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Future companies of home automation products, penny auctions, automated pantry management and design of marine farms have also been awarded by the Santander and the Polytechnic of Cartagena
A beekeeping 4.0 business project to place geolocators in queens bees has won the UPCT Explorer Space entrepreneurship program, in which a score of young entrepreneurs have developed their business ideas in the last few months, advised by the Office of Entrepreneurs of the University Polytechnic of Cartagena.
The promoter of this new company, Karim Belhaki Rivas, student of Electrical Engineering in the UPCT and beekeeper, will travel to Silicon Valley with the other winners of the local phases of this contest of the Santander International Entrepreneurship Center (CISE).
"Going to the cradle of technological entrepreneurship and contacting other entrepreneurs will be a great opportunity," says the young entrepreneur from the Polytechnic of Cartagena.
His business idea consists of the development of microdevices that will be placed on the thorax of queens bees to make it easier for beekeepers to locate them in the hive, delimiting the region where they should look for it.
"To know the state of the queen bee and be able to treat it with techniques of ecological beekeeping, it is necessary to find it among the 40,000 bees of its hive, in one of the ten paintings of which it is composed," says Belhaki Rivas, who estimates between 5 and 10 minutes the time that the beekeepers allocate to locate the queen bee in each hive, with an average of one hundred beehives per settlement.
"The time spent looking for queen bees is a brake on the development of organic beekeeping, which requires treating them separately," he explains.
"You get to hire crews because beekeepers can not cope," he adds, underscoring the cost reduction that your product will generate.
Domotics and aquaculture
The UPCT Explorer Space program also distinguished other business ideas, after the final exhibition of the projects that took place this Wednesday.
The second prize went to Raúl Pérez Olivares, an electrical engineer from the UPCT, who has launched a website for the sale of home automation products and the installation of integral systems for the automation of smart devices in the home.
The third prize went to Jonathan García Ferrer for his telematic purchase between individuals using the North American model of penny auctions, in which buyers and sellers get great prices based on risk, some paying for their bids and others initiating auctions from prices very low.
She was also distinguished, in the Woman Explorer Award category, with which she will opt for a state award from the EY Foundation, the project of the PhD student and civil engineer and Building by the Polytechnic of Cartagena María Rosa Mena Requena, who is preparing the launch of Cookinnova, an application connected to devices in the pantry and the refrigerators to "know the stockage of your house automatically and access recipes to use the food before it expires," he explains.
The goal is "not to get home without knowing what to do and end up eating badly and wasting food, which is throwing money away," says the entrepreneur, recalling that 30% of food products are discarded in homes.
Finally, the Disruptive Technology Explorer Award, a category sponsored by INDRA that will also have national competition, was for the students of the master's program in Naval and Oceanic Engineering of the UPCT Paloma Marco Jornet and Andrea Ortiz Clerig, for their company Fishmod Aquaculture, design of marine farms based on modules and with renewable energies.
"With the modules, we take advantage of the advantages of series production, while the design can be adapted to the client's needs", explains Marco Jornet.
"The idea is to respond to the overexploitation problems of the oceans using clean energies such as wind, solar and tides," adds his companion, recently hired by a Canary shipyard.
Source: UPCT
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