NI releases new Industrial IoT solutions

BANGALORE, INDIA: The 12^th edition of NIDays in Bangalore today saw the launch of a wide range of products that are designed to revolutionize the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT).

NI India has also launched the latest version of its flagship product, LabVIEW, with enhancement in speed and memory usage.

The event is attended by over 500 engineers, academicians and researchers. It allowed attendees learn about the latest hardware platforms and applications in the industry. 18 technical sessions and tutorials organized with over 30 products and application demonstrations.

Speakers and exhibitors from various industries including automotive, telecom, semiconductor, smart machines, aerospace and defense, etc. joined the event to discuss and discover how to accelerate productivity for software-defined systems in test, measurement, and control.

Robert Morton, Vice President, EMEIA, NI, said, “We are excited about using IoT in a way that benefits the society at large through connected devices and by incorporating the generated data into meaningful usages. We are investing heavily into technology that makes this process easier for scientists and engineers to not only rapidly prototype this but also deploy systems.”

NI also announced the winners of its annual technical application contest – Engineering Impact Awards. The contest this year had a total of 67 teams and the winners will get a chance to participate in the Global Engineering Impact Awards held in Austin annually during NIWeek.

This year’s winners are:

• ARAV Technologies for their vision based pre-dispatch inspection from the SME category
• Mahindra & Mahindra for their automated infotainment systems testing solution from the Systems category
• SRM University for their full duplex cognitive radio implementation using NI USRP RIO 2943 from the Academics category
• Digilogic Systems for their portable DRFM based radar echo simulation system from the Alliance Partner Category

NI also announced winners of its annual Graphical System Design contest, NIYantra. This contest helps undergraduate engineers to design their project ideas and convert them into working models using NI hardware and software over a period of six months. NIYantra 2015 witnessed abstract submissions from 204 teams spread across engineering colleges in India.

The winners are:

• Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai for their project development of a scavenger bot which is an autonomous street cleaner
• Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, NCR for the development of a smart bin which is aimed at being a solution to Swachh Bharat
• Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore for the development of a tennis tutor

Jayaram Pillai, Managing Director, IndRAA, NI, said, “NIYantra is committed to support and help these budding individuals with access to our technologies to create applications that can solve problems that humanity face as a whole.”