National Innovation Foundation - India Innovations and ideas for Forum on Assistive Products for...

National Innovation Foundation - India

National Innovation Foundation-India

Innovations and ideas for Forum on

Assistive Products for Children with DisabilitiesJuly 6-7 2015,

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Honey Bee Network

founded in 1987-1988

A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge holder comes into contact with the Network and gets an identity.

Meghalaya

Technology is like words,

institutions are

like grammar and culture is like

thesaurus

Three pillars of sustainability


Informal Network of like minded people and organizations. It has no formal structure or legal entity

First formal steps, an NGO to support the HBN

Regional Technology Business Incubators to

augment grassroots innovation through value

addition & business development

National level body set up by DST. Govt of India to support HBN

Dimensions of Inclusion

–Spaces–Sectors–Seasons: stable to fluctuating –Social segments –Skills and knowledge

Inclusive Innovation

Learning platformsfrom concrete to abstract

1) Artefactual - as a replication of solution level2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire3) Heuristic - as a model or principle4) Gestalt - configurational level

Gupta, 2012, Own compilation

Form, feature and function

CIRCULARITY AFFORDABILITY

DURABILITY/RENEWABILITY/

MULTI-FUNCTIONALITY

AccessibilityAdaptability &redesignability

Availability RedesinabilityAcceptability

AffordabilityReliability,

Environmental suitability


The first primary institutional support mechanism for Honey Bee network

To strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving nature and developing eco-friendly solutions to local problems

SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1993)

SRISTI

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaNational Innovation Foundation - India

To facilitate the conversion of grassroots innovations into products and sustainable enterprises ( GIAN).

Innovation

Investment Enterprise

The golden triangle for rewarding creativity


Scouting and

Documentation

Dissemination &Information Technology

Value Addition& Product

Development

IPRs Management

NIF

Enterprise& Business

Development

National Innovation Foundation - India•3rd institutional national level mechanism to support HBN

•An autonomous scientific society set up in March 2000, by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

•NIF is committed to make India innovative by documenting, adding value, protecting intellectual property rights, disseminating on commercial as well as non-commercial basis, contemporary unaided technological innovations as well as outstanding examples of traditional knowledge.


Scouted over 2,11,500, ideas, innovations, traditional

knowledge practices from over 575 districts of the country

Filed 708 patents, 8 in US, 27 under PCT, 29 applications

under the PPV&FR Authority

Over 1000 projects supported for validation and value

addition

Micro Venture Innovation Fund support provided to 193

projects under MVIF

Acquired 79 technologies under GTIAF

Transferred and/or diffused 89 technologies to/through

various licensees

Networking with over 200 partners currently

Achievements


UNICEF-SRISTI SUMMER INCLUSIVE IINOVATION SCHOOL 2015

Meeting the unmet needs of disadvantaged children and women

June 5 - 25, 2015


Broom making Process

Examples of outcomes of Summer School 2015

Foldable vending carts for street vendors

Problem of parking space in streets


MOBILITY

1) Modified Adjustable Walker2) Modified Crutches with shock absorbers 3) Stick for Visually Challenged 4) Single Finger Pen5) Clubfoot Deformity Measuring Device6) Spoon for Parkinson's Patients 7) Footwear for Visually Challenged / Blind 8) Battery operated tricycle for physically challenged 9) Kouna mat making machine10) Retrofitted car for Physically Challenged 11) Breathing sensor apparatus to assist physically

challenged 12) Modification in auto rickshaw steering suitable for

physically challenged 13) Detachable device for the bicycle enabling user to ride

with one leg14) Foot operated manual page turning machine15) Movable seat for cars for physically disabled16) Crutch with seat17) Route indication system for the visually impaired18) Wheel chair convertible to crutches 19) Modification in car for physically challenged20) Modified Scooter for the handicapped 21) Blind navigation system with terrain mapper

VISON 1) Stick for Visually Challenged 2) Low Cost Braille Printer3) Footwear for Visually Challenged / Blind 4) Device to assist low vision people 5) Route indication system for the visually impaired6) Reading assistant for visually challenged7) Artificial Assistance for Blind People8) Artificial Assistance for Blind People

HEARING1) Blee –The Rhythm within for Deaf

COMMUNICATION

1) Single Finger Pen 2) Modified writing pad for Parkinson's Patients3) Breathing sensor apparatus to assist physically challenged 4) Reading assistant for visually challenged5) Artificial Assistance for Blind People

