The project was designed to prove the viability of the idea, identify technical nuances during field experiments and attract the attention of the public and business.
The ecologist drone runs on solar cells and analyzes the state of water with logging the results online. This is an absolutely autonomous compact vessel that does not require control from the shore. The route can be set in advance (for example, in places where possible pollution discharges into the water). Water measurements are carried out according to several parameters, all data is transmitted to the server, which eliminates the possibility of falsification. The drone was tested on the Volga River and was recognized as very successful, and in October 2018, the drone was presented to the world community at the International Congress of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Barcelona.
Togliatti State University pays special attention to the topic of renewable energy sources and ecology. The project "Long-term storage of hydrogen for alternative energy" is being implemented in the world-class REC "Engineering of the Future" with the participation of TSU.
The participants of the Togliatti Solar Team project to create a solar-powered boat have achieved leading positions not only in Russia, but also in Europe. This summer, the student team of Togliatti State University became the winner of the All-Russian engineering competitions "Solar Regatta" in Nizhny Novgorod, and in 2019 won the international engineering competitions Wildauer Solarbootregatta in the German Wildau.
The final task of the developers after testing on the rivers of the Northern Capital and reservoirs of the Samara region will be the creation of a small fleet of drones capable of performing joint measurements on the water and conducting high-precision monitoring of the environmental situation. In the future, Russian environmental robots may appear in the reservoirs of Africa, Asia and Latin America.