Colombian organizations shared experiences in science, technology, research and development.
The previous week there was a week focused on publicizing innovation, research and development processes that have been developed by Colombian organizations and have been successful in their implementation.
There were workshops on creativity, cases and conferences, student projects, stories of social innovation and an innovation tour. The latter allowed entrepreneurs to identify where students carry out their innovation projects, with a view to solving industry problems, in topics such as biomedical, science, communication technologies, such as big data, analytics, 3D images, nanotechnology and others. further.
There was a laboratory that caught the attention of businessmen and it was the anechoic chamber. There, the radio frequencies of antennas and equipment are measured to determine that they do not emit signals that disturb their neighbors and that they have a certain resistance to withstand those that they emit.
The experience is shocking, because upon entering the chamber you experience what silence really is and what it means to isolate yourself from the madding crowd. The feeling is quite critical after a while, and you start to miss the noise as a part of your life.
In this laboratory, Indumil, a state company dedicated to the military industry, develops a project related to anti-personnel mines. These, inherited from the guerrilla, are a great risk for the civilian population of the areas where they are planted. The corresponding demining also requires high-risk work with a lot of social impact.
The project created a device that works like a ground-penetrating radar, which emits sounds through an antenna; When the mine is detected, the sound bounces back, informing its position, without risking a person's life. The anechoic chamber, due to its ability to isolate noise, allowed the radar-antenna to be designed with a high level of sensitivity, to the point that despite normal noises and physical barriers, it allows it to be very efficient in its search. A laboratory with cutting-edge technology is integrated into a humanitarian process to free land from anti-personnel mines and ensure that the community uses them.
Source: Jorge Hernández, director of Innovandes-Colciencias.
