Three Indian Techies Win Freescale Design Contest
BANGALORE: Three smart Indian techies won the design challenge contest leading chip maker Freescale Semiconductor ran this year for the electronics design engineer community, including professional electronics engineers, hobbyists and budding engineers.
Saravana Pandian Annamalai from Madurai in southern Tamil Nadu won the first prize of 
100,000 for designing a prototype on a smart home with Internet of Things (IoT) in which objects of everyday use are connected through a network to seamlessly send and receive data.
Kaustubh Digambar Tapke from Mumbai bagged the second prize of 75,000 for designing and developing a prototype on a solar-powered autonomous micro patrol boat for sea-surface inspection.
Ashok R from Bangalore got the third prize of 50,000 for a prototype on sketch drive car he built using Freescale embedded processors.
"Using Freescale embedded technology, I have built an electronic device that can be installed in any house to the mains and switches on or off lights, fans, air-conditioner and home appliances through a remote using sensors and Bluetooth wireless connectivity," Annamalai said at the Freescale technology forum being held here by the $4.2-billion US multinational.
Annamalai has turned into an entrepreneur to set up a start-up - Embien Technologies India Ltd - to build an innovative cloud platform SkyCase for providing a reliable and scalable solution for IoT and M2M (machine-to-machine).
"Skycase is designed for everyone. OEM (original equipment manufacturers) can design their devices or offer gateways to support the cloud interface. Consumers can use these devices and applications to improve their lifestyle," Annamalai said.
