PROJECT PROPOSAL

( FOR CONSIDERATION UNDER )

STUDENT PROJECT PROGRAMME: 2014-15

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
GOVERNMENT OF RAJASTHAN, JAIPUR

PROJECT TITLE
SMART HELMET FOR COOLING COMFORT
SUBMITTED BY:

GUIDED BY:

Ravi Kumar

Supervisor:

Rahul Ranjan

Prof.(Dr.) Y.C.Sharma

Rishi Trivedi

Vice-Principal, VIT(EAST)

Co-Supervisor:
Mr. Surjeet Yadav
(Assistant Prof.)
Mechanical Department, VIT(East)

Form A
1. Title of the Project: Smart Helmet for Cooling Comfort
2. Discipline/Subject Area: Mechanical Engineering / Energy
3. Region (Regional Office Area of Jurisdiction): Ajmer
4. Designation & Address of the person, in whose name, demand
draft/bankers cheque of grant is to be sent. (Head of the
institution/Director/Registrar/Comptroller/Principal/Dean) tick the
relevant: Principal, Vivekananda Institute of Technology (EAST).
5. Name and Class/Year of the students:
S.No.

Name

Semester

Ravi Kumar

Rahul Ranjan

Rishi Trivedi

6. Whether belongs to SC/ST:

No

Year

th

th

th

th

th
th

( attach certificate for group leader)

7. Address of the students:

S.No. Name

Institutional Address with Correspondence Address with EE-mail ID, Fax & Mobile mail,fax& Mobile No.
No.

1.

Ravi Kumar

VIT CAMPUS, Sector-36, 84/356, Pratap Nagar

NRI

Road,

Sisyawas, Jaipur-302012

Jagatpura, Jaipur-302012

E-mail:yadav.ravi39@gmail.com

E-mail- info@vitj.ac.in

Mob.: +918824002600

Ph:0141-4077999

2.

Rahul Ranjan

VIT CAMPUS, Sector-36, Singar Boys Hostel,

NRI

3.

Rishi Trivedi

Road,

Sisyawas, VIT Campus,

Jagatpura, Jaipur-302012

Jaipur-302012

E-mail-info@vitj.ac.in

E-mail:rahul.ranjanme@gmail.com

Ph:0141-4077999

Mob.: +917726877328

VIT CAMPUS, Sector-36, Singar Boys Hostel,

NRI

Road,

Sisyawas, VIT Campus,

Jagatpura, Jaipur-302012

Jaipur-302012

E-mail-info@vitj.ac.in

E-mail: rishitrivdi1115@gmail.com

Ph:0141-4077999

Mob.: +919468719774

8. Bank Account No. of one of the students of the group:

Name

Account No.

IFSC Code

Bank Details

Ravi Kumar

030713733593

SBIN0002397

SBI,Kotkasim-Branch alwar
(Rajasthan),301702

9. Supervisor/Guide Details:
Name

Designation

Institutional Address

Correspondence Address With Ph.

With Ph. No.

No.

Prof.(Dr.)Y. C.

Vice-Principal

VIT CAMPUS,

1282, Vinay Path,

Sharma

VIT (EAST)

Sector-36, NRI Road,

Barket Nager

Sisyawas, Jagatpura,

Jaipur-302012.

Jaipur-302012.

E-mail-

E-mail-

yogeshchandra.sharma@gmail.com

info@vitj.ac.in

Mob.: +919024904551

Ph:0141-4077999

FORM B
1. Title of the project: Smart Helmet for Cooling Comfort.
2.

Summary of the project:

Invention of new devices which can save lives of

vehicle drivers is a great concern in modern era. Besides safety these devices must also be
comfortable, as today everything is evaluated by the comfort of users.
Scooters and motorbikes accounts for about 72% of 150 million vehicles plying on the roads
by 2012 in India. The primary safety feature used by two wheeler drivers is a hard shell
Helmet with a thick foam inside which serves as a shock absorber during the collision. These
Helmets are commercially available as well as having heat insulation properties. This results
in low heat transfer between head and outside environment. This creates a very
uncomfortable situation which decreases the ability to concentrate and creates a dangerous
environment for long distance travelers in hot weather conditions.
So to provide an improved energy efficient helmet this new study aims to design and build a
helmet which is cost effective, maintains/ improves safety of the rider embedded with
efficient cooling system.

