student innovation

On a budget of only ₹8,000, the final year engineering students of NSS College of Engineering developed the wheelchair using the motor of a car wiper.

If this innovation is put to use, it could help solve the concrete waste problem in the city which generates over 1,200 tonnes of C&D waste every day.

Using available waste materials on the campus like waste palm wheels, coconut leaves, a stick, and wheels of small cycles, these students made a makeshift sweeping machine to help the aged sweeper.

The Waste Samaritan initiative is a door-to-door waste monitoring solution undertaken as a pilot project in Domlur Layout’s ward number 112, with the support of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike.

This is the first year when participation has been opened to other countries. India participated for the first time and Team Neutrino represented it in Washington, where the final round was held.

The students claim that the model could potentially help ease an energy crisis, because the freely available wind energy is renewable.

IIT Kharagpur has named the technology ‘Real Time Fog Removal from Videos & Real-Time Rain Removal from Videos.'

Developed by a group of six students of the Birla Institute of Technolgy and Science (BITS), an Android-based app provides quick information on first-aid measures and also connects users to the National Emergency Helpline, among other important live-saving features.

Using natural materials like sugarcane bagasse and coir, Rakshit Prabhakaran has built a water-purifier that thousands of people can afford.