The Computer Society of India organised the largest ever student hackathon as part of the student convention of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in Hyderabad.

This devthon was held on the topic of Smart City and Internet of Things technologies. This Devthon has witnessed about 3,000 students participating in 40 colleges simultaneously, as teams. About 1,000 ideas were built out/prototyped in the 2 days. This Devthon was supported by over 100 curators and 50 mentors from various industries/academics.

The winning teams from each of these colleges participated in the final round held on January 2 and 3, at the CSI Student Convention. Hon. ESL Narasimhan, Governor of A.P.& Telegana has presented mementos and merit certificates to the winning teams at the CSI Student convention

In The Press

CSI to organize largest Student Hackathon in Hyderabad
– Siasat

CSI India Communications
– CSI India

Computer Society of India to Hold Student Hackathon in Hyderabad
– NDTV Gadgets

Biggest Hackathon In India
– BusinessLine

Computer Society of India to hold student Hackathon in Hyderabad
– Economic Times

Computer Society of India to hold student Hackathon in Hyderabad
– Business Today

Participating Organisations

CSI
Computer Society of India is a body of computer professionals in India. It was started on 6 March 1965 by a few computer professionals and has now grown to be the national body representing computer professionals. It has 72 chapters across India, 511 student branches, and 100,000 members.

HYSEA
HYSEA (Formerly ITsAP) is a registered apex body with more than 300 members representing the software industry in Hyderabad. It is a not for profit organization whose vision is ‘To Position Hyderabad as the leading intellectual capital of the world, by nurturing entrepreneurship, research and innovation, to achieve global excellence in IT products and services’. HYSEA works very closely with the Government, STPI – Hyderabad and with various industry bodies like NASSCOM, FICCI, CII, TiE, AMCHAM, IACC, FAPCCI, etc.and acts as a catalyst to promote the growth of the IT & ITES industry in the Hyderabad.

Collab House, a collaborative community space in Hyderabad where makers meet, which proposed to host the X PRIZE Think Tank, hosted the first meet, here in Hyderabad on March 1st, 2015.

The X PRIZE Think Tank Hyderabad will bring together innovators, problem-solvers, domain experts, and more together from a local community to help discuss, educate, and strategize how to solve grand challenges.

There were 13 individuals who came together to scope down the future of the Think Tank and identify challenge areas. Individuals divided into groups of 2 to take on the task of identifying areas of focus that each of us are keen on creating an impact in.

The internet technology has taken the world by storm, creating opportunities across the globe. One team proposed to pursue the need for internet access for all, drafting an internet.org like initiative which would bring internet for all, help understand its capabilities and assist in improving lives. Another team proposed food as a major challenge area to take on. An interesting way to solve it is to connect people over food. The challenges in healthcare were also discussed.

However, the challenge area winner which was identified as the most important area during the discussion was, Education. It was discussed on how access to quality education brings about a cultural change and how teachers and schools play an important role in shaping the future generations.

Members of the X PRIZE Think Tank, called Tankers, will meet bi-weekly in Hyderabad. The first time Tankers discussed on how we must broaden our thinking to identify moonshot challenges that currently only outliers think about. In the future, the Think Tank will open the floor to ideas and challenges from specific areas taking a more focussed approach to identify pressing problems faced by mankind.

Participating Organisations

COLLAB HOUSE
Collab House coworking believes that collaboration is the key to success. In order to bring ideas to life, people need to combine their skills, tools and experiences. Collab House offers the perfect environment where freelancers, creative entrepreneurs and professionals can share their knowledge. The community space at Collab House is divided in four sections: makers, startups, hackers and events.

XPRIZE
A nonprofit 501(c)(3) since 1994, the XPRIZE Foundation has designed and operated seventeen competitions in the domain areas of Space, Oceans, Learning, Health, Energy, Environment, Transportation, Safety and Robotics.

With UN estimating 55% of the global population already living in urban areas, and with it estimated to rise to 68% by 2050, the challenges that the explosion of this trend bring are equally challenging and complicated.

The existing solutions often fall short  and so, cities have to look for innovative social, economical and technological responses for adequate and sustainable solutions.

The 0.6 edition brought together design & tech hackers on a platform with urban enthusiasts and experts to undertake problem statements from the repository.

Devthon was part of the two-day urban techno-arts festival, Do Din, where it organized the hackspace. In the 2 days, the hackspace enabled the doers to take up problem statements related to urban challenges that came from the conversations & ideas from the talks/discussion space.

