 a very warm welcome to all of you. So I am Mohammed Kasim, currently serving as the national coordinator for the FOSI GIS team here from IIT Bombay. It is actually a very important moment for us from the FOSI project because a very warm welcome to all of you. A lot of effort. So I am Mohammed Kasim, currently serving as the national coordinator for the FOSI GIS team. Let's start again. Okay. So good afternoon to all of you. My name is Mohammed Kasim. I'm currently serving as the national coordinator for the GIS vertical of the FOSI project here at IIT Bombay. FOSI is a project which promotes the usage of open source software, free and open source software in education and also in industry. We have multiple streams, multiple activities including internships, summer fellowships, lab migration program, silab on cloud. Now today we are going to have the launch of Arduino on cloud. So we have several activities in our fold for the benefit of the student and faculty who are currently associated with colleges across India. So first of all, we are very much thankful to the Ministry of Education, Government of India who are supporting us through the national mission on education through ICT. So without taking much of your time, I'll just go through the schedule that we have for today. So after the introduction, we will have Mr Rajesh Kushalkar. He is the national coordinator and the senior manager here at IIT Bombay. And he looks after the open source hardware division under which all IOT open source based IOT activities and open PLC activities are grouped under. And after Mr Rajesh Kushalkar, we will have our principal investigator, our boss, Professor Kannan Mughalya. He will be joining us in some time soon after Mr Rajesh Kushalkar session. So he will deliver the keynote address and also inaugurate this session formally. Following that, we will have Mr. Nova who is joining us all the way from Brazil online, San Francisco, I'm sorry. So San Francisco, he's the founder of ElectroBlocks. We welcome you Mr. Nova for this session. And after that, one of our Farsi alumni, Mr. Sudhakar, he is currently associated with MathWorks. He's a software engineer there. He will share his experience. In fact, he's also one of the co-authors of the book that we are going to launch today. So he will be giving a talk and following which we have Mrs. Pushav Svanathan here. So she is our senior manager. She coordinates the overall activity of Farsi, all the tools combined. So she will be making a brief presentation of what Farsi is all about. After that, we have Mr. Nagesh Karmali. He's the senior project executive officer here at IOT Bombay. And he's one of the main person behind constructing the Arduino and cloud platform which we are going to launch today. After that, we have one special session which we have dedicated to our partner agency, ICFOS. ICFOS stands for International... So ICFOS is an entity which is part of the Department of Electronics and IT Government of Kerala. So they have been associated with us for the past 12 years. And we are happy to announce that we are reviving the partnership with ICFOS this year with a lot more activities which we will be announcing after this session. And finally, we request college faculty who have come here to join this session to share their feedback and opinion. And also we request the students to do so. And we will end the session with a vote of thanks given by Mrs. Venita Parment who is the senior project manager here at the Farsi project. So this is the schedule for today. Now I request Mr. Nagesh Koshalkar to take over the session and he will be delivering a talk on the overview of free and open source software. And a brief bio about Mr. Nagesh Koshalkar. He has been associated with IIT Bombay for the past 25 years at various capacities. And his team was instrumental in building the Clicker app which colleges have used consistently. And as I said, he is currently managing the open source hardware division of the Farsi project. And he will give you the complete overview of what we do here from Farsi and the activities which are associated. Go to you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Kasim. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Kasim. So I'll just thanks for the introduction. So I'm heading the open source hardware under the Farsi. So my major work goes, my full total experience till now is in hardware only, majorly. So I've been associated with Professor Patak initially where we have developed smart card projects. So low cost pause system for the vendors and a lot of other activities under pause for low cost NAS device for the LIC projects also and many more. So Clicker was one of the small part what we have also developed which was used by many of the institutions across India. And after that I'm associated with Farsi and heading the open source hardware plant. So major work what goes with Farsi here is promoting open source tools and what do you say, boards like Ardino, Raspberry Pi, Ardino, Nano, Picos, Raspberry Pi, Picos, all those things, boards how we can use in our education systems. So there are a lot of experiments what we can do with Ardino. Basically from just trying to learn coding because Ardino is used widely for the schools also nowadays. So it's from the very basic starting of the because today morning also we had a session for the schools where we have been teaching how to use Ardino with block programming. So they don't require any coding language or anything not to understand but definitely they can just drag and drop the blocks and just try to figure out some numbers and operate it. So this way the students who are not used to programming they don't understand the concept and all that they can definitely use the block programming. So this is how we have been training. So we have got a series of tutorials under in the spoken tutorial where a student can learn from the very basics of Ardino. It starts from understanding what are the different components because major time it happens for the students what are the different components. They don't know what is relay what is register. So very from the basic starts we have gone to creating and robot, a Bluetooth control robot. After that it divides into the IoT part also. So students can learn how I can use Ardino for the IoT activities also this all things they are covered under the spoken tutorials. And after that we do promote a lot of other activities like our one of my friend he has developed a software called Ardinon cloud where student can use Ardinon cloud platform as a simulation tool. So it's a very one of the best tool what I say before doing any experiment or buying the components or anything first try the systems in the simulation mode. Once you are done get the expertise and find comfortable in the simulation mode then you purchase the components and try to rework the things. So this is how it works and it's a very good tool. So I was talking the same thing in the morning from prototyping to a finished product how the thing goes. So prototyping is the very first thing goes is a simulation part. So once you do the simulation then you have the breadboard and all this thing assembly coding checking your code again. Then trying to do make the miss it's more of a mess of wires convert that thing into a small PCB and make it as a finished product. So this is how the thing goes. So I'll just invite Professor Kannan. Thank you Rajesh. So is the voice okay. Good afternoon everybody. I'm really delighted that you could all take time out to be with us. It's already no day and we are celebrating it. As you can see that you would have seen that we are going to launch some books that we wrote. We wrote means our staff members wrote and you also heard about Arduino on cloud. Arduino on cloud is extremely important because one can learn Arduino without Arduino, right? Which is important especially in schools. Some of them may stop working anyway to give a background. I'm a professor in chemical engineering systems and control and education technology. We have been working on large scale education sharing what we have with the outside world. In fact, as a part of that only we invited all of you. And I believe that there are also some people who are joining remotely perhaps. Then in fact, we have a couple of projects. In fact Rajesh pointed out, talked about Spokane Tutorial, talked about Fossi. You would have seen Fossi mentioned in the schedule. I will briefly talk about Spokane Tutorial because Fossi is going to be covered by Usha who is sitting here. I don't want to take the thunder away from her talk. What is Spokane Tutorial? It is actually an audio video tutorial even though we call it Spokane. It is a 10 minute long video created for self-learning, usable offline and dubbed in all over 22 languages. So video will be in English. I told you it's an audio video tutorial. You don't see the face of the person who talks. You only hear the voice. So we called it Spokane. But there is a video in which you will see the computer screen. If it is C programming, you will see what is getting typed. If it is Arduino, how the connections are made. If it is Java, something else. If you are looking at Chem Collective Virtual Lab that is another software, you will see how somebody is dragging some beaker, adding salt, measuring it and so on and so forth. So in other words, the video will be in the original form, whatever was there initially in English. And then the Spokane part is dubbed into all over 22 languages. And using this and of course we teach only open source software using that and open source hardware because Arduino is open source hardware. And that is the reason why it is available at a reasonably low price. Open source software you don't even have to pay. That is what is affordable to all our schools, all our colleges because they don't have to pay and they can still use it. Otherwise, if it is let's say something else, commercial software, Microsoft Office, Windows and so on and so forth. If you use it without paying, then it is not correct. It is illegal. It is like stealing. Whereas open source software, you don't have to worry about it. They are all, you are using it legally without any problem, free of cost. That is what is accessible to all our students, all our children, all our schools, colleges and so on, universities and so on and so forth. So our team promotes open source software through the Spokane tutorial project. I already explained to you and also through the FOSI project. Using Spokane tutorial, we have trained 80 lakh students across the country. In fact, we train about 10, 8 lakh students every year. We have a program for schools. It is possible for a school to subscribe to our program. That will allow them using an institutional subscription mechanism. It is