The team Prajjawala, students of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, led by Rahul Kumar (CSE, 3rd year), Rahul Mahanot (ECE, 3rd year), Rishwanth K (ME, 3rd year) and Deepak K (ME, 3rd year) has won the NRDC National Budding Innovators Award 2018.
The team has won the award, for second consecutive time under the valuable guidance of IIT BBS Director Prof RV Raja Kumar, for their invention “Internet of things and data analytics-based price fragmentation, pay-as-you-use and supply chain automation and optimisation in LPG distribution system”.
The award would be presented on May 11 by the NRDC on the occasion of the National Technology Day at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
Prof Kumar said, “I would take the opportunity specially to congratulate the budding technocrats of tomorrow for the incredible feat, I am sure this is just the beginning and there is more to follow.”
The team Prajjawala and the project have already been registered as Project Prajjawala under the Design Innovation Centre (DIC), IIT BBS and continuously supported with facilities to develop the Proof of Concept (PoC) along with mentoring and guidance as and when required.
