Indian Open Technology Alliance Impact Projects

INDIAN OPEN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCEINDIAN OPEN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE
Impact Projects
IOTA projects using Open Source Hardware best practises
under CC-BY-SA 4.0 License
Arunkumar, K.R., PhD
IOTA Founder Member
Email: iotaplatform2015@gmail.com
http://www.iotaplatform.org

INDIAN OPEN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE
Open Source Hardware opens up a World of Possibilities for India

http://www.diyspaceexploration.com/open-source-hardware/
www.oshwa.org

http://wyolum.com/the-unwritten-rule-of-open-source-hardware/

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GLOBALINNOVATIONINDEX
2012 2013 2014
India dropping rapidly in human factor based innovation index

But We have potential
Source: KPMG Technology Innovation Survey 2013
Ranking of country shows the most promise for disruptive
breakthroughs that will have a global impact

Source: Economic Times, Jan 8, 2015
Global India
4%
15%
InterestRate
Are We Globally Competitive ?
India imported an estimated $ 38 billion worth of electronics last year, while only about
$ 19 billion worth of goods were manufactured here with minimal value addition.
“Indian manufacturers face various other challenges such as high cost of finance – there is
15% interest in India against 2-4% globally and high power costs due to irregular power supply.
This create a disability of about 20% for Indian Manufacturers”,
- Ashok Chandak, Chairman – India Electronics and Semiconductors Association (IESA).

National Employability Report
Engineers Annual Report 2014
Aspiring India
India Skills Report 2015
Wheelbox, PeopleStrong, CII,
Linkedin
“With close to 5.5 million graduates passing out every year, and only about 0.7 million being considered
employable by in the IT/BPM industry, over-supply and low employability is significantly diluting the
demographic dividend. It is critical to understand the talent demand and supply landscape and engage, enable
and empower a tripartite network of the government, academia and industry to grow the skill sets required
for India to be future ready.”
- Prithvi Shergill, Chief Human Resources Officer, HCL Technologies
Low skill sets and employability – now a demographic problem

Do we nurture & develop quality talent?
National Employability Report
Engineers Annual Report 2014
Aspiring India

http://blog.hackerearth.com/2014/02/90-indian-engineering-candidates-employable-why.html

Our intent is to
address this gap
http://jobmarketmonitor.com/2012/07/25/india-employability-a-disconnect-between-what-the-industry-needs-and-what-the-students-learn/

What is Gerald Celente Predicting ?
Successfully predicted the financial crisis of 2008
http://trendsresearch.com/Wake-up-callConfronting-the-abuse-of-power-head-on,50
“India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia & Singapore which has seen its first riots in 40 years are included on
the endless list of nations experiencing war, terror, economic turbulence or social unrest. But the story we would tell in each case
is the same.
... The young, who are providing much of the energy behind these uprisings, are not likely to abate their efforts, particularly with
about one quarter of the world’s youth without jobs or an education. They are restless, angry, without hope and thoroughly
distrustful of the power structures that rule their lives. ...It was a trend that was long in the making and one that we had long
predicted.”

Empowering the youth for competing in the global economy
and job creation is not an option anymore
http://usa.marsh.com/NewsInsights/MarshRiskManagementResearch/ID/43185/Political-Risk-Map-2015-Geopolitical-Tensions-and-Falling-Oil-Prices-Challenge-Foreign-Investors.aspx
http://usa.marsh.com/Portals/9/Documents/Growing%20Political%20Risk%20in%20the%20Year%20Ahead%20and%20Beyond-Marsh%27s%20Political%20Risk%20Map%202015.pdf
http://www.mmc.com/content/dam/mmc-web/Files/The_Global_Risks_2015_report_FINAL_2.pdf

How to equip our youngsters?

