Life Of Common Man Research Articles

IoT Based Smart Farming

Abstract: The revolution brought by Internet of Things (IoT) technology has affected every field of common man's life, making everything smart and intelligent. In the past, the ripeness of the soil and crop growth were determined by farmers based on their intuition and suspicions. They were unaware of factors such as humidity, water levels, and especially weather conditions, which negatively impacted farmers. The agricultural sector is being transformed by the Internet of Things (IoT), empowering farmers through a wide range of techniques. In the era of IoT, extensive research is being conducted to develop Smart IoT-based products that facilitate Smart Farming in terms of Crop Management, Pest Management, Agriculture Precision, Agriculture Fields Monitoring through Sensors, and even Drones. The production rate of crops in agriculture depends on various parameters such as temperature, humidity, and rainfall. Therefore, the project aims to make agriculture smart using IoT technologies and the utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, and connected analytics, which have great potential to address and support some of the most pressing issues faced by agriculture in terms of accessing real-time quality data that can be acted upon. The basic purpose and use of drones for spraying plants could allow for the rapid application of plant protection agents on growing areas. Accordingly, this paper presents the applicable types, role, and significance of drone usage in modern agriculture. This paper provides an overview of various technologies used to reduce human efforts in various agricultural operations, such as detecting the presence of pests, spraying of UREA, spraying of fertilizers, crop mapping, and soil analysis, among others

Integrated Online Platform for Agricultural Products and Information

Abstract: Agriculture is the basic and most important profession of our country as it balances the food requirement and also the essential raw materials for several industries. The implementation of smart technology in agriculture practices needs to be focused on for better land productivity. Internet of Things technology has brought a revolution to each and every field of common man's life by making everything smart and intelligent. The development of Intelligent Smart Farming based on IoT is day by day turning the face of agriculture production by not only enhancing it but also making it cost-effective and reducing wastage. The aim of this project is to propose a Novel Smart Interactive Platform for Integrated Information of Agricultural Products based Agriculture system that can assist farmers in crop management by getting Live Data (Temperature, Humidity, RainFall, Soil moisture content) for efficient environment monitoring which will enable smart farming and increase their overall yield and quality of products. This system proposes an interactive platform for integrated information of agricultural products which combines farm production, supply and marketing of agricultural products. This will help the information platform to play the role of information collection and distribution, and to improve the efficiency of the circulation of agricultural products. Keywords: Agricultural Information, Agricultural Products, Weather Forecast, E-Commerce.

Real Time Monitoring Based Smart Farming

Agriculture has long played a key role in countries like India, and agricultural challenges are becoming increasingly widespread these days Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices that are self-configured. Intelligent Smart Farming IoT-based gadgets are slowly but steadily creating enhancement in agro production, and improving it but also by lowering costs and reducing waste. Real-time Monitoring based Smart farming has the potential to be a pillar in the country's development. The Internet of Things (IoT) revolutionized every aspect of the Common man's life by making everything intelligent, fast and smart. By doing everything smarter and smarter, Internet of Things (IoT) transformed everything for common man's existence. The objective of our project is to demonstrate IoT-based Smart Farming System to assist farmers in obtaining real-time moisture and temperature data, as well as soil moisture (Sparkfun soil moisture sensors) efficiency ecological surveillance, allowing them to improve overall yield and harvest quality. The Internet of Things-based Realtime Monitoring Based Smart Farming System combines Arduino Technology (Node MCU) with a wifi Microcontroller unit to generate a Real time data feed that can be viewed via Thingsspeak.com.

2019-nCoV effects, transmission and preventive measures: an overview.

AimCOVID-19 has led to a global crisis not only in the health sector but also in the economic, social and education sectors, as well as the lives of common man. This paper reviews the origin, characteristics and transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus and the preventive measures adopted by the world’s nations to curb the effects of the pandemic.Subjects and methodsThe temporal and spatial profile of the COVID-19 spread is highly dynamic and is progressively changing at a rapid pace. This article is an attempt to mitigate the pandemic threat by sharing the review outcome from an extensive literature survey on recent articles on COVID-19 and its impact.ResultsStatistical analysis presented by the World Health Organization and other health organizations explicitly indicates that optimized support and care extended to infected persons is the key to therapy, and the clinical effectiveness of alternative techniques is still under study. Though there have been announcements on the discovery of drugs for the virus, the authenticity of these reports are yet to be verified.ConclusionBased on the review, it can be inferred that it is important to boost one’s immune system and to stay healthy by developing healthy habits of food intake, sleep, exercise, personal hygiene and so on. Practicing social distancing with a self-motivated attitude will help to control the virus to a large extent. The current situation also demands a great sense of responsibility of people towards society by protecting oneself from the virus in order to protect the society one lives in.

