A Low Cost Vision-based Over-speeding Detector:
In India 13 people die every hour due to road accidents majorly caused by over speeding (Acc. to a WHO report).
Phase-1 Speed Detection (July ’08-October’08): A Simple Contraption consisting of a Speed gun, Camera and a Microprocessor. An ATMEGA 16 was programmed to detect over speeding and trigger the camera.
Guide: Dr. P. Vivekananda Shanmuganathan, Division Leader-Mechatronics, VITU
Cost: Rs.21000/ $460(Approx.)
Finished first in ‘’Golden Design Challenge’’ an industry defined problem challenge held during SHAASTRA 08at IIT Chennai.
Media Coverage: Simple Innovations Garner Top Honours
Phase-1 Speed Detection (July ’08-October’08): A Simple Contraption consisting of a Speed gun, Camera and a Microprocessor. An ATMEGA 16 was programmed to detect over speeding and trigger the camera.
Guide: Dr. P. Vivekananda Shanmuganathan, Division Leader-Mechatronics, VITU
Cost: Rs.21000/ $460(Approx.)
Finished first in ‘’Golden Design Challenge’’ an industry defined problem challenge held during SHAASTRA 08at IIT Chennai.
Media Coverage: Simple Innovations Garner Top Honours
Phase-2 (August’09-October’09): A full fledged Vision system using an industry grade high speed camera and a DSP Board (NI CVS-1454) was developed. It was programmed using Lab View 8.6.
Brief Algorithm: Acquisition-> Determining ROI->Image Calibration (Pixel to real world Coordinates- Overcoming perspective distortion) -> Edges Overlay->Relative Displacement of Target along an edge in successive frames->Speed Measurement->Violation Detection->Image Capture-> Speed Value Overlay
Guide: Dr. Z.C.Alex, Director, School of Electronics Engineering, VITU
Cost: Rs. 300000/$6600
Finished second at the NI-Yantra 2009 (conducted by National Instruments, India)
Brief Algorithm: Acquisition-> Determining ROI->Image Calibration (Pixel to real world Coordinates- Overcoming perspective distortion) -> Edges Overlay->Relative Displacement of Target along an edge in successive frames->Speed Measurement->Violation Detection->Image Capture-> Speed Value Overlay
Guide: Dr. Z.C.Alex, Director, School of Electronics Engineering, VITU
Cost: Rs. 300000/$6600
Finished second at the NI-Yantra 2009 (conducted by National Instruments, India)
Phase-3 (Jan’10-June’10): A Fully functional embedded system was developed using Intel Atom Based Board, 10” Touch Module (for I/O), High Speed Camera. Same Algorithm was retained and an executable was created and installed on a Windows Embedded XP OS.
Guides: Dr. Z.C.Alex , Director, School of Electronics Engineering ,VITU
Mr. Laxmi Narasimhan R., Senior Application Developer, Intel Technology India Ltd
Cost: Rs.75000/$1650
Finished first at the ‘INTEL INDIA EMBEDDED CHALLENGE 2010’
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Guides: Dr. Z.C.Alex , Director, School of Electronics Engineering ,VITU
Mr. Laxmi Narasimhan R., Senior Application Developer, Intel Technology India Ltd
Cost: Rs.75000/$1650
Finished first at the ‘INTEL INDIA EMBEDDED CHALLENGE 2010’
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Digital Kite Anemometry
To study the Convective Boundary layer Profile along the coastline in Pondicherry, India, an economic low cost digital anemometer was developed using an AVR Butterfly Datalogger. Using an on-board temperature sensor, It was programmed to note temperature values across different heights in its flight. The Data was imported into Mathematica and interpolated using cubic splines to obtain the most accurate profile for further analysis.
Guide: Dr.Satyajit Ghosh, Senior Professor, VITU
Cost: Rs.1200/$ 26
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Guide: Dr.Satyajit Ghosh, Senior Professor, VITU
Cost: Rs.1200/$ 26
A Multipurpose Solar Thermal Unit for Power Generation and Water Heating
A 10kW solar thermal power plant was developed from scratch using organic rankine cycle (the working fluid being R123), screw expander and a scroll compressor.Solar heat was obtained through a series of flat plate collectors of net area 54 square meters. The waste heat was recovered to heat water. A plate heat exchanger was designed to facilitate the same.
This was designed to serve as a backup generator cum hot water geyser for an apartment housing 10 families of 4 members each.
Cost: Rs.600,000/$13300(estimated)
Payback Period: 6 years (estimated)
Finished second in ‘Industry Defined Problem’ competition conducted by IIT-Kharaghpur and GE.
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This was designed to serve as a backup generator cum hot water geyser for an apartment housing 10 families of 4 members each.
Cost: Rs.600,000/$13300(estimated)
Payback Period: 6 years (estimated)
Finished second in ‘Industry Defined Problem’ competition conducted by IIT-Kharaghpur and GE.
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