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It is well known that the sun's path is set naturally under a fixed timetable and can be easily predicted using the sun's Equation by only inputting longitude, latitude and date, day, month of the year.
A designed product that can grow fresh food anywhere. Our system is called the Automated Hydroponic system where plants are cultivated indoors without soil, controlled using IoT and operated using renewable (solar) energy.
Our hydroponics innovation allows the plant’s roots to contact the nutrient-rich solution while accessing oxygen directly.
Our everyday lives rely significantly on visual input, which pose multiple challenges for the visually impaired. Technology and ingenuity have provided tools to manage some of these challenges, but close-range object detection still has not been effectively addressed. Situations such as going to a restaurant and locating utensils,
Nano OPS, Inc. is a spinout from Northeastern University with a mission to “democratize” nanomanufacturing, making it more broadly accessible to industry and entrepreneurs. Current semiconductor tools cost between $5 million to $150 million each and require manufacturing facilities costing billions of dollars to construct and more than a billion dollars/year to operate.
A set of interconnected and hinged panels are impacted by the wave striking the shore. The wave flattens the panels as they guide the water up past each succeeding panel.
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The maturity of the technologies for the guidance and control of UASs allows proposing innovative operational options such as the ability to spray a significant amount of an agent of any sort at a pre-established point in the atmosphere.
This is the case of NitroFirex,
Oil spills in oceans and waterways are self-evident. This described technology is an inexpensive method of remediating the spill. It is a compost derived from fruits and vegetables in a patented bioreactor inoculated with specific bacillus. The aerobic bioreactor monitors three levels of composition and maintains the proper temperature and oxygen levels for maximum results.
At present all motor driven and motorless exercise treadmills are dangerous by design to an adult user and in some cases deadly to a child or pet. Between 2018 to 2019 there have been 22,540 injuries needing hospital emergency visits and 17 deaths, the most recent being a child death on a Peloton treadmill.
The current boot lid design of cars is not ensuring safe, secure loading and unloading of equipment in cars. Hence, I have come up with an innovative mechanical design solution that allows safe, secure loading and unloading of equipment in cars. With the help of magnetic tracks, magnetic contacts, hinges and DC motors.
Light spectra are a very important source of information for manifold applications as, e.g., diverse classification problems for materials discrimination. Aside from this, agricultural and medical applications also came up, which measure the health condition of plants and humans. Despite the growing demand, the acquisition of multi-spectral images is presently complicated and expensive. Often, highly tailored, expensive, inflexible,
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