Five laboratory technologists at Multimedia University have come up with an automated sliding gate. The group led by Dr Christopher Adika, working under the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, were spurred to action after noting an increase in theft cases within residential or work areas.Dr Adika, David Rotich, Geoffrey Musyoki, Joel Mokola, Titus Mutunguti, all experts in Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and micro controllers programming and installation, have been working for two years now on the project that is now in its marketing stage.
Musyoki in an interview told Hashtag that the state of the art modern gate uses a controller to close, stop or open.
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