Solert Devops Wins 'Tata Social Enterprise Challenge Hackathon' Award
Tata group, organised 'Tata Social Enterprise Challenge Hackathon' event on healthcare at BMS College of Engineering in Bengaluru. The two-day hackathon was a part of the Tata Social Enterprise Challenge 2017-18, a joint initiative of the Tata group with the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.
Solert Devops, the winner of the hackathon challenge, won a cash prize of Rs 10,000. They developed a smart posture assessment device with pressure monitoring, designed especially, for patients with bed sores. This winning team was represented by Ankit Awal, Shagun Tuli, Junaid Liyakat Menon and Harshal Khandekar.
Some of the promising ideas came from the teams, Guardians for Health and Vaayu, that developed a device to detect heart attacks at the earliest, and a wearable device to alert diabetic ketoacidosis, respectively. The event was attended by a wide range of participants including students, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and innovators.
The hackathon received over 100 entries of which 35 qualified for the contest. The participants were then divided into eight teams. On the first day, the eight teams received guidance and counsel from mentors from impact-fund, academia, corporate and social enterprises. The teams presented their ideas and prototypes to a panel of jury members on the second day.
The jury consisted of eminent personalities including Arunava Mukhopadhyay, Vice President - IT & Head CSR, Tata Elxsi; Dr Ravi Ramaswamy, Sr Director & Head, Health Systems at Philips Innovation Campus; Dr H.N. Suma, Professor, Department of Medical Electronics, BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore; Dr Nirod Kumar Singh, Associate Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice, Frost & Sullivan; Gaurav Kapoor, Head INVENT, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park and Vikraman Venu, CEO, IKP EDEN.
Gaurav Kapoor, Head INVENT, IIM Calcutta Innovation Park said, "It was a motley of students, doctors, designers and coders which helped bring in a varied perspective and their synergies threw up amazing solutions for some lifestyle diseases".
