SAN DIEGO, April 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm
Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced the top eight finalists
in the first cycle of Qualcomm® Design in India Challenge II (QDIC II), registrations
for which started in January 2017.
These finalists were selected through a rigorous selection process
which culminated in an extensive pitch session in March 2017. Launched in association with National
Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), QDIC, now
a part of a larger initiative, Qualcomm Design in India Program (QDIP), encourages product
companies to create innovative hardware product designs
incorporating Qualcomm technologies and platforms.
In January 2017, Qualcomm had
announced an investment of USD $8.5
million for expansion of its design initiatives in
India, to be called henceforth the
'Qualcomm Design in India Program'
(QDIP). Under this program two key initiatives were announced:
- The Qualcomm Design in India
Challenge II, conducted in two Cycles through the year, and
responding to the guidance from Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Hon.
Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & IT, aims to
spur innovation in the domestic hardware ecosystem in the areas of
Smart Infrastructure, Biometric Devices, Payment Terminals,
Agricultural Technology, Medical Technology and Rural IoT.
- The launch of a new Qualcomm Innovation Lab (QIL) at
Hyderabad and expansion of its
current Innovation Lab in Bangalore to enable India mobile and IoT ecosystem by providing
advanced Camera, Audio, and RF design assistance.
Acknowledging the continued momentum of QDIC II in enabling
innovation, Ms. Aruna
Sundararajan, secretary, Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology, said, "We are happy to support and
encourage industry initiatives like the Qualcomm Design in
India Program that drives
technological innovation and aligns well with the mission of
Digital India. Emerging technologies, such as IOT and big data,
will sit at the heart of an empowered India that we envision. Programs like the
Qualcomm Design in India Challenge
can play a critical role in evangelizing the digital opportunity
and spurring invention. By engaging with smaller companies, this
initiative helps them scale faster and enables young entrepreneurs
in becoming problem solvers and solution builders."
"Innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Qualcomm.
We've set out to accelerate growth in the digital ecosystem and we
are thrilled to see an overwhelming response for QDIC in its second
consecutive year, with eight select technopreneurs ready to
transform their ideas from concept to product stage at our Qualcomm
Innovation Labs," said Jim Cathey,
senior vice president and president, Asia
Pacific & India,
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. "We are excited to help build a vibrant
ecosystem that will scale to support the multifaceted needs of a
truly hyper-connected world."
The eight shortlisted companies for the second edition of the
QDIC are:
- iSquare Mobility Pvt. Ltd. – Concept – A portable wireless
tele-medical solution to prescreen for breast cancer
- Avanijal Agri Automation Pvt. Ltd. – Concept – Bluetooth to
enhance smart irrigation controller - sensor data collection,
control of motors and valves and managing the controller from a
smartphone
- Alexapath Private Limited – Concept – Smart accessories for
microscope that makes any conventional microscope smarter - produce
digital scan of slides, share it with peers, live consultation and
archival of slides
- iBot Control Systems India Pvt. Ltd. – Concept – Make a single
board that can be used by industry and academia to build IoT apps
with iBot Toolsets
- Hug Innovations LLP – Concept – A first of its kind device
developer platform "Hug Gestures SDK", that enables the integration
and extension of a proprietary gesture control technology with
smart devices, mobile apps and PC software
- Steradian Semiconductors Private Limited – Concept – Build a
high resolution 4D radar that will enable true all-weather vision
for autonomous vehicles and drones
- Stellapps Technologies Pvt. Ltd. – Concept – Wi-Fi sensor
module - wimote and IoT router - cloudtrak that can be used for
smart automatic milk collection unit (smartAMCU), cold-chain
monitoring as part of Stellapps IoT platform
- Tagbox Solutions Private Limited – Concept – An ultra-low power
wireless platform targeted towards improving efficiency of cold
storage and logistics by monitoring and controlling key health
parameters like temperature, relative humidity, gas, energy, door
activity, etc.
Enabled by the Qualcomm Technology Licensing team, these top
eight companies will now be incubated in the Qualcomm Innovation
Lab and two winners will each receive a prize money of USD
$75,000 at the end of the incubation
period expected in August 2017.
More information on Qualcomm Design in India Challenge:
http://www.qualcomm.co.in/design-in-india
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