Innovation

Om Shelat, Ira Sidhu, Soumya Juneja and Shreya Raju, built an intelligent traffic light that reacts to real-time traffic density using image processing and has the potential of reducing fleet time.

Incredibly, this IAS officer went all the way to the Supreme Court to prove his disability did not hamper his dedication!

The problem of cleaning up the lakes to acquire drinking water, they discovered, did not just lie with tackling pollution but in the lack of awareness about the condition.

When he tested the model on the school grounds, it was a raging success. From the district level of the Inspire Awards to the state and national level exhibitions, his invention won laurels.

The team studied a specific plant--the Dragon’s lily head (Gladiolus dalenii)--for its unique surface property.

It is the result of careful thought and innovative policy making process through a long drawn period of 15 years that pulled Chhattisgarh from a state with nothing to one with the highest recorded economic growth in recent years.

Prototypes of the device, named WAYU, have been installed at the ITO Junction in central Delhi and Mukarba Chowk in north Delhi.

With depleting water bodies and pollution on the rise, two IT Engineers took it in their hands to changed the way people immersed Ganesha idols in the this small village.

The findings of the year long experiment showed a 75% decrease in the death rate of pneumonia-affected children who used the device.

From powering entire villages to inventing new safety devices, for 60 years now, IIT-Madras has been at the forefront of change. Here's a look!