Vidya ECE students selected as Incubatee of NSRCEL@IIMB

The five-member B Tech (ECE) student team from Vidya (Aishwarya Pradeep, Aiswarya Rajeev, Anjali P, Akash Sathian P and Aftab Ashraf A V) mentored by Mr Ramesh C R and Mr. Rakesh V S, Assistant Professors, ECE Dept, has been selected as Incubatee at NSRCEL@IIM Bangalore.The announcement was made during the grand finale of The India Innovation Challenge Design Contest (IICDC), launched by Texas Instruments India in association with the Department of Science and Technology and anchored by Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.The team has been granted an amount of Rs 20 lakhs for establishing a startup to develop their product and they have also been offered a one year incubation at NSRCEL Centre, IIMB. They are the one and only one team from Kerala for crossing the Semi-Finals and reaching the Final Round in  the history of IICDC versions.The team has come up with a conceptual implementation of Non-Invasive Hb Tester (B-Hue) and obtained 4 provisional Patents. The device belongs to the low cost category and for the 1st time in India.