Tech

10 Apr

Union Education Minister, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launches NanoSniffer, a Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector

The News Horizon0 CommentsGadgets, Science, Tech

Union Education Minister, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ launched NanoSniffer, the world’s first Microsensor based Explosive Trace Detector (ETD) developed by NanoSniff Technologies, an IIT Bombay incubated startup. Director, IIT Delhi, Shri V. Ramgopal Rao, and senior officials of the Ministry were present on the occasion. NanoSniffer has been marketed by Vehant Technologies, a spin-off from a former IIT Delhi incubated startup Kritikal Solutions. Speaking on the occasion, Shri Pokhriyal said that NanoSniffer, developed by NanoSniff Technologies, is a step towards Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s vision of a self-reliant India. NanoSniffer is a 100% Made in India product in terms of research, development…

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08 Apr

IIIT-Delhi to develop method to predict collision from space debris

The News Horizon0 CommentsNational, Science, TechDepartment of Science and Technology, DST, HPC Applications, IIIT-Delhi, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, MeitY, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, National Super Computing Mission, NSM, Supercomputing

New Delhi: Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)-Delhi receives research funding from National Super Computing Mission (NSM) under HPC Applications to work on the project titled ‘Orbit computation of Resident Space Objects for Space Situational Awareness’ for two years. The NSM project has been implemented by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITy) to ensure the country’s leadership in supercomputing. Various R&D projects have been initiated under this mission across the country to harness the vast supercomputing resources provided under NSM, to build capabilities to tackle…

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07 Apr

Leading edge technique to boost electric vehicle battery performance

The News Horizon0 CommentsAuto, TechBattery, Electric Vehicles, IIT Guwahati, Indian Institute of Technology, Lithium-ion battery

New Delhi: A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, has developed an advanced technique that can precisely estimate one of the most important battery internal states known as the SOC (state of charge). SOC reflects the remaining capacity of the battery, i.e., how much more charge can be withdrawn from the battery before it gets fully discharged. The knowledge of remaining capacity helps to optimize the battery’s capacity utilization, prevent overcharging and undercharging of the battery, increases its lifespan, reduces cost, and ensures the safety of the battery and its surroundings. Unfortunately, such a vital parameter cannot…

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05 Apr

Self-propelled vehicle can replace manual railway track scavenging

The News Horizon0 CommentsNational, Science, TechDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, DST, human waste, manual scavenging, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, NITTTR, railway track, railway tracks, scavenging vehicle, self-propelled

New Delhi: A self-propelled railway track scavenging vehicle may soon replace manual scavenging and cleaning that is still practiced to remove human waste lying on railway tracks. Despite the ban on manual scavenging since 1993 in the country, men and women are seen removing excreta on the tracks with brooms and metal plates. Once the garbage is picked up from the tracks, night soil, excessive dirt, oil, and other foreign materials are ineffectively cleaned with high-pressure water jets. Dr Sharad K. Pradhan, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research (NITTTR), Bhopal, has developed…

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30 Mar

A women-led startup develops deep-tech for reliable low-cost internet services to rural areas

The News Horizon0 CommentsNational, Tech

New Delhi : Astrome, a women-led startup, has developed an innovative wireless product that gives fibre like bandwidth at fraction of cost of fibre to help telecom operators deliver reliable low-cost internet services to suburban and rural areas. Reaching internet access to remote places in countries like India is difficult because laying fibre is too expensive. There is a need for wireless backhaul products that can deliver low cost, high data capacity, and wide reach. Currently available, wireless backhaul products either do not provide sufficient data speeds or the required range or are very expensive to deploy. The wireless product called Giga…

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30 Mar

SBI Foundation to help deploy two indigenous innovations for COVID care

The News Horizon0 CommentsHealth & Fitness, Lifestyle, Techbiomedical, biotech, C-CAMP, COVID-19, CSR, cutting-edge, global, Healthcare, hospitals, indigenous, innovation, life-saving, market, medtech, national, pandemic, primary health centres, quarantine, respiratory, SBI Foundation

