Dr. Ingrid Paoletti, Associate Professor of Building Technology at the Politecnico di Milano (Polytechnic University of Milam – POLIMI), Italy, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in October 2016 as a part of the Rector’s Delegation to India.
Encouraged by Chancellor Mata Amritanandamayi, a team of staff members from the Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) were sent to the remote village of Dunda in Uttarakhand to help fix a water distribution problem. This village also faced severe scarcity of water during summer.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA) team presented research papers at the International Conference on Computing, Communications & Informatics (ICACCI ’16) held at Jaipur, India from September 21-24, 2016.
Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Union Minister of HRD, inaugurated Amrita OceanNet, in the presence of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Chancellor Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma, on September 26, 2016.
The Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications(Amrita WNA) co-hosted an Indo-US workshop with Lockheed Martin Space Systems and CANEUS International on Sensors and Small Satellite Technology for Disaster Management (SSTDM 2016) from August 17th-19th, 2016.
The Amrita Sphuranam project of Amrita Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) has provided solar-powered electrification for the entire rural village of Valaramkunnu village near Modekkara in the Wayanad, and this model will soon be deployed in all the villages being transformed by Amrita SeRVe’s village rehabilitation project.
Research Associate Ramesh Guntha of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) presented papers at the International Conference on Mobile & Wireless Technology (ICMWT 2016) held at Jeju Island, Korea from May 23-26, 2016 and the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 2016) held at Utrecht, Netherlands from June 28-30, 2016.
Two initiatives known as Vrukshakkani and Vishuthaineettam, envisaged by Chancellor Amma have been launched at Amrita as part of this year’s festival of Vishu to help foster love for nature in the hearts of the younger generations, and to teach them to protect and preserve nature.
Maharashtra state to study the early warning system model prepared by Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham to be adapted for the State where rocks and soil are different.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham conducted a three day national level workshop, “Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks – Protocols, Programming and Remote Triggering (LS-WSN 2015)” from 29 June to 1 July 2015.