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Intel India Embedded Challenge 2014,

Team ID- iec_14_425Team Members- Shubham

Institution / Organization

Creatives-Corner

1. Title of the Abstract

Autonomous Virtual Classroom System for Schools in Villages andUnderdeveloped Regions for Standardized Education.

2. Theme / Application Area

Smart Solutions for Social Cause (Education)

3. Abstract

.This is 21st century but still there are places in India where standardeducation is not available. The fate of Indian villagers education isdependent on the person who is controlling the schools. Sometimes he isa principal and in the worst case he is an individual who is not even welleducated. So, to solve this, an education system which is self-sufficientwith minimal assistance can be obvious. The Autonomous VirtualClassroom System comprises of the basic requirements to solve thisinevitable problem of rural schooling. This system is designed to be easilyinstalled and operated without human interferences.

For delivering the courses, there is an A/V output system, where video isdelivered to the medium sized screen via the low powered projector. Thestandard video lectures from eminent faculties from the nation for differentsubjects and levels and different languages is stored in the memory so asto make every classroom in villages the same. This eliminates the scarcityof good teachers in rural India. There is a remote server from which allthese classrooms are connected centrally. The virtual classroom has astudent record database system, where the daily record of students isrecorded.

The basic operations of a modern school are done by this system too. Theattendance of the technician and the students on daily basis is done by bioscans such as fingerprint in this case. This also facilitates the ease ofeducating more students and eliminating the root cause problems forabsence of the students. If a student is absent regularly for few days then,the system can send notification to the technician who can check thesituation which can be anything from financial or health reasons and can


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be solved by the gram panchayats and other authorities so that thestudent can continue the studies.

There is a central processing unit based on Intel atom processor, with allthe other components. There is a A/V output. Apart from this, there is a

gsm module and a remote connection unit. Biometric figure print scannerand some basic I/O units are embedded. The system is programmed to beautonomous in operation so as to minimize human interference and so asto eliminate mistakes and punctuality is maintained.

4. What do you think is innovative or novel about your project? You mayhighlight the merits of your project, and specific relevance in the Indiancontext, if any.

This project can bridge the gap between the rural education system and

the modern education qualities without much effort in terms of humanresource and infrastructure but still delivering the best education. Byimplementing such systems, the students of rural India can also be taughtwith the best faculties from the world and our nation.

One of the most troublesome tasks for the human resource department ofthe states is to recruit good teachers in the rural and remote locations.Which results in recruitment of a teacher who dont have the righteducation, right methodology to teach and also total control of the schoolgoes into his/her hands, which sometimes results in misuse of power andcontrol.

Also, since this system is autonomous and every operation is timed one,punctuality is maintained which is absent now-a-days in rural schools. Theother advantage of such a system is to eliminate the monopoly of singleadministrator of the schools. Also the root causes for schools to becomeinfamous among the students will be eliminated to further extent. And dueto the recorded databases, the analysis of different methodologies,problems resulting in absence of students whether due to diseases, ordue to family problems or else can be eliminated by focusing on thoseproblems on mass.

5. What are the existing solutions available in market today (provide specificURLs).

Currently no such complete solutions are available in the market today.But few attempts are there. But either they are for online classrooms orthey are just assistive to the regular classrooms.


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For example, the WizIQ.com offers virtual classrooms for live onlineclasses.

url:http://www.wiziq.com/Virtual_Classroom.aspx

But its for modern cities who have regular access to computers, laptopsand internet connectivity. And its main purpose is to assist the regularclasses.

6. What is the work done so far? Please provide specific results/prototypeyou have obtained/done till now.

Firstly, system identification, understanding the process and identificationof the relationship between input and output, the requirement definition,determination of the needs the product has to meet, taking into account

the possibly conflicting (technical, functional and non-functional) and deepresearch and brainstorming was done.

System specification and the functional designing were done with minorchanges during the further steps. Furthermore, the components and subprocesses were defined for the system to work as per the design. Detaileddesign, resulting in a concrete structure of all modules from which thesystem must be made was done.

Input and Output definitions for particular inputs, what the output of thesystem will be was done. Based on the above points, available

technologies were reviewed and selection of which devices will fulfill all therequirements while balancing efficiency, cost, and time-to-market wasdone. Integration of the components was designed. Video output is underdevelopment.

7. When did you start your project & what is your plan for completion?

This project was started in April this year and plans are to complete thisproject by the mid of November this year.

8. Please provide in brief, any additional information for consideration of yourproject to next level?(You may include your specific expertise, skill set, past innovation etc)

This project is vital for a educated tomorrow. The rural population of Indiais a major area to be covered. And such a system can assist a bettergrowth opportunities in India and abroad too. This system can be installedin remote locations too with solar powers and other renewable power
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sources where there is no electricity. This will make sustainabledevelopment possible.

I am an entrepreneur. By education a designer and by profession a webdeveloper and designer. I have been interested in hobby electronics from

my college days. And being active in the social community, this projectgains my ultimate interest in this field.

9. References

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2. Virtual Classroom System, Rajnish Kumar and Swati Shahi, International

Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) - Volume4-Issue4- April

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5.Biometric encryption using fingerprint fuzzy vault for FPGA-based embedded

systems, Bakhteri, R. and Khalil Hani, M. ,TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region10 Conference.

6.Video Output Forindustrial Embedded Systems, Lajos Losonczi and Iuliu

Szekely, 6th International Conference On Electrical And Power Engineering, 28-

30 October 2010.7. An Embedded Real-Time Surveillance System:Implementation and Evaluation,

Fredrik Kristensen, Hugo Hedberg, Hongtu Jiang, Peter Ilsson And Viktor

OWallcccd, Journal of Signal Processing Systems 52, 7594, 2008.8.http://w3.siemens.com/mcms/pc-based-automation/en/industrial-pc /support/

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