Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham students bag Rs 5 lakh prize

The IoT-based design and innovation event is one of the most prestigious student contests in India that witnessed over 75,000 students registering from 1,600 institutes across the country. 

The theme for this year was ‘Digital Twin’ (i.e. a digital copy or replica of a physical asset or a system and behaves similarly to an IoT device creating a digital footprint). The event consisted of five rounds running from April through August. 

In the grand finale, ‘Team Vision’ from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham presented ‘LogiX’, a digital twin of the smart manufacturing system for a logistics and transportation network. 

Team Vision members consist of Yeshwanth Sripathi, who led the team, Vijay Shrevatsan, Anupam Rajanish and Sakthisree Venkatesan, all students were from the 2016-2020 batch of B Tech, CSE. The team was mentored by Prof Prashant R Nair, Vice-Chairman, Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) department, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

Dr Sasangan Ramanathan, Dean-Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham said, “This is a prolific and consistent student team, which has won Smart India Hackathon 2018 & Rajasthan Hackathon 2018 and secured top positions in India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP) 2.0 and N/Core Ideathon. This is a true reflection of the character of Amrita, where we believe in our students, nurture and encourage them to follow their passion and innovation.”