DCU Expo 2024 - Final Year Projects

46 48. Votegrity This project develops a secure and decentralised blockchain-based voting system to enhance the integrity and authenticity of democratic processes. Employing cutting-edge and innovative technologies, it investigates cryptographic techniques to safeguard voting information, utilises advanced symmetric encryption technology and employs smart contracts for transparent and tamper-resistant vote counting. The project aims to address existing challenges in traditional voting systems and contribute to the evolution of secure and verifiable digital votingmechanisms. Student Programme Computer Applications Project Area Web Application, Blockchain Technology Project Technology Docker, JavaScript, MySQL, Nodejs, Python, REST, Vue.js, Solidity, Ethereum, Web3.js Student Name(s) Rishabdev Sidhu  |  Thomas Kelly Email rishabdev.sidhu2@mail.dcu.ie   |   thomas.kelly46@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr GeoffHamilton 49. Detection of Terrestrial Schumann Resonances at Extremely Low Frequencies for Global LightningMonitoring There are around 2000 thunderstorms in progress worldwide at any given moment, generating roughly 40 lightning flashes per second. Lightning activity in the Earth’s upper atmosphere generates electromagnetic pulses known as “sferics”. They can propagate with virtually no attenuation in the spherical waveguide formed between the surface of the Earth and the ionised part of the upper atmosphere, known as the ionosphere. The fundamental frequency of this waveguide is at ~8Hz and is known as the Schumann resonance (SR). This project concerns the design and test of a small-scale SR receiver antenna and filter circuit, as well as the simulation of SR as the input to a transfer function model of the circuit. Student Programme Electronic and Computer Engineering (Year 4) Project Area Circuit Modelling, Device Design, Simulation, Antenna Engineering, Signal Processing Project Technology Fast Fourier Transform, Matlab, LTSpice Student Name(s) Oisín Thurlow Email oisin.thurlow2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr Pascal Landais 50. VOCA - An EthereumZero-Knowledge Transfer Rollup VOCA leverages Zero-Knowledge (ZK) cryptography with ZK rollups to boost ETH/ERC-20 transfer scalability and efficiency. This approach significantly reduces transaction fees and increases processing speeds, directly addressing Ethereum’s scalability challenges. By ensuring secure off-chain computations and on-chain verifiability, VOCA aims to alleviate network congestion and enhance user experience. Its implementation demonstrates the potential of cryptographic innovations to improve blockchain scalability, contributing to amore robust Ethereum ecosystem. Student Programme Computer Applications Project Area Cryptography, Distributed Systems, Software Development, Web Application, Blockchain Technology Project Technology CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, SQL, React.js, Solidity, Circom Student Name(s) SenanWarnock  |  Zak Smith Email senan.warnock2@ @mail.dcu.ie   |   zak.smith2@mail.dcu.ie Supervisor Dr GeoffHamilton