SMART INDIA HACKATHON 2020 INTERNAL HACKATHON ROUND

Smart India Hackathon 2020 is a nationwide initiative to provide students a platform to solve some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem solving. In SIH 2020, the students would have the opportunity to work on challenges faced within various Ministries, Departments, Industries, PSUs and NGOs to create world class solutions for some of the top organizations including industries in the world, thus helping the Private sector hire the best minds from across the nation.

As a part of the event, each college participating was required to conduct an internal hackathon round in the college and shortlist 5 teams for the software Problem statements, 2 teams for the hardware Problem statements and 2 teams as waitlist teams in both domains. Of the shortlisted teams, there could be only one team in each domain (hardware/software) as the student innovation category. This student innovation category didn’t tackle any given problem statement but the student would define their own problem statement and suggest an innovative idea to tackle it.

The internal hackathon round was conducted in PCCE on 4th February 2020 from 2pm -5pm.

The judges for the event were

  1. Malcolm D’Souza- Cofounder of Mrinq Technologies LLP.
  2. Vijay Borges- Head of Department of Computer engineering, Agnel Polytechnic, Verna.
  3. Reiniel Martins- Ethical hacker and cybersecurity analyst, Vision Developerz.

The organizing team of the event were following members of the Institute Innovation Council (IIC) of PCCE.

  1. Niyan Marchon
  2. Razia Sardinha
  3. Sulana Rebello
  4. Saish Vernekar
  5. Enrich Braz

A total of 14 teams participated in the internal hackathon and 13 different Problem statements were addressed and students presented their innovative ideas for the same. The jury were very impressed with all the teams and the final list of shortlisted teams were as follows :

Under the Software Category 5 teams:

  1. Team name: System.Out

Idea Title: Agrozon

PS no. : AG50

Idea Description: To reduce the wastage of produce in the supply chain, from the farmer to the consumer by optimising warehousing and transportation services.

  1. Team name: Team PS-5

Idea Title: Saumyakiran

PS no. : RA27

Idea Description: An application to provide a simple pictorial interface for farmers and buyers with multilingual support and dynamic design.

  1. Team name: IoT Tech

Idea Title: IoT Based Alcohol Detection for Drivers

PS no. : IC468 (Student Innovation Category)

Idea Description: Using Internet of Things as a baseline we can make it more convenient to detect whether the driver was found drunk or not. Thus making the vehicle smart.

  1. Team name: Local Data

Idea Title: Real-Time Based Face Recognition System

PS no. : RK308

Idea Description: To help the authorities find vital leads on suspects, by locating them on social media in real time by using scripts and facial recognition system.

  1. Team name: High Moon

Idea title : Sub-Stash

PS no. : AN316

Idea Description: An efficient solution towards the eradication of stubble burning by reusing the generated stubble and reducing the harmful effects caused by it.

Under the Hardware Category 5 teams:

  1. Team name: Dark Phoenix

Idea Title: Surveillance and Data Acquisition using an Ornithopter

PS no. : MS448

Idea Description: A robotic bird which flies by flapping its wings thus having the ability to camouflage with the environment. It can be used for surveillance and has data acquisition system for recording audio and video feed with GPS location tracking.

  1. Team name: Sub-Zero

Idea Title: Newspaper Bag Making Machine

PS no. : IC477 (Student Innovation Category)

Idea Description: An application to provide a simple pictorial interface for farmers and buyers with multilingual support and dynamic design.

Waitlist Teams

  1. Team name: Frost Bite (HARDWARE)

Idea Title: Solar Assisted Vapor Absorption Refrigeration system

PS no. : IC490

Idea Description: To utilize solar energy to run the Vapor Absorption Refrigeration System and to reduce the use of electrical energy to the minimum possible and eliminate the use of CFCs & HFCs used as refrigerants which have a detrimental effect on the ozone layer and also contribute to global warming.

  1. Team name: Justice League (SOFTWARE)

Idea Title: Court Manager

PS no. : DS159

Idea Description: to develop and implement a Court Case Management System to control and allow complete registration of all court cases.