Innovations from NIF database addressing disability issues

Modified walker with adjustable legs

Shalini KumariBihar Shalini’s grandfather uses a walker to assist him while he walks. But she noticed that he could only use the walker comfortably while walking on a level surface. Shalini came up with the idea of the modified walker with adjustable legs. She has also thought of including a folding seat so that the user can rest for a while when required and fitted a horn and a light to it as well. NIF licensed this technology to a company recently


Innovator : Shalini Kumari

Ready for diffusion

Modified Adjustable Walker

• Technology transferred to an entrepreneur through a non exclusive license agreement

• The entrepreneur has so far sold about 1000 units• The innovation received Indian Merchant Chambers Inclusive Innovation Award

2014


• Being dependent on crutches is a challenge which gets compounded when the device meant for aid itself becomes a source of pain

• Fore-arm and under-arm crutches mostly made of aluminium, mild steel or wood are available in the market

• None of them has shock absorbing mechanism. • Crutches developed by Innovator are under-arm

crutches with spring arrangement providing comfort to the underarms.

• It can be useful while walking on rough or uneven surface.

Modified Crutches with shock absorbers Innovator : Archana Konwar

• Technology being diffused through various associations of physically disabled• Technology transfer to Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India, a unit of

Government of India is under consideration• NCPEDP- (National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People ) Mphasis

Universal Design Awards 2015


• Walking stick with in-built sensors, which alert the user from surface water and obstruction.

• These are battery-powered sticks alerting the user about an obstacle more than an inch high and a depression of more than a few inches, within a diameter of one meter from the bottom tip of the stick.

• Its a lightweight device with a length of 48-inch

Stick for Visually Challenged

Innovator : Wazeer Hayath

• Innovator is manufacturing & marketing sticks in India and abroad. • Has sold thousands of such sticks through Indian Red Cross Society, Women & Child

Welfare Dept, State Physically Handicapped Dept, Rotary Club, Lions Club etc.• Technology transfer to Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India, a unit of

Government of India is under consideration


Single Finger Pen

Innovator : Arindam Chattopadhyay

• People who do not possess a thumb or have abnormal fingers cannot hold a pen

• This simple innovation, where a small refill-based pen is attached to a cap that can be worn on a single finger.

• It could be useful for physically challenged people who do not have a thumb or even abled persons for repetitive marking (like ticking) on any paper/object

• Working prototype is ready. • The technology is ready for commercialization. • Manufacturing requires investment in mold & die, which is feasible only for bulk orders

(>50,000 quantity)

Low cost Braille printer Santosh Singh & Khushwant Rai, 12, Jalandhar, Punjab

Braille printer exists in the market but at a price that an ordinary person cannot afford. For this the innovators have extended the functionalities of dot matrix printer with some modification to make economical printer which cost around Rs 10000/- ( 165 USD) against the market price of about a lakh( 2000 usd).


• The low cost braille printer developed by innovators is a modification of conventional dot matrix printer.

• The dot matrix printers have 9, 18 or 24 pins, which strike over the ink ribbon thus printing letters on a paper

• The paper is supported by a roller when letters are printed on it.

• Innovators have altered the size of the roller and removed the ink ribbon

• Thus the pins strike the paper directly and giving the desired impression.

• This is an extremely affordable innovation for a very noble cause – ‘education for blind’

Low Cost Braille Printer

Innovator : Santokh Singh & Khushwant Rai

Value addition work is being undertaken by NIF


• Club foot (talipes equinovarus) is a deformity of the foot and ankle in new born, where in the foot of a new born is twisted out of shape or position. Usually CT scans or MRI scans of the clubfeet are required to evaluate the deformities of the clubfoot, which are very expensive for the parents

• Moreover radiations of these scans have a negative effect on the soft skin of new born babies.

• Innovator has developed an economical device, which eliminates the need of any scan without causing any harmful effect on the soft skin of babies.

• Its a manual operated device and requires lesser time as compared to scanning.

Clubfoot Deformity Measuring Device

Innovator : Kanwaljit Singh Khas

Innovation has been tested at Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and All India Institute of Medical Science, Delhi, India (Ref: http://pih.sagepub.com)


• “Blee” is a product, which helps deaf dancer to understand music through haptic feedback

• It is a stylish wearable device worn on a finger

• It enables dancers to feel the desired beat on their skin.

• The wifi enabled wearable device can be paired with the Blee app to offer multiple ring synchronization, a customizable rhythm patterns and more features.

