MINOR PROJECTS

Energy Harvesting and Wireless Power Transfer for RFIDs and Wireless Sensor Networks

As a part of the summer school supported by the European School of Antennas (ESoA), I attended several courses and undertook the project on "Rectenna Design" implemented on the Advanced Design Systems (ADS) software. The aim of the project was to emulate a Rectenna Design for enabling wireless power harvesting. The main components are three-fold: (1) Antenna Design, (2) Appropriate Diode Selection, and (3) Rectifier Design. Once these components are realized, they are connected together and tuned with the help of Smith chart available on the ADS software. The project was completed in three days, with presentation held on 12-Oct-2018. The team members for this project comprised of: Mr. Zhenbei LI (China), Dr. Van Hieu NGUYEN (France/Vietnam), Mr. Yelzhas ZHAKSYLYK (Norway/Kazakhstan) and myself (Luxembourg/India).

Nano-Networks: A New Frontier in Communication – (‘Wireless Communication’: March 2014)

Literature survey on the topic was done as a course project. The development of nanotechnologies will continue and will have a great impact in almost every field. The use and control of these technologies will be a major advantage in economics, homeland security, sustainable growth and healthcare. Molecular communication seems to provide efficient mechanisms for networking of nano-machines. It represents a complete new communication paradigm in which the information is encoded into molecules. Nano-networks demand innovative solutions to create reliable molecular communication channels among nano-machines.

Project Advisor - Prof. G. Ramamurthy.

Managerial Principles: Self and Academic Institutions – (‘Reading course project’: August 2013).

In this project report, the main aim was to provide comparison of LNMIIT with the other institutes in terms of managerial principles. Six different institutions including LNMIIT were taken up as academic institutions for comparisons. The project report is based on discussions with friends who are studying in these academic institutions and on exploring some articles on internet. The reasons for their success have been highlighted as ratings and it has been covered as to where LNMIIT stands compared to them.

Project Advisor - Dr. Amit Neogi.

Digital Hearing Aid Project – (‘Biomedical Engineering’: April 2013).

The aim of this project was to develop noise reduction, frequency, and amplitude filters for a configurable digital hearing aid (DHA) in MATLAB. We can use these filters in telecommunication systems such as satellites and cell phones, in image processing, or in any place where there is sensitivity to high frequencies or loud noises.

Project Advisor - Dr. Amit Neogi.

Improving Happiness and Energy Indexes of an individual – (‘Intro to Sustainable Development’: August 2012).

In this project report, we have pointed out that one can detect the energy index of a human being by various methods. We need to work on either of the two: Happiness index or energy index to live a happy, sweet and a healthy life. Our project report may help people to work and improve on their happiness and energy indices to bring back the “SMILE” on their faces, which is needed the most in this so called “Busy World!”

Project Advisor - Prof. Neeraj Gupta.

Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) Project – (‘Principles of Communication’: March 2012).

In this project we have implemented Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) scheme in MATLAB, Multisim and Hardware. Our goal from this project was to modulate the baseband signals using QAM and then recover the original signals by demodulation of the modulated QAM signal. We have successfully implemented this modulation scheme at all the three platforms- Hardware, MATLAB and Multisim.

Project Advisor - Dr. Prateek Shah.

Acoustic Echo Cancellation Project – (‘Digital Signal Processing’: November 2011).

The project has successfully been made in MATLAB. Echo cancellation involves first recognizing the originally transmitted signal that re-appears, with some delay, in the transmitted or received signal. Once the echo is recognized, it can be removed by 'subtracting' it from the transmitted or received signal. This technique is implemented using a digital signal processor (DSP) and also be implemented in MATLAB. Echo cancellation is done using either echo suppressors or echo cancellers.

Project Advisor - Prof. Lalit Jiwani.

Automated Toll-booth Project – (‘Digital Circuits and Systems’: March 2011).

This project has been implemented by us on XILINX. The main aim of this project was to make the Toll-Booths automated. With the help of vehicle sensors, this project can be used practically.

Project Advisor - Prof. Sandeep Saini.

Computer Lab Management (September 2007 – February 2008)

We developed this project in C++. This project helps in getting all the information related to the computer lab of our school varying from systems, faculties, room numbers etc. This project also included basic elements of C++ like Graphics, Data File Handling, OOPs etc.

Project Advisor - Mr. Majumdar.

Report Card of a Student (September 2006 – February 2007)

We developed this project in C++. This project helps in generating report card of the student's name entered. The project included basic elements of C++ like Graphics, Data File Handling, OOPs etc.

Project Advisor - Mr. Sunil Joshi.