Dear friends,

This World Water Day, I thought to share my thoughts on the issues of water in India — what have I understood regarding this? Have we really reached the point of crisis in the urban water supply? What are the underlying factors or root causes for this? How can we address these? What role does FluxGen play in being part of the solution?

Understanding Water

The sources of water include seawater, and freshwater, which includes surface water — like lakes and rivers, and groundwater — like that extracted from borewells. Only freshwater, which accounts for 2% of the…

I want to take you on a journey of Bangalore, a city I grew up in, heading towards a water crisis and how am I affected by this whole journey.

My father tells me about how Bangalore was known as the city of lakes before it changed to the Garden city. Only recently did Bangalore get recognized as the IT capital of India. At a given point of time, there were more than 300 lakes in Bangalore. The city met its water needs from the Dharmambudi lake, where today a sprawling city bus stand exists. My father shares that like…

It’s not that the crisis for water arose out of thin air like a star transforming into a UFO and emerging right out of the clear blue skies, it has been prevailing for over decades now. So, why has water conservation become a hot topic so suddenly? That’s because this invaluable resource isn’t invaluable anymore and all it seeks is the true understanding of its value. Rather than treating water, as an inexhaustible resource, it’s important for us to draw our attention towards its scarce nature and steps must be taken to extract it from its endangerment, otherwise, mankind won’t…

Dear friends,

I’m offering the 2-credit course on IoT and Data Science for CleanTech and AgriTech in association with Dr. Vijay Mishra (CEO -CTO Center for Nano Science and Engineering CeNSE at IISc)at the Center for Continuing Education at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore starting from August 6th (every Tuesday 6pm to 8pm). This is a certification course from the Indian Institute of Science for the working professionals running for nearly 40 years mostly offered by the full time faculty of the institute. For last three years I have been been offering courses centered around IoT, either from Industrial…

Dear Friends,

I started the course “Product Prototyping in IoT” in association with Dr. Vijay Mishra in January at Center for Continuing Education at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with a mission to help my students build products using Internet of Things. I’m glad the students are developing very interesting product prototypes namely: Indoor Positioning System, Water Quality Monitoring, School Bus Tracking System, Cheat Buzzer for Exams, Smart Infant Warmer, Block spot and garbage detection system, Smart home automation and Indoor Security System. Today I conducted the midterm test to check the depth at which they have been able to…

Dear friends,

Greetings from Bangalore!

I’m writing this post to share my experience of visiting Gujarat with three of my colleagues to present FluxGen’s work at Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit. I’m sure you would have heard of the event in the news and social media that it is an biennial investors summit organized by Government of Gujarat for business, trade and tourism promotion of Gujarat started by the incumbent Prime Minister of India and the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Sri Narendra Modi in the year 2003. Before I go more into the event, let me tell you that next…

Dear friends,

Merry Christmas and an advanced new year wishes to you all. I wish the new year brings joy and happiness to you and your family.

I’m writing this post to share about the course “Product Prototyping in IoT” that I’m offering with Dr. Vijay Mishra (CTO of CeNSE, IISc) at the Center for Continuing Education, Indian Institute of Science. The course is offered for Engineering Graduates (BE/BTech any branch) and MCA/MSc graduates with keen interest in Internet of Things and product prototyping. Its a two credit certification course from the Indian Institute of Science starting from the second…

Dear friends,

As you know, I have been offering a semester long course on Industrial Internet of Things at the Center for Continuing Education at Indian Institute of Science, for a couple of years now. I’m glad the course had full registration (40) during previous semester and the students responded to my experiments in the classroom with great enthusiasm. It was delightful to have collaborated with Dr. Pavan Tallapragada, faculty at Electrical Engineering Department, IISc, who was also my senior in Mass Spectrometer lab during my time as as student in the institute. Since this course is for students outside…