• Dancer can use a single Blee ring with a smart phone application or create a group of dancers and share and control the same choreography in the form of vibration pattern within the group.

Blee –The Rhythm within for Deaf

Innovator :Janhavi Joshi and Nupura Kirloskar

Innovator has developed a working prototype


Spoon for Parkinson's Patients

Innovator : Eepsit Tiwari, Rajesh Patidar and Dhyey Shah

• Innovators have modified a spoon, which allows patients to hold it without changing their normal eating position and is more convenient to use than normal spoons.

• This cost effective spoon contains small, mechanical components, requires less maintenance and is very durable.

• Patients suffering from hand/finger motion disorders are not able to eat comfortably and perform routine tasks independently.

• Parkinson’s disease is also very common among the elderly.

• Due to their inability to stabilize their hand while eating, patients commonly spill food and thus, depend on others to feed them.

Innovator has developed a working prototype


Modified writing pad for Parkinson's Patients

Innovator : Vidhi Parikh

• Many children suffer from neural disorders resulting in erratic motion of fingers/ hands, also those suffering from Parkinson’s disorder are not able to write clearly and comfortably.

• Value addition work is being undertaken by NIF• The technology is ready for commercialization.

• Innovator has modified a normal writing pad, which enables the users to write easily. • Two sliding movable supports have been mounted on a writing pad viz. the upper one

for horizontal motion for writing in a line and the lower one for vertical motion for changing the line.

• The wrist is tied to the upper movable support using a Velcro strip. Using this pad, one can also write easily while travelling in train or bus.


• Taparch, is a footwear to be used by the visually challenged assisting them to walk without using any hand held device or walking stick.

• It aids the person who has their eyesight less than 15 degree, in identifying and isolating the obstacles ahead of them within the normal range of four metre through specified / unspecified tracks and the obstacles which have no prior interaction with users.

• In this footwear, sensors are embedded in the shoe base, which identify ditches, slopes, stationary tangible objects, staircase etc.

Footwear for Visually Challenged / Blind

Innovator: Krishna Sia Inkoolo

A working prototype of the innovation has been developed


Battery operated tricycle for physically challenged

Innovator - Asjadbhai Dukka

• The tricycle works with the help of battery, DC Motor (24V and 21 Watt and 1.5Amp) and two gears

• It can run on any type of road and sandy terrains and slope also

• It is customised with low height adjustable push back seats, newspaper and water bottle carrier and a safety lock to prevent backward motion on the slopes

• The side arm support can be lifted up to enable the rider to climb up the seat easily

• It offers a comfortable and safe ride for people having paralysis or difficulty in walking

NIF fabricated a working prototype of the innovation


• Kouna (kind of grass) is synonymous with the exotic craft tradition of Manipur. • This manual machine can be operated by a low skilled worker or a physically

challenged person and can weave two mats per day, where as a traditional skilled mat weaver can only weave one mat in four days, including frill tying.

• The quality of the mats produced is better than those produced by traditional methods.

• This machine can also be used to make mats from grasses other than Kouna.

Kouna mat making machine

Innovator: Late Y Mangi Singh

• NIF fabricated a working prototype of the innovation • Many weavers of the region have been trained and are using the machine

Conventional method


• In this system, the accelerator is activated by pulling the pull type switch installed on the desk board.

• Brake pedal is either activated by a linkage mechanism connected to a brake pedal via a shaft and hand operated brake lever or by using an additional hydraulic cylinder, which is fed from the master cylinder.

• Clutch pedal is activated by a linkage mechanism similar to a brake pedal via a shaft and hand operated lever.

Car for Lower -Limb Physically Challenged

Innovator: Mujib Khan

Innovator has installed the system in more than a hundred four-wheelers


• In this system, controls are transferred manually by lever/linkage mechanism. The clutch mechanism is actuated by pushing the clutch frame downwards manually.

• Brake function is controlled manually using the brake lever middle as well as adjoining finger. Accelerator is operated with forefinger by pressing the accelerator lever downwards.

• The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) has certified it as suitable for fitting in various cars.

Retrofitted car for Physically Challenged

Innovator : Biju Varghese



• This system consists of a circuit, which uses the changes in breathing patterns to select several options such as food, water, etc.

• It thus enables paralyzed/ physically challenged people articulate their wish and be self-reliant in routine activities.

• The technology has a range of applications like operating a wheelchair, electronic appliances, prevention of accidents, detecting thefts, etc.

