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There is a big problem right now in the agricultural space in terms of lack of publicly available data, lack of standards in data collection, and lack of data sharing. So while machine learning and artificial intelligence and advanced algorithm design have moved so fast, the collection of well-tagged, meaningful agricultural data could help to identify the growth, life cycle, productivity, and quality of crops/plants . This can be achieved by growing plants under controlled environments.  What is hydroponics? Plants grow through a process called  photosynthesis , in which they use sunlight and a chemical inside their leaves called chlorophyll to convert carbon dioxide (a gas in the air) and water into glucose (a type of sugar) and oxygen. Write that out chemically and you get this equation: 6CO 2  + 6H 2 O → C 6 H 12 O 6  + 6O 2 There's no mention of "soil" anywhere in there—and that's all the proof you need that plants can grow without it. What th...

Researchers on the coronavirus front line have used infrared-based systems to detect viruses with success. Current virus diagnosis times with blood samples are reported to take less than an hour. Systems are based on Attenuated Total Refraction Fourier Transform Infrared, also known as ATR-FTI. Although a technically complex name, infrared systems work in  a fairly straight forward way. Light of different wavelengths are applied to an object and the light energy transmitted through the object for each wavelength is measured. This is called the spectral response. A simplified system is shown above. It includes an infrared light source, a heat sensor and several low-noise Junction Field Effect Transistors (JFETS). Heat is converted to an electrical signal by the heat sensor which a JFET amplifies. The next JFET in the signal chain is used to modulate the LED current. The LED in response produces a light signal whose intensity is proportional to the modulated JFET curre...

The process of modern Integrated circuit design consists of two parts front end design and back end design WORK OF FRONTEND ENGINEER : 1. RTL coding:  It deals with designing the architecture of chip, a basic skeleton of a circuit  with the help of high-level HDL coding (VHDL or Verilog ) . It is similar to design a pipeline to circulate the flow of water. 2. Synthesis: Synthesis transforms high-level Verilog/VHDL constructs, which don't have real physical hardware that can be wired up to do your logic, into low level logical constructs which can be literally modeled in the form of transistor logic or look-up tables or other FPGA or ASIC hardware components. 3. Verification: HDL model is then verified for Functional correctness using different verification methodologies and refined until the HDL model is proved to be meeting the specifications WORK OF BACK END ENGINEER: Deals with further manufacturing and fabrication process. There he fabricates designs...

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort – Paul J. Meyer Ants are unarguably the most industrious creatures. Their complex social structures have inspired many studies and filled reams of research material. Those ants are hard-working, patient and organized, we all know . What an Engineer can Learn?     Focus:  Don't deviate from your end goal. Take small steps and avoid multi-tasking   Team-work: Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.   Develop a Routine: Follow a routine to become more efficient  Communication: Instant two-way communication helps in quick problem-solving  Stay Positive: Look ahead-stay positive and do all you can to build a great future.  Set deadline: Set a deadline for task completion & use it as a focal point to stay on a track  Division of work: Everybody should know their roles a...

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, later enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by the wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. In Angiosperms, pollens are not able to move and thus, have to be carried to the stigma by external pollinating agents. Depending upon their nature, the pollinating agents maybe 1. Biotic Agents: Insects, Birds, Snails, etc. 2. Abiotic agents: wind, water  Why Pollination is Important? Pollination is important because it leads to the production of fruits we can eat, and seeds that will create more plants. Pollination begins with flowers. Flowers have male parts that produce very small grains called pollen. Role of  Robots in pollination Small tiny robots can be designed and built which will cause pollin...

The instructions which are to be executed by the microprocessor are first stored in the memory of the processor and then executed. But the processor does not execute the instructions directly. It reads the instruction byte by byte and then executes it. Before understanding instruction execution and data flow, there is a necessity for us to learn a new term, OPCODE. What is an Opcode? Opcode is nothing but the machine language instruction which denotes the microprocessor about what operation should be performed on the specific data.   Microprocessor converts the instruction into suitable machine language, so that it can understand the operation to be performed and executes it. Consider MVI A, 18H. When the above instruction is to be executed, the microprocessor gets the Opcode for MVI A and performs the necessary operation on the data which is 18H in this case. The Opcode for MVI A is 3EH. So the microprocessor first reads this Opcode from the instruction and...

AI in Healthcare The Healthcare industry is a conservative space. The Focus of healthcare solutions is now towards aggregating and organizing voluminous data from a wide range of clinical and non-clinical sources. There is a need for advanced technology that will protect privacy and security. AI applications significantly improve diagnosis level and speed. This lets doctors be accurate with diagnoses and to see more patients. AI tools help to analyze data more quickly and efficiently, allowing doctors to be more accurate with diagnoses. In particular, AI image-based recognition diagnostic devices are used to diagnose several deviations and diseases including diabetes which cause appearance changes. The process of research and development of new drugs could be an excruciatingly long and painstaking process starting from financial terms to handling legal and ethical issues. Today, AI is used to safely explore the drug discovery process. Virtual and Augmented Reality Virtual a...