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According to the World Health Organization, there are over 1 Billion people with disabilities on the planet. They are the group with the highest risk of social exclusion. Around 300 million people with disabilities are non-verbal and depend on alternative communication devices.
Moved by the needs of his disabled daughter, our CEO and Founder Carlos Pereira created Livox,
The proposed system is a simple, effective means to stop children from being inadvertently left in cars. With today’s current state of inexpensive/high performance IoT devices and communication, there is no reason that a moment’s inattention should lead to a loss of life.
If a parent/caregiver makes the tragic mistake of leaving a young child in a closed vehicle,
Take a walk around the edge of your garden, and with each step you trim the edge of your lawn.
Easily attachable to your boots/gardening shoes, every time you step down closes the clipper and cuts the grass. When you lift your feet, a spring under your boots opens clipper while the other foot does the clipping.
Many moon missions are being carried out by various countries but the end result is not yet known. Temperature on moon surface varies approx. from +130 to -150 degree c. So growing plants is difficult. But plants have an ability to adapt and adjust with extreme environmental changes.
Background:
Carbon dioxide emissions are costing the world economy every year. It is likely to suffer highest economic damage from climate change after the US. The country-level SCC for India alone is estimated to be about $86 per ton of CO2. For US, the cost is about $50 billion per ton.
The cranes that are used in hydrotherapy, most of all in swimming pools, are used to move up and down patients with some disabilities. Many of these cranes are hydraulic and maneuvered manually; only a few are semi-automatic and use an electric actuator. The problem is that its use is very rudimentary and not very precise;
Blindsight
Wouldn't it be great if blind people could be warned of obstructions and or dangerous areas ahead. With this device they could. It is envisioned to start with a normal looking eyeglass frame upon the sides of which are tiny cameras such as are used in many cell phones.
This device is a dispenser for a measured amount of liquid, bleach, water softener, etc., into a toilet tank with each flush. The valve works on the principal of differential densities between water and the valve shuttle. The volume dispensed is the volume of the cavity formed by the valve shuttle and the base of the unit.
The project proposes a model of variable rate automatic microcontroller based irrigation system. Solar power as known is used as a clean source of energy that can be used in any system and also it is used in this system.
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