MIT Solve

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Our Solution

Smart Sensible Manhole

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Our innovation can solve most of the problems related to water sanitation system automatically.

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In cities, sanitation system is mainly maintained by manholes.

Its main purpose is to reduce many types of adversities. But it is seen
that, when it rains even just a little, water comes out from manholes
causing many problems including traffic jam and adversities to
passers-by. Road accidents are happening, passers-by including children
are falling into manhole when a manhole is without its cover. A very
common phenomenon is that when a manhole pipe line is stuck with wastes,
we're digging all the roads to fix it as we don’t know where the
problem exactly is.

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What is the problem you are solving?

We are introducing with a very special system where we'll fix all these problems step by step.

1. We are working to maintain the normal water flow in a manhole.

2.Alerting people that next manhole is uncovered.

3.Informing the authority which manhole has no cover and to identify where the wastes are stuck in a drain.

4. Filtering most of the wastes and cleaning them out without getting down on the manhole.

We're informing the authority about the problem using an android app and a micro-controller.

Who are you serving?

Our targeted location is now is in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has 10.3 million residents and is one of the largest cities in the world. It has 30k+ Manhole.

What is your solution?

1st solution, If anyone removes the manhole cover of any manhole, control board will show it to the authority and they'll get a massage on their phone along with the position of that manhole. This red light, speaker will warn the passers-by, drivers about the danger. So that they can avoid accidents even the road is flooded.(Actually if we use our innovation, there will be a little chance for being flooded).

2nd solution, Each manhole will have a motor along with sharp blades. When water level rises in a manhole for any reason, this motor will start working automatically and water will be flown at a higher rate because of centrifugal force. All heavy waste materials will be gathered in a wire frame which can be cleaned out from outside the manhole. So workers have not to enter into manholes and die of methane and other poisonous gases.

3rd one is, If water can't flow through the pipeline , the authority will get a text message about the blockage position along with the exact location .So we can detect very easily where the problem exactly is and we don't have to dig all the roads to clean the drain.

We are planning to use google map to identify the location of the manhole. Drivers can use google map to identify the location of manhole and be careful.

If our innovation comes true, most of the adversities we face because of manholes will be solved very easily.

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Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Dhaka, Bangladesh

In which sector would you categorize your solution?

Technology