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Make the auto-pilot on cars that will stay in a highway lane, maintain the speed limit, slow down to not hit the car in front. The car would have a bar code scanner that would read the signs and notify the driver of such things as upcoming exits or speed changes.
All this technology is currently available.
The Idea we intervened from the need of Farmers and Agricultural Growth of our country. The idea is to provide small scale farmers a modern age cost-effective, better & safer "QUAD BIKE" (Mini Tractor) which will fulfill their daily agricultural & transportation requirements.
Presently small scale farmers are using bullock carts for farming their fields and other agricultural needs.
In today's world safety and precautions are a must while riding a two wheeler vehicle. The intelligent helmet has various innovations embedded in it to provide the user an effecient way of living. It has the following benefits:
1. It detects the speed of the other vehicles travelling on the road.
Abstract— the current world has an acute shortage of power & fuel. If the price of power & fuel fluctuates the entire human community is upset and the entire system confused. Since most of the fuel energy is consumed by automobiles we focus on the need to find
Department of Automation and Robotics in Mechanical Engineering of Tomsk Polytechnic University had completed design Assembly Immersion Control for I-DEAL TECHNOLOGIES GmbH.
Assembly Immersion Control use for nondestructive inspection mechanical engineering products.
Assembly is a welded modular construction from three parts.
1 part is a model with water container and mobile desk.
Background :
When an emergency braking situation occurs, people panic to control the vehicle to avoid the accident. But unlikely we should not be able to control the vehicle (refer Fig 1 to 5 without wind catcher). Why? Because all our primary, secondary, parking brake system depends upon surface contact between tyer and road. Even ABS/ESP can’t prevent the above situation.
The Reciprocating type Internal Combustion engines have been serving the world and boosting the automobiles since last 150 years. A lot of advancements in this field have occurred till now to increase and optimize its performance. But the constraint with respect to the space in the engine compartment of an automobile has unfortunately put a stop to this optimization.
Flexolar is an ecological lantern intended for both indoor and outdoor environments. It is a design intended to reduce waste and pollution caused by chemical batteries. It uses sunlight as an energy source. It doesn't use batteries; instead it has a composite flexible ultracapacitor that has numerous thin layers of graphene and silicone.
Urometry Bluetooth Technology
Description: This is a kidney sensor belt to measure urine flow from the kidneys to the bladder. The goal is to determine urine output for hospitalized patients as well as ambulatory patients.
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There are numerous high rise buildings in most cities situated either by narrow lanes or only their front sides face the main (wide) road and the other three sides face narrow lanes. lf fire breaks out in such narrow lanes facing buildings, much time is required to douse or control it,
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