Makeathon at IESA Vision Summit 2017 Sparks Unique Digital Creation
IESA Vision Summit 2017 Focused on Innovation and nurtured projects to transform manufacturing, mobility and technology
IESA Vision Summit 2017 Makeathon (contest) successfully concludes at the 12th edition of Vision Summit. Aimed at marking ideas to transform manufacturing, mobility and technology – this year the 36 hours Makeathon had twenty two teams encouraging technologists, students and start-ups to come and create cutting edge technology around the theme of Driving Innovation in Augmented Reality/ Virtual Reality (AR/VR) and Industrial IoT (IIoT).
The Makeathon winning team, was awarded a cheque of ₹ 1,00,000 by Sh. Priyank Kharge, Hon’ble Minister of IT & BT and Tourism, Govt. of Karnataka and Ujjwal Munjal, Founder of Hero Electronix at the concluding ceremony of the two day Summit.
Winner: The Machinists – prototyped a Smart Industrial-Failure-Detection System, combining technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality
1st Runner up: VR Roover – creating an immersive experience of the VR Rescue bot, used for inaccessible places during disaster recovery
2nd Runner up: Dev Inc. – creating an Intelligent Helmet for Bikers using AR & IoT, for run time navigation
Special mention: Virtualists – Solving Tourism Issues of traveling safely & efficiently around India and improving tourists experience and increasing revenues
SRM University, Bangalore were announced winners for creating a system that collects vital machine sensor data like temperature, humidity, moisture and sends all this data to the cloud, allowing easy access from anywhere. The team also created an augmented reality mobile phone app that augments the data and overlays it when pointed at the machine to provide an immersive experience and allows for quick detection and repair.
Congratulating the winners, K Krishna Moorthy, Chairman, IESA, commented, “Fostering the spirit of edu-preneurship among the youth we wanted to create a platform where solutions can be developed to positively impact our lives. We have seen a tremendous participation at this year’s Makeathon, with showcase of some ingenious creations. IESA values new talent and we hope through such initiatives we can help in inspiring and providing more opportunities for the next gen of leaders.”
Elated with the win, Swaroop Belur, The Machinists commented, “We are delighted to have won a Makeathon of this scale. Our goal was to create a prototype of a system that can detect faults in a machine and notify the system administrator for troubleshooting. We have used advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT) and Augmented Reality to create this prototype. We hope to deploy this system once it is industry ready as it can be very useful in the ESDM sector for failure detection. We would also like to thank IESA for providing us with a platform such as Vision Summit to set our plans into motion. This was one of the best organised hackathons and we are happy to have been a part of it.”. The team comprised of Aakash Jain and Suresh Kumar as well.
