CoE IoT Official Blog

The torchbearers of innovation are persistently galvanizing technologies to usher in inclusive digital transformation. Technology leaders are catalysing this transformation by synthesizing ideas to spur holistic innovation across industries, helping businesses leapfrog growth and development.

A business development professional and an AI & IoT technocrat, Atulya Joshi saw a golden window of opportunity in the technology space to create disruptive solutions and solve industry-wide complex challenges. As the draughtsman of IoTian Technologies, Atulya and Rajiv Gohain mustered virtuosity and brilliance from the ecosystem to craft futuristic technologies based on Artificial Intelligence & Machine learning, IoT, and Embedded systems. The object of this exercise was to unveil the true potential of IoT and brainstorm problem-solving solutions.

Based and incubated at the Center of Excellence, Bengaluru, which is a Joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of Karnataka, and nasscom, IoTian Technologies caters to Automotive/Urban Mobility (Camera, Computer Vision and sensor technology for electrification and digitizing vehicles), Industrial, Media, and Public Sector.

Their offerings can be categorized as, Computer Vision & Neural Networks, IoT & Automotive Embedded, and Industrial IoT. Their extensive range of AI products, from Image segmentation, Image Processing, Object classification and tagging, focuses on enhancing Video Analytics, Video processing, and Sensor Data-based ML. The team has put heads together to boost the security surveillance systems through its avant-garde IoT-driven products, such as Wireless Cameras. One of its major projects is in progress with a construction equipment company where IOTIAN’s camera and computer vision algorithm is used for the digitization of automotive vehicles. The start-up’s vast catalog makes them stand out, becoming the most sought-after solution provider for all kinds of businesses across verticals.

Established six years ago in 2016, the company has served clients in India and abroad including Japan, South Korea, Europe, and the USA. They further aim to expand their reach and spur business growth by hiring the best minds that can second the objective of scaling their offerings. The support of the Japanese ecosystem, like JETRO, helped the start-ups thrive in every aspect. Their out-of-the-box initiatives have won them major innovation awards like the nasscom -Jury Choice Awards as one of the top five most innovative and high-potential products at the Product Showcase, nasscom Product Conclave 2017,  received the CoE IoT award for top 25 IoT startups in India for their innovative work in the field of “Internet of Things, Nokia Best Innovation Award, IoT Thought Leadership Awards by IOT INDIA Congress, and many others.

In yet another round, IoTian Technologies raised INR 1.5 Cr in November 2022. It was led by Milind Garud and Shri Girish. D. Chitale via his family office, along with a host of investors participated in it from India, Singapore, and the USA. Iotian’s camera and computer vision solutions are most suited for prime applications in inventory control and asset safety with market potential. With automobiles becoming smarter, we feel that Iotian’s camera will provide vehicles with more vision to make smarter choices – said Shri Girish Chitale.

The prime movers of IoTian Technologies are stalwart about keep the wheels turning towards progress, development and new achievements. The team aims to explore the AI and IoT market potential and nurture the ecosystem of innovative thinking and aspiring talents that leads to newer innovations.

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The Game-changing innovations have created a paradigm shift in the healthcare industry. The wide adoption and utilization of these cutting-edge technologies have significantly enhanced the quality of care, truly streamlining healthcare practices and delivery. This wide penetration of technology is also empowering people to keep track of their health parameters, improve their well-being and observe a healthy lifestyle all by themselves; simply by using the different applications developed to help the users to track their biomarkers and seek health-related advice     .

To make life simpler for users, Nikunj Malpani, Anurag Meena, and Pratik Lodha came up with the idea of creating smart solutions that makes it very easy and convenient to tracks your different biomarkers anytime-anywhere. This vision led to the establishment of a health-tech startup, monikered NeoDocs. In short, the startup has transformed smartphones into minilabs, where by using the different self-test kits one can instantly take the test, scan the card and get the results instantly on their phones anytime and anywhere, in 30 seconds.

NeoDocs’ at-home instant testing kits are developed by experts to serve different customer needs. These kits are rigorously validated with clinical partners to ensure they are of utmost quality. The current set includes Wellness, Maternity wellness, UTI testing, Kidney, and Elderly care. Giving attention to the elderly’s basic requirements, the team designed an Elderly Care Kit to help them monitor their vital signs, deficiencies, and infirmities at home in their comfort zone. Today, the startup has hit on novel solutions and is building a platform that will support saliva and blood-based tests as well to add more biomarkers to the instant test kits.

“At Neodocs, we’re building instant diagnostics on the phone; across blood, urine, saliva, sweat, etc. Already live with multiple urine-based tests, with two of our hero products being the Kidney Care Kit and Instant UTI (urinary tract infection) Kit. The Kidney Care Kits help with early screening and monitoring of CKD (chronic kidney disease) patients – there are said to be more than 800 million CKD patients, with 90% of them unaware. UTI is something that affects more than 60% women, with symptoms being unbearable in most cases. Looking forward to an amazing partnership with India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre and Business Sweden to take this solution to the masses,” said, Nikunj Malpani, Co-Founder, NeoDocs.

