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www.technologyreview.in From the Editor
From the Edito
How Innovative Are Indias Young Technologists?This question is answered by the second edition of India TR35.
Ayear ago, we at the India edition oTechnology Reviewembarked on a complex exercise to erret out the youngtechnology innovators in the country. We were armed with
over a decades experience o the magazines US team which
had built TR35 which identies top innovators under the age
o 35 into a much-awaited annual exercise by the community.
The inaugural attempt in India in 2010 was a runawaysuccess, measured by the attention the 20 innovators,
selected by the India edition, received in the country. And
two o them, Indrani Medhi and Rikin Gandhi, made to the
celebrated global TR35 list in September 2010. The lessons
we learnt during the 2010 exercise and the condence gener-
ated by the success have come in handy as we unveil the list
o hottest technology innovators in the country in this edi-
tion oTechnology Review India.
Our Innovator o the Year, Ajit Narayanan, 29, exemplies
the spirit o innovation that now exists in India. Toiling or a
ew years at a startup, Invention Labs Engineering, incu-bated at the Indian Institute o Technology, Chennai, Naray-
anan has developed an alternate communication system or
millions o people who remain incommunicado with the
society due to their disabilities. Avaz, which in Hindi means
voice, is the tool which uses a variety o sotware and hard-
ware to provide a voice to these muted millions using just
their muscle movements.
Another celebrated innovator, identied by a wonderul
panel o 24 jury members who helped us sit through nearly
200 entries this time, is a young medical student, Alea
Merchant, 32. She is currently pursuing her medical studiesin Canada. During her short stint with Bangalore-based eye
hospital, Narayana Nethralaya, Merchant has developed an
easy method to spot eye disorders in young children. Millions
o Indian children rom poor amilies do not have access to
cost-eective diagnostic tools to detect their vision threat-
ening conditions beore the age o ve. Merchant has used
the images taken using the widely used digital cameras to
look or vision threatening symptoms. The simplicity o the
method provides a handy tool in the hands o health workers
in remote corners o the country. For this amazing invention,
we have named Alea Merchant, the Humanitarian o the
Year, rom the perspective o technology innovation.
Majority o the 18 young innovators we have chosen or
India TR35 2011 have developed technological solutions to
common problems aced by people. Take the case o Gau-
tam Kumar, 26, named as the Social Innovator. Most urban
homes in India use liqueed petroleum gas (LPG) supplied
in cylinders or cooking. Leakages rom the cylinder are com-
mon and thousands o people die every year due to cylinderblasts caused by leakages in kitchens. Kumar has developed
a simple gas detection system using a sensor and communi-
cation module to issue warning to users registered mobile
phone. Called Suraksha (saety in Hindi), it is another inno-
vation that should improve saety levels in millions o Indian
homes in the coming years.
In 2010, we chose 20 rom a eld o 115. This year, we have
selected only 18 innovations that passed the muster with the
jury and the benchmarks we had set or this year. However, it
is no refection on the quality o other innovations. Nor does
this indicate any decline in the area o technology innova-tions in the country.
Agrees Technology Review India Editor and India TR35
project head, Ch. Srinivas Rao:
It was a very daunting task or us to shorten the list to 60
rom nearly 200 odd entries. Each o the shortlisted entries
were thoroughly evaluated by at least three jury members.
We also sought the opinion o our international colleague,
Brian Bergstein, who has been one o the key members to
evaluate the global program, to give his eedback too. He
went beyond his brie to evaluate all the shortlisted entries.
We collectively spent over 500 hours to select the winners. Itis heartening to see an increase in technology innovation in
the country. Added Technology Reviews deputy editor Brian
Bergstein, There were some great ideas in the shortlisted
nominations. And now well have a head start on incorporat-
ing these candidates into the running or the global TR35.
It was another daunting but rewarding exercise or the
TR team. I invite you all to evaluate the 18 innovators in your
own way and do join us in celebrating their success during
the 3rd EmTech India Conerence in Bangalore on March
22-23, 2011. Do write and let me know your views on these
young innovators at [email protected].
Narayanan Suresh
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COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Innovator of the Year
Ajit Narayanan, 29Voice device for people with speech disabilitiesInvention Labs Engineering, Chennai
Rohit Jain now studies Sociology at
Loyola College in Chennai. What is
so special about him? He was born with
cerebral palsy. He cannot speak as his
vocal muscles are weak and neither ishe able to achieve perect muscle coor-
dination in his limbs. Besides, his lack
o fine motor control skills prevent him
rom writing or typing. Despite all these
challenges, Jain graduated rom high
ACTION TO SPEECH Avaz is a communication device that can convert limited muscle movements, such as head or finger movements, into speech.
movements, such as head or finger move-
ments, into speech. His invention broadly
alls under the category o Augmentative
and Alternative Communication (AAC)
technologies. Though speech generatingdevices are efective, most AAC devices
arent within the reach o the speech-
impaired persons in the developing world
and they mostly generate speech in Eng-
lish. This is another deterrent which has
are used to intelligently create sentences
which are then spoken out.
Avaz works on the principle o scan-
ning. It shows various options on a screen
and presents a highlight that moves
between the diferent options. When the
highlight dwells upon the option that the
child wishes to choose, the child makes
a large muscle movement such as shak-
ing the head or touching anywhere on
the screen with the hand. This selects the
highlighted option. When a ull sentence
has been constructed, Avaz converts the
message into speech.
Scanning in Avaz is made aster usinggrouping, ordering, and prediction. The
options are arranged in groups so that it
is quicker to navigate and correct mis-
takes. The options are also arranged
in optimized order o requency which
prevented these devices rom becom-
ing as popular in the developing world.
Narayanans innovation lies in bringing
down the cost o the device to one-tenth
o the price o similar devices, making it
afordable to a wide swath o the Indian
disabled population, and making it avail-
able in Indian languages.
Avaz is a portable, battery-operated
device which constructs messages rom
coarse muscle movements. These mes-
sages are then converted into speech.
It has a micro-processor with a touch
screen and multiple input sensor mech-
anisms, and also a sensor which detects
body movements. Inputs rom the sensor
school last year and registered or ur-
ther studies. Jains determination would
have taken him to his destination, but
Ajit Narayanans technology has come
to aid him to mingle into mainstream
more reely. He was one o the first users
o Narayanans invention, AVAZ.
There are an estimated 10 million
people in India who sufer rom speech
impediments. They may not have speech
but they have a lot to say. And they can
benefit rom Narayanans device. Avaz is
a communication device or people with
speech disorders such as cerebral palsy,
autism, mental retardation, and apha-
sia. It works by converting limited muscle
makes common words quicker to select.