Breathing sensor apparatus to assist physically challenged

Innovator : Susant Patnaik

NIF fabricated a working prototype of the innovation.


• Innovator has modified an auto rickshaw steering in such a way that it can be controlled using hands only.

• He has attached the brake assembly to the steering handle using a hydraulic cylinder.

• The brakes are applied by pressing the steering handle of the auto rickshaw downwards.

• This innovation may help many more physically challenged people to be self-reliant.

Modification in auto rickshaw steering suitable for physically challenged

Innovator : K S Sudheer



• Innovator got an idea to make a device to assist people with low or poor vision by observing the students of a blind school close to his house.

• Some of them were suffering from glaucoma.

• He developed a system to assist low vision people in their day to day life.

• His system makes use of a zoom camera and a LCD.

• The camera zooms in distant images, which get displayed on the LCD present in front of the eyes.

• This camera and LCD arrangement is attached to a helmet worn by the person. The device aids the low vision person in perception and motion.

Device to assist low vision people

Innovator :Jyoti Ranjan Sahu

Innovator fabricated a working prototype of the innovation


This is a retrofitting device, which when attached to the crank set of a bicycle, can enable the user to ride the bicycle using one leg.

Innovator : Shubh Dholakiya

Detachable device for the bicycle enablinguser to ride with one leg



• This is a lower limb operated manual device to assist upper limb impaired or those with an injury

• He helps in turning/ flipping the pages of a book easily.

Foot operated manual page turning machine

Innovator : Swapnil Talukdar



• This is a multipurpose crutch equipped with a foldable seat, providing convenience and comfort for the handicapped people

• This innovation reduces the drudgery involved in walking long distances using a crutch without making a halt.

• One can stop whenever one feels like taking rest.

• The person does not have to sit on the ground, as standing up again without external help is not easy.

• Innovator also added a head light, an alarm, and a holder to place an umbrella in this crutch.

Crutch with seat

Innovator : Rakesh Patra



• Innovator herself being visually challenged has an idea to have a tricycle, which will have an inbuilt navigation system with an audio announcement feature to inform the rider about the places/landmarks enroute.

• Such a tricycle would make it is easy for a visually impaired person to travel.

Route indication system for the visually impaired

Innovator : Rashmi Maruvada

Proof-of-concept developed


• Three friends, who had gone to celebrate one of their friends birthday in an orphanage, were moved by the plight of lower limb challenged

• They came up with an idea of a wheelchair which can be modified in such a way that it can be folded easily and converted into a crutch

• It would greatly help to users to move around specially over stairs

Wheel chair convertible to crutches

Innovator : S Ramakishore and Sanjay Srinivas



• Innovator has modified the old car to make it suitable for lower limb physically challenged.

• He has transferred the clutch control in hands from the foot pedal by attaching a rod to the clutch pedal so that it could be pressed.

• He also put a small hook to hold the pressed rod (and the clutch) so that he could free his hands and change the gear.

• Once the gear is changed, the rod is unhooked and the clutch is released.

Innovator: Abdul Rashid Dar

Modification in car for physically challenged



• Not content being dependent on others for his transportation, Innovator, a lower limb physically challenged person decided to move ahead and do something for himself and people like him

• He modified a scooter to suit his needs. • The front seat has been removed to

accommodate him, the rear brake has been extended in form of a lever, so that he can operate it with his hand and two extra wheels have been used at the back for maintaining the balance of the vehicle.

• Despite his physical limitations he has proved that where there is a will there is a way

• He runs an electrical repairing workshop

Innovator : Dhanjibhai Kerai

Modified Scooter for the handicapped

Innovator carried out modification on his scooter only


• Innovator’s idea is to develop a gadget that can be worn on hand and moved over text or braille.

• The gadget will use sensors that scan text and braille and convert it into audio signals for the blind/ visually challenged.