NeoDocs is one of the winners of the Innovation Challenge led by the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre which is established to develop an ecosystem of open innovation for start-ups and the healthcare delivery stakeholders. The Centre is supporting NeoDocs towards clinical validation guidance at AIIMS Jodhpur and deployment of their product at the hospital along with mentoring for international expansion. Through the Centre, NeoDocs has also become a part of A.Catalayst network – an interconnected and dynamic global network of more than 20 AstraZeneca health innovation hubs, made up of physical locations and virtual partnerships. The network embodies the commitment to Growth Through Innovation as ‘a catalyst’ to develop new solutions for patients. It aims to address healthcare challenges, increase access to healthcare and scale and showcase patient‑enabled innovation through partnerships within the health ecosystem.

“We’re elated to have won the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre’s Innovation Challenge. This is an impeccable opportunity for us, to partner with AIIMS Jodhpur for validation and testing. Building in the diagnostics space can be tricky, getting the right guidance and mentorship is crucial. Feel lucky and grateful to get this opporturnity and Launchpad,” said Anurag Meena, Co-Founder, NeoDocs.

Ever since its establishment in 2020, NeoDocs has been hitting the homerun. Along with creating a niche in the ecosystem, the startup has gained the recognition and support of leading investors and advisors like Omidyar Network, 9Unicorns, Titan Capital, Venture Souq, YCombinator, Gemba Capital, Prophetic Ventures, and others. In 2021, they raised a pre-Seed funding round led by idea-phased accelerator VC fund 9Unicorns, along with Y Combinator, Titan Capital, and others. The startup has also bagged prestigious awards like the Wharton India Startup Challenge, BCIC Emerging Stars Startup Award (2022) and made it to the list of X-PITCH’s (formerly known as Taiwan Elevator Pitch) TOP 150 start-ups.

NeoDocs have established an excellent partnership with Nashik Zila Parishad where they will be deploying Neodocs test kits and disseminating them to the end-users, enabling them to track their health and critical needs and as a result, uplift the healthcare levels. 103 doctors across Mumbai and Jaipur are using the test kits for instant results daily at their clinics.

Intending to spread health and wellness awareness, the team has designed a special blog section where one can read healthcare-related articles to increase their knowledge and adopt measures to improve their overall health.  Headquartered in Mumbai, this MedTech startup has set a growth trajectory where the aim is to expand its footprint across geographies like the Middle East, African Subcontinent & South East Asia, add more tests to the portfolio, and continue creating the path for innovations for building futuristic diagnostics. The team is also focusing on partnering with Public Health agencies that resolve to improve the healthcare status of the masses.

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The year 2022 saw the dawn of a new era in technology and innovation. With technologies like Metaverse and 5G making their way into different industries, our anticipation to perceive game-changing innovations in 2023 is reaching its zenith. Let’s take a look at the technology predictions for this year!

Artificial Intelligence at the fingertips!

AI turns out to be our problem-solving buddy. It is at our fingertips today and we are blithely leveraging its potential to solve real-world and everyday problems. From enhancing medical diagnosis, transforming the way of learning, and monitoring businesses to streamlining reducing carbon footprints and achieving sustainability goals, AI has made our way of manoeuvring smart and intelligible. The year is set to put efforts into making AI more inclusive, transparent and explainable. AI will continue to evolve with solutions like Conversational AI, Predictive Analytics, AIoT, Intelligent Automation, Adaptive AI, Edge AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Datafication unlocks new possibilities!

This transformative technological trend is helping us fathom and handle the myriad of information in this data-driven world. Since datafication transforms human engagements into data-informed technology, the focus will be on keeping the data shielded and securely becoming imperative. Organizations are psyched-up to make wider adoption of datafication to boost their business operations, productivity, and revenue, gaining a competitive edge.

Web 3.0 is bringing a paradigm shift in how we use the internet! 

The third generation of internet Web 3.0 (World Wide Web) is here to change the web experience by making it more intelligent, personalized, accessible and swift. Monikered as the “Semantic Web”, Web3 will focus on AI and ML to move towards an understandable intelligent network, smoothening the machine-human understanding and interaction. The decentralization of the web will not only make the sharing and storing of data more flexible, but also empower users to have ownership of their digital assets. Social media is one of the platforms which will be widely impacted by this trend.  Among other things, Web 3.0 developers will hone in on decentralizing social networks, reducing carbon emissions, organizing permission-less block chain, prop-up cybersecurity, and leveraging cloud computing to boost businesses’ growth and advancement.

Diving into Metaverse and beyond!

Metaverse was one of the biggest technology buzzwords of 2022. This spatial computing platform is poised to transfigure the landscape of the digital world. The global metaverse market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 39.4% by 2030 and add 5 trillion dollars to the global economy. The trillion-dollar industry is catching the attention of big technology companies who are ardent about investing and building the future of the metaverse. The technology is set to become mainstream and is expected to observe progression in the AR & VR, home in on making avatars more personalized and mature, and explore AI to unleash new possibilities.

