The main problem in developing reliable and economically feasible solutions for aquaponics is combining aquaculture (the farming of fish) and hydroponics (the growing of plants without soil). The purpose of this chapter is to aid in the development of a workable commercial aquaponics system. Additionally, it looks at the internet of things (IoT) and smart systems in the literature. For the purpose of real-time monitoring and physical system control in an aquaponics system, an application that uses digital twinning is created. A tool that models the relationship between crop size and fresh weight, and then estimates crop size as it grows, using image segmentation is suggested. The various parameters of the aquaponics system and the sensors used in the IoT and digital twin framework system are demonstrated. The controlling strategies, various smart technologies, and implementation procedures are also illustrated.

Cardiovascular disease prediction aids practitioners in making more accurate health decisions for their patients. Early detection can aid people in making lifestyle changes and, if necessary, ensuring effective medical care. Machine learning (ML) is a plausible option for reducing and understanding heart symptoms of disease. The chi-square statistical test is performed to select specific attributes from the Cleveland heart disease (HD) dataset. Support vector machine (SVM), Gaussian Naive Bayes, logistic regression, LightGBM, XGBoost, and random forest algorithm have been employed for developing heart disease risk prediction model and obtained the accuracy as 80.32%, 78.68%, 80.32%, 77.04%, 73.77%, and 88.5%, respectively. The data visualization has been generated to illustrate the relationship between the features. According to the findings of the experiments, the random forest algorithm achieves 88.5% accuracy during validation for 303 data instances with 13 selected features of the Cleveland HD dataset.

The presence of harmonics in solar Photo Voltaic (PV) energy conversion system results in deterioration of power quality. To address such issue, this paper aims to investigate the elimination of harmonics in a solar fed cascaded fifteen level inverter with aid of Proportional Integral (PI), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Fuzzy Logic (FL) based controllers. Unlike other techniques, the proposed FLC based approach helps in obtaining reduced harmonic distortions that intend to an enhancement in power quality. In addition to the power quality improvement, this paper also proposed to provide output voltage regulation in terms of maintaining voltage and frequency at the inverter output end in compatible with the grid connection requirements. The simulations are performed in the MATLAB / Simulink environment for solar fed cascaded 15 level inverter incorporating PI, ANN and FL based controllers. To exhibit the proposed technique, a 3 kWp photovoltaic plant coupled to multilevel inverter is designed and hardware is demonstrated. All the three techniques are experimentally investigated with the measurement of power quality metrics along with establishing output voltage regulation.

This paper presents the design and implementation of Modular Multilevel Inverter (MMI) to control the Induction Motor (IM) drive using intelligent techniques towards marine water pumping applications. The proposed inverter is of eleven levels and has the ability to control the speed of an IM drive which is fed from solar photovoltaics. It is estimated that the energy consumed by pumping schemes in an onboard ship is nearly 50% of the total energy. Considering this fact, this paper investigates and validates the proposed control design with reduced complexity intended for marine water pumping system employing an induction motor (IM) drive and MMI. The analysis of inverter is carried out with Proportional-Integral (PI) and Fuzzy Logic (FL) based controllers for improving the performance. A comparative analysis has been made with respect to better robustness in terms of peak overshoot, settling time of the controller and Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the inverter. Simulations are undertaken in MATLAB/Simulink and the detailed experimental implementation is conducted with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The results thus obtained are utilized to analyze the controller performance, improved inverter output voltage, reliable induction motor speed control and power quality improvement by reduction of harmonics. The novelty of the proposed control scheme is the design and integration of MMI, IM drive and intelligent controller exclusively for marine water pumping applications.

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent causes of death among women across the globe. Early detection is the best strategy for reducing the mortality rate. Currently, mammography is the standard screening modality, which has its shortcomings. To complement this modality, thermal infrared-based Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CADx) tools have been presented as economical, less hazardous, and a suitable solution for various age groups. Although a viable solution, most CADx systems are built primarily from frontal breast thermograms, and are likely to miss lesions that may develop on the sides. Additionally, these systems often disregard critical clinical data, such as risk factors. This paper presents a novel CADx system that utilizes deep learning techniques for breast cancer detection. The system incorporates multiple breast thermogram views and corresponding patient clinical data to improve the accuracy of the diagnosis. We describe the methodology of the system, including the extraction of regions of interest from images and the use of transfer learning to train three different models. We evaluate the performance of the models and compare them to similar works from the literature. The results demonstrate that using multi-inputs outperforms single-input models and achieves an overall accuracy of 90.48%, a sensitivity of 93.33%, and an AUROC curve of 0.94. This approach could offer a more cost-effective and less hazardous screening option for breast cancer detection, particularly for a wide range of age groups.

Vibration analysis is widely used as an efficient condition monitoring (CM) tool for rotating machines in various industries. Fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) models play an important role in the development of any CM system. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has since gained recognition in the development of fault detection and diagnosis systems. In this paper, a combination of principal component analysis (PCA) which is used for reducing the data dimensionality, and support vector machine (SVM) which is adopted for classification to carry out fault detection and diagnosis of faults in bearings using vibrations. The diagnostic feature design and machine learning toolbox in MATLAB are used to develop features and train the models, respectively. Real data from the Mendeley data depository is used to test and evaluate the models. Model training is carried out using data with varying speeds representing different conditions of bearing making it different from similar approaches involving SVM. The choice of data used proves that SVM can be able to classify faults with consideration of the varying operating speeds. Results have shown that the combination of PCA and SVM is effective in fault diagnosis of bearing faults under varying speeds such that a 97.4% classification accuracy was achieved. The result implies that PCA and SVM can be implemented in various industrial setups where variable speeds can occur both intentionally or nonintentionally. Furthermore, the method was able to differentiate between compounding faults and faults that occur at different times. The confusion matrix further proves the quality and accuracy of the trained model. Future work will focus on the development of models that can carry out the prognosis of faults in bearings as well as to model for other faults other than bearing faults.