Hall of Fame: EFY Design Contest 2013

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EFY Design Contest 2013: Hall of Fame

The Electronics For You Design Contest is a contest for electronics engineers, and features India’s biggest electronics design awards. The contest is also one of the most ‘Open’ Design contests in the world, as there are no restrictions on the type of technology used or the type of applications developed. The aim is to recognise the world’s best talent in electronics design.

The Awards

The awards for the EFY Design Contest 2013 were divided into three broad categories and various sub-categories. The broad categories were:

1. Open Innovation Awards with four sub-categories and three levels — a total of 12 awards

2. Special Category Awards with five sub-categories and two levels — a total of 10 awards

3. Next Top 30 Awards

Categories

OPEN INNOVATION AWARDS

These awards were not bound by any restrictions. Contestants could select any application and any technology for their entries. A total of 12 awards were given, with the first, second and third prize being decided for each category of participants.

OPEN INNOVATION AWARDS

	First Prize	Second Prize	Third Prize
Best Designs By Professionals	₹50000	₹30000	₹20000
Best Designs By Organisations	₹50000	₹30000	₹20000
Best Designs By Academic Institutions	₹25000	₹15000	₹10000
Best Designs By Students	₹25000	₹15000	₹10000

SPECIAL CATEGORY AWARDS

These awards were given for design of a specific application (e.g., best rural application design) or a specific technology (ex: best design using Raspberry Pi or Mango Pi). Here, there are two awards in each category–one award is for professionals and organisations, and the other is for academic institutions and students.

	Award #1 (Professionals or Organisations)	Award #1 (Academic Institutions or Students)
Best Internet of Things Project	₹20000	₹10000
Best Rural Application Project	₹20000	₹10000
Best LED Lighting Project	₹20000	₹10000
Best Mango Pi/Raspberry Pi Project	₹20000	₹10000
Best Open Source Project	₹20000	₹10000

NEXT TOP 30 AWARDS

The next best 30 designs were given a special certificate for their design, and a cash
award of Rs 5,000 each.

OIA: Open Innovation Awards, DbP: Design by Professionals, DbS: Design by Students,
SCA: Special Category Awards, m/r pi: Mango/Raspberry Pi, T30D: Top 30 Designs

THE 2013 WINNERS

Open Innovation Awards Category: Designs by Professionals
1st Position: INDRANIL MAJUMDAR (Individual Participant)	2nd Position: BUTANI RAVI CHANDULAL (Individual Participant)	3rd Position: Kaustubh Tapke
Project: An advanced home signal warning system for train protection	Project: Smart SOS system	Project: Fabric management system
What is it? A project for railway systems and their protection, based on Renesas GR-Sakura, GNSS with SBAS and GSM-GPRS/3G/4G	What is it? This project involves designing a Renesas Rx63 MCU based fool proof integrated system for detecting vehicle impact/crash/Fire/ Flood and activating an emergency response facility with crash location information using GPS/GSM. The same system can be used for stolen vehicles and as a data logger.	What is it? FMS (Fabric Management System) measures and keeps a record of the fabric weaved by a power loom. It can keep a record of the length of the fabric, the time when it was weaved and the ID of the worker operating the loom.

Open Innovation Awards Category: Designs by Students
1st Position: Samyak M Machale (Team Participant)	2nd Position:Gajendra Singh Tanwar	3rd Position: Tanmay Vinay Shinde (Team Participant)
Project: Virtual programming logic device	Project: AVIM Sparsh	Project: Humanoid robot
What is it? The device is a a micro-controller based testing and debugging system. It deals with minimising the cost, time and efforts involved in product development of digital circuits. It aims to provide a feasible and portable GUI based alternative over conventional testing methods, with enhanced functionality and flexibility.	What is it? Augmented visual human-computer interface (AVIM-Sparsh) is a project that falls under the category of human computer nteraction which uses both hardware design and software applications.	What is it? This is a design of Humanoid and drone hybrid for neutralising threats and surveillance

Special Category Awards Category: IoT
1st Position: J.Binu (Individual Participant)	2nd Position: Souradeep Mukherjee (Team Participant)	2nd Position: N. Ramanshankar (Team Participant)
Project: Home automation for aged and disabled	Project: Labview farm automation Android	Project: Border alert system for fishermen
What is it? The project allows the aged and disabled to control six devices, open/lock the door and feel secure through security systems.	What is it? A remote-controlled robot equipped with a robotic arm and a wireless camera, whose operation will be controlled by an Android application through LabVIEW to make the task of the farmer easier by using the various tools of the robot.	What is it? Boundary alert system for fishermen using GPS and a programmed micro-controller.

Special Category Awards Category: Lighting
1st Position: RAGHAVENDRA S.H.(Team Participant)	2nd Position: SAIGOPAL R.M. (Individual Participant)
Project: Remote controlled efficient lighting	Project: LED-based HS1H4 automobile headlamp with anti-glaring pass signal
What is it? An optimal room lighting set-up that is remotely controllable, thus ensuring improved and uniform illumination throughout the room and enabling considerable energy conservation at the same time.	What is it? A headlamp that is capable of providing illuminated and focused high beam and anti-glaring low beam similar to halogen lamps and can replace them in their existing slots without any modifications.

Special Category Awards Category: Mango Pi/Raspberry Pi
1st Position: Mahendra Dobariya (Team Participant)	2nd Position: Amutha Bharathi M (Individual Participant)
Project: i-Home Hybrid	Project: Smiley Pi
What is it? i-HOME hybrid is a project which, as its name describes, is made with different kinds of modules and sensors that take care of everything in a home or office—from switching to security, controlling to automation, and monitoring to safety. i-home can be used in a home and in a township.	What is it? A multi-purpose status notifier add-on for Raspberry Pi

Winner	Project
Gajendra Singh Tanwar	Avatar
Abhinav Saksena	Roshni-indoor navigation system
Pavithra S A	Pupil hacker
Joji John Varghese	Smart wearable device
R Deepak Kumar	Intelligent shopping assistance
Niket Agarwal	Armed spy robotic vehicle
Ashish Yadav	Vending machine
Akshay Kumar Dekate	Power glove
Subodh Ashok Bansode	Pressure control system for AIS
Aatish Chandak	Autobot
Tavish Naruka	Smart Wi-Fi speakers
S.R. Karthik Raja	Fault analyser for rotary machines
Shine P Sunny	Human ridable self-balancing unicycle
N Raghuchandra	Robotic wheelchair
K. Nirish Patil	Portable digital inclinometer
Abdeali J Kothari	Omni-directional robot
S.R. Karthik Raja	BL-enabled flash drive
Abdeali J Kothari	Motor controller
Jaspreet Singh	Hand vision
Chirag M.O.	Automation in power distribution
Akshay Kumar Dekate	AutoCAP
Phani Chakravarthi Tanneru	Robot arm controlled with PS/2
Avinash chakravarthi	Tweet 2 display
Sandeep Singh R.	Tracking and checking cargo
Parth Bhadreshbhai Panchal	Wireless hand transciever
Mayur Vitthal Shelke	Automated gas control
N Abid Ali Khan	GPS-less Public bus tracker
Kartar Kaur	Erasobot
Abdeali J Kothari	Differential curve tracing
To know more about these projects visit https://winners.efydesigncontest.com

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