A research and outreach collaboration led by Iowa State’s Department of Industrial Design has designed an amazingly simple product that could save hundreds of farmers lives in Iowa alone. They have developed a prototype of a device that addresses one aspect of tractor rollover fatalities: response time. The tractor-mounted communications device alerts family and emergency personnel of a rollover when it happens.
Mani Mina, a senior lecturer, and John Pritchard, a Ph.D. candidate, both in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering helped develop the prototype in a “pretty short period of time.”