The IIT (ISM), Dhanbad hosted the finale of Samsung Innovative Award jointly with Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore on Wednesday last.
The aim of the challenge was to recognise and reward inventions and innovative ideas by the student-faculty team in top institutions. The event is held at an intra-institute level every year at one of the IITs and IIT (ISM) was selected by Samsung R&D to be the host for 10th year’s edition.
A total of 46 teams submitted their innovative ideas in areas of smart homes, communication, digitization and much more. The jury members and the selection committee took approximately one month to conclude the winners.
The review was done in three phases, where 16 teams succeeded the first phase of scrutiny; 10 teams crossed the second phase and were selected for the final.
In the final round, the teams made a final pitch for their ideas and demonstrated the novelty of the ideas to the jury members.
The jury members were experts from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad and Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore.The team of Ayush Somani, Gaurav Kumar and Gyanendra Das( fifth year) pitched up with an idea on Invo-AI: An innovative E-Invoicing Solution and lead the Samsung Innovation Award Challenge. The team hold first position and won a cash prize of Rs 100000.
The idea on Biomass Logic ‘S’:A Paddy Yield Forecasting Model using Satellite Imagery was presented by the team comprising of Bhargav Reddy Vootkuru, Kotapati Siddarth Choudary and Rahul Kedia of third year B.tech won the second prize and bagged a cash prize of Rs. 80000.
The girls also made their mark and the team comprising of Ankita Jaiswal, Somya Jain and Prakrit Raj made a podium finish with the third position and a cash prize of Rs. 50000. Their thought highlighted the virtual Try-On System which transfers clothing apparel onto customers image and recommends size as per inputs.
The jury members told that the ideas were extremely innovative and application based.
IT was really a tough task to select the winners out of the entries received. The event was a successful affair and all the teams showcased their excellence and out-of-the-box thinking in their projects, said the jury.