Water is among the top five global risks in terms of impacts translated through socio-economic and environmental challenges, influencing people's wellbeing. The situation grim water-scarce countries, which need to think act beyond conventional water resources tap unconventional supplies narrow gap between demand supply. Among resources, embedded fog increasingly seen as a source potable dry are...

The major direct drivers of environmental change in mountains are relief, hydroclimate and land use. Mountain forests affected by persistent seasonal or annual fog are called montane cloud forests (Bubb et al. 2004). On the slopes of temperate mountains, the elevation of the cloud base marks the transition from mon-tane (hardwood-deciduous, lower-altitude) to cloud (conifer-evergreen, higher-al...

This paper presents the design of an autonomous smart patient/home health monitoring system. Both patient physiological parameters as well as room conditions are being monitored continuously to insure patient safety. The sensors are connected on an IoT regime, where the collected data is wirelessly transferred to a nearby gateway which performs preliminary data analysis, commonly referred to as...

In many areas of Washington, it rains for a majority of the year. During rainy weather it becomes difficult to see street lanes and dividers, causing hazardous road conditions. The Piezoelectric Powered LED Street Reflector solves this problem. The PPL Street Reflector modifies a street reflector with LED lights. These lights help drivers clearly see where dividers and street lines are in non-i...

Abstract Slippery lubricant-infused surfaces exhibit excellent fog-harvesting capacities compared with superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic surfaces. However, lubricant depletion is typically unavoidable under dynamic conditions, reinfused oil generally needed to recover the capacity. Herein, an effective strategy for delaying of prolong service life fog harvesting proposed. An ultrathin trans...

Freshwater shortage has been receiving considerable attention, and water harvesting is one of the potential solutions to this crisis. Several researchers have tried improve capabilities by changing mesh wettability for atmospheric fog harvesting. However, effect on from white plumes not yet investigated thoroughly, despite industrial cooling towers being considered as alternative resources, bec...

Abstract With the explosive growth of world’s population and rapid increase in industrial water consumption, supply has fallen into crisis. The shortage fresh resources become a global problem, especially arid regions. In nature, many organisms can collect from foggy under harsh conditions, which provides us with inspiration for development new functional fog harvesting materials. A large numbe...