Avaz also tries to automatically predict
words based on their starting alphabets
and their preceding words. The child can
now build a sentence under less than a
minute using Avaz in text mode.
To cater to a wider spectrum o dis-
abilities, Avaz is also available in picture
mode with support or Indian languages.
This technology, though developed or
the diferently-abled, has the potential o
morphing into a technology or the peo-
ple without disabilities too like when one
is at the steering wheel o a car or when
one isnt amiliar with the local language
o the place o visit.
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INN OVATOR OF THE YEARAjit Narayanans innovationlies in bringing down thecost of the communicationdevice to one-tenth of theprice of similar devices.
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COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Srinivasan Jayaraman, 32Secure system using human ECG to authenticate, identifyand diagnoseTata Consultancy Services, Bangalore
With research interests in areas
like healthcare devices, bio-sig-
nal processing, human system interace,
biometrics, and ergonomics, Sriniva-
san Jayaraman has sought new ways
o doing things. He has demonstratedapplication o human electrocardiogram
(ECG) as a biometric. Using a collection
o ECG waveorms corresponding to di-
erent people at diferent times, he has
developed an algorithm to extract rele-
vant morphological eatures and cluster
them with su cient distance or mapping
them to respective people. He has imple-
mented a miniature three-channel device
to acquire ECG data and transmit it over
bluetooth or USB or the data collection.
Major impact o this work, accord-ing to Balamuralidhar P., head o Tata
Consultancy Services Innovation Labs,
Bangalore, can be applied or pervasive
authentication like in the case o vehicle
drivers, people working at high security
zones, and at military or nuclear instal-
lations, or within a highly restricted
area where the individual needs to be
monitored continuously or queried wire-
lessly. Jayaraman has filed a patent or
its potential in practical applications.
The technology has the potential to be
developed as a secure identification andauthentication system based on individ-
ual specific ECG signature.
Though a number o biometric tech-
niques, such as ingerprint recogni-
tion systems, having very high levels o
accuracy exist today, these biometrics
methods are either not robust against
alsification or are too costly like the iris
technique. It has also been estimated
that 2-3 percent o population ail to
spot the eatures that are required or
authentication or the data obtained orauthentication is o poor quality. Further,
as biometric credentials are not secured,
spoofing attack occurs either physically or
digitally. For example, fingerprints may
be obtained rom any physical suraces
that one touches such as doors, glass, and
keyboard. Facial images can also be stolen
NEW BIOM ETRIC TECHNOLOGY Srinivasan Jayaraman has developed awearable ECG device with wireless capability which can use human ECGas a biometric to authenticate identity, aliveness detection, and more.
rom any supermarket where one visits
oten. However, due to ECGs unique ea-
ture it is more di cult to alsiy and ECGsignals can be used or aliveness detection
as well, says Jayaraman.
ECG is a record o time varying bio-
potential generated by electrical activity
o the heart. And it is unique or individu-
als, even in identical twins. Jayaraman
has developed the prototype wearable
ECG device with a wireless capability.
And he has tested it or a small group o
individuals. Further, he has also tested
the perormance o the algorithm and has
validated it with MIT-BIH ECG database.The wearable ECG device is configurable
either as continuous mode or on-demand
mode. In the on-demand mode, the PC
user will raise a request based on device
ID and the wearable ECG device will
acknowledge the request and acquire
and transmit the data to the PC through
wireless mode. In the continuous mode,
wearable ECG device will continuously
acquire and transmit the data to PC.
The next step would be to test the
system with a larger group o individualsand integrating an automatic emergency
call or times when any abnormality is
detected by the system, says Jayraman.
He is also exploring to add other physi-
ological parameters like skin tempera-
ture, respiration, and blood pressure
measurements.
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Voice VideoText and Multimedia Messaging
Seamless DataInterchange
GYAN USER CONTENT PARTNERS
KNOWLEDGEALERTS
BREAKING NEWSREVIEWS
GYAN CONVERGENCE GATEWAY
SMS
IVR
Deepak Ravindran calls it the instant
cup o knowledge. His mobile based
service, SMSGyan, promises inormationon almost any topic to the user on his
mobile phone without asking him to click
on any link. There are a host o services
existing which would give users inor-
mation on certain topics on their mobile
phones but most o these are either lim-
ited to a sector, such as railway enquiry,
or they send links to the users mobile
phone asking the user to click on them
to access desired inormation. Such ser-
vices have not become very popular with
the vast majority o the people becausethey dont have GPRS connection on
their mobile phones or the connection
is weak. Though India has almost 700
million users today, the smart phone pen-
etration still remains very low.
Gyan means knowledge in Hindi,
and the SMSGyan provides myriad inor-
mation services which include dictionary,
encyclopaedia, job search, health, stock
market, and more via text messages. The
idea was seeded when one day, Hisam,
one o the ounders o Innoz Technolo-
gies, was in transit and wanted to know
the meaning o a word and ound that
his basic phone was o no use to get the
inormation. Since the phone had no
application and no Internet connection
to go to a dictionary and enquire, Hisam
had to do without knowing the mean-
ing. This kind o a thing has happened
to each one o us and it can be rustrating,
says Ravindran. The team then sat down
INFORMATION SERVICES The SMSGyan algorithm enables users to get information on anytopic through a simple SMS from their cell phones.
to put together an answer engine which
would give users answers to various kinds
o queries rom anywhere at any time.
The SMSGyan platorm can work with
any number o databases or resources. It
delivers mobile-optimized results. Thesetext results support upto a maximum
500 characters o inormation across all
operators in India. A user would have to
type an SMS with the keyword GYAN ol-
lowed by the query and send it to 56161.
For example, to know the stock price o
Inosys, a user would have to type GYAN
Stock Inosys and send it to the speci-
fied number.
Once the Gyan engine gets a query
rom a mobile user, the algorithm spi-
ders the World Wide Web or Wikis on the
Web or the related inormation, zeroes
in on the most relevant inputs, and then
shortens it to be sent to a mobile phone
via the text message route. The categories
that are currently available are encyclo-
pedia, dictionary, acronym, live cricket
scores, movie reviews, book reviews,
weather alerts, stock market, gadgets
prices, and calorie meter. Other recent
additions to premium services include
localized searches, job search, and even
a health service over the phone. For these
services, the platorm makes use o its
content partners to deliver the required
inormation. In some cases, pictures are
also sent as results to support the textresults to a users mobile device in answer
to his or her query.