a very small fee. It allows every teacher and every student in that school to learn a lot of nice things. And similarly, we have a program for colleges. In fact, we have extended that method. What method? Spokane tutorial. What is that method created for self-learning, dubbed into our 22 languages, usable offline, that we applied in other areas. One of the areas where we have applied is health and nutrition. I work with a doctor. She had some way of teaching the health workers. So we released that information through the Spokane tutorial platform. So we called it health Spokane tutorial. For example, we have something called, we have tutorials on breastfeeding. We have tutorials on complementary feeding. We have tutorials on protein calculation and so on and so forth. There are more than 100 tutorials. And as a matter of fact, I got delayed because we had in this building in another room, we had another meeting with the district collector of Jashpur, Chattisgarh, where he is rolling out this method, namely health and nutrition training through health Spokane tutorial to all the health workers in his team. So we had about 20 people, maybe even 30 people joining online. I just introduced the team and came here because this was already arranged and that meeting was arranged in the last minute. So I didn't want to say no. I just said hello to them. So in other words, what I wanted to point and by the way, that is we have trained several tens of thousands of health workers using this method and each health worker is taking care of about 100 children. So you can imagine several tens of lakhs of babies are getting, children are getting benefited by this. So what is the benefit? The weights of newborns are doubling, even tripling. In fact, we did this training in Nandurbar, which is one of the aspirational districts in Maharashtra with a very bad malnutrition level. And there the babies gain 10 to 12 grams a day using our method. They are gaining several, you know, 35 to 40 grams, even 50 grams a day. So three, four times, which is, you know, it is in fact being rolled out in multiplication, entire state of multiplication. Now, I believe that Mr. Noah is already online. So welcome Mr. Noah. We're happy to have you and happy that you have released your product as open source software and it is going to benefit all of us. Audino on cloud is, of course, developed by us, but what you have developed is going to be useful at the school level, right? Because children who cannot write, could not do the coding. For them, what you have done is extremely beneficial and we have various numbers of number of schools that we have. The largest number I've heard is 15 million schools that we have in India. As a result, all of them have the, you know, or your potential audience to use and it will be benefiting all of them in a great way. And if required, we will also create spoken tutorials on your product and using that, we can popularize. Because the problem is, the software is easy to use once you know how to use it, okay? But how do you get to use it, okay? How do you, you know, can I, can I, people will say, can I spend 10 minutes, can I just go through something and I should know how to get started. That's it. I don't want to read a manual. I don't want to read a book. I don't want to do any of that. So is it possible to do? And the answer is through spoken tutorials we can do. 10 minutes, yes. You will get started. You will do the first program. You'll write the Hello World program. Or in this case, in Arduino, you will connect a few things and, you know, do things and so on. So I have given a brief idea of spoken tutorial and Fossee, of course, we will talk later. By the way, these projects, both spoken tutorial and Fossee, were initiated by the National Mission on Education through ICT, which was an initiative of, at that time it was called MHRD, Ministry of Human Resource Development. Now it is called Ministry of Education. And there were some amazing officials who in Delhi, in fact I can recall Mr. N. K. Sinha, who was a Bihar Kader bureaucrat. He was the joint secretary. He was the mission director. He strongly believed that it is through technology only that we can leapfrog. Because supposing we say, you know, our infrastructure is very bad in India and look at western countries like US, where they have beautiful roads, beautiful colleges and so on and so forth. And supposing we need to do all of that before our children can study. How long will it take? It is not going to happen overnight. So he said that it is not through brick and mortar infrastructure that our children should be educated because that will take forever. But if we, if only use technology, that's why this national mission on education through ICT. What is ICT? Information and communication technologies. National mission on education through ICT. It is through such missions only we can leapfrog and catch up with the developed world. In fact, we did quite a few things. Many, in fact, a lot of workshops have happened to own in this very hall, F.C. Coley auditorium. And in fact, all of them came in handy because this mission started in 2009. Because all of those experiments that we did, 2009 to 2020, were very useful when in 20, what did we have? COVID. When COVID came, we had done this for more than 10 years. We knew exactly what to do. I mean, exactly what to do means how to do distance education, how to connect with people, how to create something that people can study remotely from, so on and so forth. In fact, we were probably maybe even better equipped than some other developed countries. Because we were just doing it, saying that this is the way to do. This is the way to do education. This is what is suitable for our country. For example, we said that whatever we developed should be low-cost, should be affordable to everybody. And those were all the things built in the way we developed. Spoken tutorial was developed for large-scale training because it is created for self-learning. Anybody can learn by themselves. So it is not surprising only 8 lakh students are, I mean, it is surprising only 8 lakh students are studying. Can be a lot more. We have crores. So our methods and all these things, whatever we developed were extremely useful, relevant for the situation, for this kind of situation. And we helped during the COVID time a large number of people during our method. Anything else you should speak? Is there time? I can stop? Okay, so I want to thank everybody for coming here for this Arduino Day celebration. And as I mentioned earlier, it is a celebration, right? That somebody released it of a source. And of course, you will hear from our team that it is a microcontroller. Microcontrollers are used for mission critical applications, right? In fact, several years ago, we had a visitor. He was the Mercedes-Benz's R&D's head, boss of the R&D of Mercedes-Benz. He came from Germany. It turned out that he studied here when he was a mechanical engineering student several years ago. At that time itself, this was several years ago, he said that a typical Mercedes-Benz had 700 microcontrollers to control various features, various components, parts of this Mercedes-Benz. This was several years ago. Now, I mean, you can imagine thousands it will run into, right? So in other words, it is used everywhere, whether it is washing machine, dryer, your mixie, your oven. Of course, cars I already told and all devices, electronic devices. And for mission critical applications, people don't use software, people use hardware. So once again, microcontroller is one of those hardware equipment that is used for that purpose. And learning this is going to be extremely helpful. And I encourage all of you to learn. Knowledge is power. And you have all the material in YouTube, but joining one of our projects helps you figure out what to study. So there is so much to study, so much to learn. You can't even say, let me try it out for half an hour, then figure out whether I want to do it or not. If you want to explore this for everything, then how long will it take? So that's where you come to the right place. Our team has been working on this and trying to give things in a form that is suitable for self-learners, bright people, and so on and so forth. We would want you to benefit by that. And also, if you do exceedingly well, then we will tell you would you want to join our team? Join hands with us and together we will continue the journey. What is our journey? To provide all these things to the public. And for that, we need very good people, really top people. That's when we can do all that. So I wish this function every success. And thank you. So we will have the book launch now. I request all the FOSI team members to please come forward. Mrs. Usha, Mrs. Payal, Mrs. Venita, Prateek, Nagyaj, Ruzer. Any other FOSI team member here? Once we launch the book, we request all the students also to come onto the stage. We will come down. So we will have a group photo as well. Prateek, so I request Professor Kannan to release the books. So we have five books. This is microcontroller programming with Arduino, Sylab, and XCOS. Microcontroller programming with Arduino and Python. Microcontroller programming with Arduino and Julia. Microcontroller programming with Arduino and OpenModelica. Finally, it has everything. Sylab, XCOS, Python, Julia, and OpenModelica. It has been brought out by Shaf publishers. So we're very happy with this. And thank you. Thank you very much, sir. Because it was Professor Kannan's vision only, because it initially started as a summer internship project. And that summer internship project came out as a book. So this was the first Sylab controller using, Arduino controller with a Sylab was the first project. And after that, our project staff, Sudhakar, and many other faculties who have come together, and they were able to come up how to use Arduino with various languages. So I'm really very happy. And it's Professor Kannan's vision only to convert all that thing into books. So it will be useful for everybody, every student. For your information, this book is available in a printed form also. And it is available online in the PDF form also. So we would like to take this opportunity also to request the members of the Board of Studies from universities and colleges across India, who are thinking of incorporating open source as part of their curriculum. You can please write to us, to the FOSI team, to Professor Kannan. And our team here will be happy to give inputs, wherein also you can include these textbooks as part of your curriculum. And as Rajesh already mentioned, a soft copy of these books is available for pre-download, PDF file. One can download and use them. If you want a printed version, it will be available from shop publishers. So now we request Mr. Noa