09/05/2017
PUNE: The colleges have developed a tyre
temperature monitoring system for vehicles which will send alert to the smart phone,
thus enabling a driver to know when to stop.
It’s summertime and while overheating, leading to
bursting of tyres, could be the one of the biggest cause of accidents, a group
of students and professors from Bharatiya Vidyapeeth College of Engineering
(BVCOE) have come up with a solution. They have developed a tyre temperature
monitoring system for vehicles, which will send the real-time temperature of
the tyres to the smartphone, thus enabling a driver to know when to stop.
In fact this isn’t the only innovation the BVCOE
showcased during a press conference on Monday, held to showcase seven new
products and ideas students and professors at the institute have developed. All
these products are currently in process of being patented.
“I felt the need to develop a monitoring system for
overheating of tyres as one of my student had died due to a similar rupturing
of the vehicle’s tyre. How it works is simple. The temperature would be sent to
a display app on driver’s phone and if tyre is overheated then driver gets a
warning to stop and allow tyre to cool. If the system gets commercial use, it
will warn the drivers and help reduce such accidents.”, said Rajesh B Ghongade,
a faculty from from department of Electronics and Telecommunication, BVCOE, who
was also the professor in charge for the project.
Another road safety related innovation was about how
to decrease the reverse impact force generated when the vehicle hits the
divider. This force is directly transferred to the passengers and is also the
reason for about 15percent of the deaths due to road accidents. A faculty
Sachin Chavan from department of mechanics along with 10 students came up with
a solution to change the material with which road dividers are made —
substituting concrete with biomimetic resins, thermocol and nanofibersto
cushion the impact.
“Our aim is to reduce the impact so that the fatality
of the injury is reduced and it results in higher chance of survival of the
person,” said Chavan. Some other students from the department of mechanics also
came up with an inventive natural metallic cookstove that uses biogas as a
fuel. About 100 households were surveyed from Kalyan village and then the
project was developed over a span of an year.
At the department of chemical engineering, students
have worked on issues like adsorbing carbon dioxide on naturally synthesised
materials like waste tea leaves or tackling fluorosis by reducing the
concentration of fluoride using biosorbents. “ Water hyacinth are harmful to
the marine life, but using this same plant as a fluoride adsorbent will help
both the aquatic animals and the humans.” said Ashwni Gajbhiye, a student
pursuing M. Tech.
Speaking at the press conference, Principal Anand
Bhalerao said the college is trying to develop itself into a research
institute. “We want to go from lab to land,” he ended.
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