As 2023 approaches, technological advancements will accelerate at a faster rate. Industries across the board are eager to explore the potential for disruption in order to make better decisions, improve efficiency, enhance security, and drive growth. Companies are looking to leverage technology to gain a competitive edge and stay ahead of the curve. With the advent of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, the opportunities for innovation are endless. As the year 2023 approaches, it will be exciting to see how these advancements will shape the future and impact various industries.

One of the most common and important forms of energy, electricity dominates major activities and livelihood. It plays a crucial role in driving economic growth and social development. Thus, the per capita power consumption tells about the pace at which a country is developing. In the past decade, India has made impressive progress in its per capita consumption of electricity with the help of digital technologies and innovations.

However, the mass adoption and deployment of these cutting edge technologies is an uphill task and requires a big-budget. Giving thoughts to reducing the cost and complexities in structuring a systematic smart electricity grid, a team of technocrats set up an integrated end-to-end IoT-based platform called Probus Smart Things. The idea was to help utility providers digitize their distribution grid and have a clear visibility of their network. This grid-automation startup is the brainchild of Anand Mohan Singh, Ahmad Raza, Rahul Mishra, Sunny Kumar and Ankit Vaish. They envisioned a future for India where the Smart Grid Vision, generating and distributing more efficient power and boosting the growth of the nation’s electricity sector, will not be a tough assignment.

Probus Smart Things was one of the twelve startups shortlisted for the sixth edition of the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge (QDIC 2021). The Qualcomm Design in India Challenge is an initiative by Qualcomm started in 2016 that encourages and supports design houses and product companies to design and develop innovative hardware product designs incorporating Qualcomm SoCs platforms and technologies. The challenge spurred innovation in 5G use cases and mobile edge-compute. The startup received benefits like a financial grant of INR 3.2 lakh, access to the Commercialization Fund (ICF) of 60 lakhs, comprehensive guidance and mentoring from industry leaders, which helped the team to enhance their technology solutions.

“Probus is using Qualcomm chipset in its product since its inception. We get high performance in our application areas of substation monitoring where Probus monitors not only grid load, and energy consumption, but also the health of the transformer such as temperature inside transformers, oil level inside transformers, bus bar temperatures, vibration, and humidity level. In the QDIC program, Probus strengthened its product robustness by redesigning its gateway module with a host of features incorporating BLE, ethernet, GPS, and GSM all in a single module. In addition, Probus received connect with industry-specific VCs and mentorship to revamp GTM and the partnership model,” said Anand Mohan Singh and Rahul Mishra, Co-founders of Probus Smart Things.This New-Delhi-based startup’s smart meter is fashioned to communicate using RF Mesh technology that makes remote reading, billing, and managing of the reliable last-mile power distribution connectivity grid smooth and easy. Probus Smart Things’ IoT-based solutions help in achieving an efficient electricity grid. The startup pioneered innovations like end-to-end modular sub-station monitoring & automation solution, wireless systems, and modular plug & play architecture. Probus Smart Things’ “Made in India” inventions are categorized under:

• Hardware: A high-quality industrial sensors installed on assets such as distribution sub-station, consumer meters, LT ACBs and LT Feeders. This comes with high-speed 4G, Bluetooth low energy security network, and RF Mesh 865-868MHz.
• Cloud Platform: This unique analytic platform supports all network data, event based alert generation, and preventive maintenance based on historical data. The platform can handle more than 3.5 million end points.
• Enterprise Field Force Application: One-of-a-kind application that enables ticket-based field force tracking, real-time event generation from field assets and management of maintenance activities.

Their analytics dashboard facilitates Condition-based maintenance, Continuous asset monitoring, Real-time information, Alarms generated based on alerts from assets, and continuous asset data capturing for relational analytics. The hardware and software work to cut back electricity usage and wastage helps to track periodic equipment failures and provide real-time visibility on asset performance.

Probus Smart Things’s achievements are as spectacular as its inventions. The startup has served big wheels of the industry, including Adani, TATA Power, BSES, North East Utility and many others. It has aslo integrated its technology with Genus, HPL, Iskraemeco and other meter manufacturers to scale and deploy fast. The startup has won Deloitte Fast 50 technology company award, Aegis Graham Bell award, ISGF award, Assocham top 20 innovation award, and winner of India round of Seedstars World 2019, representing the country at the Seedstars Asia Summit. It has bagged a whopping $600,000 seed funding round led by Unicorn India Ventures. The company’s revenue has grown 6X in last 2 years and plans to grow 8X in current financial year.

Under RDSS Scheme, released by GoI last year, government plans to make every household/industrial meter smart. Probus is at the forefront of it, enabling with its proprietary RF-mesh communication technology to make the existing meters smart as well as deploy in new smart meters. Probus is aiming to connect 1 million end points with its IoT platform in next 8 months.

Probus Smart Things remains at the forefront in accomplishing the Government’s plan of making every household/industrial meter smart. With its proprietary RF-mesh communication technology, the company is making the existing meters smart and deploying new smart meters. For the time to come, Probus is aiming to connect 1 million end points with its IoT platform.

