Internet of Things in Indian Information Resource Centres: An Empirical Study of Institutions of National Importance

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are Located all over India Publicly owned by Central Govt Technology companies. Indian technology companies are used Performance Appraisal Here to solve the problem of ARAS. The Addition Ratio Assessment (ARAS) method. The ARAS technique is also tested for the issues taken into consideration. All 3 strategies are quite simple to recognize, clean to enforce and are observed to provide almost perfect rankings for Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), Indian Institute of Science, Education & Research (IISERs), National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) Alternative Value and Evaluation Parameters in Faculty strength (FS), Student intake (SI), Number of Ph.D awarded (Ph.D), Number of patents applied for (Patent), Campus area (CA), Tuition fee per semester (TF). An institute of Information Technology (IIITs) is showing the highest value of rank whereas Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is showing the lowest value. In this paper Indian Technical Institution of ARAS Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) is showing the highest value of rank whereas Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) is showing the lowest value.

Exploitation of natural resources, with its negative connotation sometimes associated with environmental degradation, refers to the use of natural resources for economic development. Exploitation of Hard and environmentally sensitive areas – Sometimes they use environmental sensing parts. Countries want to find new sources of energy, as the energy desire to protect the environment outweighs the choice, fragile ecosystems may be at risk. The continued exploitation of these fossil fuels is not without adverse effects on the environment. Gas flaring and oil spills during exploration, transportation, use and disposal have led to land degradation, water pollution and air pollution. The importance of energy research for sustainable development derives from the fundamental fact that increases in knowledge enhance the ability to design improvements – and advances in technology form the basis for maintaining and expanding the scope of development for future generations. Scenarios are given as substitution values and criterian evolution parameters. Prometheus method is used to find the Scenarios 4 First rank and second rank scenarios2. And the last rank is Scenarios 1. Energy exploitation - the creation and use of natural energy resources for maximum benefit, usually for profit.

This paper focuses on the use of web-based library services in India and examines how libraries in the Institutions of National importance in India provide web access to their collections and other services. The study sample for the present study were Thirteen (13) institutions of National importance located at Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu states which were selected using purposive sampling technique based on the research objectives. The data was collected using a web-based survey by examining the library websites of the select institutions using a check-list of 52 items covered topics of library general information, library resources, library services, links to e-resources, Web 2.0 tools and Web 3.0 tools. This particular check-list was developed by the researchers after analyzing the related literature reviews and previous studies related to the topic. Finding shows that many of the surveyed Institutions of National importance in India’s libraries have not fully exploited the potential of the web forms, and are still lagging behind to make the effective use of library websites. Among the selected institutions, few libraries were found to offer web-based library services in different sections. The present paper highlights the present status of the web-based library services in the select Institutions of National importance in India’s librarians in Southern India. The study also highlights the role of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 environment to enhance the quality of web-based library services and suggest new approaches for effective use of web-based library services.

Purpose This study aims to explore and address critical aspects of IoT adoption within supply chains by identifying the key enablers and barriers, examining the drivers and challenges, and assessing the benefits and drawbacks associated with IoT implementation. Additionally, the study aims to provide insights into how organizations can leverage IoT to enhance supply chain performance across economic, operational, social, and environmental dimensions. Design/methodology/approach This study employed a systematic literature review strategy to identify relevant research published between 2009 and 2024. Using the Scopus database, an initial search yielded 369 publications. Preliminary selection criteria were then applied to narrow down the articles for further detailed evaluation. This process led to an in-depth review of 123 publications, from which data were meticulously extracted, organized into tables and analyzed. Finally, the authors developed a categorization system based on the scope and temporal aspects of IoT implementation. Findings This study developed a comprehensive model that identified six themes influencing IoT implementation in supply chains: pre-implementation enablers and barriers, drivers and challenges during implementation, and post-implementation benefits and drawbacks. Recommendations were mapped into four performance dimensions: environmental, social, operational, and economic. The analysis showed that IoT can enhance supply chain risk management, process integration, sustainability, collaboration, resilience, and performance measurement. Key technologies aiding IoT implementation include blockchain, radio frequency identification (RFID), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and cloud computing. Originality/value This study is one of the few to conduct a comprehensive review of widely cited papers on IoT adoption in supply chains. It systematically summarizes the enablers, barriers, drivers, challenges, benefits, and drawbacks associated with such adoption. Furthermore, it proposes a distinctive model designed to assist organizations in successfully implementing IoT technologies, thereby filling a critical gap in the existing literature.

