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2018PC13

Amrita Technology Business Incubator (Amrita TBI)

Sr.	Name of the PRAYASEEs	Brief description of the Project
1	Akash J	Recycled plastic products to customers which will have 25% higher strength at a lower cost than virgin plastics.It can be applied to major plastics LDPE,HDPE,PET,PP.The infused fibre into recycled plastics provides additional strength.
2	Amrita Salim	Flow controlled automated garden toilet/vertical garden for household use,which will treat wastewater through different biocontrol methods constituting bacteriophages,mcrobial consortium and phytoremediation.
3	Sabari Viswambaran	An affordable solar vehicle with very low operational cost which will reduce the burden of increasing fuel price of petrol/diesel to help to switch to green vehicles
4	Ishan Avinash Chavan	A multipurpose robot with insect legs which can be controlled from a distance and can detect hazardous gases in mines and also explore the unexplored areas deep down in the mines. It can also be used for carrying some payload from one place to other.
5	Chaithanya Naik	A complete working model of the dishwasher with inbuilt garbage crusher and composter.This crushed garbage will be converted to compost in the inbuilt chamber of dishwasher with the help of enzymes. Their primary target will be the household who owns cloth washing machine.
6	Mahesh Govind	A blockchain IOT based platform for agriculture.Benefits include predictability for buyer and seller / guaranteed prices /credit worthiness analysis for lenders / risk tracking for insurers.The end-consumer willbenefit from clear visibility about origin of the produce .
7	Amal Prakash	An automated pick and place robotic soft actuated gripper.The actuator is designed using rubber and has a hollow tube running through its solid centre.When compressed air is supplied through this tube.
8	L.K Prasad	An MDC 400 box ,which is a system with Intel Server Blades and storage blades and has options for populating GPU and FPGS computing elements.
9	Anikesh Rajendran	EMG based prototypic hand aimed for amputees from rural areas with a simple functionality and controllability .Parts available will be less expensive and can be replaced easily
10	Murugavel M	A smart and intelligent SD-WAN router that can deliver improved higher and reliable bandwidth and improved application that would be beneficial for organisations looking for a highly reliable WAN/VPN conectivity.
11	Vijay H Madhsudan	Naavi, a mount for implementing floating solar power plant works on the principles of bouyancy.A system that is buoyant enough with adequate self ballasting capacity to ensure stability in high wind speed conditions.
12	Swapna V	Developing a wireless Thermal Image Camera with Automatic Face Detection which measures body temperature with outstanding accuracy and speed.
13	Hariprasad C M	The project aspires to design and fabricate an electro-mechanical device for rectal administration of drugs. In general, the field of Ayurveda doesn’t involve much of technical and advanced electro-mechanical devices.

13 innovators in 2018-2019

Sr.	Name of the PRAYASEEs	Brief description of the Project
1	Manigandan Kumarappan	Organic Single Use Drinking straws in plastic free packing with reduced aroma and longer shelf life
2	Suraj N	Manhole Sewer Pipe Cleaning Robot (MSCPR)
3	Lalit Gautam	NPK IoT-driven sensors for tracking, monitoring, analysing critical farm-level operations
4	Balasurya S	Magma is an Agriculture Tiller Machine based on smart farming technologies working to bring forth innovative and affordable agricultural equipment and services to ease the efforts of low-income farmers.
5	sarath s	Design, Analysis and Manufacturing of a Biped Robot and Scara Robot for assistance in Automation in Medical and Industrial Applications
6	Ankit Mittal	Sports wearable device, helpful for performance analysis of sportsperson curated to assist with virtual coaching to enhance the training facilities for beginners.
7	Krishnanandan	A semi-continuous method of lemongrass distillation to overcome the limitation of equilibrium to improve the oil yield by operating the distillation unit in the semicontinuous. T
8	Anju Bist	Reusable menstrual pads from banana fiber. The key to scaling is to have automated processes for extracting, cleaning, and setting the banana fiber.
9	Jithukrishna A J	Retrofitting electric car with V2G system installed-the startup aims to convert cars that are 20 years old into electric vehicles.
10	Sourav Karmakar	Renewable Energy-based Eco-Friendly Smart Portable Cooling Box, integrated with IoT which can store Food Products and send real-time data to the end-user.
11	Pranav Prabha	low-cost social robots to affect behavior change in multiple WASH domains

