{"id":4146,"date":"2015-12-28T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2015-12-28T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:48:29","slug":"safety-device-for-kseb-workers-wins-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"Safety Device for KSEB Workers Wins Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kochi : <\/strong><\/p>\n

An engineering student, who developed a device which ensures safety of KSEB workers engaged in hazardous tasks, has won the first prize at a project contest based on the theme \u2018IoT With Open Source Hardware\u2019.<\/p>\n

The contest was held as part of the FOSS Young Professional Meet. The meet was organised by the International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS) here the other day.<\/p>\n

The device called iPost or Intelligent Electric Post was developed by Shyam Pradeep of Government Engineering College, Thrissur. He won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.<\/p>\n

iPost has an in-built facility to control the power line with a simple circuit fixed on the safety gloves of the worker. iPost can also be used by KSEB is the functioning of streetlights. It informs KSEB office whenever a streetlight malfunctions and this could help in rectifying the defective streetlights quickly.<\/p>\n

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The first runner-up prize of Rs 25,000 each was shared by two teams – National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, Calicut, for their project \u2018Citywide Water Quality Monitoring\u2019 and TCS team which developed the product \u2018iBot\u2019, a social cognitive robot.<\/p>\n

Kerala State IT Mission director K Mohammed Y Safirulla presented the prizes to the winners at a function held at Mascot Hotel in the presence of ICFOSS director Jayasankar Prasad.<\/p>\n

Delivering the valedictory address, Safirulla said that Kerala was a frontrunner in the use of Open Source software. \u2018\u2019Those who had participated in the meet should use their expertise in creating new devices using free software,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier, during the day, experts in the domain of open source computing spoke on the topics related to open software.\u00a0 Christy Jacob, data scientist, TCS, spoke on the topic \u2018IoT Data Analytics\u2019. He said that the Internet of Things had brought about revolutionary changes in the way business is conducted.<\/p>\n

Amit Dev, senior, Principal Applications engineer, Oracle, spoke on the topic \u2018IoT protocol\u2019.The challenges and opportunities of using Internet of Things in various sectors were explained. Mathan Raj of SECO and Shahim Baker of Grey Technologies spoke on the topic of \u2018Open Source Hardware\u2019.<\/p>\n

Contest held for projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

using open source hardware<\/p>\n

Safety device for KSEB<\/p>\n

workers wins 1st prize<\/p>\n

Device developed by engineering college student<\/p>\n

Device can also control functioning of streetlights<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com \/ The New Indian Express \/ News> Cities> Kochi \/ by Express News Service \/ December 28th, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kochi : An engineering student, who developed a device which ensures safety of KSEB workers engaged in hazardous tasks, has won the first prize at a project contest based on the theme \u2018IoT With Open Source Hardware\u2019. The contest was held as part of the FOSS Young Professional Meet. The meet was organised by the … Continue reading Safety Device for KSEB Workers Wins Prize<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-positive-news-and-features","category-science-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}