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Is technology a boon or bane? This question had us baffled for decades! There is absolutely no doubt that the tech culture has revolutionized the world, opening doors to new opportunities and greatly impacting our lives at different levels, changing the way we think, communicate, work and live. However, excessive indulgence in digital technology is adversely affecting people’s mental and physical health.

These alarming health concerns caught the attention of Pooja HS, who co-founded Sparcolife Digital Healthcare (Vyana Life) – a full-stack healthcare platform equipped with Digital Diagnostic and Digital Therapeutic Systems to medicate ailments/conditions caused by the digital lifestyle. The core objective of this unique initiative is to underline how digital technologies are responsible for behavioural, physical, and emotional disruptions, giving rise to perilous problems such as low productivity/creativity, inactivity, obesity, infertility, social & emotional complications, and so forth.

Sparcolife Technologies is one of the twelve startups shortlisted for the seventh edition of the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge (QDIC 2022). The Qualcomm Design in India Challenge is an initiative by Qualcomm started in 2016 that encourages and supports design houses and product companies to design and develop innovative hardware product designs incorporating Qualcomm SoCs platforms and technologies. This year, the initiative focused on spurring innovation in 5G use cases, health tech, and mobile edge-compute. Along with a financial grant of INR 3.2 lakh, the startup is endowed with access to a state-of-the-art innovation lab in Bangalore, a comprehensive guide, and mentoring from industry leaders, which will help the team to further shape their technology solutions.

An altruistic by nature, Pooja has dedicated her life to human welfare. She is on her mission to help women deal with serious gynecological maladies like irregular menstrual cycle and infertility, one of the worst side effects of long-term exposure to cellular radiation and over usage of digital devices. Since it’s inevitable for working women to avoid being desk-bound and using electronic gadgets, initiatives to help them become more resilient, stress-free, active, and healthy are highly necessary. Through Sparcolife Technologies, Pooja and her team cottoned on the sedentary way of living, and its consequences and unearth solutions that can help people detoxify and reanalyze their participation and involvement in the digital culture. The team innovated an integrated behavioral care-digital health technology called Vyli to diagnose and tend to Behavioral & Mental Health issues and provide consolidated guidelines on Reproductive Health Treatment.

How does Vyli work?

A Sparcolife Health initiative, Vyli is a multimodal diagnostic device consisting of a BI-spectral camera that can capture and read speech & facial emotion recognition and thermal imaging based emotional heat map. This analysis helps detect stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and suicidal tendencies, which are the side effects of menstrual irregularities, PCOS/PCOD, Hormonal Imbalance, Depression, Diabetes, Thyroid, and Reproductive Health issues. These conditions severely impact the quality of life, leading to infertility and other severe consequences.

This women centric initiative formulates therapy programs as per the requirement and evidence and delivers them through mobile applications. These experts curated therapy programs are a combination of Psychotherapeutic & Mind-Body Intervention and Clinical Nutrition & Dieting; the mechanism is segregated into three categories i.e. Self-care, Expert-Care, and Anonymous Virtual Support Group Care. These therapies can be listed as:

• Frozen Embryo Transfer – Augmentation Therapy
• Comprehensive Care Therapy
• Re-Gain Weight Loss Therapy
• Re-Gain Hormonal Imbalance Therapy
• Active Sexual Life Therapy
• Ovarian Stimulation Therapy

These therapy sessions are supervised by health professionals. The platform provides discussion forums that allow women to express themselves and discuss their ordeals and concerns with each other which makes them feel heard and discover remedies to solve the challenges. The startup has specially designed 10+ Hours of Audio and Audio-Visual Content that comprises of Yoga Asanas, Meditation, Music Therapy and others.

Based in Bengaluru, Sparcolife Technologies is managed by a team of tech enthusiasts. Founded in 2020, the startup has already received much recognition; it emerged as one of the top 10 recipients of the Acceleration Initiative for Diagnostics (AID), one of the top Seven Startups out of 408 applications from20 States across India for financial assistance and prototyping support and made it to the Qualcomm Design in India Challenge Finalist 2022, and featured in the NITI Aayog- AIM’s Innovation for You-Healthcare.

The startup has big plans for the future, it aims to touch the lives of millions of working women across the globe, empowering them to be healthier and live better. The startup aspires to see every couple fulfil their dream of becoming parents.

The creator of ARFICUS is making full use of AI potential to build solutions to elevate the efficiency and accuracy of diagnostics. The team pulled together to coin MEDHINI-a futuristic Healthcare Technology to make the diagnostic process facile, precise, and swift.  The wide and deep built-in Artificial Intelligence Algorithm facilitates patient diagnosis and treatment, by detecting diseases with 99.31 percent accuracy in 53 seconds. MEDHINI is designed to detect complex, sporadic, and chronic ailments and enable patients to enhance their overall health quotient.

