She’s Damn Hot? ‘Irene’ Can Heat Up in Just a Second?
She’s Damn Hot! ‘Irene’- an Iron Box created by 21-year-old Mohammed Sehil, a Final-Year student at PA Engineering College-Mangaluru Can Heat Up in Just a Second (154 degrees Celsius)?
Mangaluru: As the technology has evolved, our lifestyle has changed accordingly. People tend to use the technology extensively as it reduces human effort, but not at the cost of simplicity, adaptability and affordability. “IRENE”- a next generation iron box is an innovative product from the technical house of a student start-up firm.’Invia Technology’ launched by 21-year-old Mohammed Sehil, a Final year student at PA College of Engineering-Mangaluru. The iron box being an inevitable part of one’s daily needs, the time for an updation of the existing technology has already come.
The normal iron box which we all come across is on the verge of an updation. Though new technologies like wireless, light weight etc is available in today’s market there are problems which are yet to be addressed. The wireless technology which is available today is similar to a mobile phone charging unit comprising of either a base or a battery setup and takes time in re-heating. Similarly, let us have a glance around other problems that hinders an easy usage. It promises the user a better experience by providing additional 18 functionality to the existing ones at a lower price without compromising quality and safety of the product.
Sehil claims to have developed the world’s fastest-heating iron box that can heat up in just a second (154 degrees Celsius) against a normal iron box that takes about 57 seconds. He has named his innovation as “Irene” (after his sister Irene Fabia), the iron box which has 19 features. Features in a common iron box are: Time for heat generation (min 57 sec); Wired (chances for short circuit, wire gets tangled hindering easy movement, min length of the wire); If wireless (might consist of a base need to be plugged into the base to get heated up – Still time for heating is to be addressed); Weight (min : 500 g); Power Consumption (1200 W); Alignment (can be placed only uni-directionally else might burn if hot); Manual Switch ON/OFF; Heat intensity (should be adjusted depending on fabric); Low cooling time (time for complete heat loss is longer); No child safety (can result in burns if touched accidentally).
Now this is where Sehil’s “IRENE” out stands. With mesmerizing 19 features ‘Irene’ can be a household name in the near future – a Iron box, which has better features compared to a common Iron Box like – Instant heating (1 sec =154 ‘ c); Wireless (without recharging); Light in weight (less than 250 gm); Less power consumption (as minimum as 300 W); Wireless smartphone charging; Portable (light weight .wireless); Built-in Power backup (works even in case of a power failure); Easy Alignment (can be placed in any direction – need not worry about burns at all); Triple Precision Tip (easily blends into folds, pockets, buttons etc); Cost effective (cheaper than existing models, costing around Rs 995 a piece); Automatic ON/OFF (turns on when comes in touch with the fabric and instantly turns off when removed); Smart Zero heat (instant cooling when removed from fabric); Auto fabric temperature setting (automatically senses temperature required for the fabric; works using artificial intelligence -a robotic technology); Less Electricity charge; Thin soleplate for better heating; Child Safety (doesn’t burn if handled without caution); Steam spray with Variable steam; Ceramic Coated Soleplate; and Drip Stop System.
Sehil says, regarding the Immediate objectives- the project is expected to achieve universalization, capability, automation of entire system with communication modules to enhance the user interface technical and social attributes of the system. The project is expected to change the market with customer satisfaction for simplicity, adaptability and affordability. The project is expected to accomplish and indented to address the challenges of ironing and enhance the feature that increases ironing comfort and way of living. The project is expected to be implemented in stages and the project will benefit the electrical industry and commercial market.
Sehil has patented his invention — his second patent. He got the patent for his first project called ‘Vitamin C’, an induction cook-top which can heat any dish in any vessel, be it plastic, ceramic, glass or even a clay pot. Unlike the usual induction cook top, ‘Vitamin C’ can generate fire, too. At the same time, one can charge smartphones just by placing them over the induction cooktop. “Regular induction cooktops cannot sense the temperature, pressure cooker whistles and errors such as overflowing (of milk) whereas everything is automatically carried out in my invention without any manual effort,” added Sehil.
