It’s time to revolutionize the world of education and give birth to a system equipped with better technologies for a more enriching experience. We don’t necessarily have to change the knowledge that is shared, rather, change the way it is presented. We don’t have to change the system, essentially, when an upgrade would do the job.
From smart classrooms to better content generating and delivery systems, can you come up with a clever hack that could metamorphosize the educational sphere.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
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| 01 | Crispy Lectures | Sometimes lectures can be hard to follow, especially in big classrooms. What if we could generate live subtitles and animations during the lecture to make it more interesting and easier to follow. This is just a start, think bigger. | Software |
| 02 | IOT and Smart Classrooms | Imagine how much easier life would be if we a professor could walk into class and be free from the burden of dealing with a bunch of wires for using the projector, microphones, etc. What if there were devices that could warn the professor when he is about to trip the stage in his excitement or alert the TA when someone tries to walk out during class. What if you could transform a class full of smart people into an actual smart classroom ? | Hardware |
| 03 | Attendance Tracking Systems | Students are expected to develop a digital solution that monitors the attendance of students in classrooms and also come up with innovative ideas to promote attendance and prevent DX Grades. | Software/Hardware |
| 04 | Paper Leaks | Nothing annoys a student more than news of a paper leak an evening before the exam. We challenge you to develop a scalable solution for preventing such leaks | Software |
| 05 | Increasing Accessibility | Education is not only for the rich and the powerful. Keeping eligibility for education is like keeping a leash on progress. We want you to design a hack that can deliver quality education to specially abled children. [Inspired from Rotary Club School, Hubli for the deaf and dumb] |
Software/Hardware |
Nowadays, people are so caught up in their lives, with their work and personal commitments, leaving them very little time to think of their personal health. Clearly, the age-old connotation that health is wealth has not been realized as people still prefer solely thinking about placements rather than devoting an equal amount of time for hitting the gym. Your challenge is to come up with everyday hacks, right from machines to a digital aid, that could remind them of their true wealth and help them regain shape.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
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| 01 | Go Fit or Fat | When was the last time you saw someone hit the gym in campus or go for a jog? Rare indeed, can you expect to observe such mundane phenomenon in an academically rigorous environment. However, sometimes all it takes for good health is a motivational guide. Are you up for the challenge? | Software |
| 02 | Mechanical to the Rescue! | Imagine a simple everyday physical contraption that could become a part of your everyday life and force you to become fit. Like a bicycle, but something more exciting. Now, stop imagining and start hacking xP | Hardware |
| 03 | Are you Straight Enough? | College can demand excessive hours of sitting on chairs and benches. Our daily posture can play a vital role in determining our future health. Can you find out a way to keep us in good shape. | Software/Hardware |
| 04 | Smart shoes | If you are one of those people who pay 7k for a tick mark on your pair of shoes, at least, ensure it corrects the way you walk, run and stand. | Hardware |
Campuses are the heart of every institute and nurture students to evolve them into future leaders of the world. The Smart Campus challenge aims at enabling colleges to gain better control over their day to day operations, manage resources more effectively and create a more productive environment to improve student experience.