to give us, we request Mr. Noa to share his thoughts about the ordinary celebration and also about his own vertical electric blocks that he has come up with. Over to you, Mr. Noa. Oh, thank you. Well, personally, I'm so honored to be invited here. And it's so cool that open source is being used in education like this. It just really warms my heart. And thank you. I really appreciate it. So I do have a quick presentation. I'll share my screen and show you just kind of how this software got started and what it's about. I created this, which is electro blocks right here. So it's an Arduino simulator and it's all open source. You can download the code. It's completely free. So this is a brief history of it. I started teaching Arduino about seven years ago and I started teaching kids. And there were a few problems with the Arduino ID at the time. One, the kids couldn't type because they were so young. They had really small hands. Also, I was teaching adults too. And I was teaching a plumber and he couldn't type either. He had forgotten because he had gone to school, but he still wanted to learn Arduino. And it was just a huge barrier, the typing. And I mean, you can imagine like if you haven't, if you're eight and you're trying to learn Arduino and you see these curly braces and these periods and semicolons, it just gets really confusing for kids. And I don't think kids start to learn to type in the states until like they're 10. So it was just really confusing and really frustrating for these eight and nine-year-olds to try to learn out of code, but they really wanted to play and interact with the Arduino. So that's kind of where this project came from. And the other things that I thought were hard after reflecting on it was is that they had to visualize the timeline. So when you're coding, you have to create this timeline in your head. So event one happens, event two, event three, user pushes button. If the user pushes button, then I'm going to turn on the LED. So you have to create these multiple timelines in your head. And the other thing that was hard that I thought was there wasn't any real-time feedback. So if you wanted to see what would happen in an Arduino, you'd have to compile the code and upload it. And that would take, you know, some time. So there just wasn't that real-time feedback that would really allow you to prototype and, you know, experiment. So my idea, and this wasn't, this isn't my original idea, like I got this from somebody else, but the idea was like, what if coding was like video editing where you could like scrub through and you had this timeline and you could make a change in the code and then see it and then you could like scrub back, see the changes and then go back and forth and you could change stuff in real-time. It was like video editing. And the cool thing about video editing versus coding is that anyone can, you know, start video editing. You don't have, you know, within five minutes, you're a video editor. You can't do a lot of the advanced stuff, but you can do the simple stuff really, really quick, you know. And so I really got a lot of inspiration from that. And then the way it works in a nutshell is the way the simulator works is that every statement, so every statement with a semicolon, as far as C goes, like so every statement or every command you could say creates a, what I call a frame. And a frame contains all the state that the Arduino has and all the sensor state and all the data that's needed to display the thing. So this allows me to go back and forth. And I create like a whole, an array or a list of frames. And that creates an animation, if you will. So it's really, it's really that simple. So yeah, so that's what the goal is. And the goal was to just make it fun and make it easy to start. So I wanted, and you know, I'm still working on this. So this isn't perfect by any stretch. I don't want to get a big head. The goal was to make it fun. You know, so, you know, if you're eight years old or if you're 40 years old, you know, you don't have to be an engineer or an expert. You can just jump in and create fun things like your own T-shirt with a, with like an LED stripe or your own or a high five machine or or an RGB LED or if you want to create your own product, you know, you can do that. You know, it was just, it was really just about making it accessible and fun and we did a lot of fun classes in the library and libraries and kids would like, you know, really get into it. Like they would get into the sonar sensor and they would see like how far they could, they could go for it to sense. And it was just really about fun and play and just getting them excited about it. That's really just seeing their faces light up was really the motivation behind this and the motivation behind iterating all this, the project. And there were just lots of fun projects we built with this for kids. And then, yeah, so that that's basically it. That's the code. That's the story of it in a nutshell. But I'm super excited that, yeah, to be to be getting used by or for Electro blocks and getting used by this project. It's completely open source, but I just want to thank everyone seriously for allowing me to talk and yeah, it's completely open source. The code is so you can download it if you totally open for pull requests. And yeah, so if you want to contribute, you're more than welcome to. I'd love for you to contribute. I'd love to get all of your ideas. Everyone's welcome. And if you have questions, feel free to reach out to me. I'm happy to I'll put my email address in the chat, but happy to answer any questions. And yeah, looking looking forward to working with you all. And yeah, super excited to be here. Thank you for your wonderful presentation. Our team would be very much happy to be associated always. Now we are going to the next session. We request a professor. To launch the Audino on cloud website. I request Mr. Nagesh. Also to join along with other senior managers. So this work was done under the coordination of Nagesh and Frusa. A large number of students of engineering colleges and even science colleges. Work with them. Some of the top people. In fact, we do an semester long internship internship. Summer fellowship through Fosse. And through that. So. Some people look at internship as something in which they will learn something. I am going to do an internship because I want to learn. We do the other way around. We want to. We are looking for people who join an internship. Because they want to create something. They want to contribute something. So how do we know that they can contribute or create? We run a screening task. We say that you want to do internship with us fellowship with us. Here is the screening task. If you can do it, we'll take you. We'll not worry about what college you are from. How many marks you scored. What is your class rank. Okay. What is your name. Whether you have long hair, short hair. We will not worry about any of that. Can you complete this task? If you can complete this task. Then you are good enough to do this. Because we want people. We have a limited place. We cannot accommodate everybody. Because everybody wants to learn, but we cannot accommodate. But there are people who come and demonstrate less. Yes, I can do this. And we take them. And by taking people, choosing people in that manner. We have been able to do all this. Whether writing the books. Or coming up with this cloud. And so on and so forth. And as I already mentioned. Because Arduino is a hardware. Even if the college or school buys it in the beginning after some time. Some of them may stop working and they may not have funds to replace them. So how do the students learn? Arduino on cloud says that you can learn. Using just the software. Once you learn it, then you don't need, you know, not everybody needs to do all the experiments. At the most you do one experiment with the real hardware. That is good enough. Then that means the working hardware pieces are sufficient to help everybody else. Okay. So that's why this is extremely important. You want to say something about it. The features. So no problem. So I'd like to thanks Nagesh Firuza. And almost if I'm not wrong around 60 plus interns. 40. Sorry. Yeah. 40 interns who have put in their efforts, especially to Nagesh Firuza, mentoring them. Yeah. Yeah. So there were some interns from Myanmar also. And with this thing, they were able to come out with such a nice product, which is going to be used by a lot of students across the country. It's not only India. This is product is online. Across the world globe. Anybody can use it. And it's open source. Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. So now we request the former employees of Aussie who is currently working as a software engineer at math works. Mr. Sudhakar Kumar to share his view. As I had conveyed in the beginning, he's one of the one among the core authors in one of the books that we have published. Sudhakar. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for this opportunity. And let me begin with introducing myself first. So as Rajesh and others mentioned, I am Sudhakar Kumar and I did my master's in systems and control from IIT Bombay. And I was working, working like for FOSI at that time as a research assistant. And now after graduating from IIT Bombay, I am now working for math works. So my association with FOSI is I believe more than eight years now. Like I first I came in touch with Condenser and FOSI in 2015. That was the third year of my bachelor's actually. And that is a time when you know, you kind of plan to explore things and you are in a way that what you should do. You know, go for, you know, research, masters, MBA and so on. So I was on that course actually. And at that time I joined IIT Bombay and I think we started in a group actually we started working on Sahilewadi, you know toolbox. And that was I think some 45 to 60 days work. And we were really like we were very happy that we got a, you know, firsthand exposure to the actual hardware, the various tools and the mentorship everything. But yeah, literally we know at that point of time that this work will somehow culminate into, you know, several books or this work will be extended to other projects, other tools and so on. So today I am very much happy that that work is, you know, is getting culminated into several other things. And I believe that, you know, this project will be helpful to the upcoming students and professionals as well. So like, as we know, like as Karnan said mentioned that Arduino is the starting point, one of the starting points when we, you know, experiment out projects and certain other things. Then at that time we need that someone should be there who explains us everything. And so like, for example, we have spoken tutorials, you can watch that. And now