Sayma Shammi

Bangladesh is a developing country as recognized by the United Nations. The development of industries is one of the main rationales behind this huge achievement. But the safety measures and precautionary systems for industrial hazard management is nowhere to be improved in Bangladesh. Boiler explosion has been a major setback and has lashed the industry for years due to various reasons including ignorance of officials, lack of awareness and sometimes even due to lack of proper facilities. As a matter of fact, the accountability in this sector is thin and has been worsening as time elapses. This paper looks into the cases and analyzes the reason behind the incidents that have taken place in the history of boiler explosion. After much scrutiny, this paper deciphers the ignored parameters that have led to such menaces and thus points out measures to help create awareness and prevent the cases of boiler explosion and loss of lives and property.

Security of parked cars against theft is a long existing concern where image and video processing can offer solutions. The car owners or parking lot operators are worried about having the vehicles stolen from parking lots, so they use CCTV cameras in parking lots to detect theft. The increased use of CCTV and video surveillance indicates their success as theft deterrents but a major drawback of the system is that non-automated human monitoring of vehicles can have human errors or lapses due to human fatigue. This paper presents an automated way of detecting vehicle theft as it happens. This procedure is based on moving object detection using Canny Edge Detection method and eventually notifying the security personnel or the parking lot operator about the movement. The first step is to detect the edges through Canny method and then finding the edge change ratio to finally determine a movement. Canny is one of the modern Edge detection techniques and choosing this one over other methods is because of the double thresholding and its better performance, which makes the method described in this paper efficient and useful. This paper proves the effectiveness of the described method.