Research
SOFIA – Opitcal Operating System and Medical Analyses
Nursing is an area of extreme relevance to society. It is an area that requires intense psychological due to excessive working hours. However, the accumulation of patients, added to the exhaustion of the routine, causes many nurses to face psychological problems, such as the Burnout syndrome. The assistance becomes impaired through a cascade effect. This set of questions ends up generating a considerable delay in attendance, causing the hospital queues to increase, which in turn causes an aggravation of the patients' diseases. The care of the elderly and children, especially children with down syndrome or autism, is more complicated and, without attention, can make these people feel uncomfortable, stressed, or even enter into a panic. The SOFIA project (Optical System of Operation and Medical Analysis) aims to provide public hospitals and other similar places with an electronic system that can perform a screening process more quickly, effectively, and non-invasively and monitoring the patients if necessary.
Electro-Electronic Project of an Articulated Electric Vehicle
In this work, we present the electro-electronic project of an articulated electric vehicle developed, initially for a user, with electric steering and an articulated center that allows the vehicle and user to enter elevators. The purpose is to allow older adults or people with special needs to obtain greater mobility and comfort on urban and residential roads. The main part of the electronic system is a complete bridge inverter controlled by a microcontroller system. The vehicle features two battery banks, monitored by a control system that defines the best bank to be used, placing the other bank under load through a solar panel. The mechanical structure was constructed from materials that are easily accessible on the market, and materials for reuse to recycle them.
Greenhouses Low-Cost Monitoring and Control System
The cultivation of fruits and vegetables is a fundamental activity for a nation's economic and food sectors. However, this practice exposes the farmer to the damage caused by weather conditions or severe weather changes in the region. Thus, we observe that, when cultivation occurs organically, without the addition of fertilizers or pesticides, there's an intensification of the impacts caused to production. Mitigating this issue is possible through several technologies found on the market for the control of agricultural greenhouses since the cultivation in greenhouses provides better development of production. Although, these devices are usually inaccessible to small rural producers, damaging the family farming sector. Based on these facts, the present study aims to build a low-cost autonomous gadget for controlling and monitoring agricultural greenhouses, making this system efficient and accessible to small rural producers and encouraging the practice of organic cultivation.
