In an innovation that can boost the safety and efficiency of armed forces personnel, the Indian IIT Indore
IIT Indore Develops Special Shoes For Armed Forces
In an innovation that can boost the safety and efficiency of armed forces personnel, the Indian IIT Indore has designed special shoes for soldiers equipped with a technology that can generate electricity and detect the wearer’s location in real time, officials said.
IIT Indore has already supplied the first batch of 10 pairs of these shoes to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), they said. IIT Indore director Professor Suhas Joshi said the innovative features of these shoes will boost the safety, coordination and efficiency of Army personnel.
The shoes, made under the guidance of Professor I A Palani, are enabled with Tribo-Electric Nanogenerator (TENG) technology that can generate electricity with every step. The TENG technology can be used to track the location of senior citizens suffering from Alzheimer’s, school children and climbers and can help monitor the attendance and work of workers in factories, they said.
Equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies, these shoes can help determine the location of personnel in real-time, officials said.
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