IIT innovation

JandK Operations Pvt Ltd and IIT Madras have developed an indigenous mobile operating system called BharOS to provide “a secure environment for users”. Here are six things to know about it.

Researchers at IIT-Madras built the ‘Ocean Wave Energy Converter’, or the Sindhuja-1, a device to generate electricity from sea waves. The team is led by Professor Abdus Samad, who explains how the device works.

IIT Roorkee professor Abhijit Maiti and his team have developed a simple and affordable technology to remove arsenic and other heavy metals to purify water. He explains how it works.

Sadham Usean Ramasamy, a PhD scholar student at IIT-Madras, has invented a machine that can safely rescue children fallen and trapped in borewells. He explains how the device works.

A collaboration of global institutes and IITs has found that Limestone Calcined Clay Cement, or LC3, is a sustainable alternative that cuts CO2 emissions by 40% and is significantly cheaper to produce.

IIT Bombay students Arpit Upadhyay and Mohit Jajoriya have devised an RO hand pump that needs no electricity to generate clean drinking water, aiming to provide equitable access to rural India.

A student at IIT Bombay, Saiprasad Proyarekar has innovated a skin spray gun that treats open skin wounds in less than half the time of regular surgeries. This low-cost innovation can be a gamechanger in treating acid attacks and accident injuries.

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