14 Young Indian Innovators Whose Ideas Can Save The World And Make It A Better Place

There¡¯s a saying that goes, ¡°children are the future¡±, and there¡¯s a very good reason for that. Not only do they have a stronger foundation of learning, they also see solutions to problems we¡¯ve taken for granted. That¡¯s why we should celebrate them.

Gwyn D'MelloUpdated: Jun 23, 2019, 11:08 IST

There's a saying that goes "children are the future," and there's a very good reason for that. Not only do they seem to be doing a lot more than we ever achieved at their age, they also see solutions to problems we struggle to come to terms with. That's why we should celebrate and use these ideas.

In India itself there are plenty of brilliant minds in the making. We're up some of the most path-breaking ideas we've seen coming from incredibly young minds around the country. And who knows, maybe one day you'll see some of them as the head of a successful startup, finding solutions to 21st century's worst problems -- from reducing pollution, switching to cleaner energy consumption or fighting our plastic plague. They're changing the world one day at a time.

1. Pollution-checking app

This first one is an app that was developed by three students of Bharti Vidyapeeth College of Engineering in Delhi, Tanmay Srivastava, Kanishk Jeet and Prerna Khanna. 'Air Cognizer' is an Android app that lets you measure the Air Quality Index (AQI) in your area using just your smartphone.

Free to download, all you have to do is upload an image you've taken outdoors, half of which includes the sky region. Then, using machine learning image processing techniques and comparing it to photos and data related to the AQI, the app can tell you how polluted it is where you are. The three won a cash prize of Rs 1,09,500 from the US-based Marconi Society for their work.

Indian kids

2. Car exhaust filters from waste

Satyam Thakur, a Class XI student from Bangalore, decided he wanted to find an easy way for people to reduce their carbon emissions. He realised that the materials that make up clay pots in many Indian households also make them good absorbers of particulate matter. He designed a cheap filter made out of broken clay pots that can be fitted over car exhausts, or even upscaled to cover the chimneys of factories.

After use, they can be then be reformed into clay bricks for construction, or dusted off harmlessly and reused once more. Even better, he found they were also capable of filtering water to make it drinkable. And because it uses common waste, it can be incredibly cheap and easy to make.

Indian kids

3. Portable water pollution checker

Gitanjali Rao is just 12 years old, but she wanted to help save lives. She developed a device called Tethys, that can check the lead content in drinking water, potentially saving people from illness and even death. Not only is it fast and accurate, it's also easily portable. She believes this sort of device should be available all across India, where monsoon flooding often ends up contaminating drinking water sources with runoff from nearby factories and the like.

Indian kids

4. A ship to clean plastic from the ocean

Another 12-year-old, Haaziq Kazi, is on a serious mission to fix the world's plastic pollution issue. Studying in Pune's Indus International School, he designed a ship that simply patrols the world's oceans, cleaning up the plastic pollution along the way.

The ship, ERVIS, is designed to be powered by hydrogen and renewable natural gas. Apparatus on the ship's sides create mini whirlpools to suck in nearby water, and therefore the floating waste with it. This waste is then sorted internally, with storage spaces for both plastic and spilled oil, and the clean water is pumped back out. Once filled up, the storage containers can be disengaged and transported to land, where the waste can be recycled.

Indian kids

5. Bioethanol mass production

Saurabh Kumar from Lovely Professional University was recently one of the youngest researchers presenting a paper at the 27th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE) in Portugal. He developed a way to mass-produce bioethanol. This is a compound manufactured by fermenting the sucrose and starch-rich parts of crops left over after a harvest.

Bioethanol is a renewable petroleum substitute that's also less toxic to the environment. And because it's made from plants that first scrub carbon dioxide from the air during their lifetime, its net carbon emissions are also much lower. In fact with Kumar's method, as well as farmers incentivised to grow crops like sugarcane and wheat, producing large quantities of it would become much easier, providing a viable fuel substitute for automobiles.

Indian kids

6.Manhole-cleaning robot

Arun George, Nikhil NP, Rashid K, and Vimal Govind founded a startup in India recently called GenRobotics. Their first product, built in college, was the Bandicoot. It's a robot built to replace manual labourers employed to clean manholes and sewers across India.

