Jalagenam: Water Purifying Bottle

The revolutionary water bottle

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Inspiration

Firstly before starting this project, I want to thank DevPost to give such a wonderful opportunity to the school kids for making themselves shine. I also want to thank our school’s Principal and teachers who encouraged and supervised me for this project. I would like to thank all the people who are involved in this competition for conducting such a golden opportunity for the school kids. This project has seen a lot of ups and downs while in making. I have redesigned and experimented in real life a lot times the prototype for this project. I hope you like the implementation and the idea of this project. We all know that there was always a great need for pure and filtered water for humans as well as for animals. Also, in these tough times when the pandemic is at its peak and various unknown pathogens are making their way into the human body, it is extremely important that we drink clean and purified water. However, we cannot carry the purified water in every part of this world. By keeping these conditions in mind I have come up with an idea of a portable purifying bottle that has dozens of feature embedded in it that will make the drinking experience of people better than ever before.

What it does

This project is basically based on a smart and automatic bottle. This bottle is extremely user-friendly and is compatible with an android mobile app. This bottle will help you set your routine for hydrating yourself as per your required needs. This bottle automatically cleans the water that is stored in it as per the alarms set by the user in the android app. This bottle helps the user to view the temperature of the bottle and volume of the water in the bottle via the android app. The bottle is clinically, biologically and mechanically tested and as per the results, the bottle cleans almost all of the microorganisms, microplastics and other sediments that are present in the water. This bottle is extremely portable and can be carried anywhere we go. Along with this, the bottle comes up with rechargeable and changeable batteries with up to 15 days of backup. The UV lights that are present in the water can not be used to disinfect the water but also to disinfect the keys and other materials that are used in our day to day life. The bottle is also embedded with features that go beyond purification, hydration and health consciousness. The bottle can also be used as a boiler, blender and fridge for the contents that are stored in the bottle. You can mix contents like your protein shake easily without any other extra effort and equipment. You can also control or change the temperature of your bottle via an android app!

How we built it

It uses advanced membrane technology with pores that are smaller than bacteria, protozoan, parasites and micro-plastics. This part of the bottle uses no electrical power but still plays a significant role in the purification of water. The second step to ensure that the water in the bottle is safe to drink is done with the help of the UV lights that are present on the walls of the water bottle. These UV lights ensure that all the harmful pathogens and micro-organisms are killed and the water becomes free of contaminants. UV light uses ultraviolet rays. It has ultraviolet rays producing tubes through which water passes. When water is exposed to ultraviolet rays, any borne viruses, bacteria, moulds and pathogenic disease-causing microorganisms present in water are deactivated. UV radiations are so effective that they can eliminate 99% of germs. The UV lights in this project turn on and off according to the alarms that are set up in the android mobile app. This in turn helps to save energy. So by this, I can say that my innovation is extremely energy efficient as compared to other alternatives that are available on the market. The UV led’s in this project also turn themselves on if they have not been turned on for a long time by the alarms. Other than purification of water the UV led’s have other applications too. These can be used to clean and disinfect daily accessories likes keys, watch and sunglasses. The UV led’s in this project are waterproof. Hence, these can not only be used to purify the water of the container provided in the prototype but also clean the water in other containers. We can disinfect the water of other containers and jars just by dipping the Upper Part of the bottle into the desired container!

The android app is a crucial part of this project. It has a user interface and it helps to send and receive messages in between the phone and the microcontroller(Arduino mini) through the Bluetooth module. This app was designed in a web-based application called “MIT App Inventor”. This is used to develop apps for android. It has two interfaces first is the “Front End Interface” in which the user interacts with the project and the other is the “Back-end” interface in which all of the coding parts is done. The codes and the front end screenshots of the project have been given in the further slides. The app let’s as adjust the setting of the bottle as per our requirement. It also decreases the complexity and cost of the bottle as one doesn’t have to worry about the additional buttons and circuits. It also takes the whole user experience to the next level. The app also helps us to keep track of your hydration plan and routine with the help of alarms that ring in our bottle. We can also turn off and on the automatic purification process of the bottle through the app and can control the bottle at any given instance. The app helps us to do effective monitoring and allows us to share the data and analysis of the bottle in real-time with various people. The information of various sensors like the temperature sensor and displayed in the app. We can also automatically connect to the bottle by the app.

What's next for Jalagenam: Water Purifying Bottle

The road to such innovations is endless. Further advancements can be made in this project too. In the later innovations, the capacity of the battery can be increased which enable us to run the whole system longer. The bottle can also be made more compact in the longer run and Industrial equipment and methods may be used to make the prototype of the project of a higher quality. The user interface of the app can also be further improved and in the later versions, different people could communicate with each other via the app and would be able to compare their tracking routines with each other. The circuit can also be made smaller and more compact by industrial equipment and design. In the near future small solar panels can also be integrated into the bottle which will facilitate the recharging of the batteries in the bottle. Also, the blender of the bottle could be made fully electric instead of being mechanical.

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