there are certain scenarios where you want to integrate Arduino with other tools, for example, Sahilew, OpenModel, Python, Julia and so on. So here these books will definitely come handy because like, for example, Python nowadays we have artificial intelligence, several other things as well. Now you want to, you know, run certain things on Python, like you want to compute certain things using Python. And at the same time you want to take some action, you want to run some sensors, actuators and so on, which are linked to an Arduino. So basically you are trying to control Arduino using Python. Of course, Python can be changed with Julia, OpenModel, Sahilew and so on based on what you are trying to achieve. Now at this point these books will definitely come handy because you have a, you know, an algorithm by which you can connect these tools with Arduino. And we have like as Rajesh said mentioned that this book is available in print format as well. And in soft copies are also available. You can explore these things and all the codes, the driver algorithm, everything is available, open source. And right now we are like dealing with a couple of sensors like LED, LDR, Potentiometer, servo motor, DC motor and so on. Of course, these things can be extended to other sensors, other actuators as well. So of course, if some of you believe and some of you want to contribute, you want to, you know, use that driver or that toolbox to interface more algorithms, of course, you can let the faucet even though you can let us know. We will be more than happy to integrate those things in the upcoming versions of the book. And yeah, so right like as Condenser showed that we have five books for for each of the flaws, like Sylab, XCOS, Julia, Python, OpenModelka and the one that contains all the, you know, all the flaws. So yeah, I hope that this journey will definitely that this books will definitely come helpful for all the students. And personally, I would like to thank Condenser and the Fosse team members because like 2015 I did not know that this work, the small work of somewhat 45 to 60 days will lead us here. And definitely those things like Arduino, Sylab and those things kind of helped me to get into the domain of programming. I was exposed to the area of open source, like several other tools like while working for Fosse, I was like, I got to know about Linux, self scripting, Sylab, OpenModelka are like so many tools I got to know about and like those things are still useful for me in my day to day life, my day to day job. So I am very much thankful to Condenser and the Fosse team members and at the same time, I believe that these books will definitely come helpful to, you know, all the students or the professionals and yeah, so that's all from my side thank you so much. Thank you. I now request Mrs. Osha Vaishwanathan, the senior project manager of the Fosse project to give an overview about the project and also about the opportunity that we have for students across India. Good afternoon all. So happy to see you all celebrating with us the Arduino day by the book launch as well as the Arduino. Hello, shall I use that? I want to change the, hello. So I will be talking about the Fosse project which is the parent project who is doing all these hardware activities and all. So our project is a project which promotes free and open source software and this was, this started as a project under the National Mission of Education through ICT. And we are in the field from 2009 onwards and so we actually do a lot of activities to promote free and open source software but everywhere the student or the participant will be doing some activity that they will be contributing and creating content for the open source community. So we believe in skill based training and so wherever the student contributes they, the take away for the students are the first thing is they will become very familiar and comfortable with the particular software which they have used. Apart from that other benefits are there which I will talk about later. So these are some of the software which we are currently promoting and there are more software which gets added. For example, now the latest in this kitty is FreeCAD which is a open source software for AutoCAD. So once we find that some software is useful for education then we try to promote it, come up with a lot of content for that and try to involve more students so that it is propagated and more people. Hello. So these are some of the equivalent. Can you mute everyone? So the commercial software and the open source equivalent are given here. So one of the most popular software which we promote is Sylab which is an equivalent of MATLAB most probably, most of you may be familiar with MATLAB. So we promote Sylab which has more or less the same capabilities as MATLAB sorry we promote Sylab which has the same capability as MATLAB. So for your undergraduate studies Sylab actually fits the slot as MATLAB. So we have R then the open source hardware which we were which Rajesh was talking about a little while ago, then Jmol and other software just I am giving you a flavor of the equivalent softwares which are the open source equivalent software, the commercial equivalent of the open source software which we are promoting. So these are some of the activities which we promote under all these software. So according to that particular software we have various activities. So I will show and as an example the Sylab websites for that you can become aware of what how you can navigate our web pages and from where you can access these web pages and all. So there are currently some activities which are going on. So the first thing is Animate 2024 which is a hackathon using Synfig Studio which is an open source software used for creating animation. So you have to create a I will just take you to the web page. So this is the web page. So here you have to create a you have to create a three minute animation using Synfig Studio and submit to us and we will evaluate and there are a lot of awards and certificates which are which will be given to the successful candidates. So this is currently going on and the registrations are also under progress. So if anyone or anyone in your circle are interested in animation graphics and also do ask them to or encourage them to join the activity and probably they can be the winner. How can I go back and the other is already some the semester long internship we had floated the screening tasks and all as Kanan sir had already mentioned. We give instead of just selecting on the merits of the student like the grades and all we have a screening task for the students and once they completed and if they are successful then we will call them for the internship or fellowship. So we just last month only completed the procedure for the semester long internship and already students have started working with us around 35 students we have actually shortlisted and they are currently working with the various teams which I already had shown the various activities. So in that they are working. So you still have more opportunities that I will tell you later and apart from that we have a lot of activities which happen all the year round for example textbook companion lab migration then case study project. So all these activities also you can contribute and for all these activities whatever you submit it will be evaluated and will be uploaded on the webpage and you will be awarded a certificate some on the and we will also be publishing this on the on our webpage and releasing all the content on open source. So that you can even use that link to show that you are proficient in that particular software. For example there are cases which happened where some students had applied for their higher studies and they claimed in their CV that they know Sylab or Python. So then the authorities asked how can we know that you know this particular software which you are claiming to. So they could show the link which they have we have that is published their work and it actually helped a lot of them. So definitely you can just take a look at our webpage and see whichever activity you will be comfortable contributing to. So these are some of the upcoming activities. So that is the Fosse summer fellowship we will be giving the advertisements on the webpage and floating the screening task most probably by the next two weeks. So keep checking our webpage and there is an IIT Bombay Fosse GIS mapathon which we are conducting. So who are interested in GIS activities definitely can try it out. And earlier we had conducted these mapathons and we have overwhelming responses to that all over from all over India and GIS IoT hackathon. If you are a hardware savvy person then definitely you can try it out. So it is GIS IoT hackathon. So we will be announcing both these activities the mapathon as well as the IoT hackathon by April. So do keep checking our webpage. So mainly our project aims to create lot of content documentation for open source software. So these content whatever we are collecting will be released in the open source to the release to the open source community. So these do these we do through various activities and then hackathon mapathons then internships and fellowships. So as already mentioned that the selection so as already we have mentioned that mentioned that these activities are mainly based on the screening task which we float and how you complete it. And the benefits are that definitely you will be getting more familiar with that particular software which you are using then documentation for open source community. Apart from that you will get an award of that is Onrium will be paid for these activities then we have a certificate given as well as the content will be published and the credit will be given to the contributor. So your name will be coming in that particular page. So one more thing which we want to mention is that there is a concept of FOSI clubs. So this is mainly to the authorities as well as the faculty members to contribute to. So we take a FOSI club and institute as a FOSI club once we see that the institute is contributing a lot to the particular project through various activities. It can be in SyLab, it can be in Python, it can be in any software but you have to contribute a lot to our project and create content for open source community. Then we will approach you and invite you to become a FOSI club. So all the faculty members can take note of it and strive to do that. And the benefits which the FOSI club will get is that we publish the FOSI club and what all activities they are doing on our webpage. And the faculty member will be getting an appreciation letter from our team and Onrium also are paid to the faculty members and apart from that this also helps a lot in increasing your NAC credit points