Having added services or Facebook,
Twitter, and email via SMS over the
SMSGyan platorm, Ravindran now has
plans o making inormation in local lan-
guages available or the benefit o the
rural masses. Future tweaks to the service
would also include translators and video
or voice based on-demand results. RC
Dutt o Technopark, Trivandrum, where
Ravindrans company is incubated and is
being mentored, says Deepaks product
is a paradigm shit rom standard mobile
service oferings as it adopts a user cen-
tric learning approach using a low cost,
low bandwidth medium as its delivery
mechanism.
SMSGyan was launched in January
2009, and it currently caters to five mil-
lion users, answering almost 20,000 que-
ries daily.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
DeepakRavindran, 22A mobile based search engineto deliver information onany topicInnoz Technologies, Haryana
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SOFTWARE
Akash Lal, 29Improving software quality using automated verificationMicrosoft Research, Bangalore
With sotware becoming all pervasive
in our daily lives, it must become
all the more reliable and shouldnt crash
or behave unexpectedly. And the way to
address this is through automated veri-
fication o programs. Though automated
verification can significantly improve thequality o sotware with little manual
efort, the available verification tools have
been used to test sequential programs.
This is a concern as modern sotware is
invariably concurrent.
The problem o automatically veri-
ying concurrent programs is two-old:
one has to explore diferent inputs to
the program, and also explore difer-
ent interleavings that happen between
threads in the program or each input.
Akash Lals work shows that verifica-
tion o real-world concurrent programs
is possible. His innovation bridges theworlds o sequential and concurrent pro-
grams. He has shown how a concurrent
program can be e ciently transormed
to a sequential one under certain con-
ditions. Lal, along with his colleagues
at Microsot Research Lab in Banga-
lore, has built a tool called Poirot that
is capable o finding bugs in real-world
concurrent programs that are missed by
conventional testing.
Akashs research has created an
opportunity or developing precise and
scalable tools or analyzing concurrent
sotware, and many researchers includ-ing me are building on top o his work,
says Shaz Qadeer, Lals colleague at
Microsot, Redmond. Using a collec-
tion o models o concurrent programs,
Lals approach is 30 times aster than
any existing tool or veriying concur-
rent programs.
THE POIROT Akash Lal has madesignificant advances on the problemof analyzing and verifying proper-
ties of concurrent programs. Hisapproach is about 30 times fasterthan existing tools.
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Coming rom the water scare region
o Rajasthan, Pulkit Gaur under-
stood the value o creating a mecha-
nism which could clean water storage
tanks without emptying them or wast-
ing water. Passionate about robots, Gaurhas developed a smart waterproo robot
capable o carrying various underwater
operations with ease. He calls his inven-
tion SaUsR (smart autonomous under-
water service robot).
The underwater robot rom Grid-
bots is specially capable o cleaning
deep water tanks and has ound appli-
cation in industries which have the
need o a continuous supply o water
but or whom cleaning the tank on a
regular basis and keeping the water reeo impurities is a major issue o water
wastage and labor. Gaurs Sausr ensures
smooth and ail-proo operations or
such machines.
The Sausr uses visual sensors with
high resolution cameras mounted on its
back, which are also capable o giving a
eedback o live video or better control.
Light emitting diodes are used or light-
ing. The robot has sensors or direction,
temperature, and acidity measurement.
It is made o anodized aluminum and
coated by hard chromium and is there-
ore rendered waterproo.
The robot is controlled rom an
external source such as a keypad and
a monitor. It weighs 30 kilograms and
comes in two models: a 2 eet wide, 2
eet long model or domestic purposes
(since tank openings are small), and a
3 eet wide and 2 eet long model or
industrial purposes. We tried making
size and attachments vary according
to the nature o the sludge in diferent
geographies. For example, Maharashtra
has a sticky sludge while Rajasthan has
a sludge deposition which is sandy in
nature. The Sausr uses diferent kinds
o pumps in diferent geographies.
To develop the Sausr has been tough.
Gaur and his team had the challenge
o not only creating an indigenous
waterproo and rustproo device, but
also o adding a camera eed and mak-
ing everything work on a single phase
power supply. Currently, the Sausr
costs `7.5&`12.5 lakh. The Gridbots is
incubated at the Center or Innova-
tion, Incubation and Entrepreneur-
ship, Indian Institute o Management,
Ahmedabad.
indigenous smart cleaning robots which
would be light, small, and cost-efective
than what was available anywhere else
so that it would fit in well in the mul-
titudes o the Indian scene, says Gaur.
The machine has onboard sludge
collection units which are modular
in nature to help in cleaning sludge
deposited within tanks o various sizes.
It has an attached cable o 50 meters
and hence is rated or a 50 meter depth
with a linear speed o five centimeters
per second and an underwater payload
capacity o 30 kilograms.
Gaur has made the robot unique by
adding peripherals like a totally water-
proo robotic arm with a gripper attach-
ment acility so that cleaning equipment
can be attached to the robot. The robot
UNDERWATER ROBOT Pulkit Gaurs Sausris designed to help in cleaning water storagetanks without downtime or water wastage.
COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Pulkit Gaur, 29Underwater robot to clean tanksand reduce water wastageGridbots, Ahmedabad
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Spam messages are a bane to any
individual as they bring with them a
host o problems such as flooding the in-box, inecting the system with malware,
and more. As one witnesses the growth
o mobile phones over that o PCs, it is
needless to say that there is a need o
good spam blockers. While a variety o
email-spam blockers are available today,
but the same accuracy and variety lacks
in case o SMS blockers. The anti-spam
sotware available today require users to
manually keep adding senders that they
wish to block, into a list. But the new
trend shows that spammers outdo theseblockers by constantly changing their
numbers and the sender titles. Many
users ind it easier to just delete such
messages than to add them to a list.
Sagar Bedmutha, CEO o Pune-based
Optinno Mobitech, has created an intel-
ligent SMS blocker which automatically
blocks spam without the need o user
intervention. His product smsBlocker
also allows users to restore a blocked
message. The application comprises
almost 6,000 diferent predefined spam
cases created out o numerous permuta-
tions and combinations. Every message
that comes rom an unknown source is
analyzed against all predeined cases.
