A team of IEEE Uganda volunteers together with the Neopenda staff (middle) jointly developing and refining activities of project titled “Adoption of a wireless vital sign monitor for COVID-19 case investigation and patient care.” Humanity today is highly involved in living in an-ever changing world whereby being dynamic and highly flexible is the order of…
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IEEE SIGHT Blog
The SIGHT blog inspires the cross-pollination of ideas, solutions, and partnerships amongst its greater community by sharing insightful news and stories on SIGHT projects and events around the globe, submitted by SIGHT members and volunteer.
2019 SIGHT-funded Project “Free Energy” Comes to a Close
The project, ‘Free Energy: Calories into Electricity’ received funding from IEEE SIGHT in 2019. The team started the installation of LED-based street lamps around the school library in 2019, which were connected to a generator powered by a bicycle. The kinetic energy produced by movement was converted to electrical energy using an alternator on the…
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Reflections on 2019-2020 from Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan, SIGHT Chair
Photo Highlights! 2019 Humanitarian Activities Committee in-person meeting 2019 February IEEE Board of Directors Meeting Series 2019 SIGHT in-person meeting Presentation to the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Chapter Chairs at the Symposium on Antennas and…
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INNOVATE – An Innovation Challenge for Students hosted by IEEE Kerala Section SIGHT
IEEE Kerala Section SIGHT in association with IEEE Kerala Young Professionals & IEEE LINK organized an innovation challenge competition for the IEEE student members of the section. The event was called “Innovate.” The aim of the event was to encourage innovation in engineering students and to come up with new product ideas. The global pandemic…
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SIGHT DAY Celebrations with IEEE VJCET
The IEEE VJCET (Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology) SIGHT group in Kerala, India conducted various events as part of Inaugural SIGHT Day celebration. These programs are designed to maintain a connection with the sustainable world during the lockdown period in India. The virtual events included: Innovation Hack- Project idea presentation conducted on a virtual…
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SIGHT-Funded Project Update – Smart Classroom Among the Woods
This project was conducted by the IEEE Viswajyothi College of Engineering and Technology (VJCET) SIGHT Group based in Kerala, India. Local IEEE volunteers from the SIGHT Group have worked to equip a rural school in a remote area in the state of Kerala with a consistent source of electricity. Students installed a two kilowatt off-grid…
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SIGHT Week Celebration – IEEE Student Branch College of Engineering Chengannur
IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology has been revamped in IEEE Student Branch College of Engineering Chengannur. With 350 members who are involved with high spirits in its every endeavour, the Student Branch is doing extremely well with its SIGHT activities this year, especially during the times of SIGHT Week from 25 April to…
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IEEE SIGHT Day at the IEEE Kerala Section
IEEE SIGHT was inaugurated by Dr. Peter Staecker (IEEE President 2013) on 15 December 2011 in Trivandrum, Kerala, India and the first petition to form a SIGHT group was submitted on 28 April 2012. In the year 2020, the SIGHT Steering Committee decided to celebrate 28 April as SIGHT day in recognition of the first…
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IEEE HAC and IEEE SIGHT Projects Update
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in an unprecedented manner, and as such, the IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) has adapted its requirements to better enable IEEE volunteers to contribute. For that reason, HAC and SIGHT (Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology) Projects have joined forces to prioritize proposals that have a strong potential for immediate impact…
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IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee (HAC) and IEEE SIGHT Response to COVID-19
These are challenging and unprecedented times with the global spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. The IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (SIGHT) Committee recognizes that the virus has disrupted life in many parts of the world, and affected IEEE members, volunteers, event organizers, and project teams. As such, SIGHT has adapted its resources to…
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