WAIN Incubator Program

Latest Trends

• Safe & Effective Medical Devices to Market at the Lowest Cost
• Strive to Strik a Balance between
• Reducing the overall cost of healthcare
• Improving Safety & Survival rates

Technologies

• Cancer Detection - Avoid Invasive Surgical Biopsies
• handheld tool approved by FDA for multispectral analysis of tissue morphology
• Melafind Technology - Missile Navigation Tech for an optic scan of lesion 10 emw.
• Non-Traditional Cure to traditional ailments
• Migraine - nerve stimulating device that blocks SPG signals ~ Acupuncture
• Needle-free Diabetes Care - transdermal biosensor detects without pricking

Electric - Solar - Smart Power

• Battery Ingredients - Lithium-Ion vs. current requirements
• Innovation in Battery Charging Infrastructure -Fixed & Mobile
• Zinc Oxide - Composites, Varistors - Semiconductors

Metal Powders

• NanoTechnology - low particle size; Trend of Alloy Powders
• Using Diffusion Powders - key players in the world

Aluminum powder

• Manufactured using Atomization - residue / wastage
• Deploying in advanced application like concrete blocks/explosives
• Aluminum-based paints - protective, corrosion-free & decorative

Improving Shelf Life in Mfrg / Transportation / Store

• Ambient Temperature - Natural vs Artificial Preservatives
• Refrigerated temperatures - chilled vs frozen
• MAP technology - deployed packing infrastructure

Retaining or enhancing the nutritional content

• Organically grown Fresh produce (really organic?)
• Boiled Corn & Lentils Daal, Rajma - Chawli -YCook
• Roasting vs Baking vs Frying Snacks
• Quality of Oil used -its breakup

Food - Focus on Innovation

• Food processing and packaging
• Food contaminants
• Dietary supplements
• Food preservation
• Food Chemical reactions
• Analysis of food components (Proteins, Enzymes, Vitamins, Minerals, Colors)
• Sensory Scientist or Quality Control to monitor the above areas related to food and nutrition

Static?

• Image Recognition - Security Forces, Identikit, Number plate recognition
• Matching of patterns - visual effects of structural defects
• Embedding into VR - AR and other possibilities

Video?

• Body Language detection - anomalies/patterns in behavior, Crowd Analysis
• Identification of Negative profiles - Customs @airports
• Real-Time movement AI-driven - Ships/Aircraft - Avoid Accidents

Tags based Recognition -

• Using NFC tags embedded into paper-plastic - lamination, e.g. Element42
• RFID vs Sensors; Passive vs Realtime

Video Analytics / Search?

• Crowd Analysis Situations - what patterns emerge; e.g. Hospitals Destroyed
• YouTube Videos - snippets which contain useful information - Person of Interest
• Breaking up full video clips - into recognizable patterns with meaning
• Applying Meta-tags to ensuring identification and thrown up during the search
• Product Demos / Training for CPR - e.g. Unlock phones
• Walk-in Customer Profiling - capture demographic & psychographic data
• Queue Management Solutions - Stores, Commercial Buildings
• Shrinkage - Loss Prevention in Stores; 1% of sales lost; Watch Repeat Offenders
• Traffic Control and Regulations
• Heat Maps - Store Layouts - Bank Branch Layouts

Static Image Search?

• Parts of /images - appearing in successive or multiple photographs - stills
• Recognize meaningful patterns; Computer Vision/ML - Instantaneous Sales vs. Planogram
• ATM Fraud Detection - static image-driven deep learning models
• Specific features and detection of anomalous behaviors
• VIP Identification - First Class / Biz Class / Club Circle Members @ Hotels
• Sensor / RFID based Parking solutions-MLCPs Automatic Vehicle Number plate detection
• Melafind - The collected signals are
• processed using heavy-duty algorithms
• matched against a registry of 10,000 digital /images of melanoma and skin disease.

Startup - Valley based, YouPlus -

• Market Research - what /images, videos are being searched online
• ML and how do companies represent their products/services to get noticed

Detection of Harmful Chemicals

• Plastics Ocean Floor - 20km away from the beaches
• Branded Salt contents ; recent article on this
• Particle size reducing day by day - absorbed by Fish

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Delivery of e-Commerce products
• Security Forces - Training / Education
• Agricultural applications
• Recreational applications

Last Mile Logistics

• Optimization algorithms - Delivery of eCommerce
• Directed feedback into production - real-time NOT staggered
• Sales vs. GeoFencing vs. Movement of RM/FG

Analytics - Recommendation / Rating Engines

• Mark-Down Optimization - using R, sales patterns
• Omnichannel - online vs. offline - e.g. SAP advertisement
• Bar Code vs. QR Code vs ....VR - AR driven Trials
• Pricing Engines - Peak vs. Non-Peak hour
• Kim Kardashian-Screenshot AI Image Recognition- e.g. Sound hound

Smart Signage Solutions

• Posters & digital signages at airports, retail stores, public spaces
• Understand customer Characteristics
• Responds in Real-time with Targeted Content

