Omani students develop first smart cooking gas watch

Muscat: The student company (D-Flop) from the National University of Science and Technology succeeds in developing the smart cooking gas watch to make it fit the requirements of security, safety and energy in a new experiment and idea that contributes to reducing fire accidents due to leaks and misuse.

The new innovation helps in giving measurement indicators and readings for the gas cylinder in terms of running out of quantity, indicators and readings before damage occurs to it, in addition to indicators and readings of leakage and preventing fire accidents, and the company seeks to launch the product soon in the markets of the Sultanate of Oman.

About the idea of ​​the product, Marwan bin Salem Al-Sahbani, CEO of the company, told Oman News Agency: The idea of ​​the smart cooking gas watch came after the role played by the company’s work team in researching and investigating the damage caused in the field of security, safety and energy, noting that through research and study in In this aspect, it became clear to us the extent of the positive value through which the development of this device results, as the indicators and readings reviewed by the company’s investigation team show a large number of victims and injuries to a number of consumers, as it was found that the gas watch needs sensors to detect the possibility of damage.

He added: The company’s development of the smart cooking gas watch comes as the statistics registered with the Civil Defense and Ambulance Authority show that cooking gas has caused a number of fires inside homes, cafes, restaurants, and hotels, explaining that the idea of ​​developing this device comes through the presence of three advantages, which is a sensor to detect the presence of Leaks in gas or gas pipelines, the feature of scheduling and self-closing in the event of a leak, and an indicator to detect the amount of gas in the cylinder.

About marketing the device, Fatima bint Fahd Al-Badawiya, director of the company’s Marketing and Sales Department, said: The company’s role comes in marketing this product to consumers, whether individuals or owners of cafes, restaurants, hotels and institutions that use cooking gas. Especially since the company was established during this year 2022 AD, to participate in the Injaz Oman competition, and our participation in the competition is based on developing old products into products that are more suitable with life requirements in the field of security, safety and energy.

Al-Badwawi pointed out that D-Flop Student Company succeeded in passing the first phase of the competition in its tenth edition, and is currently competing through the smart cooking gas watch product in the second phase of the qualifiers among 31 student companies from various public and private schools and government and private higher education institutions in the Sultanate of Oman from Out of 64 student companies, 11 of them are in the schools category and 53 are in the colleges and universities category. Through this participation, we seek to win prizes in the competition, which were allocated for the best innovative idea, and the best student company, which will represent the Sultanate of Oman in the regional competition in the Arab world.