REPORT ON IET SPONSORED TWO DAY SEMINAR ON FUTURISTIC OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN IOT
In KCG College of Technology, Chennai, Department Of Computer Science And Engineering and Department Of Information Technology jointly conducted a Two Day National Level Seminar on Futuristic Opportunities and Challenges in IoT (Internet of Things), under the banner of The Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Day 1 : 21 July 2017
The seminar was inaugurated by Mr.Rajiv R G, Principal-Technologist from DXC Technology, Chennai in the august presence of Dr.G. Prabhakaran, Principal, KCG College of Technology, Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Vice Principal, KCG College of Technology, Dr. M Krishnamurthy, Head of the Department, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dr. J Frank Vijay, Head of the Department, Department of Information Technology.
In the inaugural talk ‘Emerging Trends of IOT‘, Mr. Rajiv R G gave an overview on IoT. He gave simple examples on how his life is being connected to IoT in his daily routine. He spoke about the areas like smart infrastructure, health care, retail and transportation in which various applications could be developed. His inquisitiveness towards this domain led him to write a paper on NFC retail as he was also a part of the retail sector earlier. He made a video presentation about Amazon Go, which revealed about smart shopping and gave an idea of how IoT going to rule the future world. He also spoke about the technologies being used in health care and the development and need for a smart home in coming future. He pointed out a number of emerging trends based on IoT.
He also touched areas like sports, i.e. cricket being connected with IoT as there are talks that Intel is merging with ICC. He discussed the threats and challenges behind IoT which is equally something we need to think of. He ended his presentation with a beautiful video on Samsung display which makes visualization easier. His thought provoking presentation led many students to ask him quite a few doubts and interaction with him.
Mr. Srinivasan Sundararajan, Technology adviser, GAVS Technologies, Chennai gave a technical speech on Block Chain and Smart Contract. It started at an enthusiastic note and was sure to match the wavelength of his audience with that of the orator, with his simple, easily understandable and interactive speech. He explained what Block Chains are by comparing it to the internet technology. He stated that internet is used for information exchange whereas Block Chains are used for financial exchange across various media without a centralized controlling party. He introduced the currently existing concept of Bit coins and its usage in Block Chain technology for transactions across peer to peer distributed networks. He also gave a gist of how Block Chains can be implemented in the very near future and the obvious applications of it. Smart Contracts was the other topic he enlightened the audience about.
He then explained the advantages, challenges and possible applications of the Smart Contract which, according to him, is a very genuine way of transactions that required only lines of code that define the manual contract between the seller and the buyer. This time-efficient, trustworthy technology will be much welcomed when it takes over in the recent years.
Mr. Shabarinath Premlal Founder, ResPro Labs, Chennai delivered an expert talk on Entrepreneurship opportunities for IOT. He gave a brief description of IOT and its applications. He spoke about the most fascinating gesture control in games which is quite popular right now. He stated a simple theory of how to become an entrepreneur, which was think of an idea, make a prototype and structure the revenue model.
The most interesting part of the seminar was the description of E – sensors which was based on machine language and predictive analysis .He had brought a working model of the E-sensor he had constructed and shared his knowledge on it. Many students got to try out how the e – sensors actually worked. Mr. Shabarinath continued to inspire with his wonderful presentation. The students were are all were very excited to listen to the humorous yet a Knowledgeable seminar.
Day 2 : 22 July 2017
Mr. Dileep Paruchuri, Project/Program Manager, Intel Technologies, Bengaluru, enlighten the students all about Value Addition in IoT Applications. He started his extremely interesting speech, which he preferred to refer as discussion, by asking a few questions to the audience, probably to know the level of understanding about IoT in the students’ brains.
He briefly discussed about IoT in various fields like home care, sports, retails, etc but spent his time in explaining how IoT was used in health care with an ECG measurable device that had additional glucometer and activity meter embedded into it, which was actually one of Intel’s Sensitive platform for Health- Reference solution’s product. He explained the device’s working briefly with its detailed applications in real life, along with the challenges they had to face before this was released for sale. His innovation definitely was thought provoking and inspiring.
He then brushed upon the various applications of IoT and its advantages in major fields including Rolls Royce’s engine used by major airlines companies and how business can be made by monitoring the engines. The next application he talked about was Home Care, for which he interacted with the crowd about the basic existing technologies used for Home care. The interesting hour of discussion came to an end after a questionnaire, answered almost perfectly by the speaker.
