Result : Category II [ Student Self Challenges]

ASCII- 1^st Open Innovation Challenge 

Students Self Challenges 

   

S.No.	TITLE OF THE INNOVATION IDEA	NAME OF THE GROUP MEMBERS	DEPARTMENT OF THE GROUP MEMBERS		ABSTRACT OF THE INNOVATIVE IDEA
1	Waste Heat Recovery From Biomass Cook Stove	1.Georgy Jose 2.Jobin Augustine	1.M.Tech EEE- Department 2.M.Tech Mechanical - Department		Waste heat recovery from biomass cook stove.    Biomass is the primary fuel for cooking in rural areas of india.  The traditional cook stove has a very low thermal efficiency and emits lot of particulate matter and carbon monoxide. The project aims to recover the waste  heat from the biomass cook stove, without affecting the basic cooking operation. The objective is to feed the waste heat from the the stove and feed it to a solar still. Feeding additional temperature to the solar still will improve its output yield. When the solar still is not in operation the heat can be stored in the form of hot water in a storage tank which can then  be used for domestic purpose. Thus both efficient cooking as well as fresh water production can be enhanced through this project. The whole project is based on the concept of natural circulation. The proposed system will be very useful in remote villages as well as costal areas.
2	Home Automation Using Mobile Phones	1.Carmel Mary Jose 2.Charles Antony 3.Christy Kurian 4.Cyril Wilson	S6 -Electronics And Communication		Automation of the surrounding environment allows a modern human being to increase his work efficiency and comfort. There has been a significant development in the automation of an individual’s routine tasks. In present times, mobile phones are the most frequently and widely used gadget. Hence some daily household tasks can be accomplished by personifying the use of the mobile phone. Home automation system (has) has been designed for the dtmf tones in mobile phones to automate a microcontroller which controls a number of home appliances like lights, fans, bulbs and many more using on/off relay. The automated approach of controlling the devices in a household will ease the task of using the traditional method of the switch. The main advantage of the circuit is the vast range from which it can control the devices, ie from anywhere in the world. This circuit can be used to turn on/off electronic devices at our homes, to turn on sprinklers for specified amount of time, to open/close gates and to ensure theft prevention.
3	Energy Genaration From Wind	1.Adarsh Kumar.C 2. Akhil Benny	S6- Electronics And Communication		In recent days the power generation using renewable energy sources gained more attraction. The most commonly available and used energy resources are solar and wind. The objective presented here is the production of the electricity from the wind that caused by the passing of the vehicles in highways by the principle of electromagnetic induction. In highways there are huge amount of wind energy generated by the passing of vehicles. So our aim is to convert this wind energy in to electricity by using the principle electromagnetic induction. We know that in present days the street lights in highways are glow by solar power. That is the one of the best renewable energy source in the world. But one of the main drawback is we can   generate power only in day time. But in this project this problem is solved. We can generate power day time as well as in night also. We are standing in the side of highways we can experience an amount air pressure by the passing of vehicles in highways. We can convert this wind energy in to electricity by using some wind shields, iron rod and a magnetic field. By using this method we can generate power and can easily glow the street lights. It requires only first installation cost and no other maintains cost is required. So this setup can be used in the highway side for glowing the street light as well as the power required for operating traffic signal system.
4	Ts System	1.Joel John 2.Josna Joseph 3.Jobin Chacko Jacob		S6 -Eletronics And Communication Engineering	Now a day's accidents caused by speedy buses are increasing. Most of them are caused by passengers or conductors carelessness. Some of the reasons that we can point out are 1. Bus starts moving while  someone is climbing the steps 2.bus traveling without closing the door which some times leads to accidents 3.people standing on the stairs near the door.    So our group suggests a new safety measure ,a simple solution  towards this problem by creating a module which avoid the bus from moving when a person is climbing the step or if the door is not closed and will decrease the speed below 40kmph   if someone climbs down the step during the running time. This system will also include a display that will alert the driver when some one climbs down the steps.We hope bus accidents caused by the above noted problems will decrease to a certain rate.