Based on the result, the application
transers identified spam messages into
a separate older. In certain cases i the
algorithm remains undecided whether
a message is spam or not, it pops up a
snapshot o the message or the user to
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
SagarBedmutha, 29An intelligent anti-spam-ming software for mobilephonesOptinno Mobitech, Pune
the number o messages blocked on the
home screen o a mobile phone or the
user to see. One interesting eature o theapp which makes it localized and more
efective or Indian users is that it identi-
fies the widely spokenHinglishEnglish
inused with regular Hindi words. Bed-
mutha explains that during the develop-
ment, their ocus was to make the app use
phone memory e ciently and intercept
a potential spam message without allow-
ing the phone to vibrate or ring or even
flash on the screen.
smsBlocker deflects rom the regu-
lar spam blockers in the manner that
it doesnt automatically pulls group
messages rom banks or others into the
spam bin. Bedmutha says he has stud-
ied more than 3,000 patterns o promo-
tion and other types o SMSes to identiy
spammers. The smsBlocker app costs
`199 and since its launch in July 2010,
the app has been downloaded by almost
70,000 mobile phone users rom over
110 countries.
SMS received in the mobile
smsBlockers ContentAnalysis Engine
SMS silently sent toBlocked SMS older
I spam detected
I no spam detected
I smsBlocker can not decide
SMS sent to Inboxas usual
SMS Preview shown orurther action by user
SPAM BLOCKER smsBlocker works on anymobile phone with least human intervention.
view and make the decision. Apart rom
the in-built logic, the user can manually
change or add any rule or setting in the
smsBlocker. Most SMS blockers are
not very efective as they are based on
CAP-4 protocol platorms, while the one
rom Optinno is diferent, says Jaspal
Riyat, senior mobile marketing manager,
Bharti Airtel. This app is successul in
blocking spams 99 percent o the times,
he comments.
The application runs in the back-
ground and keeps iltering SMSes as
they pour in. It displays a counter o
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Sanjoy Ghosh, product manager
innovation, Logica India, has devel-
oped Logica EMO, a device aimed at
reducing vehicular pollution. It allows
wireless monitoring and reporting o
vehicular emissions in real-time. Theproduct also empowers a driver to
improve his driving pattern and turn
the vehicle more environment-riendly.
Research shows that vehicular
emission constitutes 51 percent o
an average households carbon oot-
print and close to a third o global world
pollution. Deployed in hundreds
o cars in multiple pilots, Logica
EMO has successully enabled users
to reduce their carbon emissions
on average by 15 percent along withsimilar reductions in uel consump-
tion, says Ghosh.
The compact Logica EMO is an inte-
grated plug-in device that connects to
the onboard port (OBD II) o vehicles
and transmits emission values rom the
vehicle wirelessly to a central o ce. The
device also acts as a connected node in
the dynamic tra c network. It makes
the vehicle location- and context-aware,
allowing it to constantly exchange con-
textual inormation such as tra c status
and inrastructure usage.
The solution has the capability
to talk to other devices, or example,
devices installed at uel stations. The
concept can then be used to ofer di-
erential uel pricing, an idea pioneered
by Ghosh at Logica. Under the concept,
the real-time vehicular emission data
captured by the Logica EMO device
will be transerred to uel dispensers
at gas stations. The uel dispensers will
then use predetermined logic to pro-
vide uel at a price proportional to the
carbon emissions o the vehicle as per
the policy set by the government and
oil companies. Thus, the solution pro-vides a real and monetary way o pro-
viding incentive to drivers to improve
their driving behavior. The better the
driving behavior, the lesser the emis-
ENERGY
Sanjoy Ghosh, 32A device that wirelessly monitors and reports vehicularemission in real-time
Logica India, Bangalore
sion will be and the lesser the uel will
cost to the driver.
Logica EMO ofers audible eedbackon the driving behavior o the driver in
real-time to allow him or her to alter the
driving style to make most e cient use o
uel. The Logica EMO uses a unique, pat-
ented algorithm which measures driving
behavior and carbon emissions in real-
time. It has been extensively tested both
in-house and with clients. It is now all
set to reach various stakeholders across
geographies, says Ghosh. Ghosh believes
that the success o EMO lies in individuals
adopting better driving habits.
EM O The compact device connects to theonboard port of the vehicle to transmit emis-sion values in real-time.
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PHOTO-RED PROTOCOL A schematic diagram to show how the photograph must be takento capture red reflex (above) and the principle of the physics of light behind the red reflex(below).
BIOTECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
Humanitarian of the Year
Alefia Merchant, 32Novel method of screening for eye disease in children underthe age of fiveUniversity of Montreal, Canada
An estimated 1.4 million children
in the world are blind and 90 per-
cent o them are ound in developing
countries. In India, these children otenace a lietime o disability. Poor vision
aects every aspect o their lives
economic, social, and psychological.
Ultimately, it undermines their unc-
tion and acceptability in their amilies
and in society. I children with visual
disabilities were detected su ciently
early, approximately 40 percent o such
cases could be prevented or treated and
photograph is taken
in a darkened room
photograph is taken from a
distance of several meters
pupil size
angle at which lightenters the eye
the remaining could be rehabilitated
to minimize the childs handicap. In
India, there are many hurdles in detect-
ing, diagnosing, and treating such chil-dren. There is no organized screening
program ocused on identiying chil-
dren under the age o ive or sight-
threatening eye conditions. The World
Health Organization reports the lack o
adequate community-based, primary-
care screening programs as an impor-
tant barrier to improvements in current
morbidity and mortality rates due to
eye-related diseases.
Third year medical student at Uni-
versity o Montreal, Montreal, Canada,
Alefia Merchant has developed a novel
method o screening or eye disease in
children under the age o five. Merchant
developed the method during Septem-
ber 2009 till June 2010 as part o her
community pediatric ophthalmology
project at the Narayana Nethralaya
Postgraduate Institute o Ophthal-
mology, Bangalore, Karnataka. She was
the co-investigator o the project along
with Ashwin Mallipatna who is consul-
tant pediatric eye surgeon at Narayana
Nethralaya, Bangalore. Merchants
method exploits existing, low-cost, and
readily-available digital camera tech-
nology to photograph a childs eye or
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FIELD STUDYAlefia Merchantwith some of thechildren from thevillage in which
she did part ofher work.
signs o vision-threatening disease as
an alternative to standard medical tech-
nology in current use.
A red-reflex examination works on
the principle that light entering the
eye is reflected of the back o the eye
(the retina). This reflected light (or red
reflex) is visible to the examiner when
a specialized instrument called a direct
ophthalmoscope is used. However, the
standard red-reflex test requires exper-
tise and equipment which is not com-
monly available in India.
To obtain a red reflex, all layers o
the eye through which light passes must
be transparent and the surace o the
retina must be normal. Any signii-
cant change in the structure o the eye
changes the optics o the reflected light
and can alter the reflex seen in the pho-
tograph. A symmetrical, red reflex is
considered normal. The loss o a reflex,
a white reflex, or an asymmetry in the
size or quality o the reflexes could all
indicate the presence o an eye abnor-
mality, says Merchant.