This study examines the importance of Internet of Things (IoT) as perceived by Indian library professionals working in Institutes of National Importance (INIs). It aims to assess their current awareness, perceived importance of IoT in various library activities and services along with limitations and initiatives required to integrate new technologies. A quantitative survey was conducted with library professionals from 18 INIs located in South India, from where 146 valid responses were received out of 153 questionnaires distributed. The survey achieved a response rate of 95.42% with data collected via physical questionnaires and Google Forms. Descriptive and non-parametric statistical tests were used to draw the inferences. IoT awareness was high (92.5%), with 78.5% reporting implementation. Essential services such as self-transactions, surveillance, and shelf management showed strong perceptions to adopt IoT (M ≥4.55), while advanced tools like drones and robotics remained limited (M ≤2.20). Benefits, including accuracy, service quality and time efficiency, were widely endorsed. Major barriers included high cost and technical skill gaps. Statistically significant differences were not observed ( p > .05) majorly across gender, institutional types, and management levels. High support was noted for training, collaboration, and incentive systems with ns = ≥0.85. This is the first attempt to focus on perceptions of library professionals on IoT adoption in Indian elite academic institutions as a pilot study, providing empirical insights that inform policy, planning, and future comprehensive research on smart library transformation.

The present study undertakes the ranking of the most productive Indian institutions, viz., institutes of national importance, universities/ deemed universities, industrial enterprises, research institutes, Indian Institute(s) of Information Technology (IIIT(s)), select top engineering colleges, and regional engineering colleges (RECs)/National Institutes of Technology (NITs) in computer science research for their research output published during 1999-2008. The publications output of these productive institutions is judged on the basis of various quantitative indicators, such as the total number of raw papers and international collaborative papers and qualitative indicators, such as the average number of citations per paper and h -index value, and also in terms of a new composite indicator, which combines quantitative and qualitative aspects. http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/djlit.31.6.1320

QR codes have emerged as a valuable tool for academic libraries, transforming administrative, academic, and communication processes. This study explores the adoption of QR codes in academic libraries based on responses from 37 systems librarians across 104 Institutions of National Importance (INIs), achieving a 35.5 % response rate. The study underscores the growing role of QR codes in bridging physical and digital library resources while highlighting the need for strategies to improve user awareness and engagement. Future advancements in QR code technology, including integration with Augmented Reality (AR), the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are expected to enhance their functionality and security further. By embracing these innovations, academic libraries can optimize their services and foster a more efficient and user-friendly digital environment.

Transforming agriculture is essential for achieving sustainability and food security in Oman. This research presents a comparative analysis of traditional and IoT-based greenhouse farming in South Al Batinah, focusing on four objectives: (1) analyze the relationship between IoT usage and adoption levels; (2) determine the barriers preventing adoption by traditional farmers; (3) assess the socio-economic, environmental, and social impacts of IoT versus traditional practices; and (4) evaluate the level of government support and future needs. The study surveyed greenhouse farmers in Barka, Mawaleh, Suwaiq, and Al Mussanah using a structured questionnaire. Data analysis employed chi-square tests of independence and goodness-of-fit, Mann-Whitney U tests, and descriptive ranking. Findings reveal that IoT adoption remains low, at only 12%, yet adopted technologies provide clear benefits. Chi-square results show strong relationships between adoption status and key tools such as automated irrigation, temperature and humidity sensors, and AI-based crop monitoring. Mann-Whitney U results indicate that IoT adopters achieve higher productivity, better quality produce, reduced costs, and improved resource efficiency, though income differences remain statistically insignificant. Barriers are primarily financial and knowledge-based: 89.5% of farmers cite high initial investment, 84.2% cite lack of incentives, while others highlight limited technical expertise and resistance to change. Government support emerges as critical, with all farmers requesting loans and financial aid, 70% subsidies, and 60% technical and market support. The study concludes that IoT-enabled greenhouse farming can improve resilience, efficiency, and sustainability, but large-scale adoption requires comprehensive government policies on finance, training, infrastructure, and market facilitation.

Processes linking lower and upper parts of the Critical Zone (CZ) are crucial for sustaining life on continents and ecosystem services provided by eco- or agro-systems. Rock weathering at depth is expected to be an essential source of nutrients and deep-rooted trees are believed to induce water and nutrient ‘lift’, benefiting the whole community. However, quantifying this nutrient lift remains a challenge linked on the one hand to the hidden nature of the roots and on the other hand to the complexity of the rhizosphere dynamics. The Nutrilift project aims at quantifying the role of deep critical zone in the supply of nutrients to eco- and agrosystems, based on the hypothesis that while in natural forests, deep-rooted species can derive part of their nutrient resources from increased mineral weathering at depth, the relative importance of this process in shallow-rooted agrosystems is much less - and agroforestry systems represent an intermediate situation. Conducted within the framework of the Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences (IRD - CNRS - INRAE - UPS - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India), the project is based on long-term monitoring in the Mule Hole (diversified forest) and Berambadi (irrigated agriculture and agroforestry) watersheds of the M-TROPICS Observatory in Peninsular India. For this purpose, we study the vertical evolution of soil properties and associated pedological processes as a function of plant cover/land-use. Weathering processes and/or plant uptake will be studied in the vicinity of the roots using micro-characterization techniques, which will allow to calibrate combined hydro-geochemical models. The deep contribution to the nutrient budgets of each site will be quantified by intra-plant isotopic balances as well as by the identification of specific geochemical signatures to the deep contribution of the critical zone. An originality of the project is the observation of the deep critical zone (up to 10m) via instrumented pits with continuous pCO2 and moisture measurements, scanners (root dynamics) imaging and pore water collection. The effects of future changes -associated with climate and land uses- on the dynamics of the deep critical zone will be explored from scenarios co-constructed with local stakeholders.

