Development of Algorithm and Prototype Hardware for Estimation of Crease Geometry using Image Processing and Computer Vision Techniques

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In the Board and Paper Industry, creases are pressed on the surfaces for folding purposes after the production. Overtime the creasing tool undergoes excessive wear and tear due to which the creases pressed on the board surface lose their uniformity. Since the creasing procedure is highly standardized, these irregularities must be properly quantified otherwise improper creases can deteriorate the quality of the final board. Automated Crease Profiler is a fully automated Laser based system for scanning the surface of the board to analyze the quality of the creases pressed. It calculates the Height, Width, Rise and Fall time of all the creases automatically. These parameters can help identify substandard creasing to prevent poor quality boards in advance. We have successfully tested the system for TetraPak Pakistan’s board.

Automated Trim Width Estimation

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In TetraPak Pakistan’s board production factory, three polymer layers are installed by a laminator on the board surface for protection and decoration purposes. These layers are overextended by few millimeters across the board to ensure complete layers without any defects and this overextended polymer layer width is called the Trim. In the Production process, it is preferred to minimize the Trim width to save Polymer volume. For this purpose we have designed a system for TetraPak based on Image Processing that calculates this Trim width to keep a check on the wasted polymer volume. The trim width by our system is then inputted back to the laminator in a feedback manner, to decrease the overextended trim hence saving the polymer volume used and as a result, the total cost of production of boards.

Development of Algorithms and Hardware for Innovative Features for Digital Vending Machines

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Digital Transformation Center of Excellence (Pvt.) LTD is a company involved in developing, selling and operating Digital Vending machines in Pakistan. We have developed hardware and algorithm for the Innovative features for Digital vending machines. Our External hardware interface with the current vending machine hardware and record all the sales data in real-time. It captures photo as some user buys a product. By using advanced deep learning algorithms, our system estimate user age and gender and logs this data to the cloud. This data is helpful in finding demographics of retail. There is a separate web application that extracts meaningful information from this demographics data. It shows which products are popular in particular age group. It also displays related ads to the end user.

NHMP Rahbar - Application System Development for National Highway & Motorway Police (NHMP) to provide live assistance to the road users on Motorways

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National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP), are committed to ensure a safe and secure driving environment on National Motorways and National Highways and serve the commuters by providing them with the prompt assistance. All motorways and major national highways are under the jurisdiction of NH&MP. The primary objectives of the NH&MP include regulate/control traffic on motorways and highways, enforcement of traffic rules, provide roadside assistance to the commuters and educate the road users on road safety. NH&MP is regarded as one of the best national institutions serving the road users across Pakistan. To improve the quality of their service to the nation, we worked in collaboration with NH&MP on number of projects and NHMP RAHBAR mobile application is one of them. We developed a mobile application, referred to as NHMP RAHBAR, to facilitate the commuters on the National Motorways. Currently, the mobile application is equipped with the following (notable) features:

• 1. Travel Advisory
  Provides information about the condition on each toll-plaza including congestion level, visibility level (fog/smog) and operational status (open or close).
• 2. Traffic Alerts
  Traffic Alerts are the warning statements issued by Motorway Police to ensure the safety of the commuters on motorway.
• 3. Live Chat
  Through this feature, users will be able to interactively communicate with the NHMP staff in real-time.
• 4. Incident Reporting
  A location-based service though which user will be able to report any incident/accident on motorway. Through this feature, NHMP will get precise location and nature of the incident and consequently take appropriate actions.
• 5. Roadside Assistance
  A location-based service though which user can seek roadside assistance in case of any breakdown. User sends the precise location and nature of the required service. This information will enable NHMP to efficiently provide the correct type of assistance to the road user.

Field Eye, A Tracking Application

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Field eye is a solution for tracking field reps in real-time. It solves the problems of visit validation, photo reports, audio reports, GPS check-ins. It is made for field reps, outside sales representatives, mobile workers and their field managers. Currently, the application is equipped with the following (notable) features:

• For Managers

• 1. Live
  It keeps the location tracking of your field representatives, gets updates for each check-in location of interest, user have access to the audio conversation of the representative and also have access to the camera of the representative (take photo on-the-fly).
• 2. Reporting
  It generates accurate records of travel and history, calculates business expenses and mileage information and validation of the their field actions with GPS, audio and photo.



• For Field Representatives

• It gives optimization of time by planning the trip to the customers, keeps the on-the-fly recording of travel, mileage and business expense and it reduces or even eliminates off-hours reporting (with added feature of taking of notes during visits).