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Smart thermostats like the Nest–use sensors, real-time weather forecasts
and the actual activity in your home during the day to reduce your monthly
energy usage by up to 30%. Keeping you more comfortable and offering to
save you money on your utility bills.
IoT is here to stay and expand. Many new utilities with rich functionality
can be built which will revolutionize our lives. Think of driverless cars and
an automatically managed traffic system using IoT sensors, which result
Smart thermostats
in zero accidents. Truly, in the world of IoT, only our imagination is our
ultimate limit.
3D PRINTING
3D Printing or 3-Dimensional Printing is a technology which was first
developed at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the 1980’s.
It is the process of making a physical object from a three-dimensional
physical model. In this technology, we use the 3D digital data on the
computer to build 3D objects by adding layers of material which could
be polymers, metals, concrete or even plant and human tissue. 3D
3D Printing technology
Printing helps to bridge the gap between ideas and images on a page
or screen and the creation of those ideas/images in the physical 3-Dimensional world.
The major applications of 3D Printing are:
Education: It is widely used in the education sector. It prepares the
students for their future by allowing them to create prototypes without
tooling and extensive work. It helps the students to design and produce
models they can hold and feel.
Rapid Prototyping (RP) Method: It is used
to create models to quickly test a new product 3D Printing in Education
before mass production. 3D Printing can be termed as a RP method.
3D Prototype
Medicine: In the last several years, 3D Printing applications have increased
manifold in the world of medicine. They range from bioprinting—where
biological materials like cells and growth factors are fused to create
tissue-like structures replicating their natural equivalents—to medical
devices like prosthetics. 3D Printed equipments
Construction: It is widely used in the construction industry; model houses
can be built in a day using 3D Printing.
3D Model for house
Art and Jewelry: The use of 3D Printing has led the
jewelry makers to experiment with non-traditional
designs which were not possible with the traditional
methods of jewelry making.
3D Printed Jewelry
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