for your accreditation. So definitely you can try it out the faculty members and so that is it. I just want to show you as an example one website, SyLab website. So this is our SyLab website. So you can see that on the left side you can see the various activities which we are promoting. So the case study is currently the new activity which we have come up with and if you click on that you can see that how to submit the proposal, the procedure, how to do then you can see the completed case studies. So these are some of the case studies which are contributed by the students. So it just started so we only have one case study uploaded. So if I click on this you can see that we are giving all the details of the contributor like the name from where he has contributed. So he is institute name. So due credit is given to the student. So apart from case study we have lot of other activities also. So on the left hand side you can browse through all the activities and contribute to our project and if you want to learn SyLab. So we have even given the link to the spoken tutorial project where the SyLab tutorials are available. So I will just show the so this is the spoken tutorial webpage where the SyLab tutorials are available. If you are not interested in SyLab you can go here and select any of the software which are available. So if you are interested in open form which is actually CFP software which Fosse promotes and you can see the different languages also which it is available. So if I click on this I will get the open form software. So from Fosse also you can go and access the spoken tutorial website and get information about the and learn that particular software. So if you have any queries you can definitely contact us. So our webpage is Fosse.in. So from this webpage you can actually navigate to all our child projects. So if you want to the SyLab website which I went if I click there it again takes me to the SyLab webpage. So all the projects you can reach from this homepage that is the Fosse.in webpage. So thank you hope you will all visit our web pages and start contributing to our activities. Thank you Usha ma'am. So I request Mr. Nagesh Karmali and Firuza to please come for the next session. So Mr. Nagesh will be presenting on Audino on Cloud the effort that has been put behind coming up with this initiative. Till they join I would like to especially thank Mrs. Akanksha Saini the training national coordinator for the spoken tutorial team for colleges and also to Mrs. Priyanka Shroff the national coordinator for school team the spoken tutorial project for their support and making this program a good success. Just to add Audino Day is being celebrated on 21st, 22nd and 23rd. So yesterday and today we had around 100 schools participating online in the celebration and tomorrow again we will have a set of schools joining us. So in case of anyone among you has anyone associated with schools please reach to us. We'll be happy to give a slot to them. So, over to Mr. Nagesh for a session on Audino on Cloud. Hello, Audino. Yeah, it's I'm Nagesh Karmali. It's great to be here especially with such a good treatment. Audino's Day you know releasing our product. Hello. Yeah. Okay. I can hear my own voice. So how many people are there in the online? Quite a number of people. Okay. Good. Good. It's fine. Great. Yeah. So I have kept my title as open source Audino programming and I call it as a emulator because it emulates the behavior a platform with auto grading facility at scale. So she's, I mean, I want to take you to the history of Audino. Okay. I would like to show you something. How we developed. How do I? Okay. So initially, I mean, when we started, most of the tools were desktop based and they were either proprietary or like open source or desktop based. No web based tool, which was an open source available for anybody, you know, to modify things and, and, and you know, you can add some features, you know, like, so those things are not there. So you need, you need installations to do such tools. In fact, the motivation came from I think Fossi itself because Fossi was trying to do some something in this space already where they wanted to virtualize things rather than play with the actual hardware. So I, I, I remember talking to Professor Kannon sometime in, in November, December, we're trying to, you know, come up with something very similar. And so we came up with a proof of concept, which was very small. And I think nobody liked it, because it was neither anything, there was no website, there was nothing. Right. Okay, but just to prove that it is possible. So the proof of concept was there. Then we floated for fellowship. Okay, so under Fossi. That was in FAP 2020, I believe many applied, but then came COVID, right, March 20, 2020. No, no work was done in March due to lockdown. And then we found some interesting six people. We call them four plus two. So there's a reason in April, we started, I mean, work started in May. And the whole development was done in one and a half months. Okay, so control. So the software as to today's software is so complicated to use. Yeah. So, you know, when you develop things at such large, you know, pace, and you want to finish, you want to see something in one and a half months, then you will have lots of problems, right, bugs and then something is not working. Always there is some problem. Somebody will say some, they tried something, it did not work, you know, all of those things. It was, it was a happy and crying moment, you know. And so that, I mean, okay, what I, these were the initial developers. Okay, so four plus two is because the first four actually did you see him. Okay, so that is another platform. And then the last two actually did, you know, and we needed one guy who could do the backend. So that guy actually supported these two guys and three other guys in the front end. Okay, so the platform, there are two platforms, but ECM is not getting launched. But I know, but they are twin brothers. So I thought I should get them right here. Right. So anyway, so when when ECM will get launched, then I will get Arduino. Okay, so we had amazing things every day. One one new new component was getting developed. This was the speed. Okay, so LED, you know, some next day, maybe, maybe a seven segment display. Okay, now somebody is trying to connect. You know, I'll show you the mess what what really happens and you know, some things are getting connected, some things are not getting connected because nobody knows what to put here and what to put at the back end because everything is going in sync, you know, in the front and back end communication, you know, everything has to be right. Right. Even the design documents were not there. Right. So, so, but you know that journey was really nice. And after that we had almost like 40 contributors. Till now we have 40 contributors. Okay, we have actually contributed to the system. They're all there hidden. Some of them you can see and then you're 13 more. So, so this this is ECM on cloud that you see you can see you can see on the left hand side some circuit is being drawn. Okay, this are these are new slides. I have something very old. You know, video 2020, I'll show you that. And you can see some, you know, simulation happening and you can verify whether you want to verify you want to test your knowledge. Are you able to understand so these are this is what it helps you right. So, I have a demo. How do I open? So, this is ECM on cloud. So, this was required. I'll show you the I'll tell you the connection why. So, it's a it's a one minute video, just a minute. So, you don't have to, you have patience, right. So, this was the product after one and a half months. We could you could see so many things over here. You know, they can drag and drop, connect them, generate all of this, right. And then try to simulate some values we'll have to put. And then you get your results. Okay, right. So, this is the exact result that you will get when you will run it on a desktop based tool. Okay, so we had to confirm that also. You cannot just run it for the sake of running it. And then you find that your tool is doing something else and actual electronics is something else, right. Yeah. So, this was something that time. And you will not see much difference. The front end is the same. The front end is the same. You see almost the same, but there are hidden, lots of hidden things which which are not visible. Right. That is why you will find they're quite the same. Yeah. Okay, you see. So, I'll stop this. It's almost over. Okay, now let us look at RDN or demo. It's almost same, right. What I mean you have seen the front screen during the inauguration. So, this was taken in 2020, June. So, one and a half months is what you get to see. It's possible. You can see all those components on the left. A lot of things were not working. They were shouting. Yeah. So, a simple but it was working and with other tools also it was working. There were a lot of issues with the, you know, that we have an LCD and we had to draw pixels, pixel by pixel and there were a lot of memory it was taking in the browser. So, that took a lot of time, you know, and efficient algorithms had to be written. Even, you know, you draw a circuit, you don't draw exactly as if you're a good draftsman or, you know, you just drag and you put it here and then the circuit is in mess. You need some algorithms or, you know, some buttons somewhere to say that make it straight, right, so that it looks beautiful. So those features came later and you know, I'll try to, I will not, I may not be demoing this platform. So, this is the kind of mess that you will get to see, right, when somebody is building something. And now you don't know what is connected, where is it? It's all mess, no. So, so collaboration. So when during development, what happens is something like this. But when everything is done, everything looks good after that, right. But during development, these things really comes into picture and then somebody else has to answer, what is this? So you have to reproduce and all of that stuff, right. Then the current features are, it's either, I mean, I would call it a simulator, but mostly I would say it's emulator. And you have, you know, Bradboard, LED, buzzer, motor, push button, there are many components there. Yeah, technology problems. So there is a workspace for editing circuit as simple, you would find that somewhere you have to draw a circuit as if, as if some in like in a paint, you know, you draw, right, I mean, you need some workspace to draw. You have some components, just drag and drop them, connect them with wires, different color wires are there. And there is a code editor where, okay, so I really liked the electro block. In fact, what Noah says, because I think sometimes it is so