Events

India Mobile Congress 2019

Bang in the middle of TechTober, MAIT Students and Faculty organized a day long excursion to *India Mobile Congress 2019* , the flagship tech expo of South East Asia Organized by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI) held at *Aerocity, Delhi from the 14th to 16th October. *5G* was unquestionably the epicenter of the industry's adulation, owing to the next generation of telecom being at the helm of commercial rollout in India.

Delegates were elated to explore stands by the likes of Ericsson and Huawei. *The Telecom Trifecta: Vodafone-Idea, Airtel and Reliance Jio* made their presence felt by showcasing their innovations and know-how of 5G, ahead of the trials and spectrum auctions. Nonetheless, *IoT, AR and VR* also shared the spotlight, with established conglomerates and ambitious startups demonstrating their attractions and concepts under one roof.

The participation of students in the event was organized by Mr. Gopal Mittal, Sr. Director – Commercial and Finance and co-ordinated by Prof. Neelam Sharma, Director MAIT. The three day event was co-ordinated by MAIT faculty members Dr.Nitin Sharma, Dr. Monika Gupta. Around 455 students and 50 faculty members of four department of MAIT visited the different start ups based on 5G technology and also attended the seminars in main hall.Students gained their fair share of field experience by acquainting themselves to *VR Soccer, Connected Mobility from the likes of MG and Kia*, and the emerging concept of *Smart Cities* to transform the way of living in the urban jungle.The festivities only escalated with the convergence of the entire IT industry, as stalwarts like *Mr. KM Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group and Manu Kumar Jain, CEO, Xiaomi India* spoke on the use cases and untapped potential of all these breakthrough technologies.Furthermore, *Hon'ble Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad* also graced the event with his presence.

*Telecom Secretary Mr Anshu Prakash, IAS*, in a proud moment for the IT fraternity, listed Indias monumental achievements in the digital sector, while equally highlighting the tantalizing oppprtunities offered in the future. India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2019 saw a slew of launches with real use cases in the telecom sector, where the companies collaborated with each other to bring out the future innovations. Reliance Jio and Samsung presented new business opportunities using 5G NSA mode, with advanced 4G LTE and 5G technology used in combination as a dual-connected mode network.Reliance Jio and Samsung showcase 5G technology use cases at India Mobile Congress 2019. These will demonstrate how innovations from the latest technology can benefit consumers, enterprises and the society. Ericsson and Qualcomm Technologies also completed the first ever live 5G video call in India using 28 GHz spectrum. The demonstration was done using a smartphone based on the Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform with Snapdragon X50 5G Modem-RF System and Ericsson’s 5G platform including 5G NR radio, RAN Compute products and 5G Evolved Packet Core, set up at the IMC venue.

The MillimeterWave (mmWave) 5G networks are commercial in the US and being rolled out in many advanced countries including Japan and Korea, where 28 GHz and 39 GHz spectrum bands are being considered for 5G deployments. For mobile networks, mmWave spectrum will be an important capacity layer for both 4G and 5G, the companies said.

To demonstrate, Nunzio Mirtillo Head of Ericsson South East Asia, Oceania and India, made a video call to Rajen Vagadia, Vice President, Qualcomm India at the venue. The companies have already worked closely to create several 5G technology.

“Ericsson was the first telecom vendor to demonstrate 5G technology in India in 2017. Over the past few years we have been working with several stakeholders to build the 5G ecosystem in the country. Today marks an important step in India’s journey towards 5G. This 5G video call and our longstanding collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies is a testament of how the real benefits of 5G can be achieved through partnerships and collaborations,” Mirtillo said.

Similarly, Nokia and Vodafone-Idea Business Services rolled out software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) services for start-ups and enterprises in India. SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of the enterprise’s network. While the SD-WAN market is still at a nascent stage, it is expected to become a $10 billion opportunity globally by 2023 as per industry reports.

Industrial Visit To Semiconductor Laboratory (SCL), Mohali

An Industrial visit was organised for the students of Electronics and Communication Department on 16^th October, 2019 to Semiconductor Laboratory, Mohali.

The visit was organised under the able guidance of Prof. Neelam Sharma- Direcctor MAIT, Prof Sunil Kumar - HOD ECE and the faculty Mr. S.K.Kundu, Dr. Nitin Sharma, Dr. Praween Kumar, Dr. Divya Goyal and Ms. Anamika Jain. It was an intensely informative and enriching educational visit to the Semi-conductor Laboratory at the Space Centre, ISRO at Mohali. At SCL, everyone was guided to a seminar hall wherein an enthralling interactive session with a senior scientist was conducted. The session turned out to be absolutely fun as well as a journey through the field of semiconductor devices -their importance in modern day scenario, their fabrication, their packaging their role in space explorations etc. The session was followed by a brisk question answer round.

Post lunch, everyone was again guided to the seminar hall for an in depth presentation on VLSI Designing, packaging etc. The technical officers explained the entire process from RTL to wafer fabrication, from photolithography to implantation and finally from testing to packaging. After this mind-boggling session, everyone was taken for a visit to the laboratories, under the guidance of Mr. Abhishek Madan (Alumni -MAIT).

Class 1000 purity of environment was maintained in and around the laboratories. After stringent checks, all were guided to the labs and were shown the working of devices, taking care so as not to disturb the ongoing processes. The group was shown the ionisation lab and diffusion/growth lab of 6 inch wafer. Some students also got the opportunity of visiting the furnace labs, chip layout lab etc., wearing proper protective and contamination-free white suits, gloves, head-covers etc.

This visit was immediately followed by a tea break and a brainstorming session. Following this, the lab visit was resumed again, but this time it was a visit to the packaging department. Everyone was spellbound to see the ICs being packaged and tested in reality. Senior officials from the department helped the students to understand the entire process and showed them ceramic ICs of various sizes, shapes and functionalities. With this, the visit to the Semi-conductor Laboratory (SCL) concluded. It was an educative and fruitful visit, with immense exposure to the real world techniques and ongoing industrial research work benefitting the students of ECE Department.

MAIT ECE Students Won First Prize in Hackathon at ADGITM / NIEC

IEEE ADGITM, the official technical society of ADGITM organised a 24 hr hackathon : T- HACKS 2.0 in collaboration with the CSE department.  This year “Intelligent Greenhouse System” developed by the students of the ECE Department, Muskaan Kapahi, Sarthak Chhabra, Simran Munjal and Tushar Paul, under the guidance of Mr. Hemant Tulsiani secured first position in the competition.

The competition was hosted by Akhilesh Das Gupta Institute of Technology and Management, Delhi on 9th - 10th October 2019 and more than 35 teams from different colleges participated in this competition.

Intelligent Greenhouse System

It will monitor the temperature, moisture, humidity and sunlight received by the plant and turn on fan, motor pump and light bulb accordingly to keep the plant in an optimal condition.

We have recorded the data provided by the sensors and prepared a dataset which is used to predict future values of environmental variables using linear regression algorithms.

So with a large enough dataset we can predict the nature of the plant’s requirements without the use of any sensors. 

The data acquired is used in real time to improve the accuracy of the sensors as well as to expand the dataset.

When applied on a large scale the number of sensors deployed will reduce significantly as compared to a standard smart green house as the algorithm used would predict characteristics of the whole greenhouse by taking minimal input from the sensors.

This would help in reducing the amount of water consumed, electicity used as well as man-power required.