new delhi be it trekkers who get stranded road accidents caused by drowsy drivers or surveying a calamityhit region new tech solutions are in the offing these technological advances were showcased on friday by 25 schoolchildren who attended a boot camp called change makers organised by indian institute of technology delhistating that drowsiness was a major cause of road accidents in the country three students employed a camera supported by artificial intelligence to create a somnolence preventer a device to detect drowsiness in drivers and alert them jayant chauhan a class xii student of dr br ambedkar school of specialised excellence kalkaji said this product is especially useful for those who regularly drive late at night the camera supported by ai monitors the eye and posture of the neck the moment the posture changes from upright or the camera doesnt detect the eye blinking for 23 seconds a voice message says please wake up or please sit up straightas for social problems devising appropriate solutions was at the core of the fiveweek change makers camp as part of this jai ansh bindra and rishab raj came up with roll infinity the rolling robot explaining what the robot does bindra saidcommunication gets cut off in cases of disasters with the help of this robot surveillance of the area can be carried out even in areas inaccessible to drones or helicopters the student said that the duo planned to add a communication model that can announce when help can be expectedthe safety device developed by mrinalini singh and nitish manocha can come to the aid of stranded trekkers in our product we have a button to transmit an alert for immediate rescue along with the exact coordinates of the helpless people said singh we will embed two more buttons including one for orange alert to be used in a situation where the trekker is lost but is trying to find his way out and the rescuers can plan accordinglyin the same spirit two class xii students have created a realtime braille converter to help the visually impaired in reading books vani bedi explained the current braille books are expensive both economically and technologically including the one that converts text to audio but with our product one only needs to keep the book in front of a camera which recognises the text and converts it in real time our plan now is to make the product more portableprofessor jay dhariwal coordinator of the programme said that the initiative connected high schoolers with premier institutions and their rd facilities at the camp students freely threw up ideas we only guided them apart from the staff and faculty iitds research scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students also guided the schoolchildrenrangan banerjee iitd director added it was fascinating to see the enthusiasm ideas and initiative of the young school students we hope to enthuse school children to learn by thinking about and solving societal problems