SIICTHON

List of Problems:

• Provide cost effective measures to automate homes and prevent thefts in residential zones.
• Pure and safe drinking water is not a luxury. Provide versatile measures to purify water.
• Climate change is today’s major problem. Weather conditions are quite unpredictable. Determine efficient ways for the officials to communicate to the farmers about the same; so that crop-damage can be minimized.
• Old people usually don’t have the strength to lift heavy objects. Provide economic ways to aid such citizens to carry out their daily chores independently with ease.
• Clogged drains and sewage are a headache to citizens, especially during the monsoon season. Provide mechanisms to detect such drain leakages and clogs.
• Garbage management is a serious issue in urban areas. Automation has come a far way since the 90’s. Determine ways to efficiently manage waste and the way of conveying them from the sources to the dumps.
• E-waste is hazardous to the environment and the life in it. Provide efficient methods to separate e-waste and plastic.
• Every farmer works hard for his yield. Pesticides play a significant role to reduce pest-infestation. However, spraying them can pose a serious threat to his health. Provide automated ways to spray appropriate pesticides on the field.
• It’s the 21st century and the internet has become a necessity. However, rural areas don’t have proper internet. Provide efficient ways to connect such areas with decent internet services.
• Water pollution is a problem that is being debated and discussed for quite a while now. Fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural wastes are being washed into domestic water bodies. These waters are being used for cooking, bathing and other domestic purposes, this might result in severe illness. Suggest effective measures to detect the level water pollution at such “domestic-hotspots”.
• Fisheries are the livelihood to some farmers. Excessive feeding can seriously impact the health of the stock. Develop economic methods to detect excessive food quantities in fisheries.
• Food storage is a must for every household. The government maintains storage units to store pulses and other food items but the technology to store sea-food isn’t being catered well. Develop economic ways to use climate-control as a parameter to implement sub-zero storage units.
• Boating facilities in rivers and ponds cause pollution in water. The toxic waste released by the motor-boats disturb the ecosystem and cause chemical imbalances in the water. Develop economic measures to reduce carbon emissions from motors.
• Fish count in a fishery usually depends on probability distribution and statistical data. While they may be accurate, they don’t provide real-time analysis. Provide economic ways to determine the live fish-count in a fishery.
• Quality of soil is an important parameter in agriculture. Determine economic ways to analyse the quality of a soil-sample and study the level of its fertility.
• Pests are a headache to farmers. Rodents like rats, mice destroy crops and decrease the yield. Design economic devices to trap such rodents effectively.
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• Rain is a source of water that many farmers rely on. Most of it goes to waste due to the improper rain-water harvesting mechanisms. Demonstrate an economic way to improve/redesign rain-water harvesting.
• Harvesting of cotton crops can be a tedious job to undertake. Design a solution to ease this job, in an economic way.
• Citizens need to pay for the electricity they use. Some anti-socials might obtain an illegal electricity connection for which they don’t pay. Suggest methods to effectively detect and disable such connections.
• Red wood and sandal wood are expensive properties. Smugglers target these reserves and monitored-forests to smuggle wood and sell them illegally. Develop economic ways to detect and report felling (cutting trees) in such areas.
• Maintaining railway tracks is an expensive and tedious job. Waste on these tracks can result in accidents and casualties. Suggest economic ways to remove waste between railway tracks and safely dispose them, using automated procedures.
• Water is a resource that cannot be taken for granted anymore and it is being wasted at an alarming rate. Suggest economic automated methods to curb the excessive usage of water, to water plants, gardens or crops.
• “Drunk and Drive” is a serious crime and can result in accidents and casualties. Design economic systems to detect such cases and report them to the officials immediately.
• Crowds in public places like bus-shelters can be annoying. Suggest economic ways to reduce crowds at such places by reporting population in an area. Consider diverting newly-arriving people to a different location.
• Textile industries favour low-cost materials for high production value. Without skimping on the quality of the materials, design an efficient automated system that selects the best quality materials from a bunch of raw materials.
• Farmers need to take a crucial decision on which crop they must use for a particular type of soil. Design an economic device that addresses this problem for the farmers.
• Traffic lights were implemented to control traffic, in the first place. But they’ve become a nuisance and create more traffic than they control. Develop a smart traffic light system that analyses the traffic intensity and switches accordingly.
• Mosquitos carry dangerous diseases. Design efficient systems that repel mosquitos. Such systems must be versatile to be used near public-toilets, eateries, etc.
• Fertilizer and pesticides are used by farmers to control pests and rodents in their fields. However, they must be mixed in the right proportions for them to be effective. Design an economic system that determines the proportions for a selected range of fertilizers and chemicals.
• Stagnant water bodies attract algae and fungi. They also attract plants like water hyacinth. These plants cover the entire water-surface and block the sunlight, threatening the aquatic life.
• ATMs are the go-to places for people to withdraw money immediately. Unfortunately, they are not completely safe. Design systems that can detect unusual and suspicious activity in such environments and report them to the nearby police stations.
• Workers at the milk collection centres in villages adulterate milk by varying the fat content in it. Design economic systems to detect adulterated milk and determine the percentage of adulteration in it.

Note:

• Only 2nd year B.tech E.C.E students of G.K.C.E can participate in this SIICTHON.
• You can select any one of the above given problems.
• The candidates who are interested can send their details to our mail.id given in contact us page.
• The batch should contain min of 2 and max of 4 members.
• There will be a registration fee of 100Rs/- per each batch.
• For any other details contact our coordinators.
• The batches who shows better solutions for the above given problems will be selected as members of SIIC

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