Electronics Interest Group

Lee Hsien Loong Interactive Digital Media Smart Nation Award (LHL-IDM Smart Nation Award) 2021 The LHL-IDM Smart Nation Award for 2021 was won by a group of students from the Republic Polytechnic - School of Engineering (RP-SEG). This award is to recognize full-time polytechnic students who have completed Interactive Digital Media projects that fulfil the Smart Nation vision of harnessing technology to improve the lives of citizens, create more opportunities, and build stronger communities. The team, from SEG-DEEE and Electronics IG, developed a Smart AI Detector system that combines commonly required functions of face recognition, with mask detection, thermal scanning, safety headgear detection and cigarette detection. The Smart AI Detector is based on the open-source program Yolov5 model, which takes in commonly available form inputs like image files, videos, online streaming or live videos from a camera or CCTV video feeds. The software captures video feeds from the camera frame by

South East Asia Programmable Logic Controller Design Competition 2021 The "South East Asia Programmable Logic Controller Design Competition" was held on the 10th July 2021, organized by Republic Polytechnic (RP), in partnership with  Asia Pacific University (APU) and Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), Malaysia.  The PLC competition was held especially for the Year 3 students who have taken the "E243 Automation Systems" module at RP. The purpose of the competition was to cultivate teamwork, allow the students from South East Asia to use their imagination and analytical skills to invent, design and turn ideas into products. A total of 29 teams from Singapore and Malaysia have participated in this competition in 2 categories – Degree and Diploma. There were 8 students who participated from RP under 2 teams of 4 each, led by lecturer Ms. Elven Kee. The competition was held on MS Teams with a duration of 4 hours which included the solutions, simulations and pres