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Internet of things for monitoring environmental conditions in greenhouses: a case of Kiambu County
(Strathmore University, 2016)Efficient management of greenhouse farming is a challenge to ensure high yield production. This is a great challenge to farmers who do not have a reliable mechanism to ensure the optimum environmental conditions for their ... -
A Prototype for secure data sharing amongst organizations in Kenya: case of broadcast media
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A framework for implementation of e-health in Kenya public hospitals
(Strathmore University, 2015)E-health has fundamentally shifted the way patients’ information is accessed and shared across health system. This advancement has greatly improved healthcare which is associated with the mission critical services that ... -
Artificial neural network model for inflation forecasting in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2016)Forecasts are important in decision making and entail prediction of a future state of a particular subject of interest. These forecasts depend heavily on historical data and the assumption that the past behaviour of ... -
A prototype for tracing missing children : a case of Nairobi County
(Strathmore University, 2016)Tracing missing children has been quite hectic for parents and care givers. A missing child is vulnerable to risks associated with drugs; poor health; involvement in criminal activities for survival, assaults, murder, rape ... -
Real – time sentiment analysis for detection of terrorist activities in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2016)Terrorism has become a subject of concern to many people in Kenya today. Majority of people are worried lot because they don’t know when they will become victims of terrorists’ activities. Corruption, porous border and ... -
A geographic information based parking management prototype: a case of Nairobi
(Strathmore University, 2016)The purpose of this research paper is to identify a solution to parking in Nairobi’s central business district having factored in all the spatial and non-spatial elements. The problem is that a new wave of people are ... -
An application for career path decision making among high school students: case of Nairobi
(Strathmore University, 2016)In many developing countries, young people have and are embracing formal education as this has proven to be one of the main ways of alleviating poverty. In Kenya, the level of literacy has taken an upward trajectory for ... -
Vision-based model for maize leaf disease identification : a case study in Nyeri County
(Strathmore University, 2016)Biotic stress which includes pest and diseases affect crop productivity due to either death of affected crops or reduced yield per crop. Abiotic stress such as water and temperature also contribute to lower yields. Maize ... -
Real-time solution for automated inventory monitoring of antiretroviral medicines: case of Nairobi County
(Strathmore University, 2016)Cases of stockouts and expiry of Antiretroviral Therapy medicines are occurring and this is due the fact that the current inventory monitoring systems for Antiretroviral Therapy Medicines and commodities are manual despite ... -
Data centric decision making healthcare prototype
(Strathmore University, 2015)Kenya is classified as one of the fastest growing countries in Africa. With this growth there has been increase in the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the major ministries in the government ... -
A framework to enhance data quality in the banking sector in Kenya : case study of two banks in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)This thesis explores data quality in the financial sector in Kenya and explores a structured method of improving data quality. The thesis gathers the statistics on the quality of data in the banking sector in Kenya and ... -
Secured web service model for public service interoperability : case of Kenya’s e-government
(Strathmore University, 2014)A major challenge in E-government application developments for better service delivery is inadequate security features in e-government. This results in untrustworthy websites with stunted growth so that most e-government ... -
A Prototype for secure key management
(Strathmore University, 2015)Key Management refers to the cycle of maintaining key exchange from the moment of initialization to retirement. It has proved to be a major concern for parties concerned where these keys have landed in the wrong hands ... -
A framework to achieve seamless data interchange of electronic air-waybill in e-freight systems : Case of Kenya air freight sector
(Strathmore University, 2015)The study creates a standard framework on what is required to ensure electronic air waybill data transmitted from one system to the other and be able to update all the available e-freight systems. The study does not cover ... -
Converged network access solution for mass network connections : case of Last Mile Networks
(Strathmore University, 2014)In current network access, customer premises equipment (CPEs) connect to a single network option at a time, the CPEs operate based on established connections. Although telecommunication companies have designed and ... -
A prototype for threat detection on big data using behavioural analytics for government ministries
(Strathmore University, 2015)While no one would dispute the capability of big data to enlighten enterprise operations, the present methods of mining and managing big data are still evolving and are posing serious security and privacy challenges. ... -
A mobile biometric based patient identification model for medical insurance services access
(Strathmore University, 2015)Medical insurance fraud has increasingly been on the rise in Kenya. This has thwarted the efforts of the insurance companies to curb the rising fraud cases. A great challenge is insured patient identification who are under ... -
Prototype for the authentication of university certificates : case of Strathmore University
(Strathmore University, 2015)Fraudulent activities especially around enrolment when applying for jobs and other opportunities has become quite prevalent today. This enrolment fraud has had the effect of giving some individuals an unfair advantage when ... -
Mobile based expert application for the early detection of diabetes in Kenya
(Strathmore University, 2015)Cases of type 2 diabetes have been on the increase in the last ten years and this has caused many deaths and untold suffering to victims of the disease. One of the main challenges in combating the disease is in the education ...
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