Autar Nehru (Delhi)

Revolted by stinking storm water drains choked with garbage in Jammu’s Nanak Nagar neighbourhood, Karman Singh, a class X student of the city’s top-ranked Jodhamal Public School (JPS), has designed a Smart Dustbin solution. Last November, Karman was awarded a British patent for his revolutionary invention.

The Smart Dustbin combines radio technology with an IoT-integrated waste management system to track the status of dustbins citywide, checking their capacity utilization levels. An alert alarm ensures timely waste collection by municipal workers which prevents spillover and refuse choking drains.

The elder child of veterinary surgeon mother Dr. Pawandeep Kour, and father Dr. Parveen Singh, a computer science professor at the Government Degree College, Udhampur, a national awardee and patent holder himself, Karman is hugely inspired by his father. “I attribute my achievement to parental and school support. In particular, my father taught me all about smart technologies and helped me research and flesh out the Smart Dustbin idea,” acknowledges this young new age inventor.

Karman is also thankful to encouraging and facilitative JPS teachers and the management which has established an innovation hub in the school. “My school made me feel very special by enabling me and publicizing my invention. Several JPS students have successfully innovated app-based solutions to social problems, some of which are recognised by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), among other universities,” he adds.

“Civic safety and cleanliness is the core purpose of my Smart Dustbin. I hope it will be commercialised soon and also adopted by the PM’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan,” says Karman, who has plans to enroll in a computer engineering degree program after completing his Plus Two and make a career as a full-time inventor.

Way to go!

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