On 10th November 2022, students from the African Centre of Excellence in Internet of Things (ACEIoT) participated and exhibited their innovative projects in the exhibition which was organized in line with the celebration of the World Science Day celebrated in Nyanza District, Southern Province.

The Day was celebrated under the theme, “Science for Peace and Sustainable Development, Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development”. World Science Day aims at bringing science closer to society by highlighting some key scientific aspects and possible solutions provided by science, technology and innovation to major global challenges that the society faces.

Students from ACEIoT exhibited their innovative projects contributing to scientific knowledge to solve societal problems through hands-on experience or discoveries generated from basic and applied science applications.

Students exhibited five innovative projects namely, ‘Integrating Analog PIR Sensing with TinyML Inference for On-the-Edge Classification of Moving Objects, ‘Integration of Vision IoT, AI-based OCR and Blockchain Ledger for Immutable Tracking of Vehicle’s Departure and Arrival Times’, IoT-based quality monitoring system for banana beer’, ‘IoT based system for seasonal monitoring of soil ingredients’, and ‘IoT system for Preemption and prioritization for emergency vehicles’

The celebration of the World Science Day (WSD) was recommended during the World Conference on Science that took place in Budapest-Hungary in 1999. The first celebration was held in 2002 and first celebrated in Rwanda in 2009.