Analytics - Recommendation / Rating Engines

• Computer Vision - Retail Shelves analysis
• Mark-Down Optimization - using R, sales patterns
• Omnichannel - online vs. offline; Bar Code vs. QR Code
• In store Conversion - tracking trials to purchase - VR Engine
• Pricing Engines - Peak vs. Non-Peak hour
• Kim Kardashian - Screenshot AI Image Recognition- e.g. Sound hound

Messaging Solutions

• Intelligent Keypads - Hyderabad based startup - LG bought over
• Multilingual - audio recognition and transliteration - Reverse process
• Responds in Real-time with Targeted Content

Content Analytics

• Web Crawling
• Focused Content - Directed towards; AIRIM
• Computer Vision - Assortment vs. Planogramming vs. Sales

Fintech Applications

• Invoice Discounting / Factoring - open platform
• Loan processing - personal / individual vs. Business
• Peer to Peer lending - Profiling and enabling process auto mode

Other applications

• Claims Settlement for Late flights - Expenses at Airport
• Frauds in car insurance settlements possible
• Real-Time movement AI-driven - Ships/Aircraft - Avoid accidents
• Document Verification - Physical Issuance ~ eGovernance
• Fuel Efficiency - OmniComm, leading to lending solutions

Algorithms for Deployment?

• Each application-separate Advanced Analytics from real AI/ML/NL
• Follow Cutting Edge working - Google, Amazon, etc.
• Proprietary platforms - if any, what are their requirements
• Manufacturing area - optimization using big data
• Pattern Identification - and cross-sector application e.g. POI
• Smart Signage Solutions - Self Learning -
• Who comes up to the signage
• Targeted Content!
• IITB and IBM Research Labs - tie-up? Can we do something similar?

Packaging

• Alternatives for Plastics - and regulatory mechanism
• Shrink Wrap - Aerated Beverages vs. bottled vs. tetra pack
• Frozen / Chilled - Dry Ice for Fresh across Railways, Ports, Aircraft

Lighting

• Energy Saving vs. Optimized Building Management Systems
• LED - advancements in power savings
• Laser Shows - interactive ; blank firecrackers display - simulated
• Smart Home Solutions - Safety & Security

Organic Waste

• Cleantech - 4 lac machine to process organic waste in large Organisations
• Separation of wet and dry waste - real time
• Food Waste - Recycling in the HORECA segment
• Smart Dust-bins ?

Factory Waste

• Pollutants released into the environment - waterborne and airborne.
• Embedding Detection & Correction Systems - in-house analytics
• Methods to Re-use and Re-deploy

New Growing Methods

• Aquaponics - Hydroponics
• Identification of high yield - Cherry Tomatoes per kg vs Canned

Alternatives for drugs

• Medicinal plants extracts
• Synthetic drugs

Analytics

• Intelligent Manufacturing Processes
• IoT driven - detected & interventions in place
• Tableau & Click view Dashboards to Predictive & AI-led diagnostics

Advanced Robotics

• Multiple vehicles being assembled
• Automated Conveyor Belts - Scanning, Sorting & Placing
• Load & Unload Vehicles - Finished Goods Telescopic Conveyors

Building Information Modeling

• Requirement of Regulators - detection of beams
• 3-D Modeling Mandatory Submission
• Virtual Construction Designs
• Augmented - Mixed Reality & Visualization
• 3D Laser Scan Data Processing / As Building Modeling

Advanced Structures

• Statues - Bridges - Underwater
• Metro Stations - Lines

Automated Building Management Systems - Large Towers

• STAAD. Pro / ETABS
• Tekla Structure / Advance Steel / BOCAD
• Autodesk Products / Revit Building Suit /Nevisworks
• Google Sketch-up/ 3D Max / V Ray
• Rhinoceros / Catia / Solid works
• Cadworx/PDS / PDMS / Inventor / Caessar II
• ANSYS
• Leica Cyclone / LFM

Business Models - Innovation in

• Processes - Deployment of (scarce) resources
• Improving visibility of Measurability
• Metrics of Evaluation - Deviations
• Rapid Adoption of New Technology

Application areas of AI/ML/NLP

• Cash Conversion Cycle - Most Efficient
• Cost of Capital - Lowest
• Valuation of Critical Assets - DCF and otherwise
• Rapid Adoption of New Technology

Logistics & Supply Chain

• Optimization - Algorithms for Constrained Movements within Time e.g. Perishables
• Move-in-Sync; Shared Cab services - Google, Microsoft
• Fuel Efficiency - Block Chain driven - financing of fuel
• Reverse Logistics - using Geo-Fencing e.g. ID Foods - Perishability
• Shared Economy - Vehicles, Road-Infrastructure & Routes

Training & Development - Retaining of Manpower

• Mindfulness - EEG technology for
• understanding patterns of behavior
• Profiling
• Planning interventions
• Predictive Behaviors
• Design Thinking Led Innovation - Resource savings, Performance enhancement