Two ideas were sparked off,
1. GHMC Road Repairs Inspection portal
This was a community driven approach where the feedback given by fellow citizens to the government body to monitor the quality of the roads and also raise complaints for bad quality roads wherever they exist. Once the repair has been taken care of, the residents monitor the status of the repair and give a feedback on the quality of the work and changes, if any.

2. Urban Transportation challenge
Based on open street maps, this project was taken up to minimise confusion and to find the best public transportation means and the routes to be taken by people to reach from point A to point B. This was done by extensively digitizing the analogue routes on open maps for different public transport options that are available and was made oen source for anyone to use.

Two other projects proposed were,
1. Rainwater harvesting data collection portal
2. Mapping Memories project

Participating Organisations

Do Din
Do Din – simply meaning ‘two days’ is a multiplex event that was first organised in Hyderabad in December 2013. It was initially conceived as an urban techno arts festival where several different things would be happening simultaneously as they do in cities. It was specifically about celebrating Hyderabad but also about reflecting on cities in India and elsewhere. There were film screenings, workshops, talks and exhibitions parallelly all at the same venue. Hyderabad Urban Lab was nominally coordinating it all.

According to the United Nations, already in July 2007, the urban population surpassed the rural population in the world. Moreover, this proportion is expected to increase dramatically in the coming years to the point that by 2050, almost 70% of the world population will be urban and many cities will have over 10 million inhabitants.  It is estimated that by 2025 in China alone, there will be 221 cities in excess of 10 million inhabitants.  Europe currently has 35 such cities. As such, innovation in urban design, technologies, and services.cities need to become smarter in order to remain sustainable.

The recent government of India’s announcement to create 100 smart cities has raised the decibel level around the concept of smart cities in popular conversations. So what essentially is a smart city? Is having better roads or public infrastructure like emergency services or government kiosks (meeseva) constitute a smart city? Why do we need our cities to become smarter?. What are the opportunities with smart cities? These are some of the questions we will try to answer with this document.

Definition
Smart city is still a fuzzy concept and it will be difficult to scope it thoroughly. The wikipedia definition is “A city can be classified as a “smart city” by its innovation and ability to solve problems and use of ICTs ( Information and communication technologies) to improve this capacity. They are “innovation ecosystems” that offer ample opportunities for sustainable, user-driven “intelligent services”. This can be achieved by combining open innovation processes, advanced e-Government service applications, cloud computing and IoT technologies”.

Why do we need smart cities?
Cities have a major impact on the economic and social development of nations.  They are genuine platforms where people live, where companies have their businesses and in which numerous services are provided.  They are also major centers of consumption of resources. Currently, cities consume 75% of the world’s resources and energy and generate 80% of greenhouse gases, occupying only 2% of the world’s territory. This trend is set to continue as city economies begin to scale.

The goal here is simply to make our existing cities better and more intelligent. A smart city would create major savings, bring in efficiencies and provide a higher quality of life while ensuring increased productivity. Imagine living in a lively city with rich social landscape, with clean and well designed spaces, pleasant environments, safe and secure and having quick connectivity.

Another important reason to make our cities smarter is the national and global competitiveness. A city that provides a vibrant and innovative ecosystem in a sustainable paradigm is a magnet for talent and businesses.

All of this can be achieved by using information and communication technologies enabled by sensors and actuators so that its critical infrastructure as well as its public services are more interactive and efficient. Irrigation of parks and gardens, traffic management ( HTRIMS) , garbage collection and transportation, smart metering are some of the areas that improve the quality of our lives while helping us conserve our resources.

What are the opportunities?
There are multitude of opportunities for entrepreneurs , students  ,  businesses and other organizations that can be unravelled in this pursuit. We are detailing a few broad areas which can be prospected.

Responsive governance – Applications enabling e-participation of citizens in governance consulting process.

Urban mobility – traffic management in real time, management of passenger transport means, management of car parks, fleet management, management of the use of bicycles, payment of tolls, support in the use of electric vehicles, tracking applications and logistics, car sharing services, etc.

Energy efficiency and, in general, sustainable management of resources: Smart energy grid, smart metering, urban waste collection and processing, management of public parks and gardens, measuring of environmental parameters, etc.