This article is an account of the experiences of the author while serving for two years as Visiting Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, South India; examines aspects of life in India, undergraduate education, and the Indian Institute of Science.

IN a recent article on the Jubilee of the Calcutta University it was shown that considerable efforts have been made in Bengal during the last few years to raise the level and tone of university education, and to render it more thorough and practical. Similar efforts are also being made in other parts of India by the Universities of Madras, Bombay, the Punjab and Allahabad, so that it may be hoped that a fairly high standard of university education will be maintained in future in India. Other indications also show that India is becoming alive to the necessity of modelling its educational system on the most modern European lines from the lower forms up to the very highest. The Indian Institute of Science, which is now being started at Bangalore, in Southern India, is an instance in point, and shows how the most advanced of the thinkers in India have grasped the necessity for the prosecution of the very highest forms of post-graduate work. Bangalore, which has been finally chosen for the site of the new institute, has (for India) a most excellent climate; it is situated about 3000 feet above sea-level, and the temperature there is never excessive, so that the conditions for work will be most favourable.

QR codes, near-field communication (NFC), and radio frequency identification (RFID) tags have been widely used for supply chain tracking purposes. By binding valuable physical goods with digital nonfungible tokens (NFTs) a physical NFT is created, preventing counterfeit products from penetrating the supply chain. However, QR codes, NFC, and RFID tags are not suitable for real-time monitoring, especially in long-distance tracking applications. As an alternative, long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) nodes have gained widespread adoption in smart supply chains for their ability to facilitate long-distance monitoring and tracking while consuming low amounts of power. However, challenges to bind LoRaWAN nodes with NFTs exist in the areas of energy consumption and security. Therefore, this article proposes a secure authentication scheme for LoRaWAN nodes, binding them to on-chain NFTs for proof-of-authenticity purposes and LoRaWAN security enhancement. The scheme is compatible with existing LoRaWAN specifications, where microcontroller ID and additional computed information together with the sensor data, temperature in this case, are included as a payload of the uplink message. This scheme is developed using the SHA256 hash function and exclusive-OR operations. The proof of concept demonstrates that the scheme is fully supported by resource-constrained LoRaWAN nodes. The security of the proposed protocol has been analyzed and is proven to be secure from replay, man-in-the-middle, and cloning attacks. The performance of the scheme has been evaluated, and with a computation cost of 1.432 ms, a storage cost of 896-bit, and a gas consumption of 22 984, it shows to outperform other related works.

Identifying and analyzing the barriers of Internet-of-Things in sustainable supply chain through newly proposed spherical fuzzy geometric mean

IoT implementation depends on a good extend on human and technological resources availability and cultural aspects and priorities of the organizations. According to their state, the different factors can be enablers or inhibitors of IoT implementation. Since IoT implementation is a case of digitalization, main elements of digitalization and most typical enablers and inhibitors are presented. Based on scientific and professional literature, the specific enablers and inhibitors of IoT are presented. They involve technological enablers (ability to provide power to the devices, connectivity, communication capability between elements and data handling capacity), strategic enablers (IoT adoption as a strategic element, formulation of a global architecture of IoT), organizational enablers (digital talent and skills and digital culture), organizational barriers (need for standardization, security risks, privacy restrictions, cost and regulatory issues), and cultural barriers (perception of complexity and lack of trust).KeywordsDigital transformationInternet of thingsTransformation enablersTransformation barriers

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging technology for supply chain management suitable for the retail industry. Large distributing companies such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, and Target have adopted RFID for real-time tracking and efficient order assortment of fast moving products. An agriculture-based developing country with a huge population and strong internal consumption, Thailand has a big grocery retailing industry that provides ample opportunities for the application of RFID technology. Through a questionnaire survey, this study investigated the current status of RFID adoption in the grocery industry of Thailand. The findings reveal that the industry is aware of the potential benefits that RFID may bring but also concerned with the various challenges in implementation. Although companies surveyed are planning to adopt the technology, none have fully implemented an RFID system. This reveals that RFID adoption is still in its infancy in the grocery retailing industry of the country. The major concerns of the firms include high implementation cost and low return on investment, different system designs and multiple standards, and the lack of technical expertise and management experience to ensure success in adopting the technology.