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Saqib has a student Aqsa Hameed who has been working with Anjum to look at a project to create a Hadoop/Cloudera PingER warehouse to enable easier, more powerful access to PingER historical data. How can we assist?
Saqib has submitted a project with title "A Fundamental Active Internet Performance Monitoring Framework for Pakistan Education & Research Network (PERN) in University of Agriculture, Faisalabad"
- Funding source will accept the projects if it is designed for the development of Agriculture in the University.
- Objective: The active internet performance monitoring framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad helps in forecasting and detecting the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.Initially the project is accepted. However, I received the following comment
- The PI was advised to include in the project the justification how it will have an impact on agriculture development in the University of Agriculture Faisalabad Pakistan.
- For justification I have added the following paragraph:
- The aim of this project is to provide the performance analysis and anomaly detection framework for the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad in order to detect the events that cause bottleneck links in the network affecting the overall performance of the University. Further, It will help to improve the performance of the web applications running in the university.
- Les added:
Internet connectivity is critical to agriculture, especially since agriculture is usually conducted in rural and possibly remote areas. In particular it enables farmers to ascertain the optimum prices for seeds, fertilizers at, the most promising markets etc for their goods, upcoming weather conditions, forecasting yields, providing information for addressing challenges etc. It also supports timely sharing of information between farmers, their customers, and learning of new relevant developments from research and industrial centers such as the universities. This is very important since the adoption of new technologies has always been an important factor in agricultural productivity. See http://pnwsteep.wsu.edu/directseed/conf2k5/pdf/gillis.pdf
Understanding the Internet performance between the University of Agriculture and other areas of Pakistan will enable setting up: information centers at Faisalabad, outreach to agricultural communities (e.g. by social tools etc.), by setting realistic expectations for connectivity and hence capabilities to various regions of Pakistan for email, web, chat rooms, data sharing etc.
Bebo provided a coupe couple of links to IOT that may assist:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/the-internet-of-things-and-the-future-of-farming/?_r=1
Project is accepted.
working on a project to develop a node using Raspberry Pi 2 and IoT to measure the air and soil quality.
Currently, students are analyzing the project to develop a problem statement for their research project.
Saqib has 5 students interested in PingER. In particular in Big Data, Data Mining and Geolocation.
For the GeoLocation Saqib should contact Anjum
For Big Data and Data Mining I suspect they will need a cloud/cluster. Given the problem at other sites it is important to be assured they will have the appropriate resources to pursue their work.
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