1 Retraction note to: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (2021) 12:5589–5597 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-020-02079-8

The Editor-in-Chief and the publisher have retracted this article. This article was submitted to be part of a guest-edited issue. An investigation concluded that the editorial process of this guest-edited issue was compromised by a third party and that the peer review process has been manipulated. Based on the investigation's findings the Editor-in-Chief therefore no longer has confidence in the results and conclusions of this article.

Sujesh P. Lal disagrees with this retraction. Author P.M. Joe Prathap has not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction.