Category: Innovation

Hackathon by Startup Karnataka and CoinSwitch to find the best blockchain builders to solve urban challenges

Small Enterprise India

Dr. E.V. Ramana Reddy, Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Karnataka, Commerce, and Industries, Department of Electronics, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science & Technologyand Vimal Sagar Tiwari, Co-Founder and COO of CoinSwitch, inaugurated Building Future Cities 24-hour blockchain hackathon in Bengaluru on Friday. The hackathon aims to stimulate blockchain-based smart solutions to urban problems, and received over 1500 registrations. Over the course of 24-hours, the participants will devise and exhibit blockchain-based solutions to problem statements on smart mobility, energy credits and trading, decentralized waste management, secure digital identity and certificate management,…

An Innovation Low Cost Respiratory Device

Dr. Kiran Kumari Patil

Research Team (Dr. Kiran, Prof. Ragana and Mr. Faisal) from School of Computer and Information technology and School of Electronics and communication has designed and developed a low cost non-invasive, blower based ventilator for the use in emergency pandemic situations and resource-poor environments. This innovative device is a pressure support ventilator (PSV) which adjusts the pressure on the fly as the patient breathes, eliminating the frequent need for a human operator. It includes an assistive control system (ACS) that uses triggering so that if the patient makes an effort to…