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Technological solution for NOMADS
Aiming to contribute to Göksu-Taşeli project, Aurora Group developed a smart goat product which befitted Yoruk way of life and offered sustainable living solutions for Yoruks. A leash placed around a goat collects data during the daily activities of a goat and helps identify the optimum routes for Yoruk movement, temperatures on the routes, and fertile pastures for goats through an online sharing platform. Then the data are processed and visualised which can be accessed by Yoruks through a website. Through the data collected by the leashes, it is aimed to transform the Yoruk experience into collective, written memory to hand down to future generation. Thanks to the leash, Yoruks will spare the time spent on finding fertile pastures for their flocks and use it for cultural and daily activities such as manufacture products of goat hair.
Sorting waste at home made easier
This project in partnership with UNDP aims to develop a system design, including the use of technological products for the urban management of waste, already an environmental and social problem. Smart waste bins have been designed with the aim of including the consumers in the waste management process, make them a part of the management chain and establish domestic sorting of waste as a preferred solution. A solidarity network has also been built which would inform and positively support the consumers in every phase of the waste management through a mobile application designed in digital environment. The so-called WA[RE] is an integrated system design that will make the consumers active participants in waste management by a waste bin which, through five components inspired by its name, will contribute to sustainability and recycling, and be useable in such non-domestic places as hospitals and schools.