23092025 Hyderabad, CMRCET:
- Which campus innovation impressed you most, and why?
- How do hackathons influence StartUp success rates in India?
- Can India’s students out-innovate global peers in hardware solutions?
- What barriers still exist for student StartUps to reach national scale?
- How can corporate partners support hackathon winners post-event?
What happens when 100+ student teams, one visionary research center and an army of drones, robots and AI ideas collide on a single campus?
The results aren’t just awards; they’re blueprints for Bharath’s next big StartUp wave. Ready to discover which crazy concepts made our jury’s heads spin?
Welcome to the wild, wonderful world of campus innovation, where caffeine-fueled brains birth next-gen tech marvels like “FlyCart” and “DarkRakshak” drones before lunch!
As a jury member at CMRCET’s Internal Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2025, the experience was akin to witnessing India’s brightest engineering minds speed-date with the future, all under the watchful eye of CEER—the Center for Engineering Education and Research.
CEER, since 2018, has nurtured curiosity and practical prowess through experiential and project-based learning. This year, student enthusiasm reached fever pitch with nearly 100 innovative submissions, each more daring than the last.
Judging hardware concepts think Power from Sand and RailSuraksha’s solar bots—were a reminder that ‘Make In Bharath’ is more than a slogan; it’s a call to action for StartUps and investors alike.
Inventions ran the gamut: drones ferrying supplies across sprawling campuses, sand batteries electrifying rural dreams, and robots monitoring rail safety while sipping solar juice.
SmartBins and Safex signaling put city municipalities and rural drivers on high alert, while RescueWings and AquaMithra offered lifelines during floods and water crises. Whether it was voice-control for driverless cars or swarm drones seeking missing persons, AI, ML and robotics took center stage.
The SIH is more than a judged competition; it’s a launchpad where Indian StartUp ambitions get a reality check and tech-savvy solutions meet urgent societal needs. For founders, investors and ecosystem stalwarts, these hackathons are a window into India’s innovation engine, raw, real and raring to go.
As India’s hackathon circuit continues to unearth practical genius, these student-driven prototypes challenge what’s possible in hardware, AI and real-world applications. A few that I remember are as below:
- FlyCart – Drone delivery of sensitive items within huge camps
- SandBattery: Power stored through thermal storage property in the sand. This is Ideal for villages where power is a rare commodity.
- RailSuraksha: A mobile robot that check the rail tracks, using Solar Panels for power, for cracks or missing bolts.
- Vyashti: Smart Dust Bins that segregate and inform the municipal workers when 80% is full.
- Safex: Smart signaling systems that avoid accidents at village highway junctions.
- RescueWings: Smart drones that trace and supply materials in Flood Prone area
- Insulated Delivery Bag: Perfectly insulated and temp controlled delivery bags for food delivery agents with 2 compartments for hot and cold foods.
- The Fixers: a voice Operated Communicative for Automobiles, especially for driver-less Cars.
- AquaMithra: Portable, economical water testing kit that recognizes micro plastics in potable Water.
- Verdenaut: Drone that detects the exact infected plant in the farm and sprays pesticide.
- Mystify: An apparatus thart harvest fog and supplies purified potable water.
- TechBow: Dog companion to kids made from natural sustainable materials. This is a mini robot that barks, moves and entertains the child in the absence of the parents or guardians. Also a security device that detects a stranger and send the SoS image alert to the parent mobile
- FloodWatch: A box that sends signals to the authorities when the water level crosses the danger level.
- AutoGuardian: When a child is locked in a car, it supplies oxygen, as the life sustaining gas levels are becoming low, will automatically lower the glass windows for more air from outside and give a beep signal to the passers while intimating the car owners mobile.
- DarkRakshak: Drone Swarms that are good to supply rescue materials to people and find the missing ones. The set up has a mother drone docked with five smaller drones that go out for searching missing people during calamities.
Which idea do you wish would get funded? Dive deeper—who knows, the next unicorn might be on this list. Explore the full article, ask the tough questions, and be part of the future today!
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