Contacts:

Emails: fidelis.mugarisanwa@nust.ac.zw, fnmugari@gmail.com Mobile phone +263 773 714 807

Qualifications:

MPhil Electronic Engineering, NUST, Zimbabwe BSc Computer Science, NUST, Zimbabwe Further Education Teacher’s Diploma, Zimbabwe

Certificate in Training Management (Zimbabwe Institute of Personnel Management) Higher Diploma in Electronic Engineering Bolton, UK

Research Interests

• Software Engineering Systems with a special interest in the design of device networks using

the Internet of Things (IoT) concept.

• Special interest in Web 3.0 technologies also known as the data web where humans and

machines interact. The author has taken advantage of the technology to develop a system

that enables sensor data processed by miniature intelligent wired and wireless devices,

connected as network endpoints, to be posted to stakeholders via messaging services such

as WhatsApp, SMS, and email, and also automatically send alerts via social networks such as

Twitter and Facebook.

• Electronic system design projects ranging from basic circuit design to development

and deployment.

Projects undertaken

Projects that have successfully been deployed include:

• Security systems that automated the monitoring of security guards’ movement around premises and produced reports that verified the guard’s login time and location.
• Remote monitoring and recording of a baby incubator’s temperature and humidity in a hospital maternity ward.
• Design of a web-based betting kiosk for lotto punters. The users would communicate with the interactive web-based interface comprising a keypad to enter their phone number and their selected number combinations and a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) to display entered numbers, validate and acknowledge them, or report any exceptional entries. The system would then send the phone and lotto numbers via the internet to a remote database. The punter would receive an SMS message as initial confirmation and in case they would receive a further message congratulating them with instructions on where to collect their prize.
• Design of a system that connected tiny intelligent wired and wireless devices as networked points which had sensors attached to them. The devices used web 3.0 technologies enabling device-to-device and device-to-human interactions to automatically send sensor data and receive commands. The system data was remotely monitored by an operator using a desktop cons dashboard as well as a mobile device and alerts were conveyed via a remote control centre used to the data to stakeholders via social networks such as
• Twitter, Facebook, and messaging services such as SMS and emails.

Conference papers

2014. Nhenga-Mugarisanwa, L.Gunda, F.T. Mangwanda and A.M. Gwebu. “An Internet-based Point-OfBetting (IPOB) for Lotto Punters”. SAIIE26 Proceedings, Muldersdrift, South Africa, 2014.

Publications

Mtunzi, B., Chamisa, M., Nyathi Z.M., Gonye R. and Mugarisanwa, F.N., (2016). Centralized incubator control system. Zimbabwe Journal of Science and Technology Vol. (11), pp 12-27. e-ISSN 2409-0360.

Affiliations: South African Institute of Industrial Engineers - SAIEE Association for Computing Machinery - ACM USA