4 students invent a smart, environmentally friendly bumper

Four university students created a smart, environmentally friendly artificial speed bump project that helps reduce traffic congestion on the roads there, resulting in preventing or at least reducing car accidents, as well as facilitating the movement of vehicles and preserving people’s safety when crossing the roads.

Student Muhammad Amin Maklay said: “I implemented the project with my colleagues Shaima Yousef Al-Obaidli, Moza Abdullah Al-Shamsi, and Maryam Amin Maklay, with the aim of contributing to facilitating traffic movement on our streets without damage or loss,” explaining that “the project is based on making a new type of bumps called ( The environmentally friendly smart speed bump has a system that allows it to move up and down, depending on the road conditions, such as the density of traffic, such as congestion, etc., emergency situations, and conditions. Air traffic, and pedestrian crossing at times.”

McClay explained that the speed bump works based on measuring traffic movement and road speed. If there is traffic congestion, the speed bump decreases automatically to make way for vehicles, with prior warning to drivers, via a sign showing the speed of the speed bump, and in the event of pedestrians who wish to cross the road or When students leave school, bumps rise in front of schools or in student crossing areas, automatically to maintain the safety of pedestrians, while informing drivers that the bump will rise.

He added that the smart speed bump is environmentally friendly, because it will generate energy from the movement of cars that pass over it, by connecting it to a solar panel connected to the battery to store energy for use and benefit from it, in addition to that it is programmed to go down during peak times, in addition to that it can be controlled through control rooms, With a button mounted on a pole, connected to a bump, it helps pedestrians cross.

He pointed out that the project team participated in the “Think Science 2018” exhibition, which was organized by the Emirates Foundation last April, in Dubai, and the project won third place among the projects participating in the exhibition.