Merhcants method, which she calls
as Photo-Red protocol, uses a digi-
tal camera to elicit red reflexes. The
Photo-Red protocol allows one to con-
sistently elicit a standard, clinically-rel-
evant red reflex in children and adults
using a compact digital camera. The
amount o reflected light captured by
the camera is controlled by two impor-
tant actors: the size o the pupil and
the angle at which the light enters the
eye. The larger the pupil, the more light
enters the eye. Similarly, the smaller
the angle o reflection, the more light
reaches the camera lens. We ound
that photographs taken in a dark room
(maximizing pupil size) at a distance
o 4 meters (such that the angle o
relection is suiciently small)
reliably produced a red relex in
each photograph, she explains. The
Photo-Red protocol can be perormed
by rural health workers or other
laypersons in a community with
little initial training. Merchant
now intends to pilot and implement
the new technology into programs
that cater to very young children,
such as immunization clinics, Angan-
wadi services, and other community
health services.
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The quality o the air that we breathe
indoors depends on the air circulat-
ing in the air-conditioning ducts in ouro ces. To maintain the health and qual-
ity o this air that is circulated within
the premises o an oice or a home
acility, it is essential that the ducts are
cleaned properly at regular intervals.
Duct cleaning in enterprises remains a
challenge because o the tough accessi-
bility o these narrow metallic passages
and the requirement o shutting down
the entire system. Fahad Azad with his
team at Robosot Systems has developed
a robot, called DuctBot, designed spe-cifically to do this job efectively.
Earlier practices in large enterprises
and industries included sending humans
inside the ducts who would clean them
with dusting equipment. But they aced
the risk o respiratory problems and
other health hazards. Azads innovation
at Robosot Systems was aimed at elimi-
nating this practice. While the ducts get
filled with dirt and grime deposits, the
air conditioners need to do more work to
achieve the same amount o cooling and
thereore they start consuming more
electricity than usual. Moreover, dirt-
filled ducts can cause the whole air con-
ditioning system to break down, which
is presently the reason or 90 percent o
ailures in such systems. The DuctBot in
a way promises enterprises and individ-
uals in achieving energy e ciency and
reduce their electricity consumption.
The toy-car sized DuctBot measures
live eed. The DuctBot can be controlled
wirelessly by any playstation joystick
without the need o any sort o program-
ming. The cleaning process is carried
out by placing the DuctBot inside the
air duct rom one end and blowing com-pressed air in the duct and helping the
filter attached at the other end to collect
the debris. The DuctBot costs around
`1 lakh, which is almost ive times
cheaper than what is available in global
market. Robosot Systems has also filed
a patent or DuctBot.
While other duct-cleaners are avail-
able in European markets, the Robo-
sot Systems DuctBot is the first-o-its
kind attempt in India. The company
has supplied DuctBots at various
places successully. Some o its clients
in India include Bluestar, EPSCO, and
the Indian Navy. Robosot Systems is
now developing multiple variants o
the DuctBot ranging rom robots suited
or vertical ducts to those meant or
extremely small ducts ound on ships
and submarines. Going orward, the
team is also thinking o developing
comprehensive cleaning solutions.
23 centimeters in length, 19 centime-
ters in width and 9 centimeters in height
and weighs just two kilograms. There
are motors attached on both sides o
the small vehicle on wheels which are
controlled or turned by supplying di-
erential voltage to the diferential turn-
ing motors. The system has attachments
or cleaning, LED lights to move inside
the duct, and an onwards camera or a
AIR PURI FICATION Azads automated Duct-Bot makes it easy to clean air-conditionerducts from inside, thereby improving theenergy efficiency of the air conditioners.
COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Fahad Azad,29Duct cleaning robot toimprove quality of the air
we breatheRobosoft Systems, Mumbai
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Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a com-
plication o diabetes that occurs
when the body cannot use sugar (glu-
cose) as the energy source because it does
not have enough insulin. As a result the
body breaks down at or use. As ats are
broken down, acids called ketones build
up in the blood and urine. In high levels,
ketones are poisonous and this condition
is called ketoacidosis. Every diabetic case
is a potential case o DKA. The key to the
management o DKA is early diagnosis
and rigorous treatment.
Today, DKA diagnosis is based on glu-
cose estimation and monitoring. Once
DKA is confirmed, patient is closely mon-
itored or electrolytes, acid-base balance
o the blood (pH), oxygen concentration
o the arterial blood, and glucose. All
these tests require the patient to undergo
a series o painul invasive blood tests and
each time these tests are done, it costs the
person nearly`1,500.
Mayur M. Sadawana, who is pursuing
PhD in biomedical engineering at the
Indian Institute o Technology in Mum-
bai, has developed a minimally invasive,
cost-efective, and accurate system that
requires just a drop o blood as sample or
the estimation o multianalytes or DKA
diagnosis. He uses quantum dots (QDs) as
biosensors or sensing analytes. Quantum
dots are photo-luminescent nano particles
o the size range o 2-10 nanometers.
When the QDs are excited with high-
energy photons (or example, ultravio-
let light), they absorb the same and their
electrons get excited into a higher energy
level. When these electrons return to the
normal energy level, they emit photons
o a lower energy (or example, visible
light). This phenomenon is called photo-
luminescence. Sadawana has attached
biomolecules (or example, enzymes
like glucose oxidase) to these QDs such
that when the UV light is projected ontothem the photo-luminescence o the QDs
changes, turning them into biosensors.
Nearly 10 microliters o biosensor QDs
have been incorporated in a single cell o a
poly dimethyl siloxane (PDMS) microchip
o a size o 0.8 centimeter. Once the blood
drop is put on the microchip, the specially
built pen-like instrument holds the chip,
throws UV light on the QDs, and records
the photo-luminescent efect. The cap-
tured data is then analyzed with the help
o sotware also developed by Sadawana.
To begin with, he has created a glucose
biosensor which will occupy one cell o
the microchip. He is building more bio-
sensors which can be incorporated onto
the chip to test multianalytes or DKA
diagnosis. The error range in Sadawanas
glucose sensing is between 4 to 9 percent
as compared to 20 percent in existing
glucometers. His technology promises to
reduce the cost o tests to `100.