5	Landmine Detection	1.Tibin Thomas 2.Tency Thomas 3.Teenu Mary 4.Mathew 5. Teena John		S6- Electronics And Communication	Metal detectors are fascination machines. Many of the people who use them are just asenthusiastic about extolling the virtues of their favourite  metal detector as they are about setting off in search of buried treasure. This is the primary means by which we determine how well we are doing our jobs, and what sort of things we need to do better. Sometimes though, communication is difficult.  The most commonly used metal detection technology is very low frequency (vlf), also known as induction balance. In this type of metal detector, there are two rings: an outer coil called the transmitter coil and an inner coil called the receiver coil. The transmitter coil has an electric current running through it, which creates an electromagnetic field. This magnetic pulse interacts with any conductive object it passes over, causing that object to create a weaker magnetic field of its own; it is this magnetic pulse from the object that the receiver coil senses. The receiver coil is shielded from thetransmitter coil's magnetic field, but can pick up magnetic pulses sent by other objects. The receiver coil amplifies these frequencies and sends them to the control box for analysis using this metal detector technowledgy in a robot land mine detection has become much easier and possible..we use a much simpler low cost circuit to make this technowledgy much more cheaper and easier
6	Automatic Dress Folder	1.Jibin Chacko Thomas 2.Sanju Jose 3.Samjo K 4.Tony Joseph		S4 Mechanical Engineering	This invention relates to novel and improved means for automatically folding garments such as shirts, t-shirts, towels etc. An object of the invention is to provide novel means for automatically folding garments longitudinally and transversally by power means. The folding plate or wing plate is being hinged at the outer end of each arm. The shirt is placed beneath this assembly, button strip down and arms extended. In the folding sequence, the wings are swung inwardly making the first fold. A transverse fold for the shirt can be made at any intermediate points. Two locking mechanisms are employed in order to retain a perfect shape and size for the shirt after folding. The three flaps will be working once per cycle. The wings and arms are independently mounted and are independently operatable and controllable for tilting movement around a common axis. The purpose of this tilting movement is to bring the arms and wings into and out of folding positions with shirt. This machine comprises novel apparatus for execution of the method.
7	Energy Generation From Footsteps	1.Angel Kurien 2.Anjali B 3.Anjaly P.O. 4.Ann Mary Antony		S6  ECE Department	A shoe-embedded piezoelectric energy harvester for wearable sensors  harvesting mechanical energy from human motion is an attractive approach for obtaining clean and sustainable electric energy to power wearable sensors, which are widely used for health monitoring, activity recognition, gait analysis and so on. This paper studies a piezoelectric energy harvester for the parasitic mechanical energy in shoes originated from human motion. The harvester is based on a specially designed sandwich structure with a thin thickness, which makes it readily compatible with a shoe. Besides, consideration is given to both high performance and excellent durability. The harvester provides an average output power of 1 mw during a walk at a frequency of roughly 1 hz. Furthermore, a direct current (dc) power supply is built through integrating the harvester with a power management circuit. The dc power supply is tested by driving a simulated wireless transmitter, which can be activated once every 2–3 steps with an active period lasting 5 ms and a mean power of 50 mw. This work demonstrates the feasibility of applying piezoelectric energy harvesters to power wearable sensors.
8	Aid To Elderly Wanderers	1.Christy Maria George 2.Amitha Elsa Chacko		S4- Electronics And Communication	Deals with development of a sytem with can alert a person (who takes care of them) when a patient walks or wanderers from bed(elderly).basic idea is to use sensor at the feet ot the patient(pressure sensor) which can be used to actually alert a person elsewhere e using a Smartphone app. also planning to try and add many more like say automatic switching on of lights at night when the elderly walks.It can be well used in cases were the patient cant walk without help and cases of wandering like Alzheimer suferers.basically lets to monitor them and its an automatic call for help for them.
9	Automated Railway Station Crossover	1.Christy Maria George 2.Amitha Elsa Chacko		S4- Electronics And Communication	An automated platform crossing bridge in railway station. The bridge appears automatically when it is safe ie, no train arriving . This would help prevent the tedious climbing of steps to cross platforms. Sensors have to be placed like at a proper distance from the station and the bridge has to move from the track at a safe time before the arrival of the train.