With a new campus coming up around the corner, it seems to be an ideal time to hack innovative solutions for our future campus.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Crispier Presentations | Nothing puts a good student to sleep then a dull lecture without slides and board work. Now, imagine if we had a simple program that could find relevant images or notes from online and display it on the projector to make it more interesting and easier to follow. This may seem like a second step, but we would like you to think bigger. | Software |
| 02 | When things get Messy? | The dire situation of the mess food is apparent to every student. The challenge is to design a digital solution or a device to ensure that good hygiene standards and quality is ensured throughout the process of food preparation and serving. Ensure all your efforts go to waist. Not to waste! | Software/Hardware |
| 03 | Proxy Server | Sleeping in class and missed your role call? What if a machine could answer your attendance for you? Laziness is a gift when it makes you hack hard to overcome it. Let’s find out how lazy you really are. | Hardware |
| 04 | Smart ID - Smart IDea | Upgrade your card to seamlessly enter inside and outside the campus, swipe your card for payments in the canteen and maybe even play UNO. | Hardware |
| 05 | Locate VIPs | More often than not, we face struggles to locate people of importance especially professors for last minute submissions and permissions. However, it would be inhuman to think of dog collar solutions in an age where privacy is given utmost respect. Are you up for the challenge? | Software/Hardware |
This theme mainly focuses at identifying problems in effective utilization of energy resources an ensuring their sustainability. Students are encouraged to think about relevant problems they believe they can tackle in this field.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Intelligent Lights | There exists a handful students who dare to venture the eerie roads the campus past midnight. While keeping all the lights switched on can prove to be an excessive waste of resources, leaving them switched off removes their purpose. Can you come up with an intelligent idea to light up the way? | Software/Hardware |
| 02 | Optimal Lift Algorithm | In High rises, suppose you could learn the schedule of the daily users can you come up with the optimal algorithm that saves energy and optimizes waiting time for each user. | Software |
| 03 | Smart Energy and IOT | Save Energy, a motto that has been heard long enough. The challenge requires the students to find simple IOT solutions to save energy such as ways to switch off fans, lights and projectors when not in use. Maybe sensors can be incorporated into simple home appliances like iron boxes to ensure they are switched off when not in use. | Software/Hardware |
| 04 | Smart Agriculture | Many farmers of Hubli-Dharwad are unaware of the modern farming techniques. We would like you to design a hack that can connect farmers and educate them to follow better practices. We encourage you to A social hack that connects farmers or a tech hack that can make their lives easier. | Software |
| 05 | Eco Power Saver | A monitoring system that turns off illumination once there is enough ambient light, Eg: Lower brightness after detecting Sunlight. | Hardware |
| 06 | Water from thin air | Availability of clean and pure drinking water is a challenge faced by majority of rural as well as urban areas in India. There has been a lot of work done on developing technologies for extracting moisture out of air to make it available in the form of pure water. But a cost-effective solution is what a country like India needs where the cost of generation of water is less than Re. 1 per litre of water. | Hardware |
| 07 | Temperature Monitoring System | Design a automated system to control the ACs in classrooms depending on the weather. | Hardware |
| 08 | Smart Portable Dustbin | Under the Swatch Bharath mission we should have all the government offices fitted with these low cost smart bins that inform the labour when full or automatically empty themselves. | Hardware |
Social media has become an indispensable tool in an age of digital communication. Right now, we need to focus on the proper application of it to improve standards in the various of fields of education, health and finance.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
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| 01 | 1. Entrepreneurs’ Social Hub | There are probably millions of open-minded people with billions of wonderful ideas, struggling to implement them in the real world. What if you could connect entrepreneurs who share similar interests virtually so that their ideas could transform into physical reality. Sort of like a tinder for entrepreneurs. If you like the idea, please swipe right. xP | Software |
| 02 | Platform to hire and promote budding Artists | Heard of Jai Wolf, Brodha V, Rahul Dua, or Prabhakar Pachpute? Exactly, can you help out the emerging Indian artists and make their services and works become available to the nation and maybe even the world. Who knows? Maybe one day we shall use your platform to hire stand up comedians to perform in our cultural fest. | Software |
| 03 | Cyberbullying | A major concern for today’s students is cyberbullying. We encourage you to think of ways that use technology to combat and spread awareness of this issue. | Software |
| 04 | Public Address System | It is observed that the announcements from public address systems at railway stations are at times not audible. It may be due to train noise, crowding at the station, technical defects in the public address system etc. A solution needs to be evolved so that the passengers can listen to such announcements clearly on their personal devices like mobile,etc | Software |
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature of almost everything which is connected to human life e.g. employment, economy, communication, warfare, privacy, security, ethics, healthcare etc. Another trending theme is big data. Massive amount of data is produced every day by businesses and users.
