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Purifying Respirator’ (PAPR); Real-time PCR and virus detection kits; Herbal sanitizer; a portable COVID-19 screening booth for sample collection of the suspects and a sterilisation system for Roorkee Civil Hospital and Haridwar Municipal Corporation, respectively; a certification course on Deep Learning at Cloudxlab and a webinar on careers in AI and machine-learning; SPARK summer internship program in the online mode; online lessons for hearing impaired students; advisory for farmers; low-cost rapid testing software; software to detect COVID-19 in 3-5 seconds; a community kitchen in association with the municipality; etc.
Besides the various researchers and students, many start-ups and entrepreneurs from IIT Roorkee came ahead and successfully developed technologies and medical devices.
Website link:
http://covid19.iitr.ac.in/
IIT Roorkee released R&D newsletter on research and innovation related to COVID-19
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) recognises Sponsored Research (SR) and Industrial Consultancy (IC) as the essential attributes of research and development. SRIC released quarterly R&D Newsletter of IIT Roorkee for effective dissemination of current R&D activities amongst faculty members and also with the academia and industry outside. The issue of R&D newsletter highlighted research and innovation initiatives taken towards the technological interventions in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Website link:
https://www.iitr.ac.in/sric/rnddoc/Newsletter%20Vol%2012.pdf
IIT Panta published alumni newsletter ANUSMRITI enlisting initiatives and establishments extending helping hand in the fight against COVID-19
IIT Patna has taken various initiatives to tackle the pandemic and provide timely help to the needy ones. It developed a multilingual event monitoring system to establish reliable connections between policymakers, humanitarian organisations and affected citizens. The Incubation Centre (IC) at IIT Patna has called for proposals for rapidly deployable solutions to combat COVID-19 in the areas including hygiene and social distancing, curative devices and sanitising equipment. Along with eight incubated companies, the IC has been concentrating on developing solutions as a part of COVID response. The researchers and faculty of IIT Patna are working hand in hand with the IC for getting these solutions developed.
Website link:
https://www.iitp.ac.in/images/pdf/Anusmriti_Vol3_Iss1_R.pdf
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