Bandicoot has machine vision to perceive its surroundings, as well as a CPU and wireless unit, allowing someone to operate it remotely. When lowered into a sewer, it has a universal robotc arm to let it perform all the tasks a human would have to in that situation, as well as a bucket in which to store the waste it's cleaning up. The Bandicoot can collect up to 20 litres of sewage in 20 seconds flat, saving hundreds if not thousands of workers from illness and disease at the same time.

Indian kids

7. Sewer-cleaning robot

This is a device similar to the Bandicoot, built by a team of students from IIT-Madras. The SEPoy Septic Tank Robot is in fact scheduled for real world trials starting next month. Much smaller than the previous entry, this robot, swims through waste in sewers, using its fins to cut up the sludge into manageable chunks. That way, a tanker can just pump this sludge out the way they would the top layer, without the need for a human to enter the sewer at all.

Indian kids

8. Flying farm survey drone

Built by a large group of students from the Lovely Professional University, the Flying Farmer is a drone meant for survey purposes. Wireless sensors on the device can help map the area of a farm as it flies over, surveying the yield and biomass at the same time while also estimate the nutrient content of the soil. And not only is it easy to use, it also only costs about 10,000 to Rs 15,000 to build.

Additionally, the drone can also be used to quickly and conveniently deliver pesticide payloads to certain areas of a farm. It can also detect weeds growing between crops and relegate the information to the farmer so they can deal with the problem.

Indian kids

9. Dabbawalla courier delivery app

Tilak Mehta (13) started up his own company in Mumbai last year called 'Papers N Parcels'. It's a delivery service but, instead of employing drivers and buying vehicles, it instead contracts members of an already well-established delivery system in the city.

The startup has tied up with 500 of Mumbai's famous dabbawallas, letting them turn around approximately 1,200 parcels a day. There's even an app for it, to make hiring the service easier. Then the dabbawallas transfer your parcel the way they usually do for people's lunches.

Indian kids

10. App to track malnourished kids

Ayush Gharat from the Head Start Educational Academy in Bangalore wanted to figure out a way to help NGO and social workers that care for street children in India. He designed a software called mNutrition, that lets employees easily track the health situation of kids they're caring for. Simply inputting medical details like age, sex, height, weight, the workers can gauge which kids are in most need of help, and focus on them first.

Indian kids

11. Mars rover design

The Mars Rover Manipal (MRM) team at Manipal Institute of Technology recently placed highest in India and eighth in the world in a competition. They were designing a Mars rover capable of travelling across uneven Martian terrain, as well as able to conduct certain retrieval and scientific missions. With any luck, perhaps their design will one day even be used by ISRO on a mission.

Indian kids

12. Teaching AI programming to kids

Samaira Mehta is just 10 years old, but she's already a teacher herself. Living in the US, she's set up her own company called CoderBunnyz, that teaches kids how to program AI using games and the like. She's been so successful that she's delivered multiple speeches across Silicon Valley, and even carries out workshops at Google's headquarters.

Indian kids

13. AI-powered high-beam manager

Rishank Kanaparti from the National Public School in Bangalore realised that using high beam headlights on the roads at night can lead to a lot of avoidable accidents. So he developed an AI-powered solution to manage the issue. Using sensors that detect an oncoming vehicle, the system can automatically dip your car headlights down until the other car passes, thereby keeping both drivers safe. The best part is that it's cheap to implement, and can be integrated into pretty much any modern vehicle.

Indian kids

14. Stray dog vaccination tracker app

Aparna Ajit Gupte, also from the National Public School in Bangalore, read about far too many incidents in her city where kids were mauled by rabid stray dogs and injured. The thing is, though Bengaluru does have initiatives to vaccinate these strays, it can be hard to track them all. Her app basically uses image recognition, asking a worker to click a photo of a dog when they get hands on them. Then, it checks a constantly updated database for images of the dog, to see if it's one that needs a shot or not.

