Startups & Innovators
Featuring start-ups and innovators who are reshaping technology, industry, and your future…
Video Surveillance System That Never Sleeps
“One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.”
—Publilius Syrus (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)
With statistics related...
Buddy Player For Visually Challenged
MAY 2011: At a conference, the CEO of a product design company noticed nothing peculiar—attendees discussed issues and took notes on their laptops. It...
HHV Develops PECVD System For Thin Film Deposition
JUNE 2012: Bengaluru-based Hind High Vacuum Co. Pvt Ltd (HHV) has recently developed a cluster-type, multi-chamber plasma–enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) system for the...
Phoenix expEYES Low-cost Platform For PC-interfaced Science Experiments
Schools and colleges often focus on theory, forgetting that practical experiments teach students much more. Members of Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), an autonomous...
A ‘Smart’ Plug That Monitors Power Consumption And Generates Alerts, Wirelessly!
JULY 2011: Often we do not realise that homes and industries consume much more energy than required due to inefficient electronics, faulty devices and...
Active Power Conditioners For Harmonics
AUGUST 2011: Business organisations are constantly looking for efficient energy solutions, especially with the government regulations getting stricter, and rising costs involved with power...
A Low-Cost Large-Size Document Scanner
Design engineer Mandar Thite had many old newspapers stocked in his house as his father loved collecting newspaper clippings. Some of these were even...
ROBOT For Risky Indoor Navigation
The 2008 terror attack on Mumbai’s Taj was fresh in everybody’s mind when budding engineers at M.V.J. College of Engineering were brainstorming over what...
LED Streetlights With Unique Thermal Management
Thermal management in LED streetlights is a constant challenge throughout their existence. To overcome this, Greenstar Engineering (an engineering arm of Greenstar Products Inc.,...
Handheld fieldman for pest surveillance
NOVEMBER 2011: In India over 10,000 species of pests destroy food which could feed 135 million people. The current annual loss due to insects,...
Robot That Breathes Life Into AC Ducts
“To regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
—Albert Einstein
For commercial set-ups such as shopping malls...
Low-Cost, Fail-proof Root Canal Machine
APRIL 2012: It is not every day that you come across dentists who can also innovate. Sameer D. Jain, a student in Nashik pursuing...
Underwater Robot to Clean Tanks
Fantasies depicted in TV shows such as The Jetsons and Futurama are increasingly getting closer to reality. A step in this direction is the...
Moksha: Unmanned Ground Vehicle
FEBRUARY 2012: The robotics team of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology has developed an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) named Moksha. The objective of...
Suraksha: Mobile Alarm for LPG Leakage
MAY 2012: Prevention is better than cure-especially to secure your home against possible fire due to LPG leakage when you are away on a...