Students of SKCET win first prize in Smart India Hackathon 2020-Software Edition

Coimbatore: Smart India Hackathon 2020, the world’s largest digital product building competition. was organized in association with AICTE under the aegis of MHRD. Theteam from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology won the First prize, a cash prize of Rs.1,00,000/- in Smart India Hackathon 2020 organised from August 1 to August 3, 2020.

Team Zero_Buggers were awarded the First Prize with cash of Rs.1,00,000/- for the problem statement Tracker Mate done by a team of III Year Computer Science and Engineering students A. Vijayalayan, Swetha.V, Naveen Kumar.B, Nithin K.M, Sanjaiy Kumar.T.N and Kiran Subramanian. This project was guided by Dr.S.Balakrishnan, Professor and Head, Computer Science and Business Systems.

Their innovation was titled ‘Tracking and Prevention of any suspicious activity of the inmates in the jail', for the Ministry of Technical Education, Chandigarh. They developed an innovative system which includes a webcam and a screen that will be placed in front of each block of the jail along with the turnstile.

When a prisoner wants to leave his block to visit another block, he can leave and enter only when the turnstile opens where the students have used face recognition, gesture recognition and speech recognition that will be stored in the data to track the activities of the jail mates and to find the suspicious inmates involved in unwanted tasks.

S.Malarvizhi, Chairperson and Managing Trustee of Sri Krishna Institutions congratulated Dr.J.Janet, Principal of the Institution, faculty mentors and students for securing the first prize in Smart India Hackathon 2020 – Software edition.