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Wastewater Detection
AS046 »
Our project will be based around wastewater detection in rivers and lakes. Specifically we will be testing in the Pittsburgh rivers region because in times of heavy rainfall, waste tends to end up in the rivers due to infrastructure problems. Our device will be able to tell the concentration of wastewater in the location where the sensor is placed.
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Monitoring and Predicting Urban Water Reservoirs
AP135 »
Water scarcity is a global crisis which is faced by many countries across the world. It is one of the most serious risk faced by the world at different sector(social, economic, political and environmental). Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of water scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage (where countries lack the necessary infrastructure to take water from rivers and aquifers).
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IOT based Smart Agriculture
AP122 »
The Continuously increasing demand of the food necessitates the rapid improvement in food production technology. In most of the developing countries, the national economy mainly depends on the Agriculture. But these countries do not able to make proper use of agricultural resources due to the high dependency on rain. Nowadays different irrigation systems are used to reduce the dependency of the rain and mostly the existing irrigation systems are driven by electrical power and manually ON or OFF scheduling controlled. The proposed system is usually designed for ensuring the proper level of water for growing up the plants all through the season. In addition, it provides maximum water usage efficiency by monitoring soil moistures at optimum level and it saves the electrical energy by turning off the motor when there is no water in the pump. The traditional methods are not efficient in controlling the illegal entry and it requires more labour work and time etc.
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sustainable fishing
AP005 »
Our project is coming up with the cutting edge End-to-End product which can help the marine species and over a 5-10 years course wild capture would be rejuvenated naturally with the ultimate solution what we offer with the existing Hardware/Software but integrating and applying it for a unique way.
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Maji Safi Mazingira Safi - Clean water Clean environment
AS003 »
Nairobi city ; as was formally known as a place of cool waters gets its freshwater from 3 main rivers and dam ; Ngong river ,Nairobi river and Ndakaini dam.
These rivers pass through the industrialized and informal(slum areas) where polution is very rampard . One notorius area is the dandora dumbsite in the poorest slum area in the east .
The rivers are full of industrial chemicals , human wastes,used oil plastics etc .
Maji Safi Mazingira safi is a collaborative project between the Focuslense (intelligent imaging and mapping company) ,the local government environment agancy NEMA; National Environment Management Agency and local community to help reduce pollution ,identify the water pollutants ,chemicals ,plastics etc . The solution involves installation of water ph , chemical level and image (video ) monitoring systems along the river, especially where pollution is rampant.
an FPGA kit is used with remote sensors and cloud connectivity to record chemical and pollution levels in the water and transmit to Azure cloud IoT . Azure AI image and video analytics is also used to analyze sources of pollution.
Focuslense electronics is an engineering company established in 2016 to help tackle challanges affecting poor and marginalized communities around Nairobi ,using computer vision ,AI ,IoT and 3D printing technology .It consists of a team of 5 software,hardware engineers,data scientists and a consultaing city planner.
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Design and Development of FPGA based Smart Sensors for Water Quality Analysis
AP025 »
Water is indispensable for the survival of every life. It needs to be protected and preserved for generations to come. Water harvesting and inadequate management of this natural resource will also contribute to its contamination. The prevention of fluorosis, a chronic illness resulting from excessive fluoride consumption, requires monitoring of all water sources in underground chloride tanneries in endemic areas. The deployable field color analyzer based on design low cost, smart sensors based on portable devices for determining chloride and lead in water. DE10-Nano Cyclone V SoC FPGA Board based set-up has been built for access through mobile apps and display the concentration of the measured sample. It has the advantages of the Internet of Things (IoT) for real-time deployment and continuous monitoring. The smart sensors developed can be integrated with it for continuous tracking of chloride, lead measurement and water quality.
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Pool Purity
AS010 »
Swimming Pools provide the perfect evaluation testbed for monitoring and control of water chemistry. PH and Chlorine levels must be monitored and controlled for the health and safety of the swimmers. Given the destabilizing effects of solar exposure, air temperature, and rainfall, additional chemistry supports stabilizing the Chlorine and PH levels. Additionally, pumps circulate the pool water through filters which impact energy consumption. Using a 28 thousand gallon pool, we intend to demonstrate the use of FPGA’s for data collection and Cloud computing for control and monitoring of water chemistry processes. Stretch goals will include using weather forecasts to anticipate and hopefully minimize both chemical and energy usage.
Because other water applications have similar issues, this work will apply to other consumers; people, livestock, and agriculture are prime examples.
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Water contamination detection
AP100 »
Water purity identificationand detection
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Static Water Bodies Monitoring system
AP129 »
With the present scenario of the world , water conservation and management is the one of the, if not the prime most, main concern. Especially in metropolitan cities like Bengaluru and its periphery, where water has depleted to almost to 300m below the water table. To rejuvenate it , the government has taken initiative of treating domestic waste water from Bengaluru to the districts of Kolar and Chikkballapur and their 40 lakes which were affected severely due to the drought previously.
The lakes are mostly situated beside farms which are over loaded with fertilizers because of misinformation of fertilizers and pesticides usage in farms. Its not easy to control run off from non-point sources like farms to the water bodies which leads to nutrients and minerals enrichment, further to eutrophication and decrement in dissolved oxygen level and imbalance in pH level, resulting in biodiversity loss and degradation of water body.
To overcome these problems, all the water bodies should be monitored on a regular basis and on the basis of data collected, authorities will make proper plan in development and rejuvenation of these water bodies and the biodiversity of this region consisting of all the lakes and farms, farmers who have farms along with these water bodies can also be encouraged to adopt for organic farming and reduce the fertilizer usage in farming.
From our Project, we will monitor the water quality, dissolved oxygen, pH level and also harmful gases that results from decomposition of organic matter,which will come of water surface which will result in green house effect and in turn global warming, and it will also provide us BOD(Biological Oxygen Demand) level of the water.
The data collected will be processed through FPGA and uploaded to cloud through iot node or long range modem to be analyzed by Government authorities and to act upon it.
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Smart Rainwater Harvesting System
AP132 »
A smart, low power implementation of a rainwater harvesting system which would sense if it's raining or not and open the water tank lid automatically to conserve water. The idea is to implement the system in normal households in a budget friendly low cost manner to maximize water conservation. The system will consist of digital logic circuits to monitor the rainwater sensing equipment by using a FSM based design approach at regular intervals. The aim would be to design a compact system that would be easy to install on any kind of water tanks.
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BioCam
AP140 »
Design and build an underwater BioCam for monitoring aquatic life, utilizing DE10Nano
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Irrigation Truth
AS048 »
We propose to develop a miniature and low power Soil Moisture Radar (SMR) designed to be mounted on either a land based farm tractor or a low flying airborne platform such as a drone. A GPS module will allow the system to construct soil moisture maps during normal daily farm operation. These maps will allow managers to view the field as a whole and to identify irrigation patterns that are not as easily recognized at ground level, reducing water use and allowing selective crop irrigation thereby reducing water consumption and increasing crop yield.