My Academic Adventure at DSAIL
Life often offers uncertainties and unpredicted events that shape our character physically, socially, spiritually, and career wise. One such transformational moment has been my career journey at Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL)...
June 28, 2024
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Fishpond Water Quality Monitoring System (DSAIL PondLive)
Fish farming, also known as aquaculture, plays an important role in supplying a steady and nutritious source of protein to populations all over the world. However, in the face of technological advancements...
February 28, 2024
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My Scholarship Application Expedition
Navigating scholarship applications can indeed be challenging, riddled with setbacks and rejections. Many are tempted to give up, but with unwavering determination, patience, and persistence...
September 2, 2023
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Faida Za Miti
Conservation experts, climate scientists and organizations tasked with conservation are in consensus that it is high-time we start taking conservation seriously. Climate change and destruction of catchment zones...
August 26, 2023
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Data Collection at Ol Pejeta Conservancy for the Raspberry Pi TDR Project
Electric fences are used to create Protected Areas (PAs) to help preserve biodiversity, provide habitat to wildlife, and reduce Human Wildlife Conflicts (HWCs). Electric fences are prone to faults...
July 27, 2023
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Get to know Bats: Dispelling Misconceptions about these creatures
Bats are fascinating and unique creatures that are often misunderstood. In this part of the world, they are sometimes termed creepy and diabolic! They are often associated with dark powers...
May 18, 2023
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Knee Joint Flexion Angle Measurement using NVIDIA Jetson Nano
At the Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL), Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, we have developed an NVIDIA Jetson Nano based system that is capable of processing real-time webcam video input...
May 18, 2023
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Into Kieni Forest; a Data Collection Exercise
Our aim was to collect stereoscopic images of randomly sampled trees which we would use to build a system that employs scientific methods to estimate the biomass of a tree...
April 12, 2023
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Technology for Wildlife Conservation: DSAIL technology presentation at Women in Conservation Technology workshop 2022
The DSAIL team presented the DSAIL-Porini dataset, the cutting-edge software and hardware used to collect images, and the preliminary software used to automate the data annotation process...
February 21, 2023
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DSAIL Research Day 2022
The DSAIL Research Day is when research interns and undergraduate research assistants at the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAIL) gather to share with each other and guests what they are working on...
January 31, 2023
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Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR)
TDR is a method of fault detection and localisation in electric cables. TDR involves sending a fast-rising pulse down a cable and sampling it at the input. The sampled signal is then analysed...
December 15, 2022
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A Raspberry Pi Based Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR)
A Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) is a device that is used to locate faults in electric cables. It is based on the principle of reflection of electric signals by faults...
December 15, 2022
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Reflection of Electric Signals in Conductors
This blog combines some of these concepts to explain reflection of electric signals. An electric signal travelling down an electric cable gets reflected wholly or partially when it encounters impedance discontinuities...
December 10, 2022
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DSAIL Bioacoustics System
The DSAIL Bioacoustics System is a Raspberry Pi based acoustic sensor that was developed at DSAIL. The system was developed with the aim to collect acoustic data of birds...
June 28, 2021
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NeeFlex: A wearable device for measuring knee flexion angles in rehabilitating patients
In this project, we develop a knee wearable device for accurately measuring, recording, and displaying a patient’s knee flexion angles during flexion and extension...
May 15, 2022
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DSAIL Power Management Board: Powering the Raspberry Pi Autonomously Off-the-Grid
When designing a Raspberry Pi system to deploy in the field, the problem of powering the system needs to be handled carefully...
January 31, 2021
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Deploying 'Ears' in Ecosystems: Bioacoustics monitoring
Bioacoustics monitoring of ecosystems provides a potential remedy to the hurdles faced when using surveys to monitor ecosystems...
January 31, 2021
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GCP-InfluxDB
The following are brief steps on how to setup / launch an InfluxDB Virtual Machine on GCP (Google Cloud Platform), install python 3.7 on it...
November 23, 2020
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Etch (Project Ewaso Hardware Development)
Etching is a subtractive method used for the production of etched circuit boards: acid is used to remove unwanted copper from a prefabricated laminate...
November 14, 2020
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Project Ewaso (project overview)
The Upper Ewaso Nyiro (Ngare Ngiro) is one of the major rivers in Kenya. For a millennium, it has been a lifeline for farmers and pastoralists in Kenya...
November 9, 2020
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