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ABSTRACT
Recently, wind turbines have been growing in size and complexity and blades have grown to be larger than 80 ft in length and weigh 40 tons, submitting them to stronger loads. Now they are being deployed offshore, looking for steadier and stronger winds.
The consumption of bottled water is ever increasing. India is amongst top 10 bottled water consumers. Thus, tremendous plastic waste is generated every day at public places like railway stations.
This plastic waste is segregated manually which is quite erroneous. Impurities in the segregated plastic creates major problems for the recyclers.
Loss Of Control In-flight (LOC-I) is the most frequent cause of General Aviation accidents and incidents. The proposed concept aims at preventing the risk of occurrence of a LOC-I by providing an indication of the current margins to aerodynamic stall conditions, the most frequent cause of LOC-I.
Biometrics can be used at many places like Industries, Offices, and Colleges or even at our home. This project is a fine combination of “Biometrics technology” and “Embedded system technology." Fingerprint sensor is the main part of this system. It makes use of Biometric sensor to detect a fingerprint. Fingerprint sensors use various types of techniques like ultrasonic method,
Energy Intelligence is developing an alternative energy solution that generates electricity in places with a high density of vehicle traffic, such as toll plazas, parking garages, bus stations, and border crossings. The potential value of energy that could be generated at these sites worldwide exceeds $10B annually, yet no system exists that is inexpensive, mechanically simple,
In India most of the vehicles are parked in an open environment that is exposed to sunlight directly and temperature outside can go beyond 40 degree Celsius in summer. Due to this effect the inside temperature of a parked vehicle may go up to 120 degree Celsius due to convection, conduction and radiation.
Free standing flexible capillary made from silicone elastomer for medical and soft robotic applications.
Free standing flexible capillary was fabricated using 3 steps molding and demolding techniques.
Step 1:- On a rigid and sturdy base a plastic or Teflon tubing was placed horizontally and firmly attached to the base using self adhesive tapes.
Using electromagnets and magnetic piston in contemporary IC engines is the crux of the idea. Apart from achieving the torque and HP equivalent to the contemporary IC engine, it consumes power equivalent to that of a 12 volt car battery. The benefit is less pollution and it can be integrated with solar cells too.
The project is mostly inspired by true circumstances like an Engineer needed in Automation when he is far away, a Doctor needed in a surgery with a team, an Employee having to attend a video conference from far end of the world etc. Recon robot substitutes the presence of a person when there is urgency.
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Aid visually or hearing impaired users via Augmented Glasses (AG), WiFi, and GPS. Used with mobile devices - smartphones and tablets - to identify buildings, called Locations with this capability. AG or mobile devices allow hands-free or touch pad control to the system. Operates in two modes, Hearing (user can hear) and Visual (user can see).
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