Mr.Ramakrishna Patra, Head of Manufacturing Solutions and IoT Nokia, Chennai gave a talk on Shaping the Future for Connected World. A formal introduction about the company Nokia and its establishment in Chennai was given by our expert speaker. He spoke about the birth of connecting people in different situations and the future predictions we haven’t thought of. Pin-points were made about the usage of IoT projects in every minute aspects of our life and also on how to enhance them using the same. He says now life is all about driving the automation of everything
The speaker then emphasized on the application values of IoT on our daily lives. Not only did he share information, but also gave the students many ideas to come up with. Now that 4G has captured the market, he expressed his views on 5G and how Nokia is going to achieve it. The videos which were played at the end of the
session drove the students to the edge of their seats and made a lasting impact in their minds.
Mr. P Kartikeyan, Manager, Industrial Engineering and Automation, Nokia, Chennai delivered an interactive session on IIoT-Industrial IoT with great vigour and captivated the attention of the audience with the highly engaging oration. The session with was thoroughly enjoyable. Students were taught about Industrial use cases of IoT devices and how they are useful. The speaker showed how Line following robotic arms are fitted in industries to help speed up production and how it helps in increasing the speed of production.
He also compared 4G technology with 5G technology in the communication system used by the IoT devices set up in the Industries. The benefits and disadvantages of both were also debated. He remarked that with the industries switching to 5G technology, Industrial IoT is made more attractive because of the enormous increase in computation speed and power.
The session moved towards data security which is generally described to be a main concern in IoT. Data security was discussed in detail. Then He gave a rousing speech on entrepreneurship and how to convert good ideas into products. He also talked about the scope of the products in the future of IoT.
The final session on Challenges and futuristic opportunities of IoT was presented by Dr. Padmanaban Ramasamy, Director, Eishaa Network, Chennai. He began by briefing the audience about the various sectors of IoT including its major role in defense, commercial and industrial sectors. He spoke about the upcoming ideas of smart cities and home automation all across the world. Subsequently, he went in depth into the challenges faced at the time of implementation of IoT by designers and programmers.
He shed some light on the use of battlefield management and emphasized the importance of short time delay or latency. This was followed by an interactive session with the audience, wherein many ideas and knowledge were exchanged and solutions were suggested to overcome problems such as security and encryptions in the field of IoT.
VENUE: Steve Jobs Technology Lab [IT-LAB-2]
Coordinator : Dr. R. Rajkumar
Co- coordinator : Dr. R. Anand
Objective of Technical Training
The aim of this one day technical training is to bring active research faculties of Information Technology department on a single forum to promote the placement activity by giving valuable lectures to final year students on the topic of Emerging Trends in Information Technology. The student attendees will greatly benefit from this technical training as it covers the cutting edge Technologies and research challenges in Big Data Technology and Internet of Things (IoT). In addition, the student will get more awareness on emerging trends used in today’s IT Industries. This awareness will make the final year students to easily cope with placement activities by enriching more knowledge on emerging trends apart from academic curriculums. This technical training seeks to boost the placement activities of final year students of Department of Information Technology, KCG College of Technology.
Topics to Be Covered
- Introduction to Big Data Technology
- Architecture of Hadoop Distributed File System
- HDFS Commands and MapReduce Programming
- Database used in Big Data Technology
- Middleware used in Big Data Technology
- Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT)
- Basics of Arduino Uno and other IoT based Technologies
Session 1 Introduction to Big Data Technology
- What is Big Data?
- Characteristic of Big Data
- Why Big-data?
- Types of Tools Typically used in Big-Data Scenarios
- Distributed Infrastructure
- Distributed Processing
- MapReduce
- High Performance Schema-free Databases
- When Big-data is really a Hard Problem?
- Meaningfulness of Analytic Answers
- What are “a typical” operators on Big-data?
- Analytical operators on Big-data?
