Bengaluru Techie Develops AC Helmet for Chill Rides

Helmets are one of those accessories that bring a lot of benefits to the table yet remain equally an uncomfortable affair to deal with, especially in meridian weather weather condition. Well, a Bengaluru man has a well-thought solution to this heating or suffocation issue faced inside helmets and his thought is incorporating AC to helmets.

Sandeep Dahiya has developed a paradigm of the air-conditioned helmet that will aid your head stay cool fifty-fifty when you're out there in the hot sunday. This helmet has been developed at his residence's garage-turned workshop.

Notably, Mr.Dahiya started working on this concept four and years back when he saw ii riders removing their helmets at a traffic signal for some relief. Until at present, he has designed viii dissimilar models of his concept that he calls 'Vatanukul'.

Vatankul runs on two volts of DC current and it draws power from the wheel's battery itself and hence, additional ability to brand the AC functional is non required. The helmet weighs i.7 kilograms and consists mainly of safe tubes for air circulation and a wearable component that is supposed to be worn like a backpack that houses the heat exchanger, reverse thermocouple, control and blower unit.

"The sight of 2-wheeler riders taking off their helmets and putting them on the fuel tank of their vehicles while waiting at traffic signals is what drove me to design Vatanukul. I am a passenger myself. When the helmet'south visor is closed, at that place is no air and it becomes suffocating, though information technology may be life-saving. And then, I decided to come up upward with a user-friendly helmet," said Sandeep.

Sandeep has been doing examination runs back and along from his office and home for more than than a month and the helmet seems to hold up quite well. "Many inquire me what is information technology that I comport on my back, and they are surprised when I tell them it'due south an air-cooler helmet.", Sandeep said Times of India.

And so, what are your thoughts on this AC helmet? Allow united states know in the comments.