Jamia Milia Faculty's invention 'AI based dustbin' gets Australian patent

Jamia Milia Faculty's invention 'AI based dustbin' gets Australian patent

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New Delhi, Updated on Nov 8, 2021 17:42 IST

The main objective of the invention titled ‘Artificial Intelligence Based Dustbin’ is to make dustbin smart by enabling it to detect harmful objects like explosives, radioactive materials etc. thrown in it.

An Artificial Intelligence-based Dustbin invented by Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) faculty Dr. Mansaf Alam and his team have been granted a patent as intellectual property by the Patent Office, Government of Australia.  Kiran Chaudhary, Shivaji College, Delhi University, and researchers from other institutes were also part of the team.  Dr. Alam is Associate Professor, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and IoT Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, JMI.  

The main objective of the invention titled ‘Artificial Intelligence Based Dustbin’ is to make dustbin smart by enabling it to detect harmful objects like explosives, radioactive materials etc. thrown in it. Sensors are fixed with the dustbin which will intimate by sending signals about any harmful objects dumped in it.   

Dr. Alam said: “We developed this dustbin keeping in mind the security aspect making the dustbin behave like human beings and work intelligently with the help of artificial intelligence. It will surely be a useful product for society.”

Meanwhile, Sixteen researchers from JMI have been featured in the list of the top two percent of scientists in the world prepared by Stanford University, USA. A total of 3,352 researchers from India got featured in the list prepared by the university. Stanford University has released two lists in which the first coveted list is based on career-long data and eight professors from JMI got enlisted in it. The second list is based on 2020 performance and 16 scientists from the institutions got featured in this list.

The global list was prepared by a team of experts led by professor John Ioannidis, the eminent professor at Stanford University and published by Elsevier BV, reads a statement by JMI University.

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