Reading assistant for visually challenged

Innovator : Mayank Walia

Idea


Innovator : B Survesh,

• Sun glass with an inbuilt camera to capture images of people and places and tag them through voice commands

• These would be stored in an in-built database • The same is retrieved when a person is face-to-face by image

recognition, and signaling through audio output through the headphones

Artificial Assistance for Blind People

Idea


• Sway: The Rhythm Within• Date : Jan 12,2015

• Innovator : Janhavi Joshi

• Team Members : Nupura Kirloskar

• College : Mit Institute Of Design, Pune

• Submission Year : 2015

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaJourney-dancing ability for deaf

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaGift of New Abilities

Innovator : Shiva Kumar H R Team Members :

College : Indian Institute Of Science (iisc) : 2015

text to braille

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaOCR for Tamil & kannada to braille• Using Compatible Plug-in Ocrs For Any Language. The Tool Has Been Developed In Java Using Eclipse Swt And

Runs On Linux, Windows And Mac Operating Systems. This Gui And Editing Tool Has Been Developed As An Open Source Project And Is Available Under The Apache 2.0 License From Code.google.com. An Individual Scanned Page Or All The Pages Of A Whole Book Can Be Recognized By This Tool. The Output Can Be Saved In Rtf, Xml Or Brf (braille) Format Directly, By The Click Of A Button. There Is A Provision For Manually Selecting The Individual Columns Of A Two-column Printed Page Or Even Marking The Individual Rectangular Text Blocks Of A Page With A More Complex Manhattan Layout. The User Can Modify The Reading Order Of The So-selected Text Blocks. This Information Of Ordered Text Blocks Is Passed On To Any Ocr Integrated At The Backend Of The Tool And Hence The Recognized Text In Unicode Is Put Together In The Same Reading Order. In The Case Of Books With Identical Or Very Similar Text Layouts Across Its Pages, Such An User-defined Layout Can Be Saved As A Custom Layout And Automatically Applied To Segment The Other Pages Of The Same Book Or A Different Book Also. Our Own Ocr Plug-ins: currently, We Have Developed tamil And Kannada Ocrs. The Average Time Taken For Digitizing a Page Is Two Seconds. More Than 500 Tamil Books (school, College, Story And General) Have Been Converted By Our Ocr And Delivered As Braille Books To Hundreds Of Blind Students In Tamil Nadu. Our Ocr Has Been Installed Free Of Charge In Several Computers Of Rcmct worth Trust rehabilitation Centre, Chennai And They Have Been Running It As A Service For Blind Students For The Past 4 Years. Worth Trust Uses Our Ocr To Recognize And convert Printed Text To Unicode First And Then To Braille Code And Prints Them On A Braille Printer And Gives The Braille Book To The Requesting Blind Person. They Have Also Digitized Tamil Books For The Same Cause On Behalf Of Https://www.bookshare.org/. We Have Also Given It To Many Other Similar Organizations In Tamil Nadu. Similarly, We Have Given The Kannada Version To Some Voluntary Agencies And Individual Blind Students In Karnataka.

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaShoes help in navigating path

• Taparch: A Visually Challenged People Footwear• Innovator : Krishna Sai Inkoolu

• Team Members : Surya Swaroop T

• College : Gitam University • The One Foot Technology Aides The Underprivileged Visually Challenged People In Identifying And Isolating The Obstacle(s) In The Range Of(2-

400)cm Through Specified/unspecified Track


Snippets-memory Aid For People With Disability

Date : Jan 31,2013 Innovator : Devender Goyal Team Members : Aditi Srinivasan(bangalore) ,nirali Savla(mumbai) College : Iiit-hyderabad

National Innovation Foundation - IndiaUnable to remember, just in time recall

A Memory Aid Device That Recognizes People And Plays Back Important Snippets Of Conversations With Those People. The Design Is Such That It Can Be Conveniently Work By A Person. The Camera Is Designed To So Small That It Can Fit Into The Pendant For Females Or In The Collar For Males. The Earphones Can Be Worn Inside The Clothing Exposing The Minimal Part Of The Device To The Bystander. The Application Will Ultimately Run On Android Or Any Other Mobile Platform. Thus It Would Of Grate Help To Mentally Challenged. The Device Will Take A Snapshot Of The Person, Match It With The Userâ � � s Database Of People He Knows, And Play Back The Last Conversation With The Person, Thus Aiding The User To Remember Many People. The Device Is Useful At Large Gatherings, Especially For People With Memory Disabilites.


Electronic Support System For Physically Disabled(deaf & Dumb)

Innovator : Margie Ashok Joshi Team Members : Vishal Patel, Chirag Patel, Jay Patel

College : C.k.pithawalla Engg. College 2013


• Blind navigation system with terrain mapper is a navigation system (further work is being undertaken) where shoes can map the terrain using sensors and GPS.

• This information is shared as thermally in specially designed gloves worn by the blind.

Blind navigation system with terrain mapper

Idea

Innovator : Vignesh R, Manoj Kumar, Raghav Simhan


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