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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      Smart thermostats
            and an automatically managed traffic system using IoT sensors, which result 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            3D Printing technology
            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.
                3D Printing in Education

                 Rapid Prototyping (RP) Method: It is used to 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  tissue-like  structures  replicating their natural
                                       equivalents  –  to  medical devices like prosthetics. With  3D Printing,
             3D Printed equipments     prosthetics can be modeled, customised and printed at lower costs
                                       and quickly.

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