11 innovators in 2019-2020

Sr.	Name of the PRAYASEEs	Brief description of the Project
1	Roshan Raj	Fusing the state-of-the-art deep tech technologies with drone intelligence, Blurgs Innovations create comprehensive health reports of energy firms
2	Sagar Virapannavar	An electro-mechanical device to enhance the utility of the existing bag valve mask
3	Purvi Roy	Arivation Fashiontech is building a She-Bot NBIOT a smartest and safest wallet for women with anti-lost, anti-theft, distress alarm, lost location tracker, SOS alarm, power charging, geo tagging etc.
4	Sabari Prabaaker R	Gaitway is into developing an easy-to-use tool to aid in assessment of fall and cognitive diseases among elderly
5	Rajkumar Halder	Building an indigenous oxygen generator (not concentrator) that does not need electricity and neither expertise to produce medical grade oxygen
6	SHEETANSHU TYAGI	EMO energy is building powerful battery packs for two-wheelers to be charged in minutes rather than hours
7	SATHISH EDAKATMANA	Developing an IoT device with Edge computing functionality
8	Abhiram T.V	An assistant robot for elderly care which can assist elder people for medicine, water, food, and good robotic companion
9	Season Cherian	Secure IoT is building a learning kit in a great way to start IoT device security and exploitation using the Damn Insecure and Vulnerable Application board and other modules
10	Guruprasadh J P	Building prototype of indigenous, high-surface-area, anion exchange membrane water electrolyzer for hydrogen and oxygen production
11	Shino Lukose	INTEGRATED MEDICAL ALERT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (iMACS) is a complete one-stop solution for acute care, elderly homes and long-term care. It’s a wireless nurse call system with advanced features
12	Bhautik Ramoliya	Developing a single and three phase smart energy meter that can be used in these projects. The smart energymeter, once developed, will need to be certified for IS13779, IS15959 and IS16444.

12 innovators in 2021-2022

Sr.	Name of the PRAYASEEs	Brief description of the Project
1	Vasanth Ramesh	A fully functional field-scale bioreactor prototype that can treat domestic sewage and high-strength organic industrial effluents.
2	Ardra S Nair	Crystallizing dehumidifying hopper dryer to be custom made for sustainable packaging for cosmetic industry as an alternative to plastic packaging from recycled coir fiber and plant based biopolymer
3	Rahul A	Warbler EV will be a next-gen electric three-wheeler integrated with several connected features and standardized rapid charging technology.
4	Suresh Kumar Pentapalli	Automated smart electric & solar powered foldable wheelchair with in built automatic cleaning commode, self-operated joystick to use indoor and outdoor for independent living by patients.
5	M Sivaprakash	automated onion grading system for detecting and separating the infected onion from the effects of post-harvesting diseases.
6	Siddharth Gupta	EV AgriBoT is an Agriculture specific Robot mechanism that will perform Agriculture field operations simultaneously. Operated in automatic or manually mode, which will be controlled using IoT, based Android application.
7	Saurabh Bansal	Gigabyte Passive Optical Network – a Telecommunications framework capable of high Gigabit speeds.
8	Shubhendra Singh Thakur	The proposed device will presently be targeting miRNAs in saliva for early detection of cancer to improve the prognosis and achieve complete cure.
9	Abhishek Rhisheekesan	3D video conferencing product for greater reality, where 3D videos of meeting participants are shown in thin air using 3D holographic display
10	Rathina Balaji C	Ecofriendly honey comb coir packing material making machine

10 innovators in 2022-2023

Sr.	Name of the PRAYASEEs	Brief description of the Project
1	Sudha Ramesh Karbari	Soil nutrient analyser using spectroscopy .This palm-top sensory system provides onsite decision-making on the farm with assessment of soil parameters at your finger tips, acts fast with zero manual intervention.
2	Shahnaz Shaikh	High frequency electromagnetic waves system for management of insect-pests and pathogenic diseases for plants
3	Hitendra Singh	Vertical Takeoff, Vertical Landing (VTVL) hopper will handle essential functions such as flight control, navigation, communication, and mission management, enabling autonomous operation throughout the flight.
4	Hutesh Kumar Gautam	Drivomate- self-driving vehicle technology empowered by a generalized understanding of surroundings.
5	Divya JS	iCARE edubot with AI features capable of emotion detection and sign language recognition
6	Kamal Krishnamohan	NEUROSWITCH- SmartGRID energy solution with portable windmill, SmartPO, Digital twin and Digital breaker circuits to create micro level virtual power plant to speed track Green energy adoption and net zero building
7	Arpita Kalanuria	Innovative Sustainable Smart Automated Dispense System
8	Raghavendra Neelakantappa	Innovative heat recovery wheel for ventilation systems to improve energy efficiency by transferring heat and moisture between incoming and outgoing airstreams.
9	Preetha K Shenoy	“PRAANA - Sustainable Photobioreactor for Clean Air and Clean Water”
10	Devika NS	Milli-fluidic device for real-time monitoring of liver functional changes and the toxicity of human liver organoids

10 innovators in 2024-2025