war and ensuing mass migration of millions of refugees to neighboring countries. The Zaatari refugee camp, home to 80,000 Syrian...
Four 5.8 GHz band transceivers at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) were first operated as a wide area local area network (WLAN) in April of 2017. The purpose of this WLAN is to serve as a testbed for installations to be made in the developing world as a part of the IEEE Smart Village program. The configuration of the components is discussed in detail. The testbed is self-powered by solar...
This paper discusses how to achieve high PV penetrations for a hybrid diesel-PV micro-grid via the means of a cloud forecasting system. The micro-grid control system utilizes cloud forecasts to forecast PV transients and manage online diesel generation. Simulation results for the test micro-grid showed that an array size of 2 MW achieved an energy penetration of 30.8% with «11.5 annual faults. Additionally,...
In this paper, we report on a proof-of-concept wearable prototype, called iSeiz, that can detect specific seizure activity, namely generalized tonic-clonic, in epilepsy patients. We first describe the high-level architecture of iSeiz, and then elaborate on its hardware and software features, including its robust and low-computational intensive real-time seizure detection algorithm (SDA), as well as...
The main message of international disaster frameworks as well as the political agenda is clear: Every player in the humanitarian domain should aim for a paradigm shift from managing disasters to pro-active disaster risk management. In practice, however, this process can be very complex: Tailored technological solutions require collaborative developments and related organizational adaptions. Early...
Advances in mobile technologies have led to the use of mobile devices in telemedicine. Examples include smartphones for capturing microscopic images from glass slides for remote telepathology and in teledermatology consultations. As use of smartphones become even more pervasive in developing countries where expert medical consultation is greatly needed, telemedicine, such as telepathology and telemicroscopy...
Mobile devices have been helping to empower underserved communities around the world. From bringing information on health and farming to substituting expensive devices, cellular phones and apps have proved to be powerful tools in poverty alleviation and disaster relief. The Mobile Lab at Santa Clara University focuses on developing mobile solutions for social benefit and, in this paper, we describe...
The advent of old diseases in new places, of newly-emerging infectious diseases not seen before, and of highly resistant organisms, has complicated disaster response and the management of displaced populations. One method for addressing that developing risk is to attack pathogens before they become life-threatening infections using area and wound decontamination and disinfection techniques. Current...
In disaster relief operations, lives can depend on timely location and safe removal of trapped and often injured people within damaged infrastructure (collapsed buildings, etc.). Further, these operations must be carried out without further collapsing structures within the environment. An emerging class of rope-like continuous backbone “continuum” robots provides new capabilities to address these...
Every year, the province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is burdened by recurrent outbreaks of Cholera especially in the Fizi and Uvira regions. Although the root causes of the epidemic are the scarcity of clean water and quality hygienic latrines, human-induced malpractices are also contributing factors. Hence, providing clean water and hygienic latrines must be accompanied...
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