Cognitive Radio (CR) is one of the technologies that promises to enhance the spectral efficiency, by having secondary users access channel(s) allocated to a primary user but are idle in a given area or time. Spectrum sensing ...

Collaborative Beamforming (CBF) is an essential tool towards increasing transmission range in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Conventional CBF (essentially beamsteering) is intricately associated with high sidelobes owing ...

Over the past few years, the level of motorization has increased significantly as well as the number of accidents all over the world. Many countries have developed strategies to ensure road safety but the problem remains, ...

Raw sensor values are often noisy and unreliable in high sampling frequencies. Accuracy is important when it comes to guidance, navigation, and control of vehicles more so spacecraft or ships. We made use of the Kalman ...

The global drive towards utilization of renewable and sustainable energy systems is being accelerated by the increase in energy demand, environmental concerns, and the depletion of fossil fuel reserves. Of the main renewable ...

Kenya is a country with a fast deployment of photovoltaic (PV) systems. The fast deployment of this technology is due to the continuous decrease in the prices of the PV components, the abundance of the solar resource, as ...

The incorporation of wind power into the electric power grid has seen tremendous growth in many countries across the globe. This is because of the many benefits wind energy possesses such as its environmental friendliness ...

Nanotechnology and nanomaterials are key to bridging the energy supply and demand deficit in the world. Graphene, an allotrope of carbon, is the future nanomaterial for energy conversion and storage devices. The inability ...

More than 3 billion people lack access to safe water for drinking. Availability and access to water services are fundamental in preserving the health and well-being of humans. The quality of water has to be of a certain ...

Due to its numerous applications, triacetin is regarded as the most valuable acetin when compared to other acetin. Glycerol from biodiesel production and acetic acid are considered as potential reactants for triacetin ...