S. Vishnu Sharma
SRM AP (SRM University Andhra Pradesh) has some news worth cheering this time. The students of SRM AP had proven their mettle in a national level hackathon amidst the quarantine.
Amidst the quarantine, students of SRM AP and members of NEXT TECH LAB, have exhibited their expertise in HACKNITR, a national level hackathon organized by NIT Rourkela on 21-22 March 2020.
The outstanding merit of their project has enabled them to bag the Runner-Up and 2nd Runner-Up position at the hackathon.
Team ASTUTE BOTS, comprising first year students, Tankala Yuvaraj, Karthikay Gundepudi and Joseph K. Paul, was recognized as the Runner-Up. This is a very cheerful moment for SRM AP as the hardwork of its students has yielded results.
They used the AI-IoT platform to develop DRONEYES, a prototyped solution that can be used to reduce poaching.
It is an aerial reconnoiter which flies in stealth mode and takes the video or photo of a suspected poacher.
This is done by the highly trained object detection model called YOLOv3. These eyes not only detect objects on the terra firma but also send the exact location via GPS.
With the help of cloud technology, we can share the data in real-time so that the user can take the required initiative by locating the exact place of poaching, said Karthikay.
‘We were inspired to attend hackathons by Anshuman Pandey, and Next Tech Lab supported this Achievement.’ Another team PUSH, where Karthik Epperla, 2nd year, and Ishita Agarwal, 1st year, participated, has received the 2nd Runner’s up award.
The students worked on an AI-VR-Blockchain based application to help people with autism improve communication, social and other basic abilities required to live in a society.
It gives a set of YES/NO questions that are to be answered by either the parent of the child or the adult suffering from Autism and then it matches those answers with the data set which then returns the level of autism that the child/adult is suffering from.
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Depending on the level, the user can choose the extremity of VR therapy. When the child goes through the VR session, the parent can view what their child/ adult is doing in the virtual environment using the parent app from anywhere and advise their ward offering extra support to the patient.
‘Our application has 3D simulations of real-life situations wherein autistic children/ adults (mostly children) can practice and understand how to behave/react in those situations and overcome their fear while facing a similar situation in real life,’ says Karthik.
Karthik acknowledges Adithya Ramakrishnan the founder of Next Tech Lab and his lab mate, Lakshmi Vallala for implanting the noble idea that AI can help in the rare medical condition, Autism.
They have constantly been in touch with a few special schools and treatment centers to know about the behaviour and nature of autistic people so that they can keep on building different versions of applications.
In the natal stage of their academic career, the students are guided and nurtured in an environment by the Next Tech Lab and the faculty members which inspires them to positively impact the society.
The ample exposure offered to the students will not merely encourage them, but also enable them to improve their concepts.
About SRM AP
SRM University, Andhra Pradesh (SRM AP) is a multi-stream research university with focus on diverse fields. From engineering to medicine and from liberal arts to management, SRM’s vision is to emerge as a world-class university that is globally connected, nationally relevant, and regionally transformative. It has the ambitious plan to be in the top world class universities in ten years with more than 20000 students and 1500 faculty members.
For the establishment of SRM AP, SRM has partnered with the world’s best names for educational method and philosophy, campus design and infrastructure, learning and living spaces, and recruitment of faculty and leadership.
Perkins + Will, American architects who have designed some of the leading universities in the world, are the architects for this new institution. Perrett Laver and Society, global search firms from UK, are involved in the recruitment of senior leadership roles and faculty.