Research Projects 

Area of Interests:

•   Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems

•   Activity Recognition in Smart Environments

•   Ambient Intelligence and Smart Homes 

Research Grants

Project Leader: 

  1. Edge-Enhanced IoT System for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring: Integrating Local Large Language Models. Researcher: *Thinagaran Perumal,                               RM16,000,     Geran Putra Inisiatif (GPI), On-Going. 

2. An Efficent Edge-Based Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Multi-Resident Activity Recognition in Smart Home Environment, Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), RM164,348, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Raihani Mohamed, Razali Yaakob, Erzam Marlisah and Norwati Mustapha, On-Going. 

3. Semantic Interoperability Framework for Heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT Objects), (9653000), Geran Putra Inisiatif Siswazah, RM 25,000, June 2018 – June 2020, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Suman Sukhavasi, Razali Yaakob and Norwati Mustapha, Completed. 

4. Enhanced spatio-temporal event model for Internet of Things (IoT) service provisioning, Geran Putra Berimpak (9549700), RM 122,000, September 2017- August 2019, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Iskandar Ishak, Razali Yaakob and Norwati Mustapha, Completed. 

5. User centered Internet of Things Devices for Elderly in Ambient Assisted Living, Taylor Funding Scheme, RM 35,800, February 2018 – July 2019, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Goh Wei Wei, Filzah Md Isa and Sumathi Balakrishnan, Completed. 

6. Embedded System Based Ambient Informatics for Smart Home Sustainability, Geran Putra Inisitatif Muda (9437200), RM50,000, September 2014 – September 2016, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Md Nasir Sulaiman, Completed. 

7. Development of an ambient intelligence based activity recognition model for ageing citizens, Taylor Funding Scheme, RM 22,090, November 2017 – October 2018, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Goh Wei Wei and Sumathi Balakrishnan, Completed. 

Co-Researcher/Members:

1. Internet of Things (IOT) Based Aquaculture, Researchers: Abdul Rashid Bin Mohamed Shariff, Hasfalina Binti Che Man, Norulhuda Binti Mohamed   Ramli, Sharifah Mumtazah Binti Syed Ahmad Abdul Rahman, Thinagaran Perumal, Ir. Dr.Goh Chin Hock, Mr. Yosuke Uchiyama, Prof Dato Dr. Mohamed Shariff Mohamed Din,  RM 200,660.00, The Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) Grant Scheme, On-Going.

2. Enhanced Fall Detection Framework For Smart Home Environment (9644700), Geran Putra Inisiatif Sisawazah, RM 25,000, April 2018 – April 2020, Researchers: Athi Mahendran, Razali Yaakob, Thinagaran Perumal, and Erzam Marlisah, Completed.

3. A New Optimization with new metric formulation for SVM classifier in dealing with imbalanced datasets, FRGS Grant Scheme (5524660), RM 88,000, December 2014 – August 2017, Researchers: Md Nasir Sulaiman, Norwati Mustapha, and Thinagaran Perumal (Member), Completed.

4. A new countermeasure method to minimize consistency anomalies in heterogeneous sensor databases based on relaxed – ACID and BASE properties, FRGS Grant Scheme (5524834), RM 66,000, November 2015 – May 2018, Researchers: Iskandar Ishak, Fatimah Sidi, Hamidah Ibrahim, and Thinagaran Perumal (Member), Completed.

5. Ambient Intelligence for Smart Buildings, Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS), RM 70,090, June 2013 – May 2015, Ministry of Education, Malaysia, Researchers: Md Nasir Sulaiman, Norwati Mustapha, Khaironi Yatim Sharif, and Thinagaran Perumal (Member), Completed.

6. Black Hole Attack Detection and Mitigation in Mobile Adhoc Network (MANET) (9543700), Geran Putra IPS, RM 15,000, August 2017 – August 2018, Researchers: Fazirul Hisyam, Samia Khan, Fadlee Rasid, and Thinagaran Perumal (Member), Completed.

7. Spatial Smart City Delivery Engine, Techno Fund, MOSTI (TF0813E269), RM 233,000, 2014 – 2016, Researchers: Shattri Mansor, Abd Rahman Ramli, Thinagaran Perumal, Zailani Khuzaimah, and Siti Nooradzah Adam, Completed.

8. Geran Putra Inisiatif Sisawazah, RM 25,000, April 2018 – April 2020, Researchers: Athi Mahendran, Razali Yaakob, Thinagaran Perumal, and Erzam Marlisah, On-Going.

9. Taylor Funding Scheme, RM 22,090, November 2017 – October 2018, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Goh Wei Wei, and Sumathi Balakrishnan, Completed.

10. Taylor Funding Scheme, RM 35,800, February 2018 – July 2019, Researchers: Thinagaran Perumal, Goh Wei Wei, Filzah Md Isa, and Sumathi Balakrishnan, On-Going.