Rosni Abu Kassim

Development of Fire alarm system using Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno

The proposed Fire alarm system is a real-time monitoring system that detects the presence of smoke in the air due to fire and captures images via a camera installed inside a room when a fire occurs. The embedded systems used to develop this fire alarm system are Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno. The key feature of the system is the ability to remotely send an alert when a fire is detected. When the presence of smoke is detected, the system will display an image of the room state in a webpage. The system will need the user confirmation to report the event to the Firefighter using Short Message Service (SMS). The advantage of using this system is it will reduce the possibility of false alert reported to the Firefighter. The camera will only capture an image, so this system will consume a little storage and power.

An insight into the process of self assessment report for the purpose of accreditation of an engineering programme: Barriers and problems

This paper provides an overview of the process of obtaining accreditation for a new Bachelor degree engineering program. One of the major requirements of the accreditation process in Malaysia is the Self Assessment Report (SAR). The aim of this paper is to provide an insight into the development of SAR. The observation presented herewith is based on a case-study of an actual process of SAR development in an Electrical Engineering Faculty of a Malaysian public university. The paper focused on the contents of SAR, method of development, and the barriers and problem faced during its creation. It is hoped that the insight provided by this paper will be useful to those undertaking a process to obtain accreditation of new engineering programs in Malaysia.