Importance of Technology in the Days of Coronavirus Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected the common man's life, but it has also affected many science, space, and technology institutions and government agencies all over the world. It has also resulted in reduced productivity of human beings and affected several organizations and government programs. The normal life of human beings came under a lot of restrictions and pressure due to lockdown. Many people lost their jobs and suffered financially as well as emotionally. The contribution of science and technology in this period of coronavirus crisis is key for facing current health challenges. Technological fields like data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence have majorly contributed towards COVID-19. The present study aims to discuss the advancement and importance of technology used worldwide to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic at different levels.

Did the fear of contagion deter patients from reporting serious conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown? A report from South India

Context: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-19 has had a devastating effect on the common man's life. Aim: To study whether the fear of contracting covid19 infection deter the patients from seeking medical help? Setting and Design: Retrospective study from hospital data were obtained from the medical record departments of four major hospitals. Materials and methods: Number of admissions for eight serious illnesses in the month of April in 2020 compared to 3 preceding years. Statistical analysis: The data were analyzed by applying multiple measures ANOVA and descriptive statistics. Results: There was a significant decrease in the number of admissions in each of the eight listed illnesses during April 2020 compared to the same period in the previous 3 years. There was no significant change in the number of deaths reported in the district during this period, as suggested by the government data. Conclusion: From the observed results, it is evident that there was a marked decline in the hospitalization for serious illnesses during the lockdown period in south India. This result is in agreement with the data from similar studies, published from hospitals worldwide.

Antimicrobial Activity of Herbal Toothpaste against Organisms Causing Dental Caries

Aim: Dental caries occurs as a result of acid produced by bacteria which destroys the enamel and underlying dentin. A study was carried out to isolate microorganisms that cause dental caries in patients belonging to different age groups and find out the antimicrobial activity of various toothpastes against them.
 Study Design: Collection of samples for isolation of caries causing organisms, to identify them using biochemical tests and test the activity of herbal toothpastes against them.
 Place and duration of study: Samples were collected from Krish Multispeciality Clinic and Prashanth Dental Clinic, Nagole between June’2016 – December’2017 and worked on, at Microbiology Department, St. Francis College for women, Hyderabad.
 Methodology: Ten samples of each age group from 10-20 yrs., 20-40 yrs. and 40-60 yrs. were isolated. The organisms were identified by carrying out various biochemical tests according to Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and molecular characterization based on 16s rRNA typing. Identified organisms were used to test the antimicrobial activity of herbal toothpastes by employing agar well diffusion method. ANOVA is used for statistical analysis.
 Results and Conclusion: Patanjali herbal products like Dantkanti are gaining lot of importance and have become a part of life of common man because of their effectivity. Our studies revealed that out of the various toothpastes tested, Patanjali toothpaste had good antimicrobial activity against all the isolates. On comparative analysis of f-ratio and P significant value (< .05.) of all pairs, it is observed that Patanjali has good antimicrobial activity against all isolates tested. The efficacy of Meswak is almost similar to that of Patanjali.

Factor Influencing Consumers on Beguiling Craze of Online Shopping: A Study of Attitude in Nagpur City of Maharashtra (India)

Evolution of technology has completely revolutionaries’ day to day life of common man. Technology has penetrated in our life like anything. These days everybody is using technology for their benefit’s and marketers are no an exception to it. They are using technology to reach to the customers. Days are far gone when people used to line up in stores to purchase the general product. These days, more and more individuals lean toward online shopping, which is presently a pattern of style and fashion. Nagpur, the center city of the country and world-famous for its oranges is advancing towards computerized explosion that makes high significance on the assessment of the present acknowledgment level of online shopping by the youngsters. In this way, understanding the by and a large state of customer's attitude towards web-based shopping is significant for the Nagpurians. In this study, 143 respondents took part in the survey. Respondents were selected through simple random technique. Data was analyzed using SPSS Version 22. This study found that online shopping is very common in this young generation of Nagpur. Major reason for Nagpurains to do online shopping is that it saves a lot of time. However, consumer those who do not shop online is only because of online fraud, lack of personal touch and no return policy. Nagpur consumers do prescribe online shopping as an elective path for shopping.

