The Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, IIT-Kanpur (SIIC IIT-Kanpur) recently signed an MoU with Defence Innovation Organisation (DIO) to nurture and support start ups and SMEs in the defence sector through its flagship programme iDEX Prime. To facilitate this partnership, the team at iDEX organised an awareness session on May 6 on the pool of funding opportunities available to the innovators developing solutions to serve the defence requirements.
iDEX was launched in 2018 with an agenda to cater to day-to-day requirements of the Border Services through technology solutions. The programme will foster product development for the Indian Military Services and expose innovators to the Defence infrastructure to achieve promising outcomes.
iDEX Prime has launched a total of six problem statements along with 38 challenges under DISC 6 that have been gathered from the armed forces, coast guards, DPSUs, and ministry of home affairs. Some of these challenges are Scalable Wireless Communication Network for autonomous mobile platforms, design of Active Hydro Pneumatic Suspensions with variable dampening characteristics to meet different road profiles, development of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled welder’s helmet for real-time display of welding parameters like voltage, current, traverse speed, electrode stick out etc for immediate corrective control by welder during MIG & TIG welding processes, AI-Based Condition Monitoring System for yard assets.
