Author:Bredenkamp, IE; Kritzinger, E; Herselman, Martha EDate:Jul 2021The requirement for consumers to divulge personal data to obtain basic products/services from organizations, is becoming the norm. It has, to a large extent, benefitted consumers as it enabled organizations to profile their customers to provide ...Read more
Author:Lysko, Albert A; Ngcama, Lwando; Shingwenyana, Rhulani K; Ramotsoela, DDate:Dec 2022Smart water utility management is gaining strong momentum as it can help to identify leaks and control the water flow, level and pressure. The latter can be used to reduce leaks, reduce bursts and prolong the life of pipes. All these factors ...Read more
Author:Sefala, R; Gebru, T; Mfupe, Luzango P; Moorosi, N; Klein, RDate:Dec 2021Aerial images of neighborhoods in South Africa show the clear legacy of apartheid, a former policy of political and economic discrimination against non-European groups, with completely segregated neighborhoods of townships next to gated wealthy ...Read more
Author:Van Schalkwyk, A; Grobbelaar, S; Vermeulen, E; Herselman, Martha EDate:Jun 2022Log analyses are proposed in response to the evidence base required for log-generating Apps. This article presents the VILA (Valuable Insights from Log Analysis) Framework, a conceptual framework that structures how valuable insights can be ...Read more
Author:Bello-Salau, H; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Adebiyi, RF; Adekale, AD; Bello, RS; Ajayi, ODate:Oct 2023Road infrastructure is essential to national security and growth. Potholes on the road surface causes accidents and costly automotive damage. Novel technology that detects potholes and alerts drivers in real time may address this challenge. ...Read more
Author:Louw, Johannes ADate:Aug 2023In this work, we explore the use of phonological features incross-lingual transfer within resource-scarce settings. We modify the architecture of VITS to accept a phonological feature vector as input, instead of phonemes or characters. ...Read more
Author:Mokgonyane, TB; Sefara, Tshephisho J; Manamela, MJ; Modipa, TIDate:Aug 2021The task of automatically identifying and/or verifying the identity of a speaker from a recording of a speech sample, known as automatic speaker recognition, has been studied for many years and automatic speaker recognition technologies have ...Read more
Author:Thulare, Tumiso; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Dec 2020Poor system use, including inappropriate design of health information systems, causes difficulties in communication with patients and increased time spent by healthcare professionals in recording the necessary health information for medical ...Read more
Author:Mamushiane, Lusani; Lysko, Albert A; Kobo, Hlabishi I; Mwangama, JDate:Aug 2023Field trials and experimentation are crucial for accelerating the adoption of standalone (SA) 5G in Africa. Traditionally, only network operators and vendors had the opportunity for practical experimentation due to proprietary systems and ...Read more
Author:Dudeni-Tlhone, Nontembeko; Mutanga, O; Debba, Pravesh; Cho, Moses ADate:Aug 2023Hyperspectral sensors capture and compute spectral reflectance of objects over many wavelength bands, resulting in a high-dimensional space with enough information to differentiate between spectrally similar objects. Due to the curse of ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho Joseph; Rangata, Mapitsi RDate:Dec 2023Most general sentiment analysers degrade quality when tested on Tweets in the broadcast domain. This domain covers both radio and television broadcast. This paper proposes domain-specific data in the broadcast domain. Furthermore, it proposes ...Read more
Author:Hussien, HM; Katzis, K; Mfupe, Luzango PDate:Dec 2021The issue of spectrum allocation in cognitive high altitude platform wireless networks using TV White Space (TVWS) spectrum is presented in this paper. The mathematical model of spectrum allocation is given, and this model is converted into ...Read more
Author:Sefara, Tshephisho J; Mokgonyane, TBDate:Nov 2020Speaker recognition is a method which recognise a speaker from characteristics of a voice. Speaker recognition technologies have been widely used in many domains. Most speaker recognition systems have been trained on normal clean recordings, ...Read more
Author:Charles, L; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2021Long Range Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN) has established itself as one of the leading Media Access Control (MAC) layer protocols in the realm of Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN). Although the technology itself is quite mature, the resource ...Read more
Author:Olatinwo, DD; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Feb 2022Energy efficiency is an important quality-of-service requirement that needs to be considered when designing an efficient MAC protocol for a WBAN system due to the limited power resources of biomedical sensor devices. To address this, an ...Read more
Author:Skosana, Vusi J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2021Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) hold the key to unlocking the next generation of video surveillance applications. They operate under energy-constrained environments but Compressive Sensing (CS) is a tool that can help overcome these ...Read more
Author:Bredenkamp, IE; Kritzinger, E; Herselman, Martha EDate:Nov 2022As a developing country, South Africa (SA) seems to lack a balance between trust consumers place in organizations with whom they share their personal information to obtain goods and services and the degree to which that consumer confidence ...Read more
Author:Kinabo, ABD; Mwangama, JB; Lysko, Albert ADate:Mar 2021In industry, mission-critical assignments require special characteristics for their networks. Chief among these requirements is reliability – proven to be even more desired than other characteristics such as low latency. IEEE 802.1 Time ...Read more