SRM University’s Next Tech Lab Students win IESA Hackathon - Vision Summit 2017

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Three members from the Internet of Things group at Next Tech Lab, SRM University have won the Industrial IoT-AR/VR Make-a-thon organized by the IESA Vision Summit 2017. Sponsored by Intel, the 30 hour Hackathon as held at The Leela Palace in Bangalore on February 21 and 22, 2017.

The three members including Swaroop Belur (3rd Year ECE), Aakash Jain (3rd Year ECE) and Suresh Kumar (1st Year Mechatronics) prototyped a Smart Industrial Failure Detection System which combined technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality.

The students competed against experienced professionals from the industry and the startup ecosystem, thus impressing the panel of judges comprising of industry veterans.

The trio walked away with the grand prize of 1 Lakh rupees along with tons of other goodies. The cheque was presented by Karnataka’s IT/BP Minister - Priyank Kharge and Ujjwal Munjal, Founder of Hero Electronix.

Their team, named ‘The Machinists’, worked for as many as 30 hours to come up with a prototype from scratch. The system built by the team collects vital machine sensor data like temperature, humidity, moisture and sends all this data to the cloud, allowing easy access from anywhere.

It uses Artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze this data to estimate and predict multiple kinds of failure in the machine. In case if a failure is predicted, a message is sent to the supervisor.

Besides this, the team also created an augmented reality mobile phone app that augments the data and overlays it when pointed at the machine. This provides an immersive experience and allows quick detection and repair.

The trio works at the Next Tech Lab which was started by Anshuman Pandey and Aditthya Ramakrishnan who spent a semester at MIT, which has advisers who are professors and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh , IBM among others. The lab has numerous awards and honors to its name.

Next Tech Lab has also been completely automated by the IoT group, with Face Detection/NFC locks and Lights/Fans which is controlled using phone applications. The lab also works in the field of Artificial Intelligence, AR/VR, Electrical Systems, Computational Biology and Cryptocurrency. The lab is in the process of kick starting a crowd-funding campaign to fund their cutting edge research.

For more information, students can visit their website - www.nextech.io or Facebook page. With another national-level Hackathon win, Next Tech Lab its continually accomplishing feats at a scale unprecedented for an Indian undergraduate research lab.