While going through newspaper or while browsing, you may find an article where a technology useful to masses was developed. You may find a good website where a lot of useful information on renewable energy, environmental pollution, waste management, recycling etc is given. Imagine having such a database of articles and website which are libraries by themselves..
Here are few articles and websites which we found.
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The NANO’s from TATA may be due out in a month’s time but there is another NANO coming from TATA and this time the fruits go to the Indian Farmers.
Called as ‘NANO GANESH‘, this project will allow farmers to operate their irrigation pump sets in their farm lands from any remote place.
I remember seeing this project first perform by a Village boy which was telecasted in a TV channel. He used 2mobile phones in which one was fitted to the motor in the farm land and other stays with him. When ever he makes a call to that number, it vibrates and the motor starts. Similarly he rings it again and the motor turns off.
Credit: Nano Ganesh
May be that was the inspiration behind this project. This project, which is the first of its kind in India, is being developed by Tata Indicom in partnership with Ossian Agro automation.
Since there is a specialized company behind this, the system will be more rugged unlike the raw performance by that boy which I said before.
The entire set consists of 2 mobile phones and a remote modem like instrument which will be fixed to the motoralong with a mobile phone. The network used here will be Tata Indicom and the way it works is the same as said above.
This system is currently being tested in Gujarat and if found to be a success, it’ll be spread across the country.
The entire set costs around Rs.2700 which includes a modem, a cell phone with TATA Indicom connection with life time validity.
Looking at the way it works, this should just be the tool a farmer in a village needs where the power get delivered at nights or where there in intermittent supply of power. In addition he also gets an alarm when there is any theft attempt made to his set in the field.
Ref-http://www.sriraj.org/india/nano-ganesha-remote-irrigation-pump-starter-tata-indicom/
Plastic waste sorting equipment launched
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: And, now technology that helps segregate plastic based on the polymer to curb wastage during recycling or filter out the bad mangoes in the bunch to ensure that only good fruit enters the market.
The Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute (CEERI) unit in Chennai on Wednesday transferred to industry two technologies developed at its laboratories on the Taramani campus of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
The plastic waste sorting system project supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests deploys Near Infra Red (NIR) spectroscopy to identify poly-ethylene terephthelate (PET) materials before recycling. The equipment, which uses NIR rays in the 700-2,500 nano metre electromagnetic spectrum, will segregate different kinds of plastic on a scale of sensor values for each base polymer.
Apart from carrying immense social benefit, the equipment is expected to address a major issue for recycling industries — the enormous wastage when different types of plastic get mixed up during recycling of PET.
At present, the equipment can differentiate six types of plastic — poly-ethylene, poly-ethylene terephthelate, poly-propylene, poly-vinyl chloride, high density poly ethylene and poly-styrene. However, the experimental lab model sorts only PET on a throughput of 200 kg per hour. The technology was transferred to Bangalore-based Dintis Technologies.
Segregation of mangoes
CEERI also showcased a device that segregates good mangoes from the bad at the maturation stage. The x-ray imaging-based mango sorting system uses the same technique deployed at baggage screening at airports and helps detects spongy tissue or seed weevil infestation that are not apparent externally. The machine is particularly useful for traders exporting bulk quantities of exotic varieties such as the Alphonse mango.
The technology was transferred to Proteck Circuits and Systems in Chennai.
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