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CS visits IIT, briefed on ongoing projects
CHIEF SECRETARY R Ramni visited the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) here on Wednesday and obtained information about various ongoing projects at the Institute. Professors of different disciplines gave presentations on projects under them and apprised the chief secretary of progress in the projects and their utility. The projects are power supply maintenance system, distant education, digital mandi, telemedicine, UP Networking and home security.
CHIEF SECRETARY R Ramni visited the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-K) here on Wednesday and obtained information about various ongoing projects at the Institute. Professors of different disciplines gave presentations on projects under them and apprised the chief secretary of progress in the projects and their utility.
The projects are power supply maintenance system, distant education, digital mandi, telemedicine, UP Networking and home security.
Giving presentation on the use of bio-metric system in home security Dr Phalguni Gupta said a comparative study of five traits was being done to ascertain the best and most effective and viable trait for security purposes. Dr Gupta said five traits were under study, namely face, fingerprint, online signature, offline signature and iris. He said so far the studies had confirmed that iris and online signature trait had over ninety two per cent of accuracy but false accepting rate (FAR) and false rejection Rate (FRR) had a marked difference between the two. Fingerprint had accuracy rate of 91 per cent while face trait had below eighty per cent accuracy.
UP Networking project was presented by Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr Navpreet Singh. The project aims at netting the administration process, which includes getting data online, getting data transfer connectivity and finally citizens interface. Professors told the chief secretary that work on the projects was being done at different stages and they expected to develop the complete infrastructure at an early date.
Dr PK Kalra, Dr SC Srivastava and Dr SN Singh gave a presentation on power supply and maintenance project, which aimed at giving uninterrupted power supply to consumer units with minimal line loss or power theft. The project also includes foolproof power metering system.
Dr Jayanta Chatterjee presented the idea of digital Mandi which aimed at creating a scalable portal architecture providing searchable information in local language on market functions, market finance, dvelopment programmes, government laws, policies, annual budget, technology and machinery, infrastructure facilities, composition of market committee, aspects of agriculture directories of sugar pulse chemical and other goods companies.
Dr YN Singh, Dr Dheeraj Sanghi and Dr PK Kalra gave a demonstration of distance education project, which aimed at educating students through very sophisticated software and also through direct relay of teaching programme from a centralised place to rural areas situated at distant places.
Dr Harish Karnik made a presentation of telemedicine system developed at the institute. He apprised the CS that the telemedicine system had covered general diseases, ophthalmology and cardiology and effective software were also developed in this context. Besides, the CS was also apprised of different other projects which were either in pipeline or were in progress.
