IEEE SIGHT Projects

The project aims to help the villagers of the community, since the school they own lacks electricity and illumination systems that affect the life performance and education of people in the community and students in the area. Being isolated of urbanization, several aspects such as livestock, landslides caused by rains and pollution were the factors that caused water sources to be contaminated causing people to get sick, causing them fever and upset stomachs that impact people's daily lives. According to the position of the teachers of the school, children do not attend classes for a period of time due to various diseases caused by contaminated water, even the people of the community were affected by this situation, to solve this problem we plan to install a water purification system. In addition, to improve the quality of education, a LED illumination system will be installed, a small audio equipment will be provided to be used in assemblies.

Project Location: Honduras

SIGHT Group Affiliation: IEEE-UNAH Student Branch SIGHT

The project consists of the recovery of a park that has been forgotten for the past decade, even becoming a hostile environment for the people living close by. Neighbors, foundations like META and CONAF and the PUCV university have partnered to carry forward the mission of embellishing the space with a playground, games, and even an orchard. The last remaining step is to install lighting.

Project Location: Chile

SIGHT Group Affiliation: PUCV SIGHT

Currently learning difficulties in the field of higher education, they are the main cause of dropout for hearing impaired people in Colombia , significantly reducing their chances in the professional field .This research aims to develop learning strategies for mobile and industrial robotics for the deaf.To achieve this objective ICT education and teaching tools in virtual environments are designed in conjunction with classroom training, they facilitate learning and improve cognitive processes in deaf students as part of the investigation.The expected research results are a greater degree of ownership and generation of knowledge by deaf students , which impact on their degree of social inclusion and level of labor skills through the Information Technology and Communications . the development of robotic prototypes by deaf students by Legos.The next expected result is the use of the Nao robot, because this robot has been devoted to research for the treatment of cognitive development .

Project Location: Colombia

SIGHT Group Affiliation: SIGHT Colombia

Group Contact/More Information: tnuncirag@ecci.edu.co

In 2008 the National Telecommunications Secretariat of Ecuador and the Municipality of Nabón signed a cooperation agreement for the implementation, deployment and management of an internet network for 60 educational units, the agreement lasted for 5 years. The community involved has no knowledge of the basic maintenance of the network and as of 2013 the project has not had maintenance, which has caused the Internet network to not work in all the educational units.In an information survey it has been identified that by 2019, only 40 educational units are in operation, of which the Internet network was implemented in 2008. Therefore, this project aims to perform the comprehensive maintenance of an Internet network for 40 Educational Units of the Nabón Canton, benefiting a total of 2,411 students, 142 teachers and 2,482 homes in Nabón. The goal of this project is to allow access to the Internet connectivity of the educational centers of Cantón Nabón in the Province of Azuay, its students and the community in general.

Project Location: Ecuador

SIGHT Group Affiliation: IEEE Ecuador Section SIGHT

This project is led by SIGHT Colombia, supported by El Bosque University, where a 4 experts engineering team will help in design phase and voluntary students from the IEEE University branch will make implementation and training phases. The Family and Future program consists of two projects, which point to different SDGs. For the first project, the use of the land arranged in the foundation with an academic and nutritional objective is sought. In this way, the contribution of the following SDGs is pointed out: 2. Zero Hunger, 4. Quality education, 9. Industry, Innovation and infrastructure, 12. Responsible production and consumption. For the second project, water savings are sought, through the management and use of rainwater, pointing to the following SDGs: 3. Health and Welfare, 6. Clean Water and Sanitation, 12. Production and consumption responsible, 13. Climate action. In this way, both projects will be developed in parallel and in the implementation phase, they will be articulated for later in the training phase, work jointly with both, where each of them relies on the other to subsist and give benefit to the institution.

Project Location: Colombia

SIGHT Group Affiliation: IEEE Colombia Section SIGHT

The community of Cerrito de Los Morreños has a population of 900 inhabitants, who live in an isolated island community without access to the electrical grid. The community has designated around 100 fishermen who recollect between 3500 and 4000 crabs per day, allowing them to manage their economic needs. Power is provided to the island by a 195kW diesel generator from 5:00 pm until midnight every day. Eight years ago there was a project with European Union funding to install solar panels in 78 homes in the community. Currently, most of the solar home systems are not working due to lack of maintenance and knowledge of the community on the operation of the system. An assessment on the solar systems determined that the batteries are the main device failing in the most of the systems. There is no alternative energy solution in the market to provide the capacity required for the system. The island does not have access to the National Grid, therefore they don’t have a reliable access to electricity. The wind resource in the island is very low with an average of 1.9 m/s wind speed, which limits the possibility of wind turbines to be implemented. Furthermore, solar lighting will not provide the required capacity to power the expected load. Also, in the assessment trip performed in May 2018, the components (solar panels, charge controllers, inverters, batteries) were tested. We found that all the components were operating at the expected capacity with the exception of the batteries that need to be replaced. Also, some solar panels need to be relocated or reoriented to the correct position. Therefore, the most cost-effective solution, given the components that are in place, is to rehabilitate the solar home systems by replacing the batteries and relocating some of the solar panels. Thus, the aim of the project is to rehabilitate the solar home systems and train the local community in the operation and maintenance of solar photovoltaic systems enhancing the capacity building of the community and supporting the sustainable development of the island.

Project Location: Ecuador

The 900 inhabitants of the community of Cerritos de Los Morrenos in Ecuador live in an isolated island community without access to the electrical grid. A SIGHT team will be evaluating solar panels that were installed in 78 homes in the community 8 years ago as most of the systems no longer work due to lack of maintenance and knowledge of the community on how to operate the system. The project will rehabilitate the solar home systems and train the local community to operate and maintain them. The SIGHT group traveled to Cerritos two weeks ago to verify the equipment state in every PV installation, complete surveys with 20 families, and analyze the lighting circuit to be powered.

Project Location: Ecuador

SIGHT Group Affiliation: Ecuador Section SIGHT