ISEF · 2018
Green Switch
Embedded Systems
Development: To make this switch possible, I was introduced to Arduino. “Arduino is an open-source computer hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufac…
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ISEF · 2018
iCordisX: SmartPhone-Based Personalized Cardiac Monitoring Using Computer Vision and Bluetooth Low Energy
Embedded Systems
Heart disease is a prevalent issue in the modern world, with 84 million people in the US alone that require regular checkups with clinicians. iCordisX aims to provide a personalized and data…
ISEF · 2018
Indoor Blind Navigation System
Embedded Systems
The purpose of the project is to build an effective method of navigation for blind people in indoor areas. GPS isn’t reliable indoor due to the distortion of signals through buildings. Other…
ISEF · 2018
Infrared-Laser Computer Control
Embedded Systems Second Award
A computer cursor is usually being controlled by using a keyboard and in most cases by a computer mouse in addition. For presentation purposes people like to use a wireless "presenter device…
ISEF · 2018
Intel Genuino-Based Cow Estrous Detector
Embedded Systems
During this time, conventional method to determine cow estrous period by checking the vulva and the behaviour of female cow has not been effective and inaccurate yet. The previous researches…
ISEF · 2018
iSAFE (The Integrated Systems Automobile Failsafe Environment): Decreasing Infant Mortality Rates and Driver Distraction Using Microcontrollers and Embedded Circuits
Embedded Systems
Thanks to the Baby Boomers of the 1950s and 60s, infant mortality rates extant today are fortunately much lower than that of early last century. However, distracted drivers are becoming much…
ISEF · 2018
LabTrak: A Micro-Telemetry Device for Modeling Mice Behavior
Embedded Systems Second Award
Preclinical animal studies are crucial for evaluating the effects of novel therapeutics on rodent models before testing on humans. Unfortunately, it is difficult to confirm and replicate the…
ISEF · 2018
Large Format Mosaic Screens to Visualize Schlieren
Embedded Systems
Schlieren screening method is used in various fields of engineering. The spherical long-focused concave mirror, used to visualize Schlieren, is quite expensive and requires a lot of effort w…
ISEF · 2018
Monitoring Environmental Status of a Mesocosm Using an ESP32
Embedded Systems
Remote monitoring of the environmental status of a mesocosm would allow for immediate real-time data collection with customisation using a variety of sensors depending on the experiment or m…
ISEF · 2018
Multicopter Autonomous Refueling System
Embedded Systems
Nowadays drones are becoming a main topic in research and development as their use is increasing day by day in all domains. Today a drone infinite flight has become a prerequisite but unfort…
ISEF · 2018
NeoEyes: Smart Glasses for the Blind Based on Vietnamese Character Recognition System
Embedded Systems
It goes without saying that the blind are in serious need of getting information by studying and working independently. Despite a vast array of state-of-the-art devices such as Braille books…
ISEF · 2018
New Vision for the World
Embedded Systems
Our team took on this challenge by copying the skills of some animals such as bats and dolphin, which emit sonar calls into their surroundings and receive it again to divert away from them.…
ISEF · 2018
P.I.P.S. - An Inexpensive Patient Indoor Positioning System
Embedded Systems
With the growing number of baby boomers retiring daily, and the aging population needing more specialized care, long term care facilities are having a difficult time keeping up to the demand…
ISEF · 2018
RDS of Things: Using RDS Technology for Smart Cities
Embedded Systems
Living in big cities is getting harder every day. Local governments are trying to find new solutions with smart city concepts to make more livable cities. However, smart city concepts are fa…
ISEF · 2018
Read4me: Using the Internet of Things and Machine Learning to Enable Blind People to Read Paper Books
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Read4me is a device that enables blind, illiterate and dyslexic people to read paper books. It uses Optical Character Recognition to detect the text in the pictures taken by a camera attache…
ISEF · 2018
Repti-Lighting: The Automated Solution to Prevent Calcium Deficiency in Reptiles
Embedded Systems
The number of reptiles kept as pets in the United States alone currently stands at 9.4 million and all of them are susceptible to lack of proper UVB exposure. UVB light is required for vitam…
ISEF · 2018
Salvum Cars
Embedded Systems
If a neighbor is killed in a car accident, do you sell your car and stop driving? Nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day[1]. The critical reas…
ISEF · 2018
SkySend: Providing Communication During Disaster Relief
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project was to develop a product that could provide basic communication services in the days after a natural disaster. The product needed to be easily assembled by an unt…
ISEF · 2018
Smart Walking Stick for Blind: The “Golden i”
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
“Golden i” helps a blind person to identify the obstacles. If there is an obstacle in front of him within 3ft, the handle starts to vibrate. So he can walk carefully through the path. There…
ISEF · 2018
Sound Wave Modulation as a Method of Color Perception for the Visually Impaired
Embedded Systems
Colors play important roles in our life. The inability to sense colors might cause difficulties for the visually impaired in recognizing money and choosing commercial products. Converting co…
ISEF · 2018
Typing without Touch: A Touchscreen Accessible Device for the Visually Impaired
Embedded Systems
As a result of the many challenges blind people face in regards to touchscreen technology, proper assistive technology is essential for making touchscreens accessible to them. Screen readers…
ISEF · 2018
Ultrasonic Glasses for the Visually Impaired
Embedded Systems
Blindness is the third most common disability in the world, around 36 million people are blind (Vos T et al, 2016). Visually impaired population ranges from total blindness to 20/200 visual…
ISEF · 2018
Universal GPS Watch
Embedded Systems
Global Positioning Systems (GPS) use multiple space-based satellites and a GPS receiver to calculate your position on earth. Navigation is as simple as entering an address after which the so…
ISEF · 2018
Universal Sign Language Translation Gloves
Embedded Systems
Most deaf-mute people can communicate to each other and to specially trained people using sign languages. However these languages are not understood by many, besides sign languages are not u…
ISEF · 2018
Using Piezoelectric Sensors to Find the Center of Gravity of an Aircraft
Embedded Systems
My project “Piezocentricity” will save time as well as lives. On August 25, 2001, a small Cessna passenger plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after takeoff, killing all aboard. The…
ISEF · 2018
Walk Enhancing Smart Device
Embedded Systems
People with walking disabilities Find difficulties in performing many activities including walking independently. This invention will help to improve and enhance the motor skill of walking p…
ISEF · 2018
Wearable Tech Glove Enabling Speech Through Hand Gestures
Embedded Systems
In recent years deaf society and many other disability based communities have been neglected and alienated from modern society. By analyzing the root of this separation and developing user f…
ISEF · 2018
Wireless Sensor Network for Illegal Logging and Wildfire Detection
Embedded Systems
Deforestation, the huge problem happening in Thailand, caused by both of illegal logging and wildfire in the forest. They destroy the forest in yearly. To stop deforestation, we built and in…
ISEF · 2018
Write Anywhere: Filtering Low-Cost IMU Data for Small-Scale Motion Reproduction
Embedded Systems
Surface-free digitization of hand-drawn shapes, words, and images can be accomplished through the addition of inertial sensors to a pen-like device. In order to create such a device, a MPU60…