important that if you want to go to school level, you need something of that sort. But we did not have time for all those things, you know, that time, you know, it was too fast. We had in mind later on that we could integrate something of that sort because Blockly by the time, you know, took a lot of, it became quite famous. Many companies started building on it. And, and then, you know, so we have another, another, not another system, but another feature where we are able to auto grade it. Right. So, so I'll show you. Okay, this was a later part of it. Okay, so later part we could get a lot of many things. Now, auto grading, how it happens, you see this whole thing is Moodle. This whole thing is Moodle. And I can click here. Exactly, exactly the, as if the system is in front of you, but it is inside Moodle. So it could be any LMSS. So Moodle, then you have Open edX, Blackboard, Canvas, okay, because we have made this system LMS compliant, and we have used something called as LTI. So, so that means now this tool can be used by any LMSS in the world. If anybody is teaching electronics somewhere, and they have to give some circuit to a student, I can give a circuit to a student. And I can say write a code for this circuit, or I can remove many wires, I can give half code, and then I can tell them to fill up and then I give you problem description. Now, based on this output that is generated, we can auto grade. Okay, so you might have not heard this because most of the auto grading that has happened over the years, while even large, large companies are only computer science programming auto grading systems that you see, code shaft, leader code, lead code, many of them. Never, I don't see there is any website which can auto grade electronic circuits. Okay, so we have reached somewhere. That means it is possible and we have demonstrated it. If you want a demo, I can give you, I mean, you know, at our office or something. But as the time is limited, I don't have a watch. So, Arduino and cloud the future work. Okay, so I want to be as I dream a lot. So, you can call me mad also at this point, because you can see what what things I'm going to get. So, of course, education focus has to be there because somebody has to be educated. Otherwise, nobody will be able to use it. Right, then the crowdsourcing, you know, and curation pipeline, you know, think about thousands of people submitting circuits. And you want to come up with, we also have many other features where we have a kind of a pipeline where in there are authors, then there are reviewers in the system and then, you know, combine all of them. Okay, so authors will write some description problem statement exactly like in school, you know, you have a chemistry book, you write a procedure, you write what is that so many things are there conclusion and all of those things. So, this kind of things can be done. And then the reviewer will try to modify things and you know, and then there's a final output as an experiment, something like that. So, that also is there. Then we have, I mean, what we want, this is a future work. Okay, so might get completed in 2014 or we should do it in another two years. Okay, AML based auto grading, so grading. Okay, so if I can get feedback while connecting my circuit or if I can get immediate feedback that, you know, by saying that there's some problem in at this point. This location, so you don't tell them exactly where is the problem, but you know, enough problem as if a teacher is guiding you, right? So that is what we want to see AI tomorrow, right? Otherwise, what is the use of AI? You know, just have AI and all of these things are not done. I mean, then it will be too much to handle because AI has to help us, right? And then I say we are already in on cloud. I want to get it on ground. That's Arduino on ground. IoT data collection and analytics platform, I think this is a platform which is available if I'm able to map maybe, you know, using GIS and and then certain areas where I have deployed all my, you know, sensors and they are connected to Arduino, you know, I have but my system, I mean, this is not my system, everybody's system. So we will be able to, you know, visualize. Okay, what's happening where, right? I mean, these are the possibilities. Then of course, we can look at virtual robotics. I mean, AR is one and then there is VR integration. Okay, then generating boards like Arduino. So I want to generate Arduino. Okay, so that's why I see ECM. Actually, we have a bigger plan in that ECM wherein we want to actually, like, if you are, are you school children or college? College. I'm sorry, sorry. So, okay. So at eight standard, what do they do now? So you are, you take a board and you are able to program, right? My days, I did not have this facility. Now you are able to do because somebody has done something for you, right? Tomorrow you will be able to build chips, custom chips, right, custom chips. Today is not possible. Look at what kind of today's possible to build Arduino, but not at 113 nanometer, 19 nanometer, 5 nanometer, which Intel is doing there, right? Or big, big foundries are doing. So we have some plan laid down to actually move towards, of course, I think Sumanto is not here, right? So, in fact, using our desktop applications, we were able to come up with a chip, which was, which was sent. Finally, what is a chip? It's just a file. The file you send to the foundry and foundry gives you a chip. Okay, that is what it is, right? So, but your design is all in the file. There's just one file. Okay, I'll not tell you the name of the file. So, okay, so, so do you think the connection, if I am able to generate Arduino Raspberry Pi or versions of it, okay? And then I go and manufacture, right? And then I have, I should be able to include Arduino generate because I, this is a code actually, the software. This is also a software. I should be able to generate it automatically, right? And then it should behave as is required, right? So then I see the connection between electronics and this Arduino thing, right? Arduino is looking at as a board, but then what is there in the board? You have microcontroller, you have a bus, you have so many things, right? All of those things. I mean, there's a lot of research going on also in this space. There's something called open RAM. People are building RAMs, okay? So, because technology is not available for common man. It's there only with Intel. It's only there with some big, big companies, right? So we should break that. And I should, we should have major chips ready for simulation, emulation because everybody wants to do something, study, you know, without actually buying a chip. So today you buy, do you buy chips? Do you buy processors? You don't buy. Do you buy and study them? There's no way to study. You either buy a motherboard and put it inside and then run some OS and that's a very high level, right? So if you want to get very closer, you want to write some device drivers and all, so you need to actually probably study those chips. And then probably GPU based AML model simulation. These are like, like, you know, a mad person thinking kind of thing, you know. But at least one or two, we should be able to, or three or four, we should be able to go ahead with, okay? What should we aim at? Sky is not the limit. Many people say sky is the limit. I don't like it. Even in the universe is limited. I think limitless is the goal, right? So we should, they should know, there's no limit. And of course, my acknowledgement to Professor Fatak, of course, his guidance has been there. What I'll do like about him is he can make complex things simple. And whenever I do something, I like to think that way. So at least something, I mean, I learned something from him, lot of things, in fact. Then of course, Professor Kannan, okay, he, I would say commitment. I mean, I see a lot of driving, you know, happens sometimes, you know. Sometimes he will ask you, oh, where, where are we today? Yeah, I would say, yeah, going on, going on. Oh, can we move a little faster? Yes. Okay. So, I mean, you get a lot of motivation, you get, I mean, you're like a friend, you know, talking to you, asking, or, you know, telling you, okay, this, let's go in this direction, let's go in this direction. There are, of course, there are many people, I think she's not here. Rajesh is here, Sumanto, then he's a budding boy, then Usha, Vinita, then Kasim also, yeah. And many other members, I'm sorry if I missed out some of you. They have always supported continuously, you know, bugging me, this is not working, that is not working. Okay, when are we launching? And they only launched the product. Okay. All 40 contributors across the country and Myanmar, I think that's what I wanted to say. And some emails, I think if you want to contact us, we are available. Or you can come to IIT, we can meet. What happened? Simulation. Oh, that is not there, yeah. That is hidden. Launched but hidden. Okay, I will show you that. Any questions? Okay, I'm open for questions. Thank you. And then I don't have anything, but there are many things I don't want to say anything. Generally, I promote whole of Farsi whenever I go somewhere. So I have a long list of slides for all the Farsi thing. So let me show you Kasim one minute. Where is that? This is PDF. And yeah, I think just want to show you. All right. You have to share this or it will start. Okay. So this is your gallery. They want to see the website. Oh, yeah, yeah. He is worried that I mean that I may go for a demo and then another one hour will go. Okay, so just that simulation.itpx.in that's it. Okay, thank you Kasim and Rajesh. Thanks, thanks a lot. Hello. So it's not a launch actually. It's because of you. We are able to do so much bugging. Yeah, it is required. Without that, you can't come up. So bugging is one kind of it's it's a feedback from us. Then only the prototype. Yeah. So thanks. Thanks, Nagesh. Thank you. And I wish Noha will also contribute us during the this ad in on cloud. If you want to integrate in future. Thank you, sir. Okay, so it was Nagesh Karamali, the senior project executive officer here at IIT Bombay and Madam Faroza, senior project manager again here at IIT Bombay. In fact, we did not have sufficient time to introduce them. They are in fact the pillars of CS 101 course, which is which runs here for the BTEC students and also they have any more accomplishments. Probably we have a separate session for them. So I think that we were about to inform you is we are also planning for GIS on cloud. So we are here to bug you. Yeah. Yes. So in fact, we will have a separate session on the GIS activities very soon. I would like to apologize to IC FOSS for making you wait for a long time. IC FOSS they are enough for our partner agencies, partner for the FOSS project for the