Management of the city’s infrastructures: sanitation and waste management, management of public buildings and building automation, management of public infrastructures and urban facilities, reporting of incidents by citizens, disaster & crisis frameworks and support systems, public parking lot management

Public safety: management of public emergency services and civil defence, video-surveillance and security of citizens, fire prevention and detection, etc.

City services: water supply instrumentation, monitoring and data collection,

Health: telemonitoring and telemedicine, telecare and social services, public health services, etc.

Education and culture: e-learning and teleworking, e-tourism and cultural information, e-commerce, etc.

Solutions for physically challenged: helping them improve their lives, assistance for Senior Citizens/Old Age homes, Self Help Groups

During the Event
During Devthon there was a collaboration of a diverse group of individuals consisting of engineers, designers, developers, urban researchers, technology architects, data scientists, citizens and the government amongst others. Industry experts from varied fields provided support and assistance to the participants with their ideas and the problem. The event provided a ‘Hack Shop’ where individuals picked up sensors, hardware devices, electronics and a 3D printer to prototype ideas for better cities.

The final jury comprised of Professor Vasudeva Varma, Dean (Research), IIIT Hyderabad, Entrepreneur Ashhar Farhan and Karuna Gopal, President, Foundation for Futuristic Cities, and Dr U Chandrasekhar, Director, Engineering Staff College of India.

Outcomes

• One stop hyderabad –
  Platform for citizens to highlight city civic issues that forces action from the city administration.
  The team prototyped the IOs application which is an integrated reporting system.
  From a bad road to garbage issues, the platform takes greviences of all natures
  The team of 5 includes aman, sachin, anupriya, steven and niranjan
• Road QA –
  Crowdsourced automated road quality reportage analyzes movements of a commuter’s mobile and reports bad road conditions.
  The team uses onboard sensors on mobile devices to identify the road and the condition of a road automatically without any interaction necessary from the user
  jaydeep a freelance web dev was leading the project
• Swacch Hyderabad –
  Smart Bins that decrease the amount of carbon footprint throughout the city.
  The team built smart public garbage bins, equipped with RFID to identify the interval at which they are attended
  The 3 people team from ilabs helps officials prioritize the bins and help for a faster and more efficient waste disposal from public roads
• Smart Parking –
  As the name states, the team focuses on solving the parking issue that most of the malls have, In terms of identifying a parking space and thereby estimating the capacity.
  This is an app and hardware based solution that work in tandom to fulfil the abovesaid problem.
• Aid for disabled –
  This is a Navigation system for visually disabled using voice based instructions and open maps.
  The team uses RFID technology and their own platform to help disabled people navigate public spaces by triangulating their location and guiding them.
• AADR –
  Automatic Accident Detection and Rescue System is a hardware solution for vehicles that triggers a message upon an accident and contacts medical emergencies
  This solution drastically reduces the response time by automatically triggering the emergency teams to the location
  The team has achieved this through a custom hardware and software approach

In the press

A hackathon for IoT Apps
– Business Line

Hyderabad: Inspiration, Immersion & Innovation
– Social Starters

Been there, Done That
– Deccan Chronicle

HYSEA to organize HACKERS SUMMIT
– TeluguPeople

Participating Organisations

About HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association)
HYSEA (Formerly ITsAP) is a registered apex body with more than 300 members representing the software industry in Hyderabad. It is a not for profit organization whose vision is ‘To Position Hyderabad as the leading intellectual capital of the world, by nurturing entrepreneurship, research and innovation, to achieve global excellence in IT products and services’. HYSEA works very closely with the Government, STPI – Hyderabad and with various industry bodies like NASSCOM, FICCI, CII, TiE, AMCHAM, IACC, FAPCCI, etc.and acts as a catalyst to promote the growth of the IT & ITES industry in the Hyderabad.

About TASK (Telangana Academy for Skill and Knowledge)
TASK is a society of the Government of Telangana for enhancing the Skills and Knowledge of the Engineering and the Traditional Degree graduates of the state of Telangana for cultivating a culture of Research, enhancing the entrepreneurial spirit and the overall standards of Education. The objective of TASK is to create an enabling environment and it works in coordination with the Industry, the Academia and the Government.

What are the opportunities?

There are multitude of opportunities for entrepreneurs , students , businesses and other organizations that can be unravelled in this pursuit. We are detailing a few broad areas which can be prospected.

Responsive governance – Applications enabling e-participation of citizens in governance consulting process.

Urban mobility – traffic management in real time, management of passenger transport means, management of car parks, fleet management, management of the use of bicycles, payment of tolls, support in the use of electric vehicles, tracking applications and logistics, car sharing services, etc.