Empowered with Highly Advanced Deep Tech Computer vision & NLP, MEDHINI has the potential of diagnosing more than 13 diseases in areas of Oncology, Pulmonology, Neurology, Nephrology and Cardiology with absolutely no contact with the patients. It is easily accessible and has a strong suit in detecting the intricacies of Complex to Chronic Diseases . The company is also catering to issues including the shortfall of prediction analysis, modeling of patients, accurate & future disease prediction, and on-time and expensive facilities

To sum it up, MEDHINI’s provides Artificial intelligence based on accurate disease Diagnosing, Pre-screening, Prediction, and Surveillance of diseases and support for Cure and treatment, Patient future disease prediction modelling and susceptibility based on current co-morbidities/lifestyle/drug, etc. The team is also working on the effects and new drug discovery analysis & support.

Arficus- A healthcare startup is virtually incubated at the Center of Excellence – IoT & AI, Gurugram, which is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of Haryana, and NASSCOM.

Arficus stands distinct when it comes to rendering services and solutions that focuses on:

• Data Driven Genome Sequencing and Pandemic Wave Prediction analysis
• Quick, Rapid and Highly Accurate Disease Diagnosing of Rarest and Chronic Diseases
• Highly Advanced Deep CNNs Medical Technology of RESTNET50,AKAZE,BERT,ITK,GAN,VDSR with MATLAB Cross- funkionality
• World’s First Ever Cross Effect Prediction Platform for Human Health due to Climate Change Effects
• Future Disease Anomalies Modelling identifying Patient “Before Suffering from Disease”
• World’s first ever Invasive “NEURA-CHIP” empowering everyone with “SELF DIAGNOSING” capabilities

This Jaipur-based healthcare startup is founded by two enterprising youths Sandeep Sinha and Anurag Jain in the year 2019. The duo built the team “MEDHINI’s Secret Society,” made up of a group of tech enthusiasts with the zeal to transform the way healthcare services are being perceived and delivered unlocking the power of Artificial Intelligence.

The team aims to expand its reach to numerous medical organizations including Hospitals, Primary Healthcare Centres, Nursing Homes, Rural Areas, Diagnostic centers, dental care, and others. Their motto is to aid healthcare facilities with leading Healthcare technologies and introduce the concept of “Quick and Rapid Disease Diagnosing and Predict Future Health.” In two years, they have provided services to 110 clients’ in medical clinics, maternity homes, and hospitals across five different countries- India, the UK, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Nigeria.

What’s in the bag for Arficus!

At present, the team aims to seek support from NITI Aayog and the Ministry of Health Support for accelerating the spreading out of their solutions to every corner of the country. Arficus is hell-bent on bringing forth prediction-modeling of people to assist them to detect the signs and symptoms of fatal diseases such as Monkey Pox. The team is determined about putting together ideas to build innovative AI solutions to enable rapid and error-free screening and offer best-in-class diagnostics.

“As a young startup with first gen entrepreneurship, it becomes difficult to gain market access and gain recognition, business expansion. With the helping hand of Nasscom COE, Arficus is able to accelerate the growth of the high-potential startup which can transform how Healthcare is seen in today’s world. Exploring more strategic partnership with Nasscom CoE to reach at heights. Looking forward,” Sandeep Sinha (Founder and CEO) & Anurag jain ( Cofounder and COO).

The ever-evolving technology is progressively seeping deep into every aspect of our lives. Without a doubt, it has made our lives more convenient, faster, and simpler. Along with many other industries, technology and innovation have brought a sea of change to the fitness industry. The shifting landscape of this sector towards digitization is vastly stimulating the creation of dynamic fitness communities that are shaping up personalized workouts, activities, and advanced exercising equipment.

COVID obligated home confinement that suspended physical activities and increased sedentary behavior. This further raised the likelihood of several chronic health conditions. Hence, a lot of thought was given to taking physical activities, diet, and stress management more seriously. This acted as a stimulator that incited the cosmic adoption of home fitness.

To make this adaptation smooth sailing, pathfinders Pratik Sud, Rajat Sahni, and Sameer Joshi mind-mapped Synq.Fit, a connected fitness platform to design the best-in-class tech-powered fitness equipment and programs. They resolved to pursue their common passion of cultivating connected home fitness and so they brainstormed inventive ideas to develop a new range of innovative IOT enabled equipment to help beginners and fitness enthusiasts better plan their exercise regime in the comfort of their homes. Mr. Anuj later joined the founders as Chief Technical Officer and now leads the tech team at Synq.Fit.

This Gurugram- based startup is virtually incubated at the Center of Excellence – IoT & AI, Gurugram, which is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of Haryana, and NASSCOM.

The Q- Rope: With an in-built Bluetooth, a rep-counter, and a calorie-burn tracker, this smart cordless skipping rope supports a hassle-free, safe, and effective workout. This high-end rope keeps a check on the reps and the calorie burn during exercise. It helps the users to enrich coordination and cardiovascular fitness and burn more calories.

Q-Barbell: This one-of-a-kind full-body strength system’s weight and intensity can be adjusted. With the help of these high-tech barbells, one can maneuver weight training, bodybuilding, weightlifting, powerlifting, and more.

