Project Highlights Intelligent Lighting Systems U3, a students’ team from IIT Madras, Chennai is doing a project in the urban areas/cities sector. Streets, parks and other public facilities serve as a major drain on a city's energy resources. Chennai city uses 27.61MW of power which is around 20% of the total energy on street-lighting. This [...]
Project Highlights Smart Home U5, a students’ team from Kongu Engineering College, Erode is doing a project in the urban areas/cities sector. Buildings are the second highest energy consuming sector next to industrial sector in India. Total energy consumption in buildings is about 21.98 % of the total energy in recent days. More than 60% [...]
Project Highlights Snazzy Mechons U7, a students’ team from Sri Krishna College of Technology, Coimbatore chose urban areas/cities as their project sector. Demand for more energy makes us to seek new energy sources. Extinction of fossil fuels is another cause to go for new energy sources. Man-made radiations differ from natural radiations. In case of [...]
Project Highlights Spark Innovation U8, a students’ team from College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala chose urban areas/cities as their project sector. Existing sources of renewable energy faces a limitation providing requisite amount energy during night. This solution on the other hand can provide adequate power after sunset. Who is Behind this Project? The team is [...]
Project Highlights Integrative Design Solutions U11, a student-startup team from IITM and Delhi chose urban areas/cities as their project sector. 21.4% of the total electricity consumption in India (283 BU) is in southern Indian states and union territories 22% of this electricity consumption is in residential sector 97% of the southern peninsular region belongs to [...]
Project Highlights Ozone U12, a students’ team from Kongu Engineering College, Erode chose urban areas/cities as their project sector. On one hand, excessive CO2 gas emission leads to increased effect of global warming. On the other hand, there is a delay in construction of buildings and the durability and strength of construction materials is very [...]
Project Highlights U-Farm Technologies U16, a startup from Pondicherry, did the project in the sector urban areas/cities. One of the problems in this sector is with respect to getting fresh food products. Lack of fresh and nutritious pesticide-free food for rapidly rising urban population Unsustainable farming practices to meet rising demand of population Lack of [...]
Project Highlights Suryaneer W2, a students’ team from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli did the project in the sector water and waste management. In Spite of govt. norms abundant industrial/municipal wastewater are mostly left without recycling due to high cost of water treatment methods. So a self-sustained /passive water recovery plant coupled with room ventilation [...]
Project Highlights Cleanext W3, a students’ team from IIT Madras, Chennai chose water and waste management as their sector. Hexavalent Chromium (Cr+6) is an oxidizing agent used in electroplating, leather tanning, pharmaceutical etc. The removal of Cr(+6) from water is significant due to its high toxicity and tendency to accumulate in living organisms and it [...]
Project Highlights Electrochem 2017 W6, a students’ team from IIT Madras, Chennai chose water and waste management as their sector. We face an inherent water crisis due to the urbanization and population growth, in addition to the extensive mismanagement of water resulting in billions of people and the environment to suffer badly! Across the globe, [...]
