About

Kennedy Chinedu Okafor is a leading researcher at the intersection of the Internet of Things (IoT), networked robotics, and cyber-physical systems, with a focus on intelligent automation for healthcare and assistive technologies. His work addresses critical challenges in deploying reliable, energy-efficient robotic systems, particularly for mission-critical applications like pandemic mitigation and support for the visually impaired. Okafor’s major contributions include pioneering the integration of software-defined reliability optimization in IoT-TelosB service care robots, as seen in his most-cited work (19 citations), and developing a co-infection model using IoT-networked robots to control COVID-19 spread in closed populations (8 citations). He has also advanced wearable robotics with an energy-conservative obstacle detection system for the visually impaired (6 citations) and proposed a cyber-physical home automation controller using memristive reconfigurable state machines. His notable achievements include designing an OpenFlow virtual appliance for cloud security monitoring (7 citations), showcasing his versatility across network forensics and cloud computing. With a growing citation impact, Okafor’s research is shaping the future of smart healthcare, assistive robotics, and secure IoT deployments, making him a key figure in developing resilient, human-centric autonomous systems.

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H-Index
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Papers
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Total Citations
7
Avg Citations/Paper
🏆 Most Cited Paper
Smart deployment of IoT-TelosB service care StreamRobot using software-defined reliability optimisation design
19 citations · 2022
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2022 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 13
🏛 Institutions: Federal University of Technology Owerri, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Johannesburg, University of Chichester

Top Papers

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    OpenFlow Virtual Appliance
    7 citations · 2015
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