22/11/2024 12:25:41
seductrice.net
universo-virtual.com
buytrendz.net
thisforall.net
benchpressgains.com
qthzb.com
mindhunter9.com
dwjqp1.com
secure-signup.net
ahaayy.com
tressesindia.com
puresybian.com
krpano-chs.com
cre8workshop.com
hdkino.org
peixun021.com
qz786.com
utahperformingartscenter.org
worldqrmconference.com
shangyuwh.com
eejssdfsdfdfjsd.com
playminecraftfreeonline.com
trekvietnamtour.com
your-business-articles.com
essaywritingservice10.com
hindusamaaj.com
joggingvideo.com
wandercoups.com
wormblaster.net
tongchengchuyange0004.com
internetknowing.com
breachurch.com
peachesnginburlesque.com
dataarchitectoo.com
clientfunnelformula.com
30pps.com
cherylroll.com
ks2252.com
prowp.net
webmanicura.com
sofietsshotel.com
facetorch.com
nylawyerreview.com
apapromotions.com
shareparelli.com
goeaglepointe.com
thegreenmanpubphuket.com
karotorossian.com
publicsensor.com
taiwandefence.com
epcsur.com
mfhoudan.com
southstills.com
tvtv98.com
thewellington-hotel.com
bccaipiao.com
colectoresindustrialesgs.com
shenanddcg.com
capriartfilmfestival.com
replicabreitlingsale.com
thaiamarinnewtoncorner.com
gkmcww.com
mbnkbj.com
andrewbrennandesign.com
cod54.com
luobinzhang.com
faithfirst.net
zjyc28.com
tongchengjinyeyouyue0004.com
nhuan6.com
kftz5k.com
oldgardensflowers.com
lightupthefloor.com
bahamamamas-stjohns.com
ly2818.com
905onthebay.com
fonemenu.com
notanothermovie.com
ukrainehighclassescort.com
meincmagazine.com
av-5858.com
yallerdawg.com
donkeythemovie.com
corporatehospitalitygroup.com
boboyy88.com
miteinander-lernen.com
dannayconsulting.com
officialtomsshoesoutletstore.com
forsale-amoxil-amoxicillin.net
generictadalafil-canada.net
guitarlessonseastlondon.com
lesliesrestaurants.com
mattyno9.com
nri-homeloans.com
rtgvisas-qatar.com
salbutamolventolinonline.net
sportsinjuries.info
wedsna.com
rgkntk.com
bkkmarketplace.com
zxqcwx.com
breakupprogram.com
boxcardc.com
unblockyoutubeindonesia.com
fabulousbookmark.com
beat-the.com
guatemala-sailfishing-vacations-charters.com
magie-marketing.com
kingstonliteracy.com
guitaraffinity.com
eurelookinggoodapparel.com
howtolosecheekfat.net
marioncma.org
oliviadavismusic.com
shantelcampbellrealestate.com
shopleborn13.com
topindiafree.com
v-visitors.net
djjky.com
053hh.com
originbluei.com
baucishotel.com
33kkn.com
intrinsiqresearch.com
mariaescort-kiev.com
mymaguk.com
sponsored4u.com
crimsonclass.com
bataillenavale.com
searchtile.com
ze-stribrnych-struh.com
zenithalhype.com
modalpkv.com
bouisset-lafforgue.com
useupload.com
37r.net
autoankauf-muenster.com
bantinbongda.net
bilgius.com
brabustermagazine.com
indigrow.org
miicrosofts.net
mysmiletravel.com
selinasims.com
spellcubesapp.com
usa-faction.com
hypoallergenicdogsnames.com
dailyupdatez.com
foodphotographyreviews.com
cricutcom-setup.com
chprowebdesign.com
katyrealty-kanepa.com
tasramar.com
bilgipinari.org
four-am.com
indiarepublicday.com
inquick-enbooks.com
iracmpi.com
kakaschoenen.com
lsm99flash.com
nana1255.com
ngen-niagara.com
technwzs.com
virtualonlinecasino1345.com
wallpapertop.net
casino-natali.com
iprofit-internet.com
denochemexicana.com
eventhalfkg.com
medcon-taiwan.com
life-himawari.com
myriamshomes.com
nightmarevue.com
