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A young scientist and scholar from Kolkata have recently been awarded the prestigious Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award 2016.

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Debjyoti Chowdhury, Doctoral, had received Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award 2016 from the President of India on 12th March 2016. Mr. Debjyoti Chowdhury was previously a student of the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation, Heritage Institute of technology.

He was guided by Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay, Head of the Department, Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Heritage Institute under whom he completed this wonderful project for which he received the Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award 2016.

Mr. Debjyoti had created a “Cost effective self-stabilizing smart hand held platform (spoon/pen) for elderly or Parkinson’s disease patients” under the guidance of Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay. The project introduces an easy to adopt hand mount device that can be used to support the tremors in hands of old people or in persons with the said disease for day to day normal activities like writing with a pen, having food with a spoon and also holding crockery/knifes.

The whole nation is today proud of Mr. Debjyoti for he had received this award out of more than 500 Institutions, 550000 students and faculty members and 180000 projects submitted for Gandhian Award.

Gandhian Young Technological Innovations Award 2016 is a pan India competition under which over 2363 innovation entries in 50 technology domains from 276 Universities/Institutes belonging to 26 states & 2 Union territories we submitted. After four rounds of evaluation by 125 jury members, 43 teams were selected for innovation awards and appreciation in the “Festival of Innovation” from March 12th to 18th, 2016 at Rastrapati Bhawan, New Delhi which was inaugurated by the Honorable President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee.

One of such teams was by Mr. Debjyoti Chowdhury along with his guide Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay of Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata who bagged the prestigious award on 13th march, 2016 in presence of Dr. R.A. Mashelkar (Chairperson NIF), Dr. Krishnaswamy Vijay Raghavan (Secretary of Department of Biotechnology), Dr. Ashutosh Sharma (secretary DST) and Prof Anil Kumar Gupta (Professor of IIM-A and founder of Honey Bee Network) and Dr. Renu Swarup  (Advisor, Department of Biotechnology).

This revolutionary innovation will certainly bring hope for those who are suffering from Parkinson. Parkinson’s disease has affected nearly 3% of the population over the age of 65 years thereby leaving them unable to perform simple daily tasks like having/ serving food or holding pen/pencil. Patients having such disease suffer a lot in holding spoon for having food/medicine or for writing due to hand tremors. Sometimes this type of hand tremors are also a common problem for people at old age, this innovation emphasizes on the development of a cost effective self stabilizing electronic platform that can counteract such limb tremors and ensure a normal living for people with such difficulties.

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The designed prototype has a microcontroller connected to an acceleration sensor, which comes in a form of hand held hardware. The person’s hand tremors are read by the system in form of acceleration data, which is used to stabilize the spoon or pen. The prototype is compatible with any markedly available spoon and has a open source software/hardware model.

The hardship behind the success story is sheer dedication and hard work and constant support and guidance of Debojyoti’s guide Dr Madhurima Chattopadhyay. In the words of Debojyoti “This work wouldn’t have ever been possible without the constant inspiration and guidance of Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay (Prof. and Head AEIE Department), who herself is a DST, SERB Young scientist awardee and is a growing name in the field of biomedical MEMS devices and Electrical Impedance Tomography”.

Mr. Debjyoti Chowdhuy perused his M.Tech form Heritage Institute of Technology in the Department of Applied Electronics and Instrumentation where he did his thesis work under the guidance of Dr. M. Chattopadhyay. He left his job, which he got, from campus placement to peruse his higher studies. Mr. D. Chowdhury is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of AEIE, Heritage Institute of Technology and is doing his doctoral work under Dr. Madhurima Chattopadhyay, his research interests involve application of biomedical MEMS sensors, Robotics, Embedded Systems and Sensorless drive of Brushless DC motors.

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