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- Energy management:
- Methods and processes to save and optimize energy in industrial plants, homes, buildings.
- Efficient ways to generate and distribute energy (electrical distribution).
- Clean means to generate energy.
- Alternate energy technologies like solar etc at low cost and high efficiency.
- Environment protection:
- Reduction of emissions from industrial plants and automobiles (including airplanes) (Control techniques, materials, sensors, new fuels etc.)
- City wide or plant wide emission monitoring.
- Detection and cleaning of particulate matter in air and liquids and oils. And air filtration techniques.
- City waste and garbage management technologies.
- Water management:
- Water filtration and purification.
- Water distribution and wastage reduction.
- Waste water management and purification.
- Water desalination at low cost and extraction of pure water for ambient environment e.g. in deserts for soldiers.
- Pathogen detection and cleaning in water. Applicability: homes, buildings and large reservoirs…..
- Security and surveillance:
- City wide surveillance using camera and other sensor networks.
- Low cost solar powered cameras.
- Low cost IR cameras.
- Cameras with embedded intelligence and multi parameter sensing
- Novel ways to detected abnormal behaviours, explosives, gases and ambient pathogens.
- Surveillance for traffic management.
- Methods to detect insider threats and
- Integration of physical and logical security for large distributed enterprises.
- Health care:
- Non intrusive sensors for early disease detection and alerts.
- Efficient and cost effective tele-monitoring of patients.
- Efficient means of doctor – patent interaction.
- Real time information management and logistics management for hospitals.
- Mobile applications:
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Novel applications of mobile and handheld devices in all of the above areas. And wireless mobile systems that can co-exist in an environment of multiple protocols and multiple standards.
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