Two teams of final year students at PSG College of Technology have won recognition for coming out with innovative solutions to manage water supply and wax polish silk saris.
They have won the first and second prizes in the undergraduate category of Danfoss Innovator Project Awards (2014-15).
The winning project is on using SCADA system for water management system. While SCADA is not a new solution, the students have used telemetry so that alerts are received on the mobile phone on the supply. It helps prevent leakages and take up maintenance works. Energy consumption is to the tune of 18 per cent, according to a press release.
Another team of students have won the second prize for developing a machine to automate wax polishing of silk saris. There is a shortage in availability of man power to do the polishing and the time consumed to do it manually is also high. The machine will bring back the skill, reduce the time and cost for polishing the saris, the students said.
The Danfoss Innovator Project award is given to winners of inter-collegiate competition for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Students take up projects for a year in the areas of energy and climate. This year, as many as 65 applications were received from final year students in five institutions.
Ravichandran Purushothaman, president of Danfoss India, said the company has set up five centres of excellence as part of its efforts to strengthen interaction with educational institutions. The investment varies and through these centres, the students are able to improve their skills and apply the technologies in their projects.
