Project Highlights
Watbot W13, a students’ team from VIT Chennai, chose water and waste management as their sector.
Two-thirds of the world is covered by water bodies – home to mysterious and life-sustaining organisms. The world’s oceans and seas serve as a carbon sink, helping maintain a balance as humans upset the balance with all our greenhouse gas emissions. Every year we produce three hundred million tons of plastic. A fraction of these plastic wastes get collected in rivers, other waterways eventually landing up in the oceans.
Our proposal of a solution involves in engineering a bot which will be used to clear different solid wastes accumulated on the surface of the water bodies. If most of these solid wastes are prevented from landing into the oceans, the efficiency of the five major carbon sinks can be maintained at a relatively better level, when compared to the present situations.
Who is Behind this Project?
The team is led by Mr. Abhinav Thakur and the team members are
- Vishal Garg
- Manish Bharadwaj
- Abhinav Thakur
- Sudarshan K. Thorve
What is the Project all about?
Watbot is a waste sensing bot that go on top of water bodies to collect waste and also segregate them. Basically this whole bot structure will be using motors to run it over the water bodies that will be charged by the batteries. Batteries will be charged using solar panels. Crane like structure will be used to collect waste from the water.
The main parts constitute the proximity sensors, GPS navigation to detect the location of our bot and cameras with 10x zoom to focus on the wastes. Weight sensors are also fitted to collect the waste up to certain limit after which the bot will be moving towards the dumping ground.
This technology will be highly useful for the ever growing problem of cleaning wastes present in water bodies.
What is the Uniqueness of the Solution?
WATBOT is pretty compact in its design and manageable to control. The dome like structure of the WATBOT helps in giving symmetrical weight distribution to the bot. Also the process of collection is carried out by the suction force which is one of the unique feature of our WATBOT.
What is the Potential Market?
The final product offered by our team would be a manual assisted solid waste collecting bot from water bodies.
Government Selling:
- The government has allocated Rs. 20000 Crores in the Union Budget for water sanitation under the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.
Contact Details:
Manish Bharadwaj – 8939604306
Vishal Garg – 9780471015
Sudarshan K. Thorve – 9790724309
Interested to Know more about this team? Send a note to info@czeroc.com
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