TiEcon Kerala: Maker Village Stall Draws Curious Eyes on Range of Technologies

KOCHI:
Displaying devices ranging from tapping toddy to exploring deep sea, Maker Village has its stall at the TiEcon Kerala 2019 reflecting best using of new-age technologies by its startups at the country’s largest electronic hardware incubator.

The eighth edition of the October 4-5 entrepreneur conference here features nascent firms under the Maker Village exhibiting their expertise in state-of-the-art subjects such as internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The stall was inaugurated by Sajan Pillai, former CEO of UST Technologies. Drawing special attention at the two-day TiE with ‘Winning Strategies: Leading in a Sustainable and Digital World’ as the year’s theme, for instance, is IROV Technologies’ underwater drone which is India’s first indigenously-developed compact machine of its kind. Used to detect submerged structures and objects and perform real-time analysis of the data, the device helps ascertain the structural integrity and even the extent of damage of underwater structures after a flood.

There is also another Maker Village product, invented by NAVA Design & Innovation, that improves the efficiency of toddy-tapping by 72 times. This electromechanical device for toddy extraction bases its technology that facilitates cutting, beating and collection of the beverage.

Besides there is a fully-automated IoT infusion monitor, which can monitor and control IV medication, thus eliminating physical nursing care. This is by a startup named EveLabs Technologies.

Waferchips Techno Solutions has put on display an AI-powered wearable ECG device for 24/7 monitoring of persons with critical heart conditions. This has a huge application in monitoring the heart condition of patients when the physical presence of doctors is not feasible during a calamity.

Maker Village’s Disintox Technlogies has set up an Advanced Automated Standing Wheelchair that allows the disabled to stand on their own. It helps in improving the mobility of the patients and also provides physio-therapeutic effects.

Alcodex Technlogies has at the TiE stall come up with portable, real-time environmental monitoring solution that can be used for predictive analysis of flood and other environmental changes. Ignitorium has put up a high-precision realtime solution that can track high-value assets and workforce/patients in large automated hospital environment.

At the stall is HW Design Labs’s turnkey solution for vehicle-tracking and mapping in cities using FM communication in mobiles. It works without a cellular network and messages can be broadcast to mobile phones of users, and proves to be highly suitable when cellular networks fail during calamities.