Last year, November 2019 a pandemic started threatening the entire world. Covid-19 is a deadly, highly contagious virus with no proven cure or a vaccine up until now. When Sri Lanka went under lock-down in March, the country was not prepared to battle with it immediately. But, with unity and the amazing dedication of the health professionals, 3 Forces, Police, PHI's we were able to successfully control the spread. But, it was not easy.
At a time of crisis, when the country went into full lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the health sector did not have a sufficient amount of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) due to no imports, no in-house production. I designed a Re-Usable Face Shield and Started production at the Faculty with the support of Vice-Chancellor, Dean, Lecturers...
This project was initiated primarily to help the hospitals when it comes to handling patients, clinics and to provide quick and effective sanitization procedure to save time and prevent spread of covid virus.
Near-Infrared spectroscopy is used for better vein visualization to make the venipuncture process more efficient. There exist a few models which use the said mechanism. However, they are costly, have accuracy and availability issues, and are limited only to certain types of skin tones. Our objectives were to develop a low-cost mechanism of obtaining near-infrared spectroscopy by using the image-guided technique, low-cost hardware, optimized algorithms, and evaluate its efficiency and usefulness by a clinical trial.
This is the latest project initiated by our department towards a greener, healthier future for the university and for the world. This project consists of the entire platform for a bike sharing system including mobile app, web frontend for management, hardware for bicycle docks, hardware for bicycle tracking with a fully fledged backend handling relevant requests and monitoring.
This is an ongoing project and following link will lead you to the web frontend of the system which is under development.
Composting cycle needs to be carefully monitored over time to ensure that the compost heap will go through the ideal cycle in order for it to become nutritious and fit for purpose. However, conventional monitoring is done by manually taking temperature and moisture level of the compost heap continuously which is tedious and time consuming. Our solution provides an IOT platform along with the required hardware for this monitoring to be autonomous and continuous without much human interaction.
A wearable which monitors the vital signs of a human being which will provide a remote monitoring system through a mobile app or a web interface making it possible to constantly monitor your loved ones. The system provides notifications and alerts based on the health status of the patient and provides reminders on medication and many more features. This was our embedded systems course project.