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About The Center

BSNL IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence (BITCOE) , at IIT Kanpur, came into existence on 12th December 2007 with the signing of a tri-partite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Telecommunication, Government of India, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), during the inauguration ceremony of India Telecom 2007 , presided over by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.

Research Agenda

BSNL IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence (BITCOE) focuses on ‘Multimedia and Telecom, Cognitive Radio and Computational Mathematics' to build excellence which is at par with world standards. Various existing and emerging technologies, growth prediction and technology adaptation in Indian context, application development using multiple technologies etc form the broad spectrum of activities of the centre.

Ongoing Projects

Commercially Viable Professional Courses

Digital Mandi Application for Indian Kisan

Commercially Viable Professional Courses

Research Labs

Multimodal Information Processing Systems Lab
Networks Lab
Digital Signal Processing Lab
IPv6 lab
Microwave Lab
Mobile Communications Lab
Multimedia Wireless Networks Lab
Power Management Lab
Wireless Communications Coding and Cognitive Radio Lab

Technologies Developed

Digitalmandi for Indian Kisan

Dr. Rajesh M Hegde

Testing of Rural Power Plantwith VMC (2nd Phase)

Dr. Santanu Mishra

Digitalmandi for Indian Kisan Technology Flowchart

Dr. Rajesh M Hegde

Parallel Operation and Power Factor Improvement Of a Variable Input Phase Rectifier

Dr. Santanu Mishra

BSNL Mobile Cellular Network Optmisation

Dr. A R Harish

Design and Implementation of IPv6 Traffic Generator, IPv6 Traffic Analyzer and IPv6-IPv4 Translator

Navpreet Singh

Parallel Operation and Power Factor Improvement Of a Variable Input Phase Rectifier (3rd Phase)

Dr. Santanu Mishra

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Commercially Viable Professional Courses

( Non-commercial )

Project Investigator : A K Chaturvedi

Co Project Investigator : A Banerjee

Commercially Viable Professional Course

This project is intended to develop technical competence among the engineers and other professionals through different short term courses on various advanced technologies of wireless communication systems. The courses provide the participants with a comprehensive treatment of a number of promising research topics, open problems, potential research directions, and ideas for developing state-of-the-art testbeds. Since the inception of this project, every year, on an average two courses are organized by Department of Electrical Engineering and BITCOE at IIT Kanpur. All the classes are conducted in "classroom" style towards building up the various theoretical aspects beginning with the fundamentals, together with problem solving sessions to further enhance and consolidate understanding.

Speakers:

Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, Dept. of Electrical Enginering, IIT Kanpur.
Prof. Adrish Banerjee, Dept. of Electrical Enginering, IIT Kanpur.
Prof. Ketan Rajawat, Dept. of Electrical Enginering, IIT Kanpur.

Targeted Audience:

Practicing wireless system engineers.
Graduate Students Pursuing Research in Wireless Communications.
Teachers of engineering colleges.
Interested undergraduate students with good academic record.

Upcoming short course:

Technologies for 5G Wireless Communication Networks (July 25th-27th 2016).

Previous short courses:

Convex optimization for Wireless Communications (November 16th-18th 2015).
Estimation Theory for Communications and Signal Processing (January 21st-23rd 2015).
Short course on "Detection Theory for Communications and Signal Processing (April 27th-29th 2015).
Convex Optimization for Wireless Communications (September 15th-17th 2014).
Cognitive Radio: A New Paradign in Wireless (October 20th-22nd 2013).
Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Challenges (July 22nd-24th 2013).
MIMO/OFDM based Advanced 4G Cellular Networks (January 11th-13th 2013).
Wireless Sensor Networks: From Theory to Practice (May 24th-26th 2012).
Cognitive Radio: Next Frontier in Wireless Communications (October 20th-22nd 2011).
OFDM based 4G cellular standards: LTE and WiMAX (May 09-11, 2011).
Cognitive Radio: The Next Frontier in Wireless Communications (November 23rd-25th 2010).
Introduction to LTE (at C-DOT, Bangalore).
OFDM based Next Generation Wireless Standards (May 17th-19th 2010).
Wireless Circuits and Systems (jointly organized by USM Malaysia at Penang, Malaysia, in December 2009).
Cellular Technologies: 3G and Beyond (December 26th-28th 2009) .
Audio & Video: Processing, Transmission, Coding and Display (November-December 2007).
Principles and Practices in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) (November 2007).