NANOTECHNOLOGY & MATERIALS
Mayur M. Sadawana, 26Point-of-Care multianalyte sensorIndian Institute of Technology, Mumbai
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COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, 29A hybrid paper, pen, and digital slate solution for a low-costdigital record management systemMicrosoft Research, Bangalore
Immediate digitization o data allows
or easy aggregation, storage, and
manipulation and digital devices allow
real-time prompts and checks to ensure
that data entered is accurate and com-
plete. Technologies that exist today either
require users to use a digital pen and a
digital slate, which are not very user-
riendly, or they require users to digress
totally rom pen and paper to a personal
digital assistant or a computer-based
interaction. All o these technologies are
expensive as compared to a pen and paper
medium. And thereore, such technolo-
gies have not taken of in countries like
India where the masses are still comort-
able using pen and paper to write in their
regional languages.
Aishwarya Ratan has come up with
a low-cost digital system which lets the
users have the convenience o using a nor-
mal pen and a plain paper to record data
and instantly store it in the digital orm.
This solution has been piloted with sel
help groups (SHGs) who microfinance
and maintain records o each persons
savings and loans. Conventionally, the
data was recorded at a site on papers and
it was later converted into digital data.
Aishwaryas team chose a low-cost dig-
ital slate and pen prototype device that
allows handwritten entries, made with
the pen on ordinary paper orms placed
on the device, to be instantly digitized.
On top o the device they built a financial
record management application that ol-
lowed the structure o the paper account-
ing system used by the SHGs. An account
writer would have to simply make entries
in a smaller version o the ledger book
placed on the digital slate. He would then
simultaneously open the digital applica-
tion on the slate, progressing rom one
module to the next using the back o the
pen as a stylus. As entries are made, they
are automatically stored in their respec-
tive fields in the database. At the end, a
voice-over in the local language is played
back to validate the data. Once the errors
are reconciled, the data gets validated
and saved.
SOCIAL IMPACT Aishwarya Ratans digitalrecord management solution lets userswrite on paper using a normal pen.
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Routing in the Internet is a very
complex task and routing proto-
cols play the key role in ensuring that
Internet works in a sane way. And
Manav Bhatias security and authen-
tication algorithms help in making the
routing protocols more secure and lesssusceptible to attacks, such as Denial o
Service (DoS) or tra c redirection, so
that data transers happen seamlessly
over the Internet.
Having spent a considerable amount
o time studying and working in rout-
ing protocols, Bhatia started notic-
ing that protocols were not as secure
as they were always thought to be. He
looked closely at how these protocols
used the cryptographic authentica-
tion mechanisms and saw vulnerabili-ties in almost all the popular protocols
deployed in the service provider and
enterprise networks. Bhatia worked
on the mechanisms that were defined
by the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) standards and fixed the vulner-
abilities. The IETF is a global commu-
nity o network designers, operators,
and researchers responsible or pro-
ducing technical specifications or the
evolution o the Internet architecture
and smooth operation o the Internet.
These standards are called Requests or
Comments (RFCs). Bhatia has worked
on various such standards or authen-
tication and security o data. His stan-
dards have been adopted by the IETF
and various router vendors.
A new working group, called KARP
(keying and authentication or routing
protocols), has been ormed in IETF that
aims to develop new standards or secur-
Manav has been instrumental
in driving the standards or secur-
ing the routing protocols (OSPF and
IS-IS) that the service providers and
enterprises depend upon. IETF is
now working on fixing the issues that
were ound by Manav and he is spear-heading that efort in diferent IETF
working groups, says Srini Sundara-
jan, head o Alcatel-Lucent R&D Center
in Bangalore.
Bhatias innovation o introduc-
ing a Key ID in IS-IS helps the opera-
tors in maintaining key-agility so that
an attacker cannot discover the key.
The challenge is to change the secu-
rity keys without aecting the rout-
ing session so that it doesnt bounce.
Another challenge was to secure the IPheader without implementing any tun-
nelling mechanism where the original
IP payload is tunnelled inside another
IP packet. Bhatia made it possible by
including the important parts o the
IP header in the crypto computation
that both the sender and the receiver
do when they receive an IP routing pro-
tocol packet.
He is one o the primary contribu-
tors to the KARP working group where
he has been innovating on solving
some o the toughest problems o
securing the routing protocols, adds
Sundarajan. Most o Bhatias work has
been published as standards (RFCs)
which most router vendors in India
are supporting in their implemen-
tations. These extensions are now
available in the market and are being
deployed and used by the service pro-
viders and enterprises.
ing the routing packets as they transit a
network. Bhatia is the co-author o two
base documents that deine how the
work in KARP must be carried out.
He has published various standards
like RFC 6039 that describe potential
threats and how attackers could harm
the networks despite using crypto-
graphic authentication mechanisms in
place. The RFC 5840 standard explains
how firewalls can inspect the data that
passes through it and RFC 5310 defines
a new way to authenticate the IS-IS
(intermediate system to intermediate
system) packets.
PROTECTING INTER NET Manav Bhatia isworking towards making enterprise andInternet routing network more secure
INTERNET & WEB
Manav Bhatia, 32Securing the Internet service providers routing network
Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore
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Sameer Jain has designed and
developed a root canal obturating
machine, called Magik, which could
make a root canal treatment ailure
proo. Jains invention has the potential
to change the way root canal treatment
is practiced across the globe, and par-
ticularly in India.
A root canal obturating machine is
used or filling the root canal o a tooth
ater the removal o the inected tooth
pulp, which is a small thread like tissue
in the center o the tooth. The filling pro-
cess consists o multiple steps: An access
opening is made depending on the area
afected; the damaged, diseased or dead
pulp is removed; the remaining space
is cleaned (irrigated with antibacterial
agent), shaped (by filing), and filled with
ally the root canal filling should seal all
portals o exit to impede any sort o com-
munication or exchange between the
endodontium (dental pulp) and peri-
odontium (tissues that both surround
and support the teeth). I the tooth is not
sealed properly the root canal may leak
and lead to ailure o treatment. There
are oten chances o air gaps and voids
being present in cases o curved canals
since the gutta percha is just mechani-cally compacted rather than allowed to
flow to achieve sealing. The cold lateral
compaction technique is ar less reli-
able in preventing re-inection thus
invariably leading to root canal ailure,
explains Jain.
The dental gutta percha is present in
beta orm. Magik heats thegutta percha
at 60 to 70 degrees Celsius to transorm
it rom beta phase to alpha phase so that
it flows smoothly. The Magik also pro-
vides sonic vibrations that allow the or-mation o a homogenous mass o gutta
percha devoid o any air spaces. The
vibratory strokes also enable thegutta
percha to adhere better to the canal
walls achieving better coronal seal and
lateral seal. Magiks three-dimensional
homogenous fluid tight seal in the root
canal prevents re-inection o the canal
and ulfills one o the main goals o end-
odontic treatment, says Jain.
