IIT Madras To Collaborate With Sony India Software Centre To Host Hackathon

IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation (IITM-PTF) is collaborating with Sony India Software Centre Pvt. Ltd. to conduct a national hackathon called ‘SAMVEDAN 2021 - Sensing Solutions for Bharat’.

IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation (IITM-PTF) is collaborating with Sony India Software Centre Pvt. Ltd. to conduct a national hackathon called ‘SAMVEDAN 2021 - Sensing Solutions for Bharat’ to inspire citizens to solve India-specific problems of societal interest using IoT Sensor Board. Registration has already commenced on July 1, 2021, for this challenge, and it is open to all Indian nationals. A team with a maximum of three members can register for the grand challenge. The challenge will be held in three stages quarterfinals, semi-finals and finals. 75 ideas will be selected for the quarter-finals, and among them, 25 best ideas will be selected for the semi-finals. There will be seven finalists with prizes for every finalist. Prizes worth 3 lakhs will be awarded to the best teams. Further, each quarterfinalist will also be provided with a SPRESENSETM board free of cost by Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation through the IITM Pravartak Technologies Foundation. Calling upon Indians to take part in this hackathon, Professor Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, said, “The future is all about a tight convergence of physical systems with communication, computing, information and data gathering, machine sensing, autonomous decisions and actions and control. Thus, sensors of all sorts will play a vital role in the Cyber-Physical Systems.”