NYC Smart Collector

FOOD SCRA-VENGER:

NYC Food Scrap Recycling System

Drop-off composting is a way residents can put their food and yard waste to good use instead of being sent to a landfill. There are two groups of drones engaging in two different works.

The first group of drones collects food residues from various sites and then transports them to farmers markets. The second group are cabable of carring much more load of food scrap and processing them during the transportation. They shuttled between various farmers markets, trading food scrap and distributing the compost.

@ Mingfeng Jiang

BIOFUEL NAVIGATOR:

NYC Environmental Sample Collector

NYC Environmental Collector Drones, powered by CO2-feeding algae biofuel, depart from municipal garages where collected CO2 emission help to charge the drones. Their job is to collect environmental-related data and physical samples in NYC parks and greenspaces that are assigned to each drone based on park-garage distances.

The drones continue to navigate closest drop-off points and are set to communicate with one another within a certain distance to exchange samples. The samples are eventually dropped off in research facility sites located by water features where algae farming provides power sources for the facilities to conduct further biological research.