Intel India Embedded Challenge 2010 Finalist Participants

"A right platform to bring out innovations, an amazing event and unforgettable experience! Thank you Intel" - Raj Vignesh, Sona College of Engineering, Salem

As a formidable repository of technical talent, India has steadily been motivating young entrepreneurs and nurturing design talent thereby fostering a knowledge based economy. The Intel India Embedded Challenge Awards is one such collaboration that promotes talent and fosters innovation amongst engineering graduates and technical professionals all across India in the space of embedded technology. This year’s contest, among other innovative ideas, included a smart Braille reader, automated public transport monitoring and passenger information system and a green vehicle that absorbs carbon dioxide from emissions and liberates oxygen in return.

The Challenge 2010, organised by Intel® Higher Education Program in association with Embedded Communications Group is designed to create a platform for engineering, MBA students and technical professionals. It aims to create opportunities at universities and engineering institutes to explore the endless possibilities of embedded applications based on Embedded Intel® Architecture. The contest received more than 2170 innovative ideas in a wide range of application areas including Gaming, Medical Devices, Consumer Electronics, Green Computing, Social Networking, Infotainment, and Robotics.

Shri. Aravind Limbavali, Honorable Higher Education Minister – Govt of Karnataka interacting with the participants

"This program is setting up right environment for promoting research culture among students. I am glad that our talented students are getting ready to be futures technology leaders, thanks to Intel for playing an important and catalytic role here."- Shri. Aravind Limbavali, Honorable Minister for Higher Education, Government of Karnataka

Following an open and competitive reviewing process, 455 teams and individuals were short listed by Intel based on their innovative ideas in embedded technology. The expert panel then short listed submissions of 36 teams (105 participants) for the prototype phase of the contest. In the prototype phase, each short listed team worked on the Intel® Atom™ Processor kits for prototyping their innovative ideas.

In a grand Finals and Award ceremony held on 21st July, 2010, at Intel SRR campus in Bangalore, Shri. Aravind Limbavali, Honorable Minister for Higher Education, Government of Karnataka, felicitated the winning students.

Prof. H P Khincha and Mr. Rahul Bedi honoring the students

The coveted Intel India Embedded Challenge Award for 2010 was bagged by Sanjay Bansal with his ‘Tractrobot, along with the Rs 10 lakh prize. It has a camera mounted on it and can be steered through fields by a WiFi-enabled remote control unit. In the students category, Avinash Siravuru

Grand Prize winners team – Tractrobot with their prototype

and his team from the Vallore Institue of Technology won the award for the Speed Detector, followed by Satyajeet Shinde from the Institute of Technology, Pune for the Smart Braille Reader and Arnold Pereira from Mumbai for the Automobile Environ System.

In the professional category, Cloud Book & Tabloid were recognised for special awards.

In his address to the audience, Shri. Aravind Limbavali expressed his delight at their collaboration with Intel and awards such as the Intel India Embedded Challenge Awards which encourage ideation and innovation in the areas of embedded technology among engineering students and technical professionals of the country.

Rahul Bedi, Director, Corporate Affairs, Intel South Asia said that Intel as a global technology company, “was proud of the work that we do to help shape the global youth community for the future technology revolution.”

He said that the winners of the contest would be eligible for a direct entry to participate in the India Innovation Pioneers Challenge – a technology entrepreneurship contest jointly conducted by Intel, Department of Science & Technology and Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.