Active Power Conditioners For Harmonics
AUGUST 2011: Business organisations are constantly looking for efficient energy solutions, especially with the government regulations getting stricter, and rising costs involved with power...
A Low-Cost Large-Size Document Scanner
Design engineer Mandar Thite had many old newspapers stocked in his house as his father loved collecting newspaper clippings. Some of these were even...
ROBOT For Risky Indoor Navigation
The 2008 terror attack on Mumbai’s Taj was fresh in everybody’s mind when budding engineers at M.V.J. College of Engineering were brainstorming over what...
“We expect to see 50 fabless semiconductor companies”
Every year at ISA Vision Summit, people from the electronics industry come together to discuss what will drive the industry. The summit looks at...
LED Streetlights With Unique Thermal Management
Thermal management in LED streetlights is a constant challenge throughout their existence. To overcome this, Greenstar Engineering (an engineering arm of Greenstar Products Inc.,...
Handheld fieldman for pest surveillance
NOVEMBER 2011: In India over 10,000 species of pests destroy food which could feed 135 million people. The current annual loss due to insects,...
Robot That Breathes Life Into AC Ducts
“To regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
—Albert Einstein
For commercial set-ups such as shopping malls...
Low-Cost, Fail-proof Root Canal Machine
APRIL 2012: It is not every day that you come across dentists who can also innovate. Sameer D. Jain, a student in Nashik pursuing...
Underwater Robot to Clean Tanks
Fantasies depicted in TV shows such as The Jetsons and Futurama are increasingly getting closer to reality. A step in this direction is the...
Moksha: Unmanned Ground Vehicle
FEBRUARY 2012: The robotics team of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology has developed an autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) named Moksha. The objective of...