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You can monitor an aging family member by using a wearable alarm button and other wireless sensors
placed around the home. The BeClose system can track your loved one’s daily routine and give you
peace of mind for their safety by alerting you to any serious disruptions detected in their normal schedule.
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 revolutionise 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 Printing helps to bridge the gap between ideas 3D Printing technology
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 3D Printing in Education
create models to quickly test a new product
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 3D Printed equipments
tissue-like structures replicating their natural equivalents—to medical devices
like prosthetics. With 3D Printing, prosthetics can be modeled, customised and
printed at lower costs and quickly.
Construction: It is widely used in the construction industry; model houses
3D Model for house can be built in a day using 3D Printing.
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