Team ID- iec_14_425 Team Members- Shubham Institution / Organization Creatives-Corner
1. Title of the Abstract
Autonomous Virtual Classroom System for Schools in Villages and Underdeveloped Regions for Standardized Education.
2. Theme / Application Area
Smart Solutions for Social Cause (Education)
3. Abstract . This is 21 st century but still there are places in India where standard education is not available. The fate of Indian villagers education is dependent on the person who is controlling the schools. Sometimes he is a principal and in the worst case he is an individual who is not even well educated. So, to solve this, an education system which is self-sufficient with minimal assistance can be obvious. The Autonomous Virtual Classroom System comprises of the basic requirements to solve this inevitable problem of rural schooling. This system is designed to be easily installed and operated without human interferences.
For delivering the courses, there is an A/V output system, where video is delivered to the medium sized screen via the low powered projector. The standard video lectures from eminent faculties from the nation for different subjects and levels and different languages is stored in the memory so as to make every classroom in villages the same. This eliminates the scarcity of good teachers in rural India. There is a remote server from which all these classrooms are connected centrally. The virtual classroom has a student record database system, where the daily record of students is recorded.
The basic operations of a modern school are done by this system too. The attendance of the technician and the students on daily basis is done by bio scans such as fingerprint in this case. This also facilitates the ease of educating more students and eliminating the root cause problems for absence of the students. If a student is absent regularly for few days then, the system can send notification to the technician who can check the situation which can be anything from financial or health reasons and can be solved by the gram panchayats and other authorities so that the student can continue the studies.
There is a central processing unit based on Intel atom processor, with all the other components. There is a A/V output. Apart from this, there is a gsm module and a remote connection unit. Biometric figure print scanner and some basic I/O units are embedded. The system is programmed to be autonomous in operation so as to minimize human interference and so as to eliminate mistakes and punctuality is maintained.
4. What do you think is innovative or novel about your project? You may highlight the merits of your project, and specific relevance in the Indian context, if any.
This project can bridge the gap between the rural education system and the modern education qualities without much effort in terms of human resource and infrastructure but still delivering the best education. By implementing such systems, the students of rural India can also be taught with the best faculties from the world and our nation.
One of the most troublesome tasks for the human resource department of the states is to recruit good teachers in the rural and remote locations. Which results in recruitment of a teacher who dont have the right education, right methodology to teach and also total control of the school goes into his/her hands, which sometimes results in misuse of power and control.
Also, since this system is autonomous and every operation is timed one, punctuality is maintained which is absent now-a-days in rural schools. The other advantage of such a system is to eliminate the monopoly of single administrator of the schools. Also the root causes for schools to become infamous among the students will be eliminated to further extent. And due to the recorded databases, the analysis of different methodologies, problems resulting in absence of students whether due to diseases, or due to family problems or else can be eliminated by focusing on those problems on mass.
5. What are the existing solutions available in market today (provide specific URLs) . Currently no such complete solutions are available in the market today. But few attempts are there. But either they are for online classrooms or they are just assistive to the regular classrooms.
For example, the WizIQ.com offers virtual classrooms for live online classes.
url: http://www.wiziq.com/Virtual_Classroom.aspx
But its for modern cities who have regular access to computers, laptops and internet connectivity. And its main purpose is to assist the regular classes.
6. What is the work done so far? Please provide specific results/prototype you have obtained/done till now.
Firstly, system identification, understanding the process and identification of 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 deep research and brainstorming was done.
System specification and the functional designing were done with minor changes during the further steps. Furthermore, the components and sub processes were defined for the system to work as per the design. Detailed design, resulting in a concrete structure of all modules from which the system must be made was done.
Input and Output definitions for particular inputs, what the output of the system will be was done. Based on the above points, available technologies were reviewed and selection of which devices will fulfill all the requirements while balancing efficiency, cost, and time-to-market was done. Integration of the components was designed. Video output is under development.
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 this project by the mid of November this year.
8. Please provide in brief, any additional information for consideration of your project 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 India is a major area to be covered. And such a system can assist a better growth opportunities in India and abroad too. This system can be installed in remote locations too with solar powers and other renewable power sources where there is no electricity. This will make sustainable development possible.
I am an entrepreneur. By education a designer and by profession a web developer and designer. I have been interested in hobby electronics from my college days. And being active in the social community, this project gains my ultimate interest in this field.
9. References
1. http://web.njit.edu/~turoff/Papers/DesigningVirtualClassroom.html 2. Virtual Classroom System, Rajnish Kumar and Swati Shahi, International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) - Volume4-Issue4- April 2013 4. http://www.eeherald.com/section/design-guide/esmod19.html 5. Biometric encryption using fingerprint fuzzy vault for FPGA-based embedded systems, Bakhteri, R. and Khalil Hani, M. , TENCON 2009 - 2009 IEEE Region 10 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/ Documents/wp_industrial-pc_intel_atom_en.pdf