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The book covers innovative research and its applications in infrastructure development and related areas. This book discusses the state-of-art development, challenges and unsolved problems in the field of infrastructure/smart development, control engineering, power system infrastructure, smart infrastructure, waste management and renewable energy. The solutions discussed in this book encourage the researchers and IT professionals to put the methods into their practice.

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Innovation in Telecommunication Infrastructure.- Innovation in Control Engineering.- Innovation in Power system Infrastructure.- Innovation in Smart Infrastructure.- Innovation in Waste Management.- Sustainable Solutions for Infrastructure Development.- Innovation in Thermal Engineering.- Innovation in Manufacturing.- Innovation in Industrial Infrastructure.- Innovation in Renewable Energy.- Innovation in Hybrid Vehicles.- New Optimization Techniques.- Innovation in Mechatronics.- Innovation in Machine Learning.- Innovation in Indigenous and Rural technologies.

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Dipankar Deb completed his Ph.D. from University of Virginia, Charlottesville with Prof. Gang Tao, IEEE Fellow and Professor in the Department of ECE in 2007. In 2017, he was elected to be an IEEE Senior Member. He has served as a Lead Engineer at GE Global Research Bengaluru (2012-15) and as an Assistant Professor in EE, IIT Guwahati 2010-12. Presently he is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management. He leads efforts towards innovation. He is a Student Startup and Innovation Project Coordinator at IITRAM. He mentors students to build Intellectual Property Rights (Patents).
Valentina Emilia Balas is currently Full Professor in the Department of Automatics and Applied Software at the Faculty of Engineering, "Aurel Vlaicu" University of Arad, Romania. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Electronics and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. Dr. Balas is author of more Sensors, Information Fusion, Modeling and Simulation. She is the Editor-in-Chief to International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms (IJAIP) and to International Journal of Computational Systems Engineering (IJCSysE), member in Editorial Board member of several national and international journals and is the director of Intelligent Systems Research Centre in Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad. She is a member of EUSFLAT, SIAM and a Senior Member IEEE, member in TC - Fuzzy Systems (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Emergent Technologies (IEEE CIS), member in TC - Soft Computing (IEEE SMCS).

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