3. Technical details of the Projects or Origin of the Proposal:

Definition of the problem or Objectives: wearing a helmet is mandetery as
per law and required for safety of the two wheeler rider. A number of good quality
helmets are commercially available but they becomes a hot cap in Indian condition for
most of the time in the year. So if without compromising a safety of the head of the
rider if a cooling system is fitted in the helmet it will provide respite from hot weather
to large masses in India.
So it has been planned to develop a new kind of helmet which carries an energy efficient
cooling system.

Work Plan: We know that Helmet is one of the most important equipment for a two
wheeler rider. But during hot weather condition many riders feel uncomfortable to
wear it. Its main cause is the feeling of heat in the Helmet during long distance travel.
So to cool it we are using a device which will provides a comfortable as well as
maintain the cost effectiveness and safety for the rider.
In this work, we are making a helmet in which we will use a thermoelectric module to
cool the helmet through a fan. This will have two steps:
1. The fan attached will not require continuous supply of power but after initial start it
will automatically run through the magnetic force of strong magnets attached to it.
(this will also be a novel device fabricated by us)
2. This fan will generate electricity because the magnet attached to it will be moving
and will generate continuous electricity. This electricity which will be used to run the
thermoelectric module. Hence this will require a small battery running for a very
smaller time so negligible contribution of the heat dissipated from it will make it a
very efficient cooling system.

Fig.1.:Bottom view of Helmet

Fig.3: Battery compartment

Fig.2: Li-po rechargeable batteries

Fig.4: Newly designed Helmet

Methodology:
In this work, we will take a helmet which will be fitted with a thermoelectric module to
cool it and a fan to improve the area of effectiveness. This will have two steps:
1. The fan will be devised which will automatically run through the magnetic force of
strong magnets (this will also be a novel device fabricated by us) no power supply
will be needed by it.
2. As this fan has a magnet housed in a coil so while rotating it will generate continuous
electricity as a turbine at power generation plant. This electricity will fed back to the
thermoelectric module which in turn will create a temperature gradient on its two
surfaces. The cool side of this module will be kept inside fitted with the fan discussed
above. The fan will rotate the cool air in the area available which will down the
ambient temperature of the helmet.
The main feature of this will be that it will require a small battery running for a very little
time so negligible contribution of the heat dissipated from it will make it a very efficient
cooling system without contributing to the weight of the helmet and keeping the price of
another battery reduces from the total cost.

Organisation of work element or Time schedule:

WORK TO BE DONE

DATE TO DATE
st

Mission planning

20 August,2014

Concept Development

6 September,2014

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5 September,2014

th

st

20

September,2014
th

21

Documentation

st

5 October,2014

September,2014
st

Detailed Design

6 October,2014

Set assembling and

26 October,2014

th

th

25 October,2014
th

5 November,2014

manufacturing review
Searching & purchasing of

th

30 November,2014

th

15 February,2015

5 November,2014

th

equipments
Installation of kit component

1 January,2015

Prototype run

16 February,2015

Problems identification &

21 February,2015

th

st

20 February,2015

th

th

28 February,2015

st

solution
st

Final touch

1 March,2015

Final presentation to faculty

25 March,2015

th

10 March,2015

th

Proposed Outcome/Findings: Development of a helmet which will

remain cool in hot conditions.

4. Details of facilities to be provided by the Institution:

All the equipments available in the Mechanical workshop of the institute and in the
Physics Lab.

5. Budget Estimates:
COMPONENT AND

PRICE(rupees)

EXPANSES
Thermoelectric module

5000

Helmet

1000

Rechargeable Battery

700

Cooling fan

1000

Neodymium magnets

5000

Electric wires

400

Multimeter

1500

Tools kit

800

Total

15,400

Minor equipments: Drilling machine, Screw Drivers

6. Report writing:
Used Things

Cost

Cyber Caf

250

Printing Papers

250

Printing

500

Telephone

200

Total

1000

7. Contingency & Other Costs:

Transportation Charges

800

Service Charges

200

Total

1000

8. Utilization of the outcome of the project:

A cooling efficient helmet will be produced which can be used by masses.