open hardware vertical and also the GIS vertical. We have the team from IC FOSS joining here today. I think Mr. Shafiq has joined. On behalf of the FOSS project IIT Bombay, we would like to thank the director, Mr. Sunil. The program had Mr. Srinivas, Mr. Jay Kumar, Shafiq and the entire team of IC FOSS for joining here. Mr. Shafiq, are you there online? So if you're there, we'll hand over the session to you so you can talk about the activities that you do based out of Arduino from IC FOSS. Mr. Shafiq over to you. Hello. The camera is changed. Am I audible? Yes, you are. Please go ahead. Yeah. Yeah, good afternoon. It's a pleasure and honor to be joining you today on behalf of the International Center for Free and Open Source Solutions. To extend our heartfelt felicitations on this momentous occasion of Arduino Days, organized by the Estimed Institution IIT Bombay. Actually, I am Shafiq working as technical coordinator in Open Hardware Lab at IC FOSS. The first, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the organizing committee of Arduino Day for extending this invitation to IC FOSS. It's truly inspiring to witness the collaboration between institutions like IIT Bombay and organization like IC FOSS. Both of which are committed to fostering innovations and advancing the technology for the betterment of society. So the Arduino with its open source nature embodies the principles that IC FOSS stands for, the freedom, collaboration, development, contribution and accessibility. The Arduino platform has empowered countless individuals including students, developers and entrepreneurs to explore the world of electronics and bring their ideas to life. It has played a significant role in democratizing technology, making it accessible to people from all walks of life, regardless of their background or expertise. As we celebrate the Arduino Day, let us not only celebrate the technology itself, but also the values of its representation, the spirit of opponents, innovation and community. Let us continue to work together to promote open source initiatives like Arduino, which have the power to drive positive change and innovation on a global scale. So I will share my presentation right now. Have you seen the presentation? Today I would like to share the IC FOSS activities in the open source solutions. First I am happy to introduce about the IC FOSS. IC FOSS is an autonomous organization under the electronics and IT department of the government of Kerala. And that dedicated to advancing free and open source technologies across the state. And also we are promoting the open source tools, softwares and hardware as well as to the world. Our mission is to promote research, development and adoption of FOSS, serving as a workshop for its implementation. We act as a technology partner to the government departments and agencies, facilitating FOSS migration and implementation of FOSS applications. And our expertise spans various domains including open hardware, IoT, drones, GIS, then ERP, cybersecurity, assistive technologies, language technology, e-governance and development etc. And inside IC FOSS there are different departments working to promote FOSS solutions. Actually there are three different activities currently running in IC FOSS which are the training, one is the training department, I mean training session. And the other is applied R&D sector and the another one is the Sudentara incubator. We have a full-fledged training team here for training providing to the students, government departments and other communities. Anyway we have providing the FOSS based trainings for the software and other technologies. So in the applied research we have different areas in this open hardware and open IoT, open drone and FOSS business solutions like GIS, ERP, cybersecurity. There are different areas as actually I have told we have a R&D division and separate teams working for developing new innovative ideas in our institute. And that will be providing or publishing the data and codes to the public in each years. In each year we have different projects and we have committed different projects and we developed different types of innovative ideas and we deliver the things in each verticals. So the part, the Sudentara incubator which contains, there is an area for incubation facilities available here in our office. The office is actually situated in Truandrum, Kerala and we call it the Sudentara IC FOSS and Sudentara incubator facilities available here for some seats are available. So any of the entrepreneur working with FOSS related activities or FOSS related tools, we can promote them and we have provide the facility for grow their strength to the scalable version or scalable big company. And this is one center for development of open hardware actually CDO is we are calling us CDO is under this lab CDO is lab we have different teams for promoting and developing different solutions and different kind of applications which are open hardware. Open IoT open drone and in case of the software we have teams for the cybersecurity GIS and ERP as well. And this is the activity style I have presented here. There is one R&D sector and capacity sector will be developing as applied research solutions and the capacity building will be provided to the to extend these our knowledge to the faculties or departments or students or community through the capacity building sector. And startup support actually told that Sudentara incubator and we supported our startup support through our project also and consultancy services we have promote the consultancy activities for our services sustainability. And this is the methodology the working methodology actually we recurring or we gathering interaction with information from interacting with stakeholders or there will be government sector or that will be a community or academia. So architecting the solution combined with the user requirement like community or industry and the solution fine tuning with domain experts. We have collaborated with agriculture and environmental type of domain experts and we fine tune our solutions to developing a good or better product and that will be publishing to the or that will be providing to the public. And the proof of concept that is the next stage of our work and the implementation strategy consultation with the stakeholders because the stakeholders need that requirement and they have requirement and they need to collect the data from enter world or enter across Kerala. And we consult with them and implement our own our solutions across Kerala and as well it will extend to the world. Then the field implementation that's the this is the methodology of our IOT and other aspect of work. Actually in IOT IOT in the sense you all are aware about that that is the internet of things we have used the main part of IOT is the communication technology and we use to hear the Loravan ecosystem for the communication technology. And we have developed or we use available softwares to develop a full-fledged Loravan ecosystem in our office and we have deployed different applications or use cases in different verticals across Kerala. And moving to this technology you just I just showed the architecture of the Loravan. Loravan stands for long range wired area network actually which is a wireless technology something like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM. So the main advantages which is a long range communication network and the low power also we have we can use the network for the low power devices. Actually the power consumption is very less and we assure the devices the battery backup of the devices will be in several years something like five to ten years. We can deploy some sensors in the field you can you forget the power supply. This is one architecture that is showing in the display that this is one the end nodes end nodes is the user and or application devices. I mean the which is the hardware unit with the sensor devices like that's a water meter, vending machine or smoke alarm system or there will be a rain gauge. There will be automated weather stations or soil moisture sensors or something any type of sensing data collection or sensor devices. We can call it as the end node and that end node contain the Loravan capability. That's a Loravan radio frequency modules in built and the data will be transmitted through the Loravan network. Concentrator or gateway is the second part and these gateways are concentrated collect the data from the end nodes and push through the internet that is the architecture of the Loravan system and the data from the end nodes will be going to the internet through the gateway or concentrators. In the cloud server there is a network server and application servers are deployed for the network server handles all the data from the gateway. The gateway and networks all are handled by the network server and the application server will be collecting the data from the end nodes. And the application server contains some decryptions algorithms for decrypt the data from the end nodes because the end nodes are transmitting encrypted data for security purpose. So the application will be decrypted the corresponding data and that data will be going to store in the cloud database. And we have different open source visualization tools available which will be using for display or visualize the data to the public or to the concerned departments. This is the Loravan architecture we have used. And these are the devices actually we developed and the market there are different devices also available. The Loravan gateway in the 2017-18 times there are less number of gateways are available in the market. So we developed Loravan gateways using Raspberry Pi modules and concentrators as well. And the ultra low power edge nodes which is used for the sensor interaction with the gateway. So sensors are integrated these ultra low power boards and that board Lora capability Lora integrated board will be transmitted that data to the gateway and that going to the server as well. And we have developed different types of ultra low power boards are available in our office and we have published it for public users. I mean you can take the design and you can replicate it or you can contribute to the board is also available because we have put it in GitLab repository. The designs are available in the GitLab repositories. The Loravan relay node is one of the R&D work of our part just relaying if there is a network not available in the sector for the gateway side. That gateway need to relaying the data to another gateway and that gateway have internet and that will be pushing to the internet with that. That said we have developed one POC for the relay node and Loravan rangemapper which is one of the device using for the mapping means identify the is there any network is