Ecosystem for innovation

Innovation Ecosystem Institute has created an ecosystem for Innovations and has Initiatives for creation and transfer of knowledge.

Institute is having active Innovation Club with the personalities with great experience their technological fields, who are motivating the faculties for Innovations. The technology and knowledge transfer to Industry/Society is prime motto for research in Institute. The faculty data sheets are prepared with their expertise and guided for work in that particular area to bring out solution to specific problem.

 Innovation ecosystem is developed by transforming new ideas of students/faculties into reality through facility and financial investment. Institute is developing the Incubation Centre for innovation in Agriculture sector with various Agencies, Associations and Ministries also. The awareness of same given to all faculties for developing small ideas/projects which will cater the need of Farmers in India.

Following are some of project to note related to Agriculture:

1. Agriboat: Multipurpose agriculture Gantry Robot for surveillance, watering, pesticide spraying, disease detection and many more works can be possible through it.
2. Remotely Quality checking of strawberry.
3. Drone technology for pesticide spraying and disease detection

The other technology forefront in India is EV sector and institute is developing certain models for technology transfer. The EV bicycle model is developed and made available for nearby area for Bicycle conversion. Faculties and students are working on EV platform, which is at design phase.

The value of an innovation ecosystem lies in the access to resources for the startups and the flow of information for the ecosystem’s stakeholders. This information flow creates more investment opportunities for the right institutions to connect with the right ideas for their businesses and portfolios, at the right time, for the right reasons.

The civil environmental engineering department has developed the project for mercury recovery from brunt fluorescent tubes and lamp with following objectives:

1. To find out the poisonous content in the vehicular bulb such as mercury and lead.
2. To stop environmental pollution arising from mercury emission during recovery process and eventually develop a waste to wealth method that will eliminate the potential hazard to the environment especially ground water and ecosystem.

Recycling is one of the solutions to the large quantities generated every year and recycling is followed by recovery which include the valuable material such as ceramic, metal and glass. The focus will be on the process that can be applied for the efficient recovery of mercury from phosphor powder, in the hope of determining a viable and profitable procedure that can be scale up to an industrial process.

The computer Engineering and Information Technology department is jointly working on IotPolyhouse projects:

1. Agro-Data – Agro Data technologies are playing an essential, reciprocal role in this development: machines are equipped with all kind of sensors that measure data in their environment that is used for the machines’ behavior. This varies from relatively simple feedback mechanisms (e.g. a thermostat regulating temperature) to deep learning algorithms (e.g. to implement the right crop protection strategy). This is leveraged by combining with other, external Agro Data sources such as weather or market data or benchmarks with other farms.
2. Smart Agrico – is the project involving taking real time images of plant stem, storing them on cloud and processing them to find about the plant diseases that could be on plant.

E&TC Engineering Department is jointly working on IoT polyhouse projects: AgroSense: Agro sense is a part of IoT polyhouse Project, in which various sensors are used for sensing data from different peripherals. Agro Position: Collect Sensed Data i.e. position, length, Speed from Arduino microcontroller, and sending to RPi through Bluetooth. E&Tc Department is also working on various innovative projects like Sensor based agriculture automation for crops like strawberry etc.