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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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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.


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.


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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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 Meters

Energy StorageDevice

Smart Meter Home Area NetworkSmart Routers

Utility NOC Low cost proprietaryZigbee metering and

communication devicesEcolibrium Server

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.


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

Sushant Sinha, 30A search engine for Indian laws and court judgmentsIndian Kanoon, Bangalore

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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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Aloknath DeDirector and CountryManager, ST-Ericsson India,and Adjunct Professor,Indian Institute ofTechnology Delhi

Ambuj D. SagarVipula and MaheshChaturvedi Professor ofPolicy Studies, Departmentof Humanities and SocialSciences, Indian Institute of

Technology Delhi

Aravind ChinchureGeneral Manager Innovations, RelianceInnovation LeadershipCentre, Reliance Industries

Balamuralidhar P.Head, TCS Innovation Labs Bangalore, TataConsultancy Services

Ferose VRManaging Director,SAP Labs India

Gautam BiswasDirector, Central MechanicalEngineering ResearchInstitute, Council ofScientific and IndustrialResearch, Durgapur

GBS BindraGlobal InnovationDirector and ManagingDirector, Logica India

Harshal J. ShahCEO and Founder,Reliance Venture AssetManagement

2011 India TR35 Judges

Jaswinder S. AhujaCorporate Vice Presidentand Managing Director- India, Cadence DesignSystems

JN RoyVice President, R&D,Solar Semiconductor

Madhusudan V. Atre

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Neeraj PaliwalVice President and NXPIndia Country Manager,NXP Semiconductors

Peeyush RanjanManaging Director R&D,

Google India

Pushpito K. GhoshDirector, Central Saltand Marine ChemicalsResearch Institute, Councilof Scientific and IndustrialResearch

S. SadagopanDirector, International

Institute of InformationTechnology - Bangalore

Sameer MehtaCofounder and Director,Atlas Advisory

Shankar MVInnovation DifferentiationLeader, HoneywellTechnology Solutions Lab,Honeywell India

Shantikumar NairDean of Research, AmritaVishwa Vidyapeetham, andHead, Amrita Centre forNanosciences, AmritaInstitute of MedicalSciences

Subrahmanyam

GoparajuSenior Vice President andHead, SoftwareEngineering TechnologyLabs, Infosys Technologies

Sudhir DixitDirector, Hewlett-PackardLabs India

Sumitesh DasChief, Global ResearchPrograms, Tata Steel

I. Vijaya KumarChief Technology Officer,Wipro

Wido MenhardtChief Executive Officer,

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