Let's get away with those pillars, it's coal.
Disrupting the social fabric.
How to run a factory
usually based on central management, managing people.
Not networked, fablab, d-i-y
- The cathedral and the Bazaar
Lets get ready for the Next Industrial Revolution

We missed the Open source software revolution in its infancy,
Let’s join the Open hardware revolution to get into a world of opportunities
“The business models enabled by the Linux platform, namely cheap innovation,
Quick scale-out and mass collaboration, is directly responsible for the success of
Top Web 2.0 companies including Google, Facebook and Amazon.”
- Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat
"We believe this is just the very beginning of the hardware revolution.
The world is eagerly awaiting new devices and new device platforms.
Look around you and it is hard not to see opportunities."
- Jon Callaghan
Welcome to the Open Hardware Revolution

We are at the very beginning of an amazing change in the way
we build, buy, consume, and experience devices. It’s been called a
whole bunch of different names over the past decade, but now
that things are (finally) heating up the name that feels like it’s
going to stick is “hardware revolution”.
"The evolution in hardware development in some ways parallels
what the software industry saw ten years ago."
- Matt Witheiler
The Open hardware revolution
http://blog.upverter.com/post/102541361117/hardware-revolution

https://www.wfs.org/forecasts/
Forecasts for 2014 to 2030 –
World Future Society: Trends & Breakthroughs
Open-source robot blueprints cut the cost of robots by 90%
Robot development may soon dramatically accelerate thanks to new open-source
hardware-sharing systems. Similar to open-source software for computers, this new
robot-development platform allows participants to share their designs so that other
developers can adapt or improve on them. By sharing hardware and software
development, costs may plummet and innovation may skyrocket. For example, a
caregiving robot that used to cost more than $350,000 to purchase may soon be
available for under $25,000.

INDIAN OPEN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCEINDIAN OPEN TECHNOLOGY ALLIANCE
About IOTA
Indian Open Technology Alliance is a co-creation platform where anyone can
propose, collaborate, build and share, a complete ecosystem for creation from
concept to product.
Mission
Opening up frontiers to build up knowledge access, enabling rapid progress,
empowering community to create values
Vision
Open and vibrant knowledgeable community content in a progressively
sustainable value rich ecosystem
All projects under Open Source Hardware
best practises and CC-BY-SA 4.0 license

1. Open source self balancing scooter
2. Open PCR (Polymerized Chain Reaction) Machine
3. Agricultural Seeder with fertilizer placement
4. Hydroponic home cultivator
5. Nursery Seeder
6. Servo Motors
7. Small wind turbine
8. Open Energy Monitor
9. Incinerators for disposing Sanitary Napkins
10. Drone for any application
11. Powered wheel chair
12. Open source washing machine
13. Fertilizer Spreaders and
14. Precision Agricultural Sprayers
15. Sugarcane Harvester
16. Pivot Irrigation
Impact IOTA Projects

Gears Pumps Motors Valves Wet Grinders Table Top Grinders
Pan-India Open Source Hardware revolution
starting in Coimbatore with IOTA projects
Coimbatore has high competency in gears, pumps, motors, valves, wet-grinders, etc.
It also has vibrant educational institutions and health care infrastructure.
Coimbatore has all the ingredients required to build the community around open hardware.

Pan-India IOTA projects starting in Coimbatore
ABOUT COIMBATORE
 One of the top ten industrialized districts in India
 63,000 Micro, Small & Medium Manufacturing Enterprises & over 2000 Large Enterprises
 Coimbatore is also called as the pump city of Asia. Supplies over 40% of India’s pump requirements
 World's best state of the art foundries are in Coimbatore
 Strong competence in Gear manufacturing and near monopoly in wet grinders
 Automotive majors source up to 30% of their automotive components from Coimbatore
 Coimbatore has the highest location attractiveness index for ITeS (IMA India, 2009)
 Listed in top 40 cities (Next frontier cities for technology talent) in the review and analysis
of 400 global cities by Zinnov LLC (December 2012)

“Impact Projects of IOTA are high impact projects that can provide
meaningful solutions to the need of the Indian Industry & the
community and accelerate innovations around their sphere of influence”
Let’s study the need of some selected projects in Agriculture

