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IIT Madras CFI Open House 2022 for First Time accessible to Metaverse Platform also

:- Opened to business and industry leaders, alumni, faculty and students, the CFI Open House 2022 was held on March 13 2022 in the campus, featuring over 60 projects :- For the first time, the event was also accessible on a Metaverse Platform called ‘Gather Town’ to a limited audience this year. The students developed a virtual world to showcase their innovations to other stakeholders not present physically

 

Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Centre For Innovation’s Annual ‘Open House’ event, which showcases students' innovative tech projects, returned to a physical mode this year. Opened to business and industry leaders, alumni, faculty and students, the CFI Open House 2022 was held on March 13 2022 in the campus, featuring over 60 projects.

Further, for the first time, the event was also accessible on a Metaverse Platform called ‘Gather Town’ to a limited audience this year. The students developed a virtual world to showcase their innovations to other stakeholders not present physically.

More than 1,500 people, including around 100 eminent industrialists and IIT Madras Alumni, participated in-person with another 500 taking part virtually through ‘Gather Town.’

Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras also launched the new CFI website during the occasion - https://cfi.iitm.ac.in/

The Open House hosted projects such as CFI Team Abhiyaan’s autonomous vehicle called the ‘Bolt,’ Team Abhyuday’s rocket, Team Avishkar’s Hyperloop, a ‘Sports Science and Analytics’ Projects done in collaboration with Sports Science Centre of Excellence, IIT Madras, a Bird Diverter project undertaken in partnership with Wildlife Institute Of India, and projects on Blockchain Technology. The event will also host numerous industry-proposed projects such as the Job Aggregator project with TMI Group and the Dental Implant Project.

Since CFIs’ inception, multiple student ventures have been patented with numerous student proposed projects winning accolades in national and international contests. Furthermore, various startups have also emerged as a part of CFI over the years. Despite the pandemic slowing down the usual course of events, the clubs and competition teams have initiated commendable new projects in the past year. 

CFI Open Houses Projects:

  • CFI developed the chennaiwaterlogging.org, a platform that enables users/the public to report details such as flood location and water depth and add photos of flood sites with a description in the Chennai region. All reports are gathered onto a real-time flood map. The data collected through this platform aims to improve disaster preparedness and response in communities by gathering, sorting, and presenting flooding reports.
  • Team Abhiyaan, the autonomous navigation team, has transformed an electric golf cart into an autonomous shuttle. They will give a live demonstration of the vehicle's autonomous navigation over a course, including obstacle avoidance, pedestrian detection, and parallel parking, at the CFI Open House 2022.
  • Team Abhyuday, the rocketry team of IITM, successfully qualified for the finals of the Spaceport America Cup in its very first attempt. The Spaceport America Cup is an annual international event for intercollegiate rocketry teams across the globe, and its finals will take place in June 2022 in New Mexico, USA. Team Abhyuday is the first-ever team across all IITs to qualify for this prestigious event.
  • Raftar Formula Racing marked a significant new milestone by switching from combustion engines to electric engines this year, in line with the global call for sustainability in the automotive industry. They won the Overall Championship in the Electric Category at Formula Bharat Virtuals 21-22 held during October 2021.
  • The Electronics Club and the Product Design Club have combined cutting-edge optical engineering with electronics to integrate a navigation application to develop a Heads-Up-Display Helmet. It will be helpful for food delivery partners in navigating traffic and enable them to be more focused on the road.
  • In association with the Engineering Unit of IIT Madras, CFI had developed the CLinsti App for solid waste management and ensuring cleanliness in IIT Madras. Through the app, residents and students of IIT Madras can post requests concerning waste management within the institute. The users will be updated on the request's status in the app in real-time. Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Former Director of IIT Madras, officially launched the app in on 2nd October 2021.

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