The Q-Bell+: These flexible and intelligible dumbbells make strength-building exercises more focused and effective. The Q-Bell is India’s first adjustable dumbbell with one- touch technology offering five weight setting options (2.5 kg to 12 kg), supporting coherent workouts.

The Synq.Fit Workout Content: Synq.Fit has collaborated with renowned international fitness content provider Les Mills to develop an engaging range of workout and training content that meets the needs of users. The energy of Synq.Fit’s best-in-class instructors, as well as its addictive library of classes and curated fitness routines, promise to keep you coming back for more.

 Moving up the ladder!

Synq.Fit started its journey two years ago and has successfully secured the interest from the community. Thousands of members use their platform to connect, bond, inspire and grow stronger together. The company has gone PAN India and is set to put in diligent effort in building an inspired and motivated fitness community, empowered with groundbreaking technology to breathe new life into home fitness.

Reprosci Biosciences is a full-stack reproductive health sciences startup built with the vision of bringing certainty to fertility care. The founding Directors of Reprosci include Dr Ravi S Swamy, a Clinician & Researcher from Imperial College Healthcare (NHS Trust, U.K.) and Dr Mahendra Narwaria, a leading Surgeon-Healthcare entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India.

In two decades, the world has seen an alarming increase in infertility cases from under 2% to over 20% resulting in the need for a ten-fold increase in the specialists who would cater to the needs of the global marketplace. Alongside the shortage of skilled healthcare professionals, the dismal live-birth rate is another issue that needs immediate attention.

With the vision to transform reproductive and family health, Reprosci Biosciences has set on a mission to empower a million healthcare professionals through its metaverse training platform and ten million couples through personalized biotherapeutics. The company is transitioning from seven years of R&D to commercialization.

Based and incubated at the Center of Excellence, Bengaluru, which is a Joint initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of Karnataka, and NASSCOM, Reprosci Biosciences is unleashing the potency of Regenerative Medicine & Medical Training Simulation to bring about far-reaching changes in the Clinical Outcomes that support Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Assisted Natural Pregnancy (ANP) based treatments.

The India launch of Fertilator at LHIF was hosted by the K-tech Centre of Excellence IoT & AI, Bengaluru (an initiative of MeitY and KITS) on 20th July 2022. Reprosci showcased Fertilator in Milan, Italy, at the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Congress 2022, which was attended by nearly 11,000 Infertologists, Gynaecologists & Embryologists from over 140 Countries.

Their breakthrough Innovation BAP.C 2.0 is an autologous biotherapeutic for reproductive regeneration. BAP.C has been, to date, administered to over 4500 Women with a regeneration rate of 88.6% and pregnancy rate of 48.6%. It is a regenerative growth factor and protein concoction derived from the patient’s blood. This regenerative formulation has zero side-effects protocols that span the spectrum of reproductive wellness for both male and female infertility conditions. It increases the possibility of pregnancy in IVF procedures, promotes the natural proliferation of stromal and epithelial cells, accelerates tissue regeneration & remodelling, and essentially restores the effective functioning of the reproductive system, significantly enhancing the chance of pregnancy.

Reprosci has been a commercial vehicle for research for over seven years. It has finalized a significant strategic investment from doctors in India and the U.K. Creating a coterie of advisers and medical experts to empower couples in this transition to parenthood remains the sole objective of Reprosci Biosciences. The startup is making its way into the Metaverse world. It intends to develop unparalleled innovation using its associated Virtual Communities of Practice (vCoP) platform, Fertilator, and the most trending technology today- Metaverse for enhancing Reproductive Health, Sexual Wellness & Infertility Care.

It aims to aid 10 million couples in achieving parenthood. It resolves to enable Infertologist to achieve Mastery in Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART) procedures by leveraging its exclusive Medical Training Simulator, i.e. Fertilator.

“NASSCOM CoE has been enabling strategic partnerships with leading Pharmaceutical & Medical Technology Companies to help accelerate the growth of the high-potential startup which can transform humanity. NASSCOM has also been facilitating international alliances. With this support, Reprosci is set to expand to Europe soon to be able to cater to the World with its toted Indian Innovation, i.e., Fertilator,” Dr Ravi S Swamy, a Clinician & Researcher from Imperial College Healthcare (NHS Trust, U.K.).

The alarming rate at which breast cancer is increasing among women has incited a global health concern. A recent survey by BCRF states that approximately 685,000 people lost their lives in 2020 due to this invasive disease, making it one of the leading causes of death among females.

However, there are consecutive and widespread efforts to create awareness about symptoms of breast cancer and how adopting a healthy lifestyle lowers the risk of developing said cancer. Which combined with screening programs, reduces the risk of late detection and enhances survival chances drastically.

It is quite comforting to know that the entire community is giving a fillip to the verve of brainstorming approaches that could abate the occurrence of breast cancer. In addition, a lot of technological advancement has taken place over the past decade, which has further expedited the screening, diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening diseases like cancer.