Seed sowing in India is still mostly done manually

Push type seed drills started evolving in the 1930’s

http://www.coleplanter.com/history.htm

Seed drills evolved and also placed fertilizers
http://www.coleplanter.com

Seed Fertilizer
Seed drills evolved into precision placement machines
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Seeds and fertilizers placed at a specific depth ensuring better germination.
The requirement of seeds and fertilizers can be reduced up to 30 percent with precision placement.
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A three row precision seeder

Tractor driven precision seeder

Tractor driven multi-row precision seeder with fertilizer placement

Source: Economic Times, 2011
“It is projected that India will need to grow its agricultural output 12% to feed its people
in 2020. Much of this has to come by growing more on the same amount of land.
this land, however, is weakening and withering” reports M Rajshekhar

We need to promote No-till or Zero till systems to preserve our soils
http://info.amazone.de/DisplayInfo.aspx?id=14812
http://www.ctic.org/media/pdf/Better%20Soil%20Better%20Yields.pdf
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/solaw/files/thematic_reports/TR_04b_web.pdf

http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/PDF/Outputs/Misc_crop/DFID_impact_case_study_Zero-tillage_FINAL%5B1%5D.pdf

The Need for Nursery Seeder Machinery

http://www.slideshare.net/sureshmandhar/mechanization-of-horticulture-in-india-specifications-of-required-machinery
The Need for Nursery Seeder Machinery

Nursery Seeder Machinery

Coir pith is the best rooting medium
available for commercial growers

Manual Fertilizer Spreading

Tractor mounted Fertilizer Spreading
www.bogballe.com

Manual spraying

Tractor mounted Spraying
http://www.hardi-international.com/global/

Self Propelled High Clearance
Precision Sprayer
http://www.millerstn.com

Pivot Irrigation
http://www.zimmatic.com

Pivot Irrigation a new concept in India

Sugarcane Harvester

Mr. Paco Lindoro’s Sugarcane Harvester
http://pacolindoro.com/harvestingsugarcane

Hugo Piggott – Small Wind Turbine

http://scoraigwind.co.uk/ http://www.applied-sciences.net/library/data/zoetrope-wind-turbine.pdf

http://www.fablab-berlin.org/fablabberlin-r0/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FabLab_Tools-01-13.50.16.jpg

http://www.fabfoundation.org/

https://www.fab10.org/en/home

“A complex system that works is invariably
found to have evolved from a simple system
that worked. A complex system designed from
scratch never works and cannot be patched up to
make it work. You have to start over, beginning
with a working simple system.”
— John Gall

Open Source Washing Machine Project www.oswash.org
Portable Washing Machine

Portable Washing Machine
Position: Student - National Institute of Design, GAURAV RAUT 2009
“ As a student living by myself for the first time, I had a difficult time with mundane everyday tasks like washing clothes
myself. Soon I realized, I wasn’t the only one facing problems in this area. Many of my friends were struggling with the same
issues. So when I had the opportunity to chose my own product to redesign for a classroom project, the answer was right in
front of me.
Empathy was the driving force behind this project. With no mode of mechanized washing available, I often spent
hours doing my laundry by hand. The only constrain was the selected product to redesign needed to have an emphasis on
technical complexity. A portable washing machine met the desired constrain and would be an innovative solution for
individual and small family users looking for convenience.”
Open Source Washing Machine Project www.oswash.org

Expired & Abandoned Patent Database – Project specific

Terms & Conditions
1. Maximum team members for a project is ten
2. The team should select a team lead and a deputy team lead
3. Team lead will be the point of contact about the project
4. A team can work only on a selected project
5. The team should adhere to the best practices as mentioned by OSHWA
http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/
6. All the information developed by the team will be open source
7. All projects and information created come under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
8. IOTA reserves all the rights to reject any project devoid of quality inputs
9. IOTA needs a letter from Head of the Institution to participate authorizing
selected members to commit to a project
10. An Institution can form any number of teams

Eligibility
1. Willingness to learn and contribute

Eligibility
1. Willingness to learn and contribute
2. Should have read the FAQ document
To know more please read our Frequently Asked Questions document

Eligibility
Should be capable of understanding these
What’s the difference ?

Thank You
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