Team Agro Yantrikies from Nashik, Maharashtra, won The Smart India Hackathon-Hardware Edition which drew to a close at the National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi on Friday.
The event saw 14 teams and 84 students participating under three themes - agriculture and rural development, smart vehicles, and energy/renewable energy. Agro Yantrikies who presented a ‘Smart onion planter’ under the theme, ‘Agriculture and Rural Development’ walked away with the top prize.
Team Social Developers from Nagpur, Maharashtra, who presented a ‘Hand gesture controlled wheelchair,’ under the theme ‘Smart Vehicles’ were the first runner-up and Team Civimechos from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, who presented a ‘Vertical axis wind turbine’ under the theme ‘Energy/Renewable Energy’ bagged the third prize.
The winners were awarded a cash prize of ₹1 lakh while the 1st and 2nd runners-up got ₹75,000 and ₹50,000, respectively.
The solutions presented by the teams were judged on three criteria - innovativeness, social and economic impact and business potential.
At the valediction ceremony, Pooja Kothari, nodal head SIHH-2019, assured full support for the products developed by the students. M. Umapathy, Dean (R & C), NIT-T, discussed the importance of the process of product development.
He urged the participants to disseminate their ideas and experience to their respective institutions to develop innovative patent products, which were useful to society.
S. Kumar, Additional General Manager, Ordnance Factory, the chief guest, said technical events such as SIHH-2019 could help India realise the five trillion-dollar economy target as envisioned by the Prime Minister.
