Idachaba Francis

Contents

  1. College
  2. Department
  3. Programme
  4. Research Interests
  5. Awards & Honours
  6. Teaching Areas
  7. Selected Publications (41)
  8. Collaboration/Linkages
  9. Conferences Attended

Professor. Francis Idachaba

Professor Communication Engineering

B.Eng (Yola), M.Eng (Benin), PhD (Benin)

College

College of Engineering

Department

Electrical & Information Engineering (EIE)

Programme

Information and Communication Engineering

Research Interests

5G Communication Network Architecture, Internet of Things, EHealth, Communication Architecture design, Wireless Sensor Networks, System Design and Electronics

Awards & Honours

NCC Research Grant for University Faculty 2018

SPE Faculty Enhancement Travel grant award 2015

SPE Faculty Enhancement Travel grant award 2014

Best Paper Award (Third position) Society of Petroleum Engineers NAICE2013 conference

Total/MIT/Google Empower the Teachers Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA

Shell Sabbatical Fellowship Award 2010-2012

Patents Awarded

1. Renewable charge harvesting architecture for the design of an Electric bus; Awarded in 2015

2. Low power Bidirectional Transceiver for GSM base station Transceivers. Awarded in 2016

3. Offshore Pipeline Monitoring Tool. Awarded in 2017

4. Pipeline Leak Inhibitor Tool for Onshore and Offshore Crude Oil Pipeline networks, Awarded in 2017

5. Automatic Solar Panel Cleaning Machine Awarded in 2018

6. Offshore Pipeline Leak Containment Tool Awarded in 2018

Teaching Areas

(i) Design of Electrical and ICT services

(ii) Analogue Electronics

(iii) Physics and Technology of Semiconductor devices

(iv) Internet Technology and Programming

(iii) Advanced Optical Communication (Postgraduate)

Selected Publications (41)

1. Design of a GSM phone booth for rural mobile communication.

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2. Implementation of a Low Power Sensor using the 1N4148 signal diodeImplementation of a Low Power Sensor using the 1N4148 signal diode

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3. Design of a GPS/GSM based Tracker for the location of stolen items and kidnapped or missing persons in Nigeria.

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4. Design of a GPS/GSM based Tracker for the location of stolen items and kidnapped or missing persons in Nigeria.

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5. Capacity Building Strategies for the Nigeria Educational System

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6. Comparative analysis of a weaver, Hartley and saw- filter based, image reject architectures for radio receiver design.

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7. Rural Mobile Telephony: A VSAT (Satellite) based Approach.

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8. A Review of the Fingerprint, Speaker Recognition, Face Recognition and Iris Recognition based Biometric identification technologies.

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9. Development of a communication architecture for E-Health service delivery to rural communities in developing countries

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10. Total Asset Surveillance & Management.

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11. Renewable power supply option for Smartfields implementation in oil and gas production installations in the Niger Delta.

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12. Typical Antenna configurations for digital oilfield implementation.

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13. The Flipped Classroom and Open Courseware: Tools for Improving the Quality of the Nigerian Graduate.

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14. Design of an Inline Power Supply System for Remote Oil and Gas Installations.

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15. Fiber Optic based Pipeline Oil and Gas Leak and Intruder Detection System with Security Intervention Plan

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16. The Flipped Classroom and Open Courseware: Tools for Improving the Quality of the Nigerian Graduate.

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17. Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) deployment for Wide Area Pipeline Monitoring

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18. Design of an Autonomous Pipeline Surface Inspection Robot for Offshore Pipeline Monitoring

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19. Design of an AUV Deployed Pipeline Leak Containment system for offshore Pipeline Leaks

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20. Algorithm for Source Mobile Identification and Deactivation in SMS triggered Improvised Explosive Devices.

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21. Project Management, Local Content and Value Delivery.

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22. Broadcast Television: A Tool for Rural E-Learning Deployment.

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23. RFID Laptop Monitoring and Management System

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24. Strategies for Low Cost Rural Telephony.

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25. Design of a Remote GSM based Datacentre Monitor.

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26. Design of INTEL 8751 microcontroller based system for temperature monitoring and control of thermal process.

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27. Telecommunication Cost Reduction in Nigeria through Infrastructure sharing.

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28. Design of a GPS/GSM based tracker for the location of stolen items and kidnapped or missing persons in Nigeria.

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29. Remote Operation of Oil and gas production Installations in the Niger delta.

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30. Intelligent Traffic monitoring and hybrid energy systems for BTS OPEX reduction.

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31. Design of a GSM phone booth for low cost rural Communication

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32. Low Power Transceiver based Approach to Extending Mobile Communication to the Rural Areas of Nigeria.

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33. Analysis of a Weaver, Hartley and SAW- filter based image reject architectures for radio receiver design

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34. Rural Mobile Telephony: A VSAT (Satellite) Based Approach

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35. Robust E-Health Communication Architecture for Rural Communities in Developing Countries.

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36. Current Trends and Technologies in the Oil and Gas Industry.

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37. Review of Remote Terminal Units (RTU) and Gateways for Digital Oilfield Deployments

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38. Optimal Antenna configurations for digital oilfield implementation

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39. Design and Development of Student Data Retrieval System via GSM.

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40. Development of a software solution for solar-PV power system sizing and monitoring

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41. Remote Operations Implementation: A Tool for Improved HSE Management

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Collaboration/Linkages

MIT Empower the Teachers Fellowship
Shell Sabbatical Fellowship
Nigerian Communication Commission

Conferences Attended

1. ITU World Congress Busan South Korea 2017
2. Offshore Technology Conference Houston USA 2016
3. Offshore Arabia Conference Dubai UAE 2016
4. Offshore West Africa. Lagos Nigeria 2016
5. World Congress of Engineers Conference. Imperial College London 2015
6. Abu Dhabi International Research and Development Conference and
Exhibition ADRAC2015
7. Offshore Technology Conference OTC 2014 Houston USA 2014
8. Offshore Arabia Conference Dubai 2014
9. Humanitarian Technology Conference HUMTECH 2014 Boston USA
10. Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition Abu Dhabi. ADIPEC 2014
11. 5th African Regional Conference on Engineering Education ARCEE. Lagos 2013
12. Society of Petroleum Engineers National International Conference and Exhibition. Lagos NAICE 2013
13.Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition Abu Dhabi. ADIPEC 2012
14. Society of Petroleum Engineers National International Conference and Exhibition. Lagos NAICE 2011
15. Fourth International conference on Engineering Research and Development ICERD 2012
 
 
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