As compared to similar machines in
market which cost between`11.25 lakh,
the Magik was developed under`1,000.
It decreases the time o treatment by
ten-old, requires no special training
and is easy enough to be operated by
any dentist, and it guarantees preven-
tion rom re-inection with chances o
the tooth lasting or more than 10 years.
Jain has developed a prototype o the
tool and he is now looking or a und-
ing rom a renowned dental company.
a thin, tapered, rubbery material called
gutta percha coated with a sealing agent.
This final step is called obturation which
is the penultimate stage o a root canal
treatment.
Pune-born Jain, a inal year stu-
dent o Dentistry at Mahatma Gandhi
Vidyamandir Dental College, Nashik,
discovered that though various studies
mention that a proper root canal filling
should achieve three-dimensional obtu-
ration o the root canal space to prevent
micro organisms rom entering and re-
inecting the root canal system, conven-
tionally, dentists in India practice the
cold lateral/vertical compaction tech-
nique (that is, placing thegutta percha
cones into the canal and compressing it
tightly) or root canal obturation. Ide-
FAIL P ROOF Magiks three-dimensional tightseal in the root canal prevents re-infection ofthe canal.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & MEDICINE
Sameer Jain, 21Innovative root canal machine
MGV Dental College, Nashik
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Supported by the Ministry o New
and Renewable Energy o the Gov-
ernment o India, Ecolibrium is a
smart-grid startup aimed at enabling
consumers to manage power consump-
tion in real-time. A humungous amount
o electricity is wasted because o thelack o a eedback loop between suppli-
ers and consumers. India has a power
deficit o 12 percent with almost 300
million people living without electric-
ity. Transmission losses amount to
1.5 percent o Indias gross domestic
product. Harit Soni, ounder o Eco-
librium Energy, opines that achieving
energy e ciency is more cost efective
and environment-healthy than setting
up new power plants to ulfil Indias
power demands. At Ecolibrium Soni has led the
development o indigenous smart grid
technologies. The smart grid is essen-
tially addition o communication and
application layers on top o the exist-
ing power transmission layer. Though
smart grid technologies are available,
India needs a customized solution to
address the transmission and distribu-
tion losses. At present smart meters in
India use GSM and GPRS based data
acquisition systems, which increase the
cost o each node, as each node requires
a SIM card and GSM network access.
Ecolibrium has reduced the cost o each
node by developing Zigbee, a ree radio
requency network-based proprietary
device, which tracks real-time energy
consumption and can also control the
switch on/of unction rom an online
portal or rom a cell phone.
The company oers solutions or
and real-time tracking o energy con-
sumption and generation. The pilot
was commissioned in October 2010.
In the first three months the project
has demonstrated the ability to install
smart grid inrastructure in Indian
conditions using wireless standards;
the ability to perorm automated and
manual demand response during peak
hours based on predefined conditions;
and the real-time generation monitor-
ing results have shown nearly 90 per-
cent increase in power harnessed rom
the solar installations.
automated metering which enables
consumers to track generation o elec-
tricity rom any distributed source in
real-time. Soni has led the installation
o a pilot smart grid in Gandhinagar,
Gujarat, showcasing key concepts such
as demand, response, thet detection,
ENERGY
Harit Soni, 27Smart grid technology to optimize the use of electricity in IndiaEcolibrium Energy, Ahmedabad
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SMART GRID Ecolibriums Zigbee helps inminimizing the wastage of electricity duringtransmission and distribution.
Zigbee Meter
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ACCIDENT PREVENTION The Suraksha system detects gas leakages and sends immediatewarning SMS alerts as well as rings an alarm.
COMPUTER & ELECTRONICS HARDWARE
Social Innovator
Gautam Kumar, 26System to detect gas leakages
RoboticWares, Bhubaneshwar
Passionate to innovate, Gautam
Kumar has developed a system that
detects leakage o liquid petroleum gas
(LPG) and sends warning messages to
people connected with the device overtheir cell phones. He calls the device
Suraksha which means saety in Hindi.
Kumar along with his coounder
Kushal Nahata got the idea to develop
the device when he read about a
gas leakage accident in Bhubaneshwar
in which a ew people lost their lives.
The incident reminded o a similar
but bigger accident that occurred near
Kushals parents house in Chandni
Chowk, New Delhi, a ew years back,
recalls Kumar. The duo immediately eltthe need o an alarm system which could
warn people in time to save lives or even
avoid such hazards beore it is too late.
The device rom Roboticwares is
based on the olactory kind o sensors
which enables an intelligent machine to
detect a certain type o smell and based
on preset rules perorm the actions
which are programmed in it. Kumars
Suraksha can be configured to commu-
nicate with a maximum o five people by
registering their cell phone numbers on
the device. It sounds an alarm and sends
a short message (SMS) to inorm the
registered users about the impending
danger so that they are warned against
starting any kind o fire or lighting a
cigarette in the afected area.
LPG blasts account or a significant
chunk o burn and ire incidents in
India. Yet there are hardly any devices
developed to detect and automatically
warn people o gas leakage so that
saety measures can be taken in time.
The team at Roboticwares had ini-
tially developed a leakage sensor with
a buzzer alarm. Then they realized that
a buzzer alarm is o no use in an empty
house. The alarm was improvised into
an SMS-based eedback system which
was connected to the sensor to detect
gas leakage and immediately send SMS
alerts to all the phone numbers regis-
tered in the system.
The device starts checking the
amount o LPG in the air i it reaches
greater than or equal to seven parts
per million (ppm). The buzzer or the
SMS alerts, however, are set of once
the amount o LPG reaches greater
than or equal to 1000 ppm. The buzzer
remains on until the amount o LPG in
the air reduces to a saer level. And the
SMSes are also sent again once the leak-
age stops.
The Suraksha device would cost a
user approximately`3,000`4,000.
It also comes in separate variants or
industrial and domestic use. The indus-
try-optimized Suraksha is capable o
sustaining extreme temperature con-
ditionsrom a range o minus 70
degrees centigrade to plus 70 degrees
centigradeas well as large voltage
fluctuations. Roboticwares is now look-
ing upto the government or a subsidy
to urther lower the price or the com-
mon man.
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Sushant Sinha has developed Indian
Kanoon, a search engine o Indian
law. The portal has been designed to
provide the most relevant Indian laws
and court judgments in response to a
query. It enables people to quickly deter-
mine the standing law o the land on anyissue and empowers them to seek justice.
