Here are the ideas that won the 2nd Edition of Ericsson Innovation Awards

Teams from BITS Pilani, IIT Bombay and IIT Varanasi were the winners at the 2nd edition of 'Ericsson Innovation Awards India' held at the IIT Delhi on Friday. Ericsson India offered the three winning teams financial support of Rs 13 lakhs each towards incubating them.

The projects were submitted by students in areas such as web design, cloud computing, storage and networking, human-machine interface, embedded and hardware system design, MIMO (multiple-input, multiple-output), machine-to-machine/Internet of Things, software-defined networking, open source, signal processing, graphics and visualization, as well as research.

Each shortlisted proposal was given an incentive by Ericsson to complete the initial prototype within two months. The winning projects were selected by the Jury in front of an audience comprising of students, faculty, innovators and industry leaders.

Here are the ideas that took the cake:

BITS Pilani: This project was about using GAIT for human recognition. Its an alternative way to the currently established system based on face, fingerprint and iris and the students claim it can’t be spoofed or hacked.

IIT Bombay: These students developed Li-Fi beacons. The product is basically a simple LED light source which can be connected to a receiver that can transmit dta in real time at a couple of GB/sec.

IIT Varanasi: The IIT Varanasi team is working on a smart helmet which can be integrated with a two wheeler which - will keeps both the driver as well as the vehicle safe and secure by making it mandatory for the driver to put on the helmet and have a permissible alcohol breath level so as to be able to start the vehicle.

Ericsson in association with the Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) had organised this contest. It was kicked off in 2014 to promote innovation within engineering students at select IITs.

This year the Awards have been rolled out to IITs across Delhi, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Mumbai, Roorkee, Guwahati, Bhubaneswar, Mandi, Hyderabad as well as IISc Bangalore, BITS Pilani, IIIT Gwalior, IIIT Delhi, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) in Varanasi.