Energy efficiency and, in general, sustainable management of resources: Smart energy grid, smart metering, urban waste collection and processing, management of public parks and gardens, measuring of environmental parameters, etc.

Management of the city’s infrastructures: sanitation and waste management, management of public buildings and building automation, management of public infrastructures and urban facilities, reporting of incidents by citizens, disaster & crisis frameworks and support systems, public parking lot management

Public safety: management of public emergency services and civil defence, video-surveillance and security of citizens, fire prevention and detection, etc.

City services: water supply instrumentation, monitoring and data collection,

Health: telemonitoring and telemedicine, telecare and social services, public health services, etc.

Education and culture: e-learning and teleworking, e-tourism and cultural information, e-commerce, etc.

Solutions for physically challenged, helping them improve their lives, assistance for Senior Citizens/Old Age homes, Self Help Groups

Challenges & Opportunities

• Traffic monitoring and data collection using aerial survey
• Tracking garbage truck routes in the city
• Detecting and collecting data on road damages
• Reduction of Electricity consumption, using IoT and Mobile Devices.

Introduction to the Event

The Prototyping Stage of the Public Data Devthon was conducted at T-Hub on the 7th and 8th of May. The event was supported by the Government of Telangana and T-Hub. Rakesh Kumar Dubbudu, founder of FACTLY and Co-convenor of NCPRI was the curator for this edition of Devthon. The focus for this event was exploring the possibilities of Public Data.

Many of the participants were attending the Devthon for the first time. After a long wait, the event was finally about to start. By 10 AM, the hall was full of participants eager to learn and explore the possibilities of Open Public Data. At 10 AM, Rakesh started by welcoming everyone present to the Public Data Devthon. He continued to explain about the scope of Open Data in India. Harish Krishnan, founder of Devthon took a few minutes to explain about the goals of Devthon and how this event came to be. This event was conducted jointly by FACTLY/Devthon with support from Manoj and Uday from FACTLY and Abraham from Devthon. Then came the time to discuss about the datasets that were going to be used. Rakesh helped the audience understand the five datasets that were being used:

GHMC data: Based on grievance data from GHMC for the last one year (Apr 2015 to March 2016), can we find out the most common grievances, officials who are loaded with work, areas from where maximum grievances are coming from etc.

Village Dashboard based on Maa Bhoomi Portal: Based on the Village level Pahani on the Maa Bhoomi portal, can we build a dashboard for micro level planning at a village level on land holding size, type of land. water sources etc

NITI Aayog district data: Based on district data from NITI Aayog, can we build a dash board for comparing districts on various parameters and find sister districts?

MNREGA Data: Based on the MNREGA works done in a district since the inception of the scheme, can we find outliers in terms of wage/material expenditure, works done etc?

PDS data: Based on closing balance reports and key register reports of FPS, can we throw light on the FPS that may be diverting food grain meant for the poor.

Brainstorming & Team Formation

At 11 AM, all the participants were given the choice to join any of the 5 groups which were using the 5 different datasets. There was a round of introductions where each one of the team members shared their name, experience and skill sets. After that it was jumping into the datasets that were on offer. The basic ideas that each one of them had in mind were discussed.

But the interesting part was the unique perspectives each team member had to offer. There were programmers, UX designers, database developers, journalists, activists and data enthusiasts that had come together to create a diverse team. A participant Sanjay Y shared, “ I was able to meet people from divergent backgrounds and exchange ideas.”

After 2 hours of brainstorming of different ideas that could be pursued, all teams took a break where the discussions continued over lunch. When they came back at 2 PM, the prototyping started in some teams while others were still finalizing their ideas. In each team, one or two team members focused on cleaning the data and ensuring that they were uniform in structure. Rakesh and Srinivas moved from one team to the other and checked the progress while offering their feedback.

The Prototyping Stage

After two hours of sketching and tinkering, the teams reached their first checkpoint. They had to share the developments that had happened and could ask for feedback from other teams. The experts at the venue chipped in with inputs to help the teams get better clarity of their goals. The representatives from each team stepped forward to explain the prototypes that they were building. There was excitement in the room as the participants listened to what the other teams were up to and looked at ideas that they could incorporate into their own prototypes.