Session 2 Architecture of Hadoop Distributed File System, HDFS Commands and MapReduce Programming [Dr. R. Rajkumar]
- Hadoop Ecosystem Core Components
- HDFS Architecture
- Common Hadoop Shell Commands
- Anatomy Of File Read
- Anatomy Of File Write
- Secondary Namenode
Session 3 Introduction to Internet of Things (IoT)
- IoT Definitions
- Characteristics of IoT
- IoT Layered Architecture
- RFIDs
- Wireless Technologies
- Sensor Networks
- Middleware
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Recent protocols for IoT
Session 4 Basics of Arduino Uno and Other IoT based Technologies
- Convergent Digital Home Network
- Driving Forces of IoT
- IoT in the Research Community
- Ubiquitous Computing Applications
- Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Applications
- Smart and Connected Health Applications
Session 5 Database used in Big Data Technology
- Spark SQL
- HBase
- Hive
- NoSQL Data bases
- MongoDB
- CouchDB
- Terrastore
- OrientDB
- RavenDB
- Cassandra
The seed graha seed plantation activity starts at 4.15 PM on 28.07.17.
The members of KCG-EWB chapter were actively participated in the programme. The programme was initiated by the staff advisor of EWB-KCG STUDENT CHAPTER Dr.Sumathi Poobal, Vice principal, KCG College of Technology. The chapter received the seed bombs from ‘The Hindu’ under the scheme ‘Friends of Chennai’.
Nearly 100 seeds were planted in this event near Mother Theresa block of our campus and near the Hindustan International School campus.
The activity was concluded at 5.20 PM.
(Ms. G.Renganayaki) (Dr.Jose Anand) Dr.Sumathi Poobal)
Faculty Coordinator Faculty Coordinator Faculty Advisor
A two day workshop on ARDUINO was conducted by the core team of EFY KCG Tech center exclusively for students of ECE department on Friday 04 Aug 2017 and Saturday 05 Aug 2017.The program commenced at 9.00 am at the EFY LAB, Aero Block. The Chief Resource Person was Dr.V.Subbaroyan, Professor, ECE Department and he was well supported by the core team members of EFY KCG Tech Center, Ms.B.Thyla, Mr.T.Thomas Leonid and Mr.K.Sivachandar. 20 students of the ECE Department attended the Program.
First session was introduction to the Arduino and how to start up with the tools. Arduino is and inexpensive, cross platform, simple and clear programming environment. After the Tea break at 10.40 am the next sessions on few sketches like LED blink and sequence of LED blink was outlined. Participants found few programs like LCD display, seven segment display and Bluetooth module very interesting and got involved in doing further programs. Many other fun filled projects were done by the participants in the afternoon session.
This workshop was organized to facilitate the student to effectively use ARDUINO software to undertake projects and research work. The sessions were completely hands on, increasing the confidence of the participants in using the tools and the trainers were adept at clarifying the questions that arose during the session relating theory concepts studied to practical issues.
For EFY KCG Tech center
Dr.V.Subbaroyan
Head
The department of ECE and IETE organized group discussion contest for the welfare of students to improve the communication skill and to know pros and cons of GST. The contest was held for the final year students with topic “Will GST Implementation Boost INDIAN Economy”, on 4 August 2017 at S05 (VLSI Lab), between 10.20 a.m. and 12.00 noon. Dr. V. Subbaroyan, Professor & Head/ECE, inaugurated the contest. Eight students participated in the event and shared their knowledge on Goods and Service Tax. Mr. R. Sampath, Assistant Professor/IT, KCG College of Technology judged the participants, and shared the points that the participants missed to convey. Mr. Praveen Kumar of final year B section won the first prize, Ms. T. Ramya of final year B section won the second prize and Mr. Aditya Chhetri of final year A section worn the third prize. Dr. Jose Anand, Associate Professor/ECE, & IETE Student Forum (ISF) Co-ordinator co-ordinated the event.
Project e-Yantra is an initiative to spread education in embedded systems and Robotics by IIT Bombay sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development through the National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). The objective of e-Yantra is to provide hands-on learning to engineering students, creating the next generation of engineers in India with a practical outlook to take on challenging problems and provide solutions.
KCG College of Technology is a member of e-Yantra and has set up a state of the art laboratory under the e-Yantra Lab Set-up Initiative (eLSI).The KCG e-Yantra Robotics Lab trains students in embedded systems and micro-controller programming by engaging them through the Project Based Learning (PBL) mode.
The KCG e-Yantra Robotics Lab is offering a Certificate Course in Robotics & Embedded Systems. The course is of 14 hours duration (2 days). The registration fee is Rs 1650 per person.
