Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was invited to participate in the Indo-German workshop on “Sensor Systems for Localization of Trapped Victims in Collapsed Infrastructure” (SORTIE) held during September 17-18, 2018, at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri campus and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, Director, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology, Amritapuri, participated as Young Faculty Research Fellows of the Visvesvaraya PhD scheme by Digital India corporation under Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India, at Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, from September 13-15, 2018.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applications (AmritaWNA) has received a new US patent (Patent number US9996168B2) for “Wearable wireless tongue controlled devices”.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) has been granted a new U.S. patent (US20170230841A1) for its OceanNet project, developed by a team of researchers from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA) launched an Android app named ‘AmritaKripa’ to connect survivors with relief and rescue service providers during the massive floods in Kerala.
Dr. Arya Devi and Dr. Rekha P., of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), were awarded Ph. D. Degrees at the 15th graduation ceremony of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus, held on August 31, 2018, at the main hall of Mata Amritanandamayi Math, Amritapuri.
After successfully commissioning India’s first real-time landslide warning system in Kerala’s Western Ghats, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is now readying the second installation in Sikkim to guard against rainfall-induced landslides in the Sikkim-Darjeeling belt.
Indukala P. K., Research scholar of Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, has been invited by Amrita’s collaborating partner Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, to work on the project entitled “IoT Framework for Modeling, Monitoring and Damage Detection of Natural and Historical Heritage Structures”.
In a joint team effort, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (Amrita WNA), Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Center and Boston University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, have developed a smart data summarization technique for IoT devices and gateways.
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Director, Amrita Center for Wireless Networks and Applications (AmritaWNA), Amritapuri, attended the “Regional Workshop on Mainstream Climate Change in Disaster Risk with Reference to Glacial Lake Outburst Flood(GLOF) and Forest Fire” at Sikkim, Himalayas, held at Gangtok from May 8-9, 2018.