o that's grate. my hearty congratulations to this team for this valuable
contribution. what a remarkable idea moreover the efforts and the brain
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:53 PM
Subject: [AI] Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition
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From: Asudani, Rajesh [mailto:rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in]
Sent: 16 September 2014 07:39
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Subject: Narayana students win CBSE national science exhibition
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Narayana-students-win-CBSE-national-science-exhibition/articleshow/42560394.cms
Nagpur: An innovative project by two Std IX students of Narayana
Vidyalayam won the 'best project' award at the national level CBSE Science
Exhibition 2013-14. Aditya Bhopale and Kartikeya Rehpade designed a device
that helps visually impaired people not only read text but also identifies
obstacles around them to aid in walking.
The "Solar Audio Book For The Visually Impaired" project has also landed
both the whiz kids an invite to the US from tech giant Intel Corporation.
A jubilant Aditya Bhopale said, "The results were announced on Sunday in
New Delhi and the competition was extremely stiff. There were 350 projects
from across the country and each one was very good. Our product was unique
because it provided a valuable service to the visually impaired."
The audio book device is just the size of regular novel but weighs around
400 grams. It runs on solar power and is the perfect mix of a device that
mixes social responsibility and technology. Aditya said, "Our device reads
scanned text aloud that will help visually impaired people get access to
books and other text oriented things. Scanned images of texts from
newspapers, magazine etc can be transferred to our device via Bluetooth. I
have also added space for expandable external memory so that scanned text
images can be stored."
The ultra sonic mapping helps identify objects within a 3 metre perimeter,
which is beneficial to the visually impaired. Aditya, said, "Through
vibrations the person holding it will come to know about the obstacles in
his way." The device has a battery life of 7-13 hours and needs hardly
half an hour of direct sunlight to get fully charged.
It took Aditya and Kartikeya almost three months before they came up with
a working model of the device. Aditya said, "In March we were informed
about the competition by the CBSE and our school finalized both of us for
the project. Our science teachers, Dhanashree Waikar, Aparna Pillai,
Poonam Karunakarm, Supriya Abdeo and Siddharth Sontakke suggested we must
make a device for the visually impaired after which we went through a lot
of options. In the end, we zeroed in on the audio book because it is
unique and had not been made before. By June last week, a working model
was ready and then only the refinements remained." Kartikeya made a
perfect partner to Aditya contributing to the aesthetics of the device. "I
suggested the outer body design and even gave the ultra sonic mapping
idea," he said.
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With thanks and regards
(Rajesh Asudani)
Assistant General Manager
Market Intelligence Unit
Reserve Bank of India
Nagpur
Tel.: 0712 2806358
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