A Stockholm-based health-tech firm, Thermaiscan Technology AB, is innovating within the predictive medicine field, combining AI with thermal technology. Inspired by Hippocrates, often referred to as the father of modern medicine, the team has adopted the age-old theory of using heat. Heat, or lack thereof, has long been used as an indicator for finding disease.

Thermaiscan’s prime focus is to solve the global problem with late detection of breast cancer development. Late detection is the leading cause of breast cancer related deaths. The Thermaiscan Breast Cancer Pre-screening solution uses a smartphone with thermal sensors and AI models that performs the analysis of the thermal images. If any abnormality is detected, the patient shall be conferred to medical specialist care. Early detection can save lives as well as lowering the cost for care.

The tool empowers first-line contact physicians, non-specialists and remote doctors in their mission to provide professional care. Healthcare personnel can easily perform thermal screenings according to the Thermaiscan protocol with the smartphone. They will then receive the AI analysis, which provides valuable information about the health status in the chest of women. The pocket-sized, non-invasive, non-toxic, and cost-efficient screening tool is designed to perform comfortable breast cancer pre-screening on women of all ages.

There is currently an unfair distribution of specialist and breast cancer screening tools in many countries. The fact is that many women do not even have access to standard breast cancer screenings, especially women in rural areas and those without universal health coverage.

Thermaiscan Pre-screening can be life saving for these women as it can be used in remote settings and in primary healthcare.

Women that want to be proactive can easily take advantage of the latest state-of-the-art technology. Tools like the Thermaiscan Pre-screening can work as a complementary tool to already existing screening processes. It is not intended to replace or compete with mammography, rather it will provide more data to specialists in order to detect early stage breast cancer.

Thermaiscan Technology AB is part of the India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre, established to develop an ecosystem of open innovation for start-ups and healthcare delivery stakeholders. Through the Centre, Thermaiscan Technology is now also a part of A.Catalyst network – an interconnected and dynamic global network of more than 20 AstraZeneca health innovation hubs, made up of Physical locations and virtual partnerships. The network embodies the commitment to Growth Through Innovation as ‘a catalyst’ to develop new solutions for patients. It aims to address healthcare challenges, increase access to healthcare and scale and showcase patient-enabled innovation through partnerships within the health ecosystem.

The company’s journey has been a buoyant one. Together with AIIMS Jodhpur, India-Sweden Healthcare Innovation Centre (A partnership between India’s premier healthcare institutions AIIMS Delhi, AIIMS Jodhpur and Business Sweden, closely guided by the Ministry of Health (including ICMR) in Sweden and India, along with Knowledge Partner AstraZeneca as well as Technology Partner NASSCOM CoE IoT & AI, A-Catalyst Network, Atal Innovation Mission, AGNIi (Invest India) and StartUp India and others), and many more in the pipeline soon to be unveiled, Thermaiscan is now preparing for what is needed – such as a clinical study – to launch their first product in the market.

Thermaiscan has won prestigious awards, including an Innovation Challenge organized by the India-Sweden Innovation Centre, the Nexer Dream Big challenge and Ignite Master of B2B Collaboration 2021 – Private Sector. To date, Thermaiscan Technology has expanded its presence across Sweden, Armenia, India, Germany, and Singapore. It has established collaboration with

leading institutions like AstraZeneca, Labz.AI, Karolinska Institutet Innovation AB, Business Sweden, Vinnova, ENOX, Almi, Erebouni Medical Center- Breast Unit, and more.

Thermaiscan intends to remain committed to unearthing the true potential of HealthTech and predictive medicine via its technical competence within thermal imaging and AI. The team is looking forward to initiating associations with innovators, leaders, and investors who envisage revolutionizing healthcare for the benefit of society.

One of the most critical tasks for any manufacturing organization is balancing assets (e.g., capacity, materials, people) with demand. Supply planners must determine how best to meet the demand given the assets available, production constraints, and distribution network complexities and policies. This encompasses multiple activities that aim to meet future demand in the best possible way.

The case for automation

In today’s supply chain, complexity and uncertainty continue intensify because of the rapid expansion of product portfolios to cater to wider customer choice, while product lifecycles are shrinking. Meanwhile, channels are multiplying as e-commerce starts to dominate across industries, making fulfillment significantly more challenging.

To manage supplies, supply planners must look outside company walls and analyze the ecosystem that is driving the variability and volatility. Organizations need a new paradigm where planning and execution go beyond the enterprise and embrace the broader ecosystem. 75% of a supply planner’s time should be spent on medium to long term decisions, but currently they spend ~75% of their time reacting to daily supply chain disruptions.

Typically, organizations that automate supply planning can achieve several key benefits:

• Optimize their profits and margins while meeting the demand
• Reduce overall costs
• Utilize their resources (assets and key raw materials) more effectively
• Be better prepared for the future by considering what-ifs

The current supply planning environment

Supply planning has a direct impact on an organization’s P&L. But a common challenge facing business and supply chain leaders is they don’t have enough information to make informed decisions – a mismatch of manual and digital systems mean information is trapped within functional silos so decision-making is hampered by an incomplete picture.