healthandfitnesslives.com
androidnews-jp.com
allstarsru.com
bestofthebuckeyestate.com
bestofthefirststate.com
bestwireless7.com
britsmile.com
declarationintermittent.com
findhereall.com
jingyou888.com
lsm99deal.com
lsm99galaxy.com
moozatech.com
nuagh.com
patliyo.com
philomenamagikz.net
rckouba.net
saturnunipessoallda.com
tallahasseefrolics.com
thematurehardcore.net
totalenvironment-inthatquietearth.com
velislavakaymakanova.com
vermontenergetic.com
kakakpintar.com
jerusalemdispatch.com
begorgeouslady.com
1800birks4u.com
2wheelstogo.com
6strip4you.com
bigdata-world.net
emailandco.net
gacapal.com
jharpost.com
krishnaastro.com
lsm99credit.com
mascalzonicampani.com
sitemapxml.org
thecityslums.net
topagh.com
flairnetwebdesign.com
rajasthancarservices.com
bangkaeair.com
beneventocoupon.com
noternet.org
oqtive.com
smilebrightrx.com
decollage-etiquette.com
1millionbestdownloads.com
7658.info
bidbass.com
devlopworldtech.com
digitalmarketingrajkot.com
fluginfo.net
naqlafshk.com
passion-decouverte.com
playsirius.com
spacceleratorintl.com
stikyballs.com
top10way.com
yokidsyogurt.com
zszyhl.com
16firthcrescent.com
abogadolaboralistamd.com
apk2wap.com
aromacremeria.com
banparacard.com
bosmanraws.com
businessproviderblog.com
caltonosa.com
calvaryrevivalchurch.org
chastenedsoulwithabrokenheart.com
cheminotsgardcevennes.com
cooksspot.com
cqxzpt.com
deesywig.com
deltacartoonmaps.com
despixelsetdeshommes.com
duocoracaobrasileiro.com
fareshopbd.com
goodpainspills.com
hemendekor.com
kobisitecdn.com
makaigoods.com
mgs1454.com
piccadillyresidences.com
radiolaondafresca.com
rubendorf.com
searchengineimprov.com
sellmyhrvahome.com
shugahouseessentials.com
sonihullquad.com
subtractkilos.com
valeriekelmansky.com
vipasdigitalmarketing.com
voolivrerj.com
worldhealthstory.com
zeelonggroup.com
1015southrockhill.com
10x10b.com
111-online-casinos.com
191cb.com
3665arpentunitd.com
aitesonics.com
bag-shokunin.com
brightotech.com
communication-digitale-services.com
covoakland.org
dariaprimapack.com
freefortniteaccountss.com
gatebizglobal.com
global1entertainmentnews.com
greatytene.com
hiroshiwakita.com
iktodaypk.com
jahatsakong.com
meadowbrookgolfgroup.com
newsbharati.net
platinumstudiosdesign.com
slotxogamesplay.com
strikestaruk.com
techguroh.com
trucosdefortnite.com
ufabetrune.com
weddedtowhitmore.com
12940brycecanyonunitb.com
1311dietrichoaks.com
2monarchtraceunit303.com
601legendhill.com
850elaine.com
adieusolasomade.com
andora-ke.com
bestslotxogames.com
cannagomcallen.com
endlesslyhot.com
iestpjva.com
ouqprint.com
pwmaplefest.com
qtylmr.com
rb88betting.com
buscadogues.com
1007macfm.com
born-wild.com
growthinvests.com
promocode-casino.com
proyectogalgoargentina.com
wbthompson-art.com
whitemountainwheels.com
7thavehvl.com
developmethis.com
funkydogbowties.com
travelodgegrandjunction.com
gao-town.com
globalmarketsuite.com
blogshippo.com
hdbka.com
proboards67.com
outletonline-michaelkors.com
kalkis-research.com
thuthuatit.net
buckcash.com
hollistercanada.com
docterror.com
asadart.com
vmayke.org
erwincomputers.com
dirimart.org
okkii.com
loteriasdecehegin.com
mountanalog.com
healingtaobritain.com
ttxmonitor.com
nwordpress.com
11bolabonanza.com