We encourage students to come up with their own potential use cases in these fields and come up with intelligent hacks to shape the future.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Movie Recommenders or Paid Promoters | Modern streaming services like Netflix and Prime often suggest so called hit movies and tend to overhype them. In the process, many other truly good movies are left in the dust. Your challenge is to design a fair movie rating system that might even bring to light the better movies that are unheard and unseen. | Software |
| 02 | Help those in need | People with disabilities should not be separated from the society simply because they’re less fortunate. Freedom of mobility is one of the greatest things we as humans can enjoy, but sadly some of us have been robbed of this possibility. AI is a powerful tool to harness, so put it to work where it can help people move around like they weren’t able to before.
[ Inspired from a blind school in Hubli ] |
Software/Hardware |
| 03 | Student Patron | Sometimes, student may feel disinterested or find it difficult to cope up with academics in the education system. Your challenge is to use to simple predictive analytics to find students who are falling back, try to predict a reason for lacking performance and guide them to perform better before it is too late. | Software |
| 04 | IITDh CDC CV Generator | Imagine a simple AI Program that inputs your personal details, experience and achievements and automatically generates a personalized resume highlighting what it feels stands out most for you. | Software |
| 05 | AI Scribe | Why go through the pain of taking the minutes of the meeting when you can let a Speech to Text system take notes for you. | Software |
| 06 | Babel Fish | A living fish which, when placed in your ear, will live there and translate any form of language for you. On a more practical note, a earphone that swims in your ears and does voice recognition and translation seems like a hack that can help the world.
[ Inspired by our inability to communicate efficiently with the people of Dharwad ] |
Software |
Effective finance management requires analysis of large volumes of data. Thus, it only makes sense to use Big data tools to analyse huge chunks of market data and evaluate risks and opportunities associated with different financial models.
As students, we can come up with fail-proof business models, and smart applications of technology to improve the financial sector.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Credit Score Estimator | The problem expects you innovate a clever hack that calculates the credit score of a person based on his financial statements and decide if he is credit worthy enough. | Software |
| 02 | Social Media based Financial Analysis | To perform social analytics of a customer’s financial behaviour and categorize into various behavioural buckets for ease of displaying ads and predicting offers to give.
Recommended APIs: Twitter API, Google Plus API, Facebook social plugins |
Software |
| 03 | Block Chain based Voting Systems | A developing nation like ours could certainly use a proper electoral system that is not based on the principle of double counting. Using blockchain to record votes adds a further layer of transparency and security. However, you must also tackle the problem of ensuring that the outcome was in fact the true one and prove to the public that it was not hacked by third parties. | Software |
Do you have any interesting hack that could revolutionize the world? Anything from the top of your mind that can create a positive impact in all walks of life. It could also be a problem we encounter in our daily life.
| Sl No. | Title | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Find me a Ride | In a town where booking a cab is seemingly impossibly, do you think we could do with an Uber for Tum-tums. | Software |
| 02 | Mosquito catcher | To develop a miniature robot which flies and kills mosquitoes. An initial prototype would suffice for the hackathon. | Hardware |
| 03 | Pedestrian Safety System | Pedestrian death rates are amongst the highest in India as Jaywalking is very common. There is no system integrated with vehicles to detect and prevent this. All safety features currently focus on the occupants of the vehicle. Availability of such a driver assistance system would significantly take down instances of fatal accidents involving pedestrians. It would identify when a jaywalker/bystander moves in the path of the vehicle and instantly deploy measures to evade or brake. | Hardware |
| 04 | Bike Crash Detection | To innovate a device which can send the SOS signal on crash of a vehicle to a centralized command center or automate the process of calling emergency services. | Hardware |
| 05 | Wheel Doctor | Design a device to detect punctures on a wheel and possibly cover them up. | Hardware |
| 05 | Extra Sensory Perception | Design a hardware device that helps you perceive your surroundings better for specially abled people. | Hardware |