Added to this, supply chain complexity makes it difficult to evaluate alternatives, trade-offs, and scenarios to arrive at the best or right decision.

Current supply chain planning techniques focus on functional excellence: isolating one piece of the supply chain at a time, fine-tuning, it and then excelling at it. On the surface, this approach should result in good results, operating at peak efficiency from end to end. But it does not. This is because, between each function, misalignment compounds to create operational blindness. Focusing on capacity planning without understanding the impact on inventory is an example of this lack of transparency, as is focusing on asset utilization without connecting it to the supply plan.

In demand planning, the inability to react to external changes, promotions, and seasonality leads to higher inventory levels. Organizational targets, sales targets, and the inability to defend forecast predictions constantly leads to over-production.

Traditional organizations use multiple different tools across supply planning, creating multiple problems and the need for an additional planner to manage and run these tools. Also, different master data repositories result in either incomplete or stagnant masters for planning.

Rethinking supply planning with AI

In today’s complex supply chain planning environment, quick execution and incisive decision-making are becoming vital as customers demand higher service levels and responsive supply chains. As such, organizations have started to rethink the traditional planning paradigm to meet these challenges. In recent years, network planners have grown in popularity as companies try to address ever-changing supply priorities and find ways to resolve them profitably.

Imagine a closed-loop adaptive planning environment that automatically provides prioritized intelligent exceptions at the start of every day and runs real-time optimization end-to-end impact analysis. And what if that environment provided a stakeholder view that includes key co-decision makers in the process, and it could also self-correct and self-learn by recording and analyzing the real-world impact of decisions? This would mean that for common scenarios, recommendations will be more accurate, and in some cases, can be even automated. This is all made possible by incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and advanced analytics into a single planning and collaboration ecosystem.

Close coordination of planning and execution is critical, with fully flexible end-to-end visibility for all planners, and symbiotic man-machine interaction. The key ingredients of AI-enabled supply planning are:

1. A data digital platform: This gives the organization the ability to experiment with innovative processes and new solutions without disrupting their day-to-day operations. It calls for a two-speed IT architecture, 1. Rapid prototyping and iterative development of models with agile methodology and 2. A traditional architecture that focuses on repeatable and reliable service delivery
2. Real-time adaptive planning: Creating and managing synchronized plans across time horizons, within supply networks, business processes, and organizational ecosystems at the same time
3. Scenario planning (what-if analysis): Supply planning must become more agile and be able to predict, absorb, and react to changes. Simulate different scenarios and perform sensitivity analysis without changing current plans
4. Telescopic and integrated planning: Implement a single platform to plan across multiple horizons (LTCP, RCCP, and MPS) with different level of granularity
5. Advanced inventory analytics: Comprehensive inventory analytics and optimization uses the proven science of multi-echelon inventory optimization (MEIO) to balance cost and service and ensure the right levels of the correct stock, in the right place, at the right time
6. Cross-functional collaboration: An enterprise-wide collaboration platform to review, correct, approve, and finalize both the short- and long-term supply plan collaboratively. It provides fully- flexible end-to-end visibility for all planners and symbiotic man-machine interactions
7. Smart self-learning system: Embed continuous learning and automated decision-making with ML, AI, and other advanced analytics to ensure planning is in sync with the physical supply chain. E.g., lead times, production cycle-times, DBNR, set-up times analysis and auto-updates
8. Proactive master data governance: An accurate master data management system with proactive alerts. ML solutions mimic the rules to check data accuracy and create customized master data health check scorecards and dashboards for planners to make quick decisions
9. Performance enhancement: Advanced and predictive analytics, ML, AI, and the internet of things combine to perform network-wide root cause analysis to improve supply and generate prescriptive recommendation on future service projections to absorb and react for future inadequacies

The benefits of dynamic supply planning

Companies must devise ways to better access supply chain data through the introduction of technologies that allow data to flow freely through the system. Additionally, technologies such as a supply chain digital twin will allow them to monitor, manage, and observe the impact of decisions.

AI helps businesses analyze demand in real-time so they can update their supply planning parameters dynamically to optimize supply chain flow. With dynamic supply planning, businesses use fewer resources and minimize waste.

These new age planning tools and ML can play an instrumental role in optimizing the complexity of production plans. ML models and techniques can be used to train sophisticated algorithms using existing production data to identify areas of inefficiency and waste.

Finally, ML-enabled supply chains provide the agility to effectively deal with disruptions – keeping customers happy.

Sugantha Rajakumari M, Assistant Vice President, Supply Chain Practice | Planning-as-a-Service, Genpact, holds over 19+ years of experience in extensively working with organizations on end-to-end Plan-to-Deliver process transformation projects. She is currently the Supply Chain Planning SME at Genpact and is instrumental in providing functional & technical subject matter expertise in designing/configuring in-house tools and customizing the market tools for Supply Chain (specifically in demand management and supply planning); managing business processes and delivering impactful metric improvement.