Nagpur: Startup from City – Engineering Technology Research for Nature (TERP) – has been eligible for the semifinal round of the Swadesh Microprocessor challenge, which is organized by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology of the Government (MEYIT).
Test teams now work at a minimum prototype (MVP) smart camera trap, which will reduce the burden on forest staff and play an important role in securing data captured from the forest.
The Teaning team has five members – Srushti Mehatkar, Rohulika Dolke, Madhulika KeRe, Madhulika Dolke and Abhinav Chikhalkar.
While Chikhalkar comes from IIT Bombay, another member is Alumni of RamdeoBaba College of Engineering & Management.
Tern work mainly on technology solutions for forests.
“The startup team stands in the top 100 of 8,000 participants from all countries registered for the competition.
We are working on a smart camera trap that will be able to send data without a cellular network or Wi-Fi connection,” said Mehatkar.
Of the 100 semifinalists, 25 will be elected in the upcoming round followed by 10 and then Top 3.
All will get funds to prepare prototypes, the top three will get government funds to start production on a commercial scale.
“If approved, our innovation can be in the form of a major gift for the Department of Forest, both in terms of technology and wildlife and environmental conservation.
The Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge Organizer has provided all RS1 Lakh semifinalists for MVP execution,” he said.
Under the Atmanirbhar Bharat project, there is an increasing need for computer hardware Swadesh which will be part of each smart device used in different domains.
Under the microprocessor development program was pioneered by Meity at the Further Computing Development Center (C-DAC), IIT Madras and Iit Bombay, not only the industrial class microprocessor families that have been designed from the start but also the computer ecosystems around them have evolved as a step towards meeting requirements In the future of India.
Hazare said to give further encouragement for startup ecosystems, innovators, and strong researchers in the country, Meity has announced the challenges of the Swadesh microprocessor in September.
“We will use Shakti Microprocessors provided by IIT Madras to develop a camera trap prototype,” he said.
MVP Smart Camera Trap will increase the existing capabilities used by the Department of Forest.
MVP is designed to reduce problems such as manual data retrieval.
The delay of the manual method obtains data with additional risks to the life of forest guards.
Because the camera trap is not often monitored, the possibility of data is stolen high.
“MVP camera traps are designed to create self-formed networks that can work regardless of the availability of cellular networks.
One camera trap at the headquarters will get data through this network.
Some other features will include detection of theft or failure, Fast SOS warning to the head office The forest faces an emergency, “said Nihal Reddy, a TERP member who played an important role in the initial idea.” The idea behind competition is to promote the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by taking complex designs in this country and innovating saving solutions around the processor ecosystems planted At home, serving global and domestic requirements, “KeRe said.