Revolutionary Sensowalk developed

The students of Abids-based Methodist College of Engineering and Technology developed a revolutionary device ‘Sensowalk’. Developed by students of Mechanical, Electronics and Electrical departments, ‘Sensowalk’ is designed with IR sensors, Gear Motors, 9 to 12 volts batteries, transmitter and receiver relay equipment.

Members of the project, Sreekanth, Saibaba, Akhil, Sasank, Akhilesh Reddy, Vijay, Amritha while speaking in a press conference said that they took three months to develop this product under the guidance of R&D coordinator Dr D Ramana Reddy.

Informing the features of the device, the students said that it has a unique feature of self balancing. “It does not require any remote or steering to operate it. Based on the objects Leg movements detected by 2 IR sensors, the relays send signals to transmitter and receiver parts are used to ignite gear motors to rotate the wheels,” they said.

“The devise can rotate in 360 degrees. The movement of the Sensowalk can be controlled by the 2 legs kept on sensors,” added the students. Sensowalk is designed with minimum cost and will be used in hospitals, railway stations, airports, industries and shopping malls to transfer luggage of 100 kg and more.

It can also be operated by human beings to move from one place another in the above places with ease. “We are going to enhance the speed of the device from 100 rpm to 200 rpm and are also going to add GPS to track the device,” said the enthusiastic students, who are planning to apply for patents of this device.

Secretary K Krishna Rao, Principal Dr V S Giridhar Akula, Director Dr S Venkateswar, Vice-Principal Dr R P Reddy, Dr D Ramana Reddy, Marpu Ramesh and Prabhakar congratulated the students’ team on their tech fete.