SMART FARMING: IOT BASED SMART SENSORS AGRICULTURE STICK FOR LIVE TEMPRATURE AND MOISTURE MONITORING USING ARDUINO, CLOUD COMPUTING & SOLAR TECHNOLOGY

Internet of Things (IoT) technology has brought revolution to each and every field of common man's life by making everything smart and intelligent. IoT refers to a network of things which make a self-configuring network. The development of Intelligent Smart Farming IoT based devices is day by day turning the face of agriculture production by not only enhancing it but also making it cost- effective and reducing wastage. The aim / objective of this paper is to propose a Novel Smart IoT based Agriculture Stick assisting farmers in getting Live Data (Temperature, Soil Moisture) for efficient environment monitoring which will enable them to do smart farming and increase their overall yield and quality of products. The Agriculture stick being proposed via this paper is integrated with Arduino Technology, Breadboard mixed with various sensors and live data feed can be obtained online from Thingsspeak.com. The product being proposed is tested on Live Agriculture Fields giving high accuracy over 98% in data feeds

Analysis of Socio-Economic Indicators Scenario in Pakistan

This paper examined the socio-economic-demographic indicators with time series evidence vis-à -vis Asian countries to compare Pakistan’s position with these countries. With the help of tables based on standard global data followed by Pakistan data an attempt has been made to get valid picture of the above-mentioned indicators. Life expectancy, IMR, TFR, GNP allocation to health, women using contraceptive are not comparable and delightful leading to unparalleled increase in population in addition to economic factors. Birth rate is the highest in Pakistan compared to the remaining 9 countries. Poverty will escalate that will breed all social, economic and political problems. It may be concluded that if the present pace of population growth continues, people may fail to find a place even for standing. Population is the most agonizing and perplexing problem that has made the common man life miserable and unsustainable.

Anatomical and Phytochemical Characterization of Theriophonum minutum (Willd.) Baill. – An Ethnomedicinal Plant

Use of plants by ethnic communities always play an important role in the life of common man as it can be another source of information for the betterment of health and longevity. The study of plants used by tribals always encourages the new generation to undertake new aspect of the study. Theriophonum minutum (Willd.). Baill. is a (Family- Araceae) unique ethnomedicinal plant used by the Korku tribe of Melghat Dist. Amravati (Maharashtra) to cure intestinal and duodenal ulcers. There is no mention of well-known pathies like Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy, etc. As this is a unique medicinal plant, no anatomical and phytochemical data is available for drug characterization. Drug characterization is important to understand the purity of the drug. Here an attempt is made to study the macro and micromorphology of all plant organs in details.

Impact of Demonetization Policy on Common People Life

In 2016, the Indian government decided to demonetize the two biggest denominations of 500 and 1000 rupee notes. These notes accounted for 86% of the country’s cash supply. The government’s goal was to eradicate counterfeit currency, fight against tax evasion, eliminate black money, terrorist financing activities and promote a cashless economy. Demonetization Policy is a master stroke to combat corruption, bribery, unethical tax evasion by the black money hoarders. Black money and corruption affects the growth of the economy of any country. The annual black money economy is conservatively placed at around 20 percent about GDP . GDP recovered to 6.3 percent in Nov to September 2016 from the previous quarter’s 5.7 percent. To eradicate the root problem of black money generation, this policy play vital role. Hence the study of opinion of the public towards the impact of demonetization is mandatory. The result of the demonetization cannot be reaped with a night. It is a lengthy process, even year to take to yield a benefit. The present article has made an attempt to explain the impact of demonetization in the common man life in Virudhunager district.

Advocate Notepad: An Android Application

Smartphones are steadily gaining popularitywith an estimated 1.6 billion mobile device users by 2013.With the advancement of technology, creation of new android based application plays an important role in making common man life easy and smart.A number of Android applications are developing in the market by a rapid rate. Managing common man task in various fields like entertainment, lifestyle, business, social, games etc. with these applications is today’s demand. Motivated with this, a free Android app named Advocate Notepad is proposed and developed in this paper for advocates to help them in maintaining the records of the cases on day to day basis with the details of the nature of the proceedings conducted on a particular day. Common man can use this App to know and learn about basic Laws that help common people to get rid of being exploited by one way or another.This app helps user in knowing basic Laws like air pollution, water pollution, waste management, chemical safety, forest resources under environment law. Time to time Reminders to advocates about their cases is an additional feature incorporated in the app.