As the checkpoint ended, the team members huddled together to discuss what changes they wanted to make to their prototype. Also, the responsibilities were divided equally among the team members. Each one started working on the part they were assigned and constantly consulted their team members for feedback. Two hours flew by and everyone was happy with the work that they were able to do in a single day.

Day 1 ended with the teams being more than half way in completing their prototypes. A participant Vishal Pallerla said, “This is a good initiation by Devthon team to let the government know the outstanding possibilities that we have with the existing data to make decisions that can help government reduce the wastage of resources.”

Day 2 started at 10 AM with teams working on their presentations that they would be using to explain their prototypes. The work on the prototypes was also going in full swing. There was a checkpoint# 2 at 1 PM where the teams again shared their progress and took a final round of feedback. After lunch, the teams spent a good two hours in refining their work and getting it ready for presentation.

Presentation Practice

At 3 PM, all the teams were ready for the presentation practice. They came forward to explain the goals that they were trying to achieve with their respective prototypes and the users it will benefit. They also elaborated on the need for this product and the impact it will be having. The experts at the venue suggested some changes and corrections that were carefully noted by the team members. They just had 2 hours to make the final changes before they were ready for the final presentation before the IT Secretary, Governement of Telangana, Mr. Jayesh Ranjan.

At 5 PM, the stage was set for the outcomes of the event to presented. The chief guest, Mr. Jayesh Ranjan reached the venue. A short video was played to showcase the problem statements that were being tackled at this event.

Village Dashboard with data on Maa Bhoomi Portal

The first team to present was the team that were using the data from the Village Pahani records. They created a dashboard that could show, compare and calculate the data from the Village Pahani records. It could calculate the average land holding per person in a village, highest/lowest land holdings, type of land, water resource and barren/cultivable land in a village. This dashboard could be used by the common man and also an official like the district collector to measure the rural development metrics and find insights.

GHMC Grievance Dataset Analysis

The team worked to visualize the complaints that the GHMC has received in the last year. It could show which were the areas that registered the most number of complaints and also the types of works that were requested the most number of times.

They were also able to build a demo for an App that would be able to visualize the status of complaints in a particular region. This would be a handy tool for all decision makers who were part of the GHMC. They could easily monitor if the efforts they were putting in were showing positive results and make changes accordingly.

PDS Dataset Analysis

The main problem that the team focused on was the identification of leakages in the Public Distribution System. For achieving this goal, they created visualizations that showed the deviations in the behaviour of ration shop owners who showed huge variations of leftover food grains in the shop across months. By using this visualization, the supply variations across shops can easily be spotted. Also, the correlation between Supply and Number of Ration Food Cards can be seen. This can be used by officials to find fraudulent practices and investigate these shops wherever required.

District Dashboard using NITI Aayog Data

This team presented their visualization that they had created to analyze District Level Quality of Life Data. They created visualizations to compare districts on key sectors of development like health, education, water and electricity. Combining this information, they wished to rank different districts on the quality of life. These visualizations could be useful to NGOs, activists, district and state administration to find the deficiencies in key development areas and work towards filling the necessary gaps.

MNREGA Dataset Analysis

Team NREGA had two prototypes to showcase. The first one was a decision tree that would be used to understand if all the criteria were being met and thereby understanding whether the final goals of the NREGA scheme were being achieved. So all the data would be checked using the 4 rules that were part of the decision tree and easily be able to analyze if the scheme was being effective or not.

Also the team created a visualization to show the comparison between wages and materials. With the help of the visualization, they were able to clearly show the number of villages that showed a deviation from the average. They were able to find more than 300 villages that had spent more on the materials than the wages, thereby defeating the whole purpose of the scheme. These visualizations could be used to analyze the way villages were using their NREGA funds and easily spot the places where they were being misused.

The Factly Data Devthon is here!
– Startup Hyderabad

Event Report
– Govt. of Telangana

State Data To be in Public Domain
– Times of India

State Data in Public Domain
– Telangana  First

GHMC, Make the streetlights come alive
– The Hindu

Factly

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding and using high value government records at the centre, state and local body levels.

Overview

Open data is contributing significantly to promote transparency in governance. It is also supposed to make public more aware of what the government is doing. This awareness, will in turn empower people to advocate/suggest/highlight ways to improve governance. Unfortunately, Government/Public data is complicated and very difficult to understand for most people. It is both difficult to access and difficult to make sense of. Factly is an initiative to make public data more meaningful to the common man.

