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/ -- IIITH Smart City Living Lab in partnership with Silicon Labs, a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology, today launched a campus-wide Wi-SUN network to enable research and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities. Wi-SUN is an open-standard protocol enabling interoperable solutions through open source software with multi-layer security. Wi-SUN will enable utilities, municipalities, and other enterprises to deploy long-range, low-power wireless mesh networks connecting thousands of IoT nodes. IIITH Smart City Living Lab is setup as an initiative of MEITY (Ministry of Electronics & IT) , National Cities Mission, and Gov of Telangana, with knowledge support from EBTC (European Business Technology Council). Silicon Labs, Intel, and Saint Gobain are the other three founding corporate partners. Professor Ramesh Loganathan said, "The Smart City Living Lab, a year old now, is already a testbed for various start-ups and research. IIITH's campus consists ..
IIIT Bhubaneswar students developed a new low-cost device to aid COVID-19 patients. They have designed a hyperbaric chamber, first of its kind ventilation device to ease breathing. 'Swasner', the device to let patients breathe more conveniently.Developers believe 'Swasner' will reduce deaths due to a lack of ventilators in the country. Shaped as a bubble enclosure for the head, the device works on the principle of hyperbaric oxygen therapy which is mainly used for treating diving-related illness and other medical complications."Every patient walking out of the hospital, healthy and alive adds a feather to our cap and blesses us with ability to do more than we are doing now, and hence we are looking forward to improvising the conditions of all the patients & health warriors out there with or resolute and wavering methodologies," said Dr Pranab Nanda Patra, MD. Medicine.The team has developed a prototype and tested in a hospital in Cuttack, and working towards a more improved and .
After the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), now the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) may also join the bandwagon for availing degree granting powers. With the IIIT Bill still impending in the Lok Sabha, the ministry of human resources development (MHRD) is reportedly working towards an ordinance to expedite empowering the institutes with degree granting ability.While spokespersons of some of the IIITs that Business Standard reached out to were unavailable for comment, sources said that with several of the institutes likely to see their first batch graduate this year, a degree awarding power was timely. This was being done through the government planning an ordinance that would instantly grant such powers to the 15 functional IIITs out of the total 20 planned on a public-private partnership (PPP) mode.The MHRD is learnt to have even moved the ordinance proposal to the ministry of law, after which it is likely to be taken to the Cabinet and eventually to the ..