New Delhi: Bengaluru-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP) has inked a pact with SBI Foundation for CSR (corporate social responsibility) support towards boosting existing public healthcare efforts in light of a resurgent COVID-19 pandemic. Through this joint effort, they will bring two new, potentially life-saving technologies in assisted respiratory devices and contactless remote vitals monitoring categories for deployment across the country. The innovations developed by two of India’s medtech startups, Coeo Labs and Turtle Shell Technologies will be deployed in several cities worst affected by the pandemic. Dr Taslim arif Saiyed, C-CAMP CEO and Director said, “The C-CAMP-SBI…

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25 Mar

Researchers devise digital method to process Sanskrit texts

The News Horizon0 CommentsEducation, TechAI, Artificial intelligence, Computational processing, Digital resources, IIT Kharagpur, Indian Institute of Technology, languages, linguistics, regional languages, Sanskrit

New Delhi: While various digital resources have improved the accessibility and use of world languages and even regional languages, Sanskrit presents unique challenges in automated computational processing. In addition to the sheer volume and diversity, both stylistic and chronological, found in these texts, the linguistic peculiarities expressed by the language, pose several challenges in making these works accessible to the world. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur are making Sanskrit accessible with their Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system for processing Sanskrit texts.  Researchers led by Dr Pawan Goyal have developed a digital infrastructure for the efficient processing of…

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24 Mar

CSIR-CMERI transfers COVID related technologies for commercial production

The News Horizon0 CommentsHealth & Fitness, Lifestyle, TechCentral Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, CMERI, Commercial production, COVID Technologies, CSIR, innovations, Municipal Solid Waste Disposal System, Oxygen Enrichment Unit, S&T, Technology Transfer, UVC LED Sterilizer

New Delhi: Along with scientific and technology-based innovations, their commercial production is equally important. In a recent initiative, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI), Durgapur, has transferred its COVID-related technologies to Sai Enviro Engineers Pvt Ltd (SEEPL), Tamil Nadu, Zen Medical Technologies Pvt Ltd, Telangana, and Trinity Microsystems Pvt Ltd, New Delhi respectively. CMERI is a constituent laboratory of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). COVID- related technologies transferred by CSIR-CMERI include Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Disposal System in modular form, Oxygen Enrichment Unit and Intelligent UVC LED Sterilizer Unit. Prof. (Dr) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI said “There…

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19 Mar

ISRO to establish ‘Space Technology Incubation Center’ at NIT Rourkela

The News Horizon0 CommentsNational, Science, TechIndian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, National Institute of Technology, S-TIC, Space mission, space technology, Space Technology Incubation Center, Start-up

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is going to establish a ‘Space Technology Incubation Center’ (S-TIC) at the National Institute of Technology Rourkela to carry out research and product development in space technology and applications. This Centre will enable start-ups to build applications and products that could be used in future space missions. NIT will extend its state-of-the-art laboratories, facilities and expert faculties to meet these objectives. The upcoming centre will promote startups, capacity-building, innovations and research in Space Technology in the States of Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand besides the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The MoU…

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17 Mar

CSIR scientists develop sensor to monitor health status on the go

The News Horizon0 CommentsHealth & Fitness, Science, Techanalysis, biomarkers, chemical markers, circuit board, CSIR-CECRI, Department of Science and Technology, electrode, health, high-throughput, INSPIRE, Karaikudi, lactate, monitor, physiology, potassium, real-time, saliva, skin, sodium, supercapacitor, Tamil Nadu, tissues

New Delhi: A team of scientists at Council of Scientific and Industrial Research’s Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI), Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, has developed a flexible low cost, wearable sensor that can monitor the health and physiological status of the human body on the go by just analysing the sweat. The microfluidic sensor can be used for on the spot monitoring of several biomarkers such as lactate, Sodium, and Potassium simultaneously from sweat samples. It analyses the biomarkers without any transfer of signals. The high-throughput sweat sampling ability of the sensor facilitates continuous capture and transport of the sweat over the…

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