The course for a batch of 24 students (ECE 3A) was conducted on 4 and 5August 2017. The 2 day course was conducted by Aida Jones (Asst. Professor, ECE), Renganayaki G (Assoc. Professor, ECE), S. Subash Chandra Bharathi (Asst. Professor, EEE), Feba Sosa Abraham (Asst. Professor, ECE) and Bhavani Bharathi G (Asst. Professor, EIE). The students were introduced to Embedded Systems and Robotics using the Firebird V robot which uses the Atmega 2560 as the master microcontroller and Atmel 8 as the slave. Programming the robot using Embedded C via the Atmel Studio 4 programming environment, compiling the program using WinAVR and downloading the program using AVR Bootloader were taught to the students.
Activity based learning was used to give the students a good grasp of theoretical aspects through practical work. Motion Control using I/O ports, robot velocity control using PWM, LCD and buzzer interfacing, Analog sensor interfacing using ADC, White line following robot, Interrupt Programming, Closed loop position control using position encoder were the various tasks undertaken by the students. The students used a variety of sensors and actuators for the tasks. The skill set targeted included Embedded C Programming skills, practical implementation skills, problem solving skills and team work.
The students were evaluated through a project assigned to teams of 4 students each on the last day. The project incorporated all the tasks they had undertaken.
Report on Quiz Contest for second year ECE Students on 17.08.2017
The department of ECE and IETE organized technical quiz contest for the welfare of students second year students on 17 August 2017 at Optical lab, between 10.20 a.m. and 11.10 a.m. Dr. V. Subbaroyan, Professor & Head/ECE, inaugurated the contest. Eleven students participated in the event. Arun Kumar S. secured the first prize, Ramya D. S. secured the second prize and third prize is shared by Kothaai R. & Nivedha V. V. Dr. Jose Anand, Associate Professor/ECE, & IETE Student Forum (ISF) Co-ordinator, co-ordinated the event.
The department of Mechanical Engineering organized a one day workshop on “Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)” at Mirza Seminar Theatre on 19.08.17. The workshop was presented by Mr C.V. Gowri Shankar who is a well known figure among the quality control circles of various industries. Students from various departments attended the workshop and got to see a glimpse of what “Industry 4.0” exactly is.
The workshop discussed about the future of the global industrial scenario where “automation” and “artificial Intelligence” will soon replace many “mundane” and repetitive tasks in industries which were once done by human labor. The workshop predicted that as industries become more and more automated, the future engineer must be equipped with new skill sets to cope up with these developments. Students and future engineers must now realize that merely graduating with a degree is no longer enough to achieve a successful career in engineering, rather they must take the initiative to learn new things and develop intellectually in order to make themselves employable in the future.
The workshop depicted that the new role of human beings in this age of automation is to develop, analyze and apply various concepts like artificial intelligence, IOT, CAPP, Cloud computing, data analysis, condition based monitoring and maintenance etc. to the industrial fields. Mr. Shankar encouraged the students to broaden their horizons and equip themselves with new and trending skill sets to adapt to this new “Industrial Revolution”.
The workshop was indeed an eye-opener for all and helped the students to be aware of the future trends in the global industrial field.
The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, KCG College of Technology organized “QUIZ 2K17”on 19th August 2017 at 2.00 pm under KCG IEEE Student Chapter in association with IEEE Control System Society, Madras Section. The inaugural function commenced at 2.00 pm in EEE Department. The meeting was presided by Dr. P.Deiva Sundari, Head of the Department/EEE. Participants were welcomed by Dr. N.S. Bhuvaneswari, Professor/EEE. Around 77 participants registered for the programme. The preliminary test for the registered participants was conducted on 11/08/17 in EEE Department class rooms. From the prelims, 5 teams were shortlisted for the finals. One team from each department (EEE, EIE, ECE, MECH and IT). Totally 20 participants were shortlisted for final “QUIZ 2K17”. In the finals, there were three rounds like relatives, Music and Movie. The following department won the prizes:
I Place – Department of EEE
II Place – Department of EIE
III Place – Department of IT
The programme concluded with the prize distribution by Dr. G. Prabhakaran, Principal, KCG College of Technology, Chennai and Vote of Thanks was given by Arul, IV year EEE ‘A’