Association of problematic mobile phone use with psychological distress and self-esteem among college students in South India: a cross-sectional study

Background: Mobile phones have penetrated into the lives of common man to the extent of becoming one of the basic necessities for surviving in this modern world. Apart from the health effects of radiation from handsets, concerns have been raised over the behavioural effect of using mobile phones, especially among younger generation. Problematic mobile phones use (PMU) may be considered an addiction-like behaviour related to an individual’s mobile phone use. Methods: A study was conducted among 1108 college students in the age group of 18-25 years to find the prevalence of PMU using a uni-dimensional problematic mobile phone use scale (PMUS) developed by the authors. The prevalence of PMU among the college students was 26.8% and it was related with psychological distress and other predictor variables using statistical analysis. Results: Psychological distress was present among 5.8% and lower self-esteem using was present among 13.2% of the participants. The mean score of GHQ among problematic mobile phone users was 10.14 (±4.87) whereas the score among Normal users was 7.85 (±3.42). A significant cross-sectional association was found in between problematic mobile phone use and psychological distress, lower self-esteem, gender, smartphone use, multiple chatting applications, committed relationship status, relationship with mother and frequency of mobile phone use. Conclusions: Health education is required for increasing awareness about PMU among the college students. Further research should be undertaken and factors related to PMU may be considered for intervention.

A Robust Single Hop Tree Structured Time Synchronization Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks

Wireless ad-hoc sensor networks are deployed in order to observe some real world phenomenon with the intent to improve the daily life of common man, boost industrial processes, facilitate environment protection and enhance law enforcement. Time synchronization is critical for these networks so that the nodes in the network can accurately report event timestamps and fine-tune their coordinated distributed activities. Time synchronization algorithms proposed in the past have considered various critical issues related to nodes such as computing, resources involved in storage and communication, energy efficiency of the algorithm etc. Changing network dynamics still remains a challenge to be addressed by time synchronization algorithms as the nodes are deployed randomly either at the time of network establishment or at a later stage when the network is established and may die or disconnect in the same fashion. In this paper an energy efficient and robust protocol to support network dynamics in time synchronization protocol is presented. The protocol incorporates a mechanism which ensures that synchronization of the nodes in the network remains unaffected even if any of the nodes involved in synchronization process gets disconnected. The number of messages involved in the synchronization process in the suggested protocol is also reduced as compared to earlier protocols that makes the suggested one more energy efficient.

Time to implement data mining in insurance firms for effective CRM and CRM analytics

Organisations that are having a strong customer base are often facing the difficulties of managing customer's data. The insurance sector firms are primarily dependent on customer's base they had created. The growing demand of security of life in current worldly atmosphere is increasing. This is due to increased stress in every common man life. This has resulted in growing demand of insurance in every common man life. The stiff competition in insurance sector needs better focus on customers and their demands which is possible through improved products and better service to customers. The effective management of customer's data to gain insight of it and retrieving useful information from it is the need of any insurance organisation in today's scenario. We authors through this paper highlighted the importance and significance of data mining techniques and tools in managing customer relationship management (CRM) and CRM analytics in insurance organisation.

Housing and housing policy in flanders (Belgium); confusion on the eve of a new decade

It is a common theme, certainly at the end of a decade, to think about the future. For a while policy makers, scientists as well as p.r.-men are selling dates to the world in an obtrusive way, for example the years 1992 and 2000. T h e opening up of the European market and the turn of the century will be unique events in the common man's life and perhaps this explains the kind of magic surrounding these dates. Certainly their nearing explains a lot of the thinking about many features of human and societal life in the future. As often, the best of both worlds is promised. Although thinking about the future is, without doubt, necessary and sometimes provocative, to what degree does the actual overexposure of publications and media-events about life in 1992 and 2000, hide today's problems, such as huge governmental debts, joblessness, homelessness, rootlessness, increasing anomie? To what degree does exposure drive consciousness away from these (chronically) unresolved issues of yesterday and today? This article deals primarily with yesterday's and today's concerns, although tomorrow's will also be addressed. In an international context the concept of housing crisis seems to have been reborn (Schuler-Wallner, 1986; Ballain and Jacquier, 1987; Friedrichs, 1988; Marcuse, 1988), yet there is no news of housing in Belgium or Flanders. On the contrary, some politicians (Verhofstadt, 1987) and researchers (De Grauwe, 1983) are telling the world, in oracular language, that the Belgian approach to housing is the best. This is in spite of the fact that about 16% of Flemish families are living in substandard dwellings, which, in absolute figures, is even more than in the early sixties (De Decker, 1988d). Housing problems are covered with the cloak of charity (Goossens, 1987). Consequently, it is not surprising that in international comparative housing research, figures about Belgium are absent (Ball et al., 1988; Harloe, 1985; Roistacher, 1987; Oxley, 1988). Housing research is necessary because of the simple and nearly universally accepted fact that housing is one of the fundamental human needs. Good