Public data is also used to a large extent by journalists, NGOs, activists, designers, researchers and those within the government to promote transparency and accountability. It also enables improving policies and spins off new projects in governance, industries and organizations.
We wish to bring together public data experts, data enthusiasts, developers, researchers, engineers, designers and startups in a journey to discover challenges and opportunities in public and government data

Areas of Focus

Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Interaction Design
Mass Communication

Opportunities and Challenges

• Analyzing the GHMC budget data to look at cost of different works for the city.
• co-relate MMTS + TSRTC timetables to plan multi-modal timetables for city trips
• Look at parking violations in the city to identify most offence spots and suggest parking spots for GHMC to reduce violations
• Predict Water levels in reservoirs of Hyderabad based on rainfall predictions.
• Build a map based tool to geotag buildings with the necessary building occupancy certificates, sewage connection certificate, electricity meter number and all associated data to look for fraud/violations.
• Identify number of illegal buildings in the city using LANDSAT satellite imagery or number of buildings from openstreetmap co-relating with property tax data.
• Look into outliers in water bills data to identify fraud by tampering with water meters.
• Identify performance of govt schools in comparison to private schools in Hyderabad using schoolreports.in data
• Look into anomalies of garbage collection using GPS data from garbage trucks.
• Analyze crime patterns in the city and classify neighbourhoods based on the patterns.
• Rank wards in the city based on access to public amenities like parks, bus routes, police stations, fire stations, roads, population, schools

Security Devthon, in association with the Society for Cyberabad Security Council, Cyberabad Police Commissionerate, HYSEA and Hyderabad Hackers gathered designers, engineers, professionals and students to come together to understand and solve some of the most challenging problems we face in the protection and safety of our communities.

This devthon has seen participation from local law enforcement officers and first responders to help participants solve some of the most pressing issues first responders and law enforcement officials face when protecting our communities, using technology insights. With the theme dwelling on Women Safety, Pedestrian Safety, Road Safety and Public Transport Safety, a bundle of issues have been highlighted that participants have addressed through technology, design and co-creation.

Police officers also participated by assisting teams address pressing issues that first responders and citizens face in urban spaces and communities. They came together to provide insights and feedback to the participants.

Outcomes

Here are the top prototypes that showcased possibilities,

• Adaptive Traffic
  Using a camera monitoring the road, the prototype was built using a raspberry to monitor the density of the road and thereby dynamically time the signals. This will ease the overhead and also make the signals smarter.

  

• AirCops
  Air surveillance for incident reporting and data to gather data for first response. This is a drone based system which will keep surveilling the area and in case of an incident will help the first responders without better data.
  

• CopComm
  Secure internal communication channel for law enforcement officers. This is a push to talk based secure communitation mechanism for communication with monitoring options of the communication so that both the citizens and the police interact easily.
  

• HarassReport
  Bringing an end to harassment and sensitizing individuals about harassment. Removing the taboo for women to register complaints against issues ranging from domestic violence to eve teasing. Including geolocation so that the police can respond immediately.
  

• Challan Alert
  Get notified when you receive a challan via email or SMS on time and monitor and pay the existing challans

In the Press

Devthon is back again – This time for a safer Hyderabad
– Startup Hyderabad

Event Report
– Cyberabad Police

More & more non-profit organisations giving credence to ethical hackers
– Economic Times

Participating Organisations

About HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association)
HYSEA (Formerly ITsAP) is a registered apex body with more than 300 members representing the software industry in Hyderabad. It is a not for profit organization whose vision is ‘To Position Hyderabad as the leading intellectual capital of the world, by nurturing entrepreneurship, research and innovation, to achieve global excellence in IT products and services’. HYSEA works very closely with the Government, STPI – Hyderabad and with various industry bodies like NASSCOM, FICCI, CII, TiE, AMCHAM, IACC, FAPCCI, etc.and acts as a catalyst to promote the growth of the IT & ITES industry in the Hyderabad.

About Cyberabad Police
Cyberabad Police strives to make Cyberabad a safe and secure city to support its endeavor to become a word-class IT destination through implementing proactive and preventive initiatives, excellence in surveillance techniques adopting the latest technology and tools, partnering with and educating all stakeholders and facilitate effective participation of all concerned. The areas of focus are: Personal safety, particularly Women safety, IT infrastructure safety, Traffic safety, Cyber safety, Information security and Business continuity from a public infrastructure stand point

The BioAsia Healthcare Devthon which started on January 10, concluded on February 4th, with the showcase phase at Hyderabad International Convention Centre during the 2015 BioAsia conference. In this phase, teams took the opportunity to present their prototypes to a wide audience of individuals and organizations from the life sciences and healthcare fields.

