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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become indispensable tools in defense, disaster response, infrastructure inspection, agriculture, logistics, and environmental monitoring. Despite their growing adoption, one of the major limitations of current UAV systems is their vulnerability to crash-induced structural damage. Hard landings, collisions with obstacles, and repeated operational impacts can cause cracks, delamination, fiber breakage,
Motto: "One flag, one message, one life."
The Road Signaling System for Private Medical Transport (SSTMP) is a social innovation proposal aimed at improving communication between drivers during the transport of people going through special medical situations.
The initiative consists of using simple visual signals, through standardized colored flags,
SafeNet is an AI- Assisted Traffic Safety Solution that Predicts, Prevents and Protects in an Integrated Traffic Ecosystem.
SafeNet Mobility Suite is a next-generation, AI-driven traffic safety solution designed to orchestrate heterogeneous, software-defined connected and autonomous traffic ecosystems. This is well suited for smart cities and smart environments where multiple autonomous and automated systems,
Natural disasters such as floods, cyclones, river accidents,
How it works : MediBot Home is a compact autonomous home medical robot (20×15 cm base, 45 cm height, ~1.8 kg) integrating six core technologies: a microfluidic blood analysis system (5 mL sample, ~3 min, CBC + glucose + inflammatory markers), a miniature optical microscope (×100–×400, 12 MP CMOS sensor), an onboard AI clinical report engine,
A sustainable "phygital" project that transforms dormant concrete spaces in public parks into permanent interactive landmarks. The innovation merges a weather-resilient, epoxy-painted physical infrastructure with a web application accessed via a QR code, providing a one-touch virtual dice. The zero-barrier, flat ground design is engineered to eliminate motor and sensory barriers, seamlessly integrating children,
Billions lack air conditioning as heat-related mortality rises globally. Conventional AC consumes large amounts of energy, relies on refrigerants that leak about 720 million metric tons of CO₂-equivalents annually, and remains unaffordable for much of the world. This entry presents a passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) tent that delivers 8–10°C below-ambient cooling with zero electricity, refrigerants,
High wear rate of tillage tools and the increasing difficulty of importing replacements have constituted major constraints to tillage practices on Nigerian soils. Also, farmers and equipment operators constantly complain about the high wear rate of ground tools especially in dry land agricultural areas. To this end,
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