Explaining more on the ‘Vitamin-C” induction Cook-Top Sehil said, ” The major drawback of induction cook-top is that it can heat only the dishes made of ferromagnetic material. The common materials used for dishes are stainless steel, cast iron, and enameled steel. But for VITAMIN-C induction cook-top, people can use dish of any material, it can be plastic, ceramic, glass, in fact, a soil pot also. The principle behind the normal induction cooktop is that it heats the cooking vessel by magnetic induction instead of thermal conduction from flame or by an electrical heating element.”
“Since inductive heating directly heats the vessel, a very rapid increase in temperature can be achieved. Hence without flame from induction, cook-top people cannot light the fire to burn the papers, mosquito coils. But in my invention, we can make fire out of it. We cannot use normal induction cook-top for any services other than cooking, whereas wireless charging of smartphones can be done by the help of VITAMIN-C , just placing the smartphone over the induction cook-top, without heating effect on the phone. Induction cook-top cannot sense the temperature, pressure cooker whistles, errors while cooking such as overflowing etc. but in my invention, everything is automatically carried out, no need of manual effort.” added Sehil.
He further said, “Normal induction cook-top can be controlled only by pressing the buttons. Most of the time, the cook will be working with wet hand, in turn, switching operation will be dangerous and may experience an electric shock. To avoid such hazard, I had come up with this new idea by introducing android app called VITAMIN-C, which can control the functions of cook-top without pressing the buttons. Existing cook-top cannot detect the completion of cooking process hence fails to alert or notify the cook. To overcome this, a new technology which will send a notification to our smartphone is also implemented.”
“Induction cooktop available in the market is isolated from other electronic gadget fitted in the kitchen. In other words, though all electronic devices are connected to the common supply, they do not have control over each other. Whereas VITAMIN-C can turn on the exhaust fan if the room is filled with smoke. It can also control the kitchen light. Whenever a person enters the kitchen it will automatically turn on the light and it will remain on only till any person is present in the kitchen, which will save the energy. The other features of VITAMIN-C which are not present in existing cook-top are: You can set alarm for daily scheduled cooking or make hot water for bath; It can sense the weight of food while adding; Automatic stirring of food can be done without manual effort; VITAMIN-C can be used as backup if our smartphone or tablet gets out of memory. Just by transferring files to it. It has up to 16 GB backup feasibility.” added Mohammed Sehil.
The functions can be controlled from a distance of about 7 meters with an Android app. It can also send an alert when the food is cooked and turn on the exhaust fan if the room is filled with smoke, besides controlling the kitchen light in such a way that whenever a person enters the kitchen, it will automatically turn on the light and remain on till the person is present in the kitchen. ‘Vitamin C’ also has a 16 GB backup feasibility. In case your smartphone or tablet runs out of memory, you can simply transfer files to the cook-top!
Mohammed Sehil E, hailing from Malappuram- Kerala is the son Mohammed Hussain (Retired Govt PWD overseer) and Jameela (School teacher)- he has a brother, Sohaj, who is a psychologist in Australia and has a sister named, Sehja who is a Teacher by profession. After doing his early studies and college in Malappuram, he joined PA College of Engineering-Mangaluru to pursue his career in engineering. Sehil has won various awards, namely – the Global Innovation Award instituted by the Kerala government, which carried a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh; the ‘Startup Pitch Award’ from the Karnataka government with cash prize of Rs 3 lakhs; the ‘Best Start-Up Concept Award’ from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM); First prize at International Conference on Start-Up and Entrepreneurship with cash prize of Rs 25,000; Shortlisted project in Tathva 2016 held in Calicut; First patent holder from PA College of Engineering-Mangaluru; First prize in State Level Intercollegiate Technical Fest “Technothon’16; and First prize in Paper Presentation Intercollegiate Technical Fest “Spurana’16;
When asked, “How does he get ideas? He replied saying “I am a keen observer. Both my inventions were the problems I faced in my hostel. There are 95% job seekers but only 5% job creators and I wanted to maintain a balance between job seekers and job creators through my student start-up firm ‘Invia Technology’. With God’s blessings, support from my parents, college management, well-wishers and friends, I am confident that I will be successful in my endeavours. I need your support and blessings. Thank you!”