Deadline: 15 April 2020
As the world is currently looking at a serious healthcare challenge caused by the pandemic Covid-19, DPIIT with Startup India is scouting for innovative technologies and solutions for precautionary as well as treatment-related interventions.
They are building a one-stop repository of innovative solutions for ready access by the government and the private sector for further development and deployment
Themes
- Med- Tech;
- Artificial Intelligance;
- Internet of Things;
- Machine Learning.
Problem Statements
- Personnel protective equipment
- Eg- Low-cost masks which can capture virus from the air and absorb respiratory droplets.
- Testing Equipment
- Eg- Cost-effective thermal scanning devices and rapid diagnostic kits (paper-based and other point-of-care devices)
- Critical- care equipment
- Including portable oxygenators and hospital and home-based ventilators to monitor and control the spread of the new coronavirus.
- Large area sanitization and sterilization
- Including electrostatic spray and Ultra-Violet treatment for various available surfaces like glass, ceramic, wood, textile
- AI-based technology for contact less entry.
- Eg: Facial recognition tools to assist in contact less entry of officials, doctors, and others.
- Movement tracking
- Using mobile apps to diagnose contagion and track people movements in quarantine areas/ lockdown regions.
- Geofencing
- Including solutions that can assist the officials in monitoring those under compulsory home quarantine
- Crowd management
- Eg- Drones armed with heat-sensing cameras.
- Fake news detection
- As information gets passed on social media, it becomes difficult to discern its authenticity and may mislead people
- Logistics
- To citizens during this time and no contact delivery of medicines.
Eligibility Criteria
The Challenge is open to all the Startups, Companies, Innovators etc. whose innovation can plug the gap between the demand and supply of essential medical items to fight the Covid-19 outbreak as well as an innovative tech for applications such as motion tracking, geofencing, fake news detection, etc.
For more information, visit https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/ams-application/challenge.html?applicationId=5e79126ee4b055bfaea9ef66