Of the 7 prototypes, 3 teams took home the grant totaling ₹2,00,000/-

Outcomes

G-Mode
An algorithm that converts gray scale ultrasound images into colour graphics making ultrasound based diagnosis more accurate and efficient. The software is optimized to provide a dynamic view of ultrasound images allowing users to highlight regions in an image, filter by color, filter by region, magnify a region or highlight portions of an image.

Smart Peak Flow Meter
An asthma management compliance with an electronic peak flow meter that can be low cost and work with the cell phone using the microphone and light source. It is a low cost portable electronic device that comes with an app which records history of readings for further analysis without the patient having to take note of the readings.

Self feeding utensil for amputees
A low cost easy-to-use end-to-end system that assists individuals with permanent movement problems to feed themselves without struggling for coordination. It assists individuals with cerebral palsy and motor neuron diseases who face a hard time feeding themselves and are dependent on someone to help.

In the press

BioAsia to organize Healthcare Devthon
– Business Insider

Healthcare Devthon in Hyderabad
– Business Line

BioAsia to Organize First of its Kind Healthcare Devthon to Co-Create and Prototype New Healthcare Products and Services
– The pharma Times

BioAsia to organize Healthcare Devthon in Hyderabad
– Microfinance Monitor

BioAsia Healthcare Devthon
– BioAsia

First ever Healthcare Devthon organized by BioAsia; powered by Apollo Hospitals
– Apollo Hospitals

Seminar to address challenges in healthcare sector
– The Hans India

Over 50 countries to participate in BioAsia 2015
– India TV

Participating Organisations

Healthcare Innovation Cell – Ministry of Health & Family Welfare – Government of Telangana

Apollo Hospitals

Kamineni LifeSciences

D Labs – ISB

TBI – BITS Pilani

HY-SEA

LVPEI

Hyderabad Hackers

Opportunities

India is the second largest country by population. The latest Human Development Report released by the United Nations Development Programme in Tokyo on July 24, 2014 has ranked India 135 in a list of 187 countries. The Human Development Index takes into account long-term progress in three areas — a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living.

The need for healthcare structure in the country is at its highest with the continuing increase in population. Advances in medicine are responsible for no more than half of the observed improvement in health indices.

As India’s population has grown, healthcare has become one of the country’s largest sectors, both in terms of revenue and employment – and its growth is slated to continue. Estimates project that the current US $40 billion Indian healthcare industry will grow to US $280 billion by 2020.

Areas of focus and opportunities
Digital Health and Healthcare IT
Medical Electronics and Devices
Rapid Diagnostics

Challenges & Opportunities

• Patient compliance monitoring
• App-enabled support groups for chronic conditions
• Innovations in patient data portability and retrieval
• Remote patient monitoring
• Cell-phone based diagnostics
• Appointment scheduling and doctor referrals
• Low cost, robust medical and diagnostic devices that can function in resource-poor settings
• Telemedicine models
• Cell-phone based applications for ordering pharmacy
• Cell-phone based applications for medicine compliance
• Retinal Scans / Eye Scans
• Skin diagnosis/Trichology diagnosis like a derma app
• Eyesight measurement
• A quick patient profile creator for Doctors to track and maintain
• Medicine barcode scanner and layman explainator.
• Better atmosphere monitoring system in patient’s room for fast recovery.
• Affordable and reliable devices for maternal and neonatal healthcare
• Using advances in medical imaging technology to make ultrasound based diagnosis more accurate and efficient, inadvertently reducing the cost of medical devices and equipment.
• Another underlying challenge for any problem statement is to know what portion of the solution is going to be cloud enabled (think storing data in a cloud server) and what portion of their solution is in the handheld/portable medical device.
• Using non invasive circulatory biomarkers CBMs (exosomes, cell free DNA) to enable real-time monitoring of cancers and other pathological conditions.
• Telemedicine Services for better reach in rural areas.
• Low cost endoscopy using cellphone camera and light source
• Asthma management compliance with an electronic peak flow meter that can be low cost and work with the cell phone using the microphone and light source
• Biggest problem rural India faces is potable (drinking) water & Urban population faces alcoholism and preventable aspects. Enough tools are available, but we are shunning ourselves in the name of apps?