LITERATURE REVIEW

Local Studies

Automated Oil Spill Collector (2016)

A group of Computer Engineering students from STI College Fairview developed an Oil Spill
Collector that has the capability to be able to operate in a specific area and it can be control through
smart phone. The system has used a water pump to sip oil water in the sea. In addition, for the
filtration it uses Polymer powder (chemical substance) to absorb oil from water that ensures that
there will be no more oil to be drain back in the sea. (Tabas, Alamis, Lega, & Espaiden, 2016)

The proponent will include; the controlled by a smart phone and the use of Polymer powder for
the filtration. The advantage of the developed system from this project is that the proponent will
make an automated oil spill collector easier and more advanced by making this a no man-controlled
oil spill collector.

Firefighter Drone (2017)

A group of computer engineering students from STI College Fairview successfully developed a
fire-fighter unnamed aerial vehicle (UAV). It is multi-copter with a camera built for the pilots’
vision and a pressure pump system for spraying liquid that can help quell the flames. (Castellano,
Castillo, Cajigas, & Hill, 2017)

The similarities of the proposed system to the said project is it will automatically feed a video
through the camera build in. It also has the capability to send an SMS to notify if the container is
already full.

Micro-Controller Based Solar Powered Electric Pedicab (2012)

In STI College Cubao, there are some student-made a micro-controller based solar powered
electric pedicab. The primary purpose of this project is to make an easier navigation experience
and to lessen energy consumption concerning fuel and electricity. To eliminate the unpleasant
experience and the effect of it in our environment. (De Vera, Maranan , & Uy, 2012)

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The students of STI College Cubao compose this past thesis project. Their project is focused to
help the conserve energy and utilizing the fast growth development of technology. This maybe not
related to the proposed system of the proponent, but the proponent would like to adopt the
mechanism of having a solar-powered vehicle. The proponents are using a power supply and an
inverter for the system

Foreign Studies

A Swimming-Bot to Sniff Out Water Pollution (2017)

In another county, a team developed a new bio-inspired robot. The Swiss research team develops
it; this development can be outfit with different chemical and biological sensors that allow it to
zero in on sources of aquatic contaminants. (Lauterbacher, 2017)

The proposed system also involves and allow the user to check the condition of the water. That is
why the proponent will include this feature in the proposed system to monitor and have a data
acquisition to be directly save in the email of the registered user.

FishPi Proof-Of-Concept Vehicle (POCV) (2015)

FishPi Proof-Of-Concept Vehicle (POCV) is a project with the goal of doing just that crossing the
Atlantic, using the Raspberry Pi to pilot the craft.

The proponent will imply the functionality of having the Raspberry Pi microcontroller to pilot the
intended design system. The proponent added a GPS Module that will provide the location where
the device can be located, and this is helpful for the proponent proposed system. The proposed
system will use a GPS Module that will provide the location where it can provide the location.

Synthesis

As the fast change and improvement with technology, the constant development of the
microcontroller to bide the humanity in such difficult situation that can put health at risk. In this
chapter, it has foreseen that there are related designs to the proposed system, the MCU-Based
Automated Oil Spill Collector using Raspberry Pi 3 has some advantages over the related

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literatures mentioned above and some give us other ideas. This project will include the controlled
by a smart phone as per the prominent use of the course pilot of the designed project. The use of
Polymer powder for the filtration will be also implied to separate the oil from water and to avoid
the spoilage of the collected oil. The features of the proposed system can monitor the condition of
the water, before and after the oil spill collection. Live viewing as the user can monitor the course
and the track using a mobile phone and a GPS module. Therefore, the proposed system would be
helpful to provide an aid and assistance to the human resource that risks their health for this kind
of job.

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