Dina Johnny (Dubai)
Four Emirati students from Abu Dhabi Polytechnic University are finalists for the James Dyson Award, which challenges undergraduate and graduate entrepreneurs in engineering and design disciplines in the United Arab Emirates to achieve “Design That Solves a Problem” and encourages participants to provide wide-ranging solutions. and open to urgent global problems.
Five students from Heriot-Watt University won first place at the local level for the FireOut project.
This came during a ceremony organized by the award’s management at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, in the presence of Dr. Ali Hilal Al Naqbi, member of the competition jury in the Emirates, and Dr. Eng. Suad Al Shamsi, member of the competition jury in the Emirates. Al-Rumaithi, Fatima Al-Muraikhi and Hamdan Al-Shehhi about their project YESCOMPOST, which addresses the problem of food waste through a smart application that monitors the approaching expiration of food in the refrigerator, so residents of the house must either consume the food, or put it in a special device similar to a waste basket, which turns the food into compost organic. They noted that this project would also raise awareness about home farming and smart and vertical farming in the Emirati community, through the use of compost or donating it to others.
Through the smart application, after its development in the near future, it is possible to add the possibility of delivering or downloading the compost produced by homes thanks to Yescompost.
This compost bin, which uses a rotating mechanism to crush and mix food automatically, notifies the user when the compost is ready for use in home farming.
The team said: The project is still in the research stage, and we hope in the coming period to be able to turn it into a profitable economic product, to contribute to reducing this problem.
They pointed out that the UAE is one of the countries in the world that produces food waste per capita, as 38% of daily food is wasted, and this percentage increases to 60% in the month of Ramadan.
As for the FireOut system, its goal is to control wildfires in areas that suffer from frequent fire incidents, to protect wildlife and lands by adopting environmentally friendly technologies. The idea of the system emerged from climatic changes that exacerbated the occurrence of forest fires in various parts of the world, and scientists expected that these dangerous incidents would continue and increase in intensity and frequency if quick action was not taken.
The team received a sum of AED 24,000 for their winning invention, FireOut, to be used in the next stage of the development process for this invention. The Heriot-Watt student team includes Tasnim Nawar, Dina Sabahat, Iman Rashid, Zahid Rahman and Zahra Tunjiker. The team was formed when assigned to college assignments, and soon discovered their passion for the environment and protecting the earth and people from deadly wildfires.
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