DigitalMandi For Indian Kisan

Commerciable (process ongoing)

Project Investigator : Rajesh M Hegde

DigitalMandi For Indian Kisan

“DigitalMandi for Indian Kisan” is a unique web and cell phone based multimodal agriculture commodity price retrieval system. It has been developed by BITCOE (BSNL IIT-Kanpur Centre of Excellence) at IIT-Kanpur. The application service was formally inaugurated by Hon’ble MOC & IT on 29th August 2011 and is operational since then. This service provides a registered farmer alerts through SMS and/or voice on his mobile about selected mandi rates of selected crops. In this way, this presents a unique web and cell phone based multi modal agriculture commodity pricing retrieval system. The query and retrieval can be done via internet kiosks or on any GPRS enabled cell phone For this service a farmer can register either through the help of officials available in Mandis (assisted mode) or directly through his mobile phone by SMS or on WAP portal. The registration menu has been prepared by IIT- Kanpur. This service shall be made available on subscription basis at very economical rates which will be deducted from his mobile phone. The system is multi lingual. English and other Indian Languages namely Hindi, Punjabi and Kannada are supported. Currently, the application has been deployed on the BSNL national network in Orissa and Haryana .It supports around 25000 farmers in Orissa and around 11000 in Haryana benefit from this unique service. The unique aspects of this system are that both the queries and the retrieval are multi modal. The service is now majorly operated from IIT Kanpur itself .

Introduction:

“Digital Mandi Application for Indian Kisan” is a unique web and cell phone based multimodal agriculture commodity price retrieval system. It has been developed by BITCOE (BSNL IIT-Kanpur Centre of Excellence) at IIT-Kanpur. BITCOE came into existence on 12th December 2007 with the signing of a tri-partite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Department of Telecommunication, Government of India, BSNL & IIT Kanpur. “Digital Mandi Application for Indian Kisan” service was formally inaugurated by Hon’ble MOC & IT on 29th August 2011 and is operational since then.

This service provides a registered farmer alerts through SMS and/or voice on his mobile about selected mandi rates of selected crops. For this service a farmer can register either through the help of officials available in Mandis (assisted mode) or directly through his mobile phone by SMS or on WAP portal. The registration menu has been prepared by IIT- Kanpur. This service shall be made available on subscription basis at very economical rates which will be deducted from his mobile phone. For a crop the subscription time is expected to be about 3 months. Additionally the registration is also being done by the agricultural officers of Odisha State as it has been selected as the first state for deployment. A pictorial illustration of the system is illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1: A pictorial representation of an Indian farmer querying crop prices using his cell phone

The system works in two modes:

GPRS Mode: This is meant for the savvy farmer with access to GPRS phones. The GPRS Mode system has the following features:
- Both queries and the retrieval are multi modal.
- The queries can be placed through both image and textual modalities.
- The delivery of the required information is done through the textual modality.
- Multi modal retrieval is realized by delivering the requested agro commodity price via a voice call placed to the subscriber.
- Additional Voice based access is also provided.
- for non GPRS enabled cell phone users making the system truly multi modal.
- The system can be accessed by even a very economic cell phone of say Rs. 1500.
Offline and Web Based Registration Mode:

This mode is for the Common Famer with access to a simple cell phone with an activated SIM card of any service provider. In this mode the farmer registers at his nearest mandi with the State APMC officers/data entry operator help. The registration data is recorded at IIT Kanpur database. Depending on the choice of the farmer Both SMS and Voice calls in their local languages are sent to the farmer as per his choice.

Other Unique features in GPRS mode :

Another unique feature of this system is the outbound calling feature. Using this feature of the system the farmer can just type in his cell phone number in case he is not able read the local language (Hindi) and the system places an outbound call to his cell phone with the price of the commodity he requested for. The outbound calling feature as displayed on the cell phone is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 : The final screen in the Mandi price retrieval system showing the outbound calling feature.

Summary Features of service :

A user registration form is provided on the cell phone wher a user can register his name, desired mandi names, and desired crops. Once the registration is done the next time a user browses the digital mandi he will be directly provided with both text and voice based access in his native chosen language

The system can provide information in Haryana and UP (Hindi), Punjab (Punjabi), and Karnataka (Kannada) currently Other states and languages will be added later.
An option for direct access is also provided. Thus the guest Users can also avail the Text and Voice Response Features.
An option called ‘My mandi’ is provided where the user can directly access his selected mandi and crop prices.
The option of receiving SMS based prices is provided.
Prices of selected Mandi’s and Crops delivered to the farmer through Text and Voice alerts to the Farmers.
Voice Response Generated using a Natural Sounding Text to Speech Synthesis System.

Status of integration with NIC servers and collaboration with Ministry of Agriculture :

For the “Digital Mandi” service, data is taken by solution (presently located at IIT-Kanpur) from NIC servers through web integration. Currently the price of agro commodities is being retrieved from the Agmarknet portal maintained by NIC and facilitated by an MOU with the Ministry of Agriculture. The frequency of fetching data from NIC server by solution can be as per requirement. On NIC servers’ data is updated directly by APMCs from local mandis on regular basis(twice a day).