BRIGHT MINDS AT WORK Submit tech-based
solutions at Matunga management college’s event
MUMBAI: From tracking products in a supply
chain to screening candidates for clinical trials accurately, college students
across Mumbai have come up with technology-driven ideas to improve businesses.
The solutions were submitted at the recently
held Smart India Hackathon at Prin LN Welingkar Institute of Management
Development and Research (WIMDR), Matunga recently. Participants said they
learnt a great deal about developing solutions in such a short span.
A team of students from Shah & Anchor
Kutchhi Engineering College, Chembur, developed a computer programme that can
speed up the process for testing medicines before their launch.
The programme uses an algorithm to match the
people who are willing to volunteer for a clinical trial. It analyses factors
such as a volunteer’s medical history, type of trial, number of trials and
their success rate.
“People are reluctant to participate in
clinical trials because of the side-effects. Our goal was to increase
participation and generate better results from laboratosaid Viraj Modi, one of
the students.
Teams from WIMDR and Don Bosco Institute of
Technology (DBIT), Kurla, worked towards digitising supply chain managesystem.
They suggested using barcodes and QR codes on products to track them by
manufacturers, retailers and suppliers.
“Recently, a company wanted to recall products
from a particuries,” lar batch after detecting a defect in them. But there was
no mechanism to trace the products from the defective batch,” said Roshan
James, a student from DBIT.
“The current system of returnment ing expired
products by retailers to companies is manual and slow,” said Vipul Bhole, a
student from WIMDR.
Another team from WIMDR proposed enhancement
of customer experience at large retail shops. It suggested 3D hologram
promotion of various products at the stores. The team also proposed installing
a touch screen to provide information about various products.
Source: Hindustan Times dated 11 March, 2019