The website has gained quick attention
and is used by roughly hal a million
unique visitors and has more than two
million page views every month.
With dual degree in computer sci-
ence and engineering rom Indian Insti-
tute o Technology, Madras, and PhD in
the same discipline rom University o
ences. The linking turned out to be so
useul that I started building a search
engine or Indian law. Indian Kanoon
makes it simpler or people to access
inormation on any law or judgment,
explains Sinha. He currently works
in the Document Processing Team atYahoo! India.
Even though there are a number o
government initiatives to present all
laws at indiacode.nic.in and all court
judgments at judis.nic.in, it is quite
di cult or the common man to easily
find the required inormation or even to
decipher it. The legal acts are large and
in most scenarios only a ew sections o
laws are applicable. Finding most appli-
cable sections rom hundreds o pages
o law documents is a daunting task oranyone except lawyers. Moreover, laws
are oten vague and to find judgments
that interpret certain law clauses is again
very di cult.
Sinhas Indian Kanoon is a ree search
engine or Indian law that breaks law
documents into smallest possible clauses
and integrates law/statutes with court
judgments. This tight integration
o court judgments with laws allows
automatic determination o the most
relevant clauses and court judgments
in India.
Presently the Indian Kanoon hosts
over 1.2 million documents. It is inte-
grated with the Supreme Court o India,
22 High Courts, and 17 Tribunals to
provide a real-time resh judgments to
the users. Sinha is now working on inte-
grating the online channel urther with
all state laws and with diferent rules
ormed by government agencies.
Michigan, Sinha elt the need to gener-
ate awareness o laws among the citizens
o India. In May 2007, he started devel-
oping the portal and finally launched it
on 4 January 2008.
Even when laws empower citizens
in a large number o ways, a significantraction o the population is completely
ignorant o their rights and privileges.
As a result, common people are araid
o going to the police and rarely go to
court to seek justice. People continue to
live under the ear o unknown laws and
a corrupt police. I started the project
as a way to enrich court judgments by
linking them with laws and other reer-
INTERNET & WEB
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FLEXIBLE PLATFORM Akshay Shah has developed the Agilewiz platform that can help busi-nesses create applications quickly.
While working in Pune or enterprise
resource planning sotware main-tenance and support, Akshay Shah real-
ized that the popular ERPs available in
the market were very complex in nature.
He elt the need to develop a sotware
which could churn out on-demand and
cost efective applications or business
process management. He developed a
sotware platorm called AgileWiz, a
short orm o agile wizard. The Agilewiz
technology is based on the concept o
platorm-as-a-service which can build
ully unctional application modules byeeding appropriate metadata as input.
The Agilewiz has a business rules
management system (BRMS) which
ensures that implementers do not have
to repeatedly rely on sotware principals
or critical but necessary customizations
o the product. Shah says that the plat-
orm has been designed rom ground up
and is technology independent. Any ERP,
e-Governance, hospital management, or
a payroll application can be developed
quickly using Agilewiz.
Conventional ERP platorms are
unable to create quick, on-the-fly appli-
cations because o their embedded older
and rigid technologies which have hard-
coded knowledge base. Shahs Agilewiz
has a non-wired structure available in the
public or private domain with a flexible
architecture and a built-in workflow. The
platorm exists in cloud-based as well as
Web-based models and is now also avail-
able as sotware-as-a-service platorm.
Agilewiz is patented with its unique ea-
ture that allows the user to customize an
application, depending on the require-
ment changes, without having to depend
or maintenance and support by any pro-
essional group.
The RAD tool o the Agilewiz blends
ISO, CMMi, and Six Sigma standards and
makes programming redundant, says
SOFTWARE
Akshay Shah,29A business process manage-ment generator which cancreate applications on the flyiWeb Technology Solutions,
Mumbai
Agilewiz2.0 Snapshot
Agilewiz 2.0
ERP & OtherBusiness
Applications
E-GovernanceSolutions
Large ProjectApplications
On-Premise SaaS/Hosted
AgileAnalytics
FRAMEWORK
APPLICATIONS
DELIVERY METHOD
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Agilewiz2.0 Device Capability
Shah. The first phase included database
selection and maintenance, page layout,
meta data creation and maintenance,
email creation, chat integration, person-
alization o pages (changing theme), and
compilation. Furthur enhancements to
the platorm have added its capability to
create runtime unctionalities based on
various business rules. The engine is cur-
rently under the beta test phase.
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The oset printing industry emits
500,000 tons o volatile organic
compounds (VOCs) annually into the
atmosphere. These emissions are huge
contributors to global warming and are
also detrimental to the health o millions
o workers in the global print industry.The major source o pollution is the
petroleum components in such inks
which are released in the atmosphere
as harmul emissions during the drying
and the washing processes o printing,
causing photochemical smog orma-
tion and ozone depletion. Printers who
are exposed to regular emissions are
in danger o acquiring respiratory ail-
ments such as tuberculosis and even
cancer. The current ecoriendly solutions
available in the global market are eitherexpensive or do not produce the same
quality output as the widely-available
petroleum based inks.
Krishna Gopal Singh, chie tech-
nology oicer o Ennatura Technol-
ogy Ventures, Delhi, has ormulated
a biodegradable printing ink which is
mainly composed o the resin, the sol-
vent which is used to dissolve the resin,
the color pigment, and additives. Singh
and his team created a unctional resin
rom renewable eedstock so that all the
chemical reactions involved in the print-
ing process dont result in emission o
volatile organic compounds. This partic-
ular kind o resin is pH-sensitive and the
inks ormulated with it print well with
mildly acidic ountain solutions used in
lithography printing.
The Ennatura inks contain non-edi-
ble vegetable oil as the drying oil, thus
removing VOCs rom ink ormulation
NANOTECHNOLOGY & MATERIALS
Krishna Gopal Singh, 29Ecofriendly printing ink that reduces harmful emissions by almost 99 percentEnNatura Technology Ventures, Delhi
itsel. This typical characteristic o the ink
changes the way it dries ater printing,
causing no emissions during the process.
Since the resin is pH-sensitive, it can be
washed of by a mildly alkaline aqueous
wash solution, thus eliminating the need
o using hydrocarbon based wash solu-tions like kerosene. Thus, the composi-
tion o the ink renders the whole printing
ecosystem to produce no harmul emis-
sions. Since a simple alkali solution can
be used to wash of the inks efectively, the
washing costs could be brought down by
85 to 90 percent, reducing the overall cost
considerably. Singh is presently workingon a bench scale production.
ECOFRIENDLY The newoffset printing ink pro-duces zero emissions.
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