CMRIT Bangalore’s software team wins Smart India Hackathon 2022

NEW DELHI: CMR Institute of Technology (CMRIT) Bangalore’s students won the Smart India Hackathon 2022 for developing a website and mobile application. The software team, Code Hydrotopes were awarded a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh at the SIH 2022 grand finale held on August 25 and 26.

The Code Hydrotopes team worked on a problem statement given by the Central Water Commission (CWC), Ministry of Jal Shakti where they developed a website and a mobile application for predicting crops for a particular season based on water availability.

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“With India’s growing water crisis due to exploited farming methods and depleted groundwater levels, many farmers across India are facing problems involving water shortages that lead to low productivity of crops. The application that was created by Code Hydrotopes suggests planting various other crops instead of the conventional crops that farmers used to grow regularly so that they can minimize the risks of low productivity and loss in their venture. The judges commented that this application is going to help thousands of farmers for selecting the right crop for the season,” an official statement from CMRIT said.

Engineering team

The team believes that this is the beginning of their endeavours toward innovations on societal needs. The team was led by Vaibhav B (ECE) and other members include Louise Patra (CSE), Manisha Kumari (CSE), Mohnish Kamalaksha (ECE), Devadathan Menon (CSE), and Adithya Anbazhagan (CSE). The team was mentored by Sharmila K P, Adarsh Rag S and Pratik Mukesh Bharuka.

5 teams were selected for the SIH grand finale from CMRIT among which 3 were software teams and 2 were hardware teams. Among 75 nodal centres, team Code Hydrotopes from CMRIT participated in Prin L N Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research (We School), Mumbai nodal centre.

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Sanjay Jain, Principal CMRIT congratulated the entire team and encouraged students to work on finding solutions for the problems that are relevant to society.

SIH is a nationwide initiative of the Ministry of Education (MoE) to provide students with a platform to solve some of the pressing problems of the society, and thus inculcate a culture of product innovation and a mindset of problem-solving.