available in the area for that we use Loravan rangemappers. Chepstack and TTN servers are different types of servers in Loravan architecture. We have used Chepstack open source servers and Grafana is the visualization server actually Grafana is the tool open source visualization tool we have used for the visualization purpose. And Loravan VirtualLab we have established a virtual lab for Loravan integration type of application integration in our this is actually developed in when the time of COVID for the work easy working of our employees. We have developed Loravan VirtualLab in our office and connect through that virtual lab they can develop their own skillset or they can test the POCs in that case. Then these are the main deployments across Kerala we have deployed at several gateways and several applications like automated weather stations, automated rain case stations, UV integrated ARGs, automated water meters, air quality meters, soil moisture meters. And the one is IOT enabled Panjaiti is another R&D work I will explain that in last and these are the main deployments in across Kerala and we focus to develop different applications in these verticals itself. And the following are the applications we have which is a water quantity and water level detectors. Actually, here you can see the deployment and POCs here for the water management. We have developed some different water level detectors water meters and water for the quality management for water quality management we have developed some different sensors means pH dissolved oxygen electrical conductivity water temperature these different temperature modules we have developed not a sensor actually we have integrated the available sensors in our technology and the data will be stored in the cloud. And this is agriculture POCs, soil moisture, NPK sensors, pH sensors, electrical conductivity, leaf moissures. These are different sensors we have deployed in a drone term itself for collecting the data of related agriculture and the data actually provided to the agriculture team, agriculture officers and the departments they can use the data and they suggest if there any fertilizers you need to apply for that plant that's it. And this is one air quality POCs listed here which is indoor air quality devices and we have developed some indoor air quality devices and outdoor devices. We put it in the field for collecting the data from air quality as well. That contain the atmospheric temperature, ethyl alcohol, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and VOCs these are the parameters we can collect using this type of air quality POCs. And the smart city agriculture is another vertical we have worked which is an aquaponics device. There is an aquaponics POC we have developed here and there is a different sensors we have put it in the aquaponics architecture means aquaponics device and collecting all the data live and if we need any deficiency in the in the case of the nutrients then we can put it the nutrients in a manual or automated mode. We have done it. We have dissolved oxygen sensors, water temperature, water levels and electrical conductivity which are integrated in this smart city agriculture which will be the better product for improving the better product. This is one microclimate monitoring stations. There are automated weather stations. We have different sensors. We have integrated temperature, humidity, pressure and speed and there are ARG stations, UV monitoring stations I have already told you. They are deployed in across Kerala and the ambient energy harvesting is another work actually we have developed one generic board for monitoring water flow and monitoring our air quality data using the power management will be handing to the ambient light and water flow or wind flow. Energy waste and we can store it in the storage which will be a supercapacitor or a battery module. Then we can transmit the data to the cloud. This is our current R&D which is IoT enabled panjayat. IoT enabled panjayat means we have deployed several gateways in the panjayat area and the network established across the panjayat and we take the different verticals, agriculture, some animal husbandry, air quality, environment model, these different verticals we have to put it in sensors and collecting data from the IoT enabled panjayat and that panjayat actually situated in Toronto itself. The non-mechanical microclimate monitoring is another version actually these are deployed the weather stations are using the sensors, mechanical based sensors and we have putting the replacing the mechanical sensors to the ultrasonic based non-mechanical stations. And all the applications are actually using for the open hardware so CSTL requirements and this is the one of the model implementation model. There is one gateway and we can put different sensors across in the nearby the gateway and collecting the data and that will be going to the implementation model. I just like to say thanks to Noha because he has been waiting for such a long time. He is from San Francisco, awake till now. Okay sir, I will end it in two minutes sir and just showing one slide. Just conclude it that will be good. Thank you. Okay, I will conclude it right now. I will show you some live data from the deployed sensors. Hello. Actually this is one, how you see this? Hello. Yes. Yeah, this is one Laurent cluster. Actually we have deployed AWS across Kerala, automated weather stations across Kerala including temperature, humidity, UV, rainfall. These are the parameters and each district we can see the details of temperature humidity. This is one application of IoT in the environmental and agriculture sector. We can use the data for our study purpose and our agriculture purpose also. This is one application I need to show you. That's all. Actually, these all hardwares and softwares we have using the open source level. So in this Arduino day, I suggest the Arduino is the best possible method to develop some solutions for IoT and embedded development side. And we have using our ATMAGA 328 board, a controller for this type of application development we have used. The ultra low power boards are designed for supporting the Arduino platform. And if any student entering this type of work or this type of architecture, then they have the Arduino is the best possible best method to study the area. That means the embedded hardware study or IoT area, Arduino is the best startup. And these are the applications we have developed using the Arduino boards also. That's all. I think thank you for the consideration for this time. And finally I would like to congratulate everyone involved in this organization on Arduino day as well as that's all actually. From my side actually, this. Yeah, are you able to hear? Hello. Yeah, can you hear me now? Yes, yes, yes. Yes. So sorry, there was some technical glitch here. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so thank you for your wonderful session and everyone from ICFORS. So just for the audience so that you know the Farsi team identifies statewide partners. ICFORS is international center for free and open source software. Government of Kerala entity likewise for government of Maharashtra we have water resource development department, government of Maharashtra as partner. So the reason why we do all these arrangements is because while we offer internships to students we also need to have access to open data. So and for that very reason we associate with these agencies and in fact ICFORS has been doing very good activities in terms of spreading open source software and also they are working in terms of open source hardware. We have one one of the core research activities happening here at IIT Bombay called rural data observatory. In fact, we are setting up a rural observatory here for which we are in the process of associating with partners. So one partner is ICFORS. The other partner is Sherry Kashmir Agricultural University from Kashmir. So like this we have very content rich partners. So we thank ICFORS team, the director, the program heads, the registrar, Sunil Sir, Srinivasan Sir, Jay Kumar and Shafiq for their valuable presence today. So thank you to ICFORS team. So now we are in the final part before requesting the faculty who have come here and also some of the students to share the feedback. I would like to take you through the IIT Bombay's website where our activities have been mentioned. And in fact, you can refer to these sites whenever you want to know about our activities, FOSI activities. So we are in fact thankful to the institute administration, the public relations office. So under an announcement, if you see, like I handle the GIS vertical, but for open hardware vertical, we have, we are actually coming up with the IOP hospital hackathon. So Mr Rajesh with the support of the entire FOSI team, we are organizing this and ICFORS is one of the partners. So here if you could just click, we are about to change the dates. The formal announcement will happen soon, but just for your information. So this is the national level open hardware IOT based geospatial hackathon that we will be conducting from the FOSI team. So these are the tentative schedule. We are about to change it because some changes were required. And this is for the GIS project. As I said, like I handle the GIS team, but geospatial technology is not alone. So we are trying to associate with every corner of education like open hardware. It will be the first set of activity. And in fact, we have 23 activities from GIS. Majority of the activities will be in relation with the open hardware team. Likewise, we also format. We also are venturing into medical colleges, venturing into the history departments, arts, wherever maps are required, it is to be done. And in fact, just with your permission, I would like to convey how many of us here use GPS in our day-to-day activities? GPS. Who uses it? How many of us are aware of the fact that in India slowly GPS is about to be replaced with some technology? Navig, right? So January 1st, 2025 is the ballpark that government has set. So slowly the transition is about to happen. And again, Mr. Rajesh Koshalkar's team, we are going to come up with modules, internships, fellowship and other activities where we would make an announcement. Students like you can join hands with us. Okay. So not only Navig, government of India also has announced the India has something called national geospatial policy, national space policy. And for everything, because we are funded through the ministries, we are in the plan of promoting all those things. So we need your complete support. So without taking much of your time, I would request the faculty who have come here to share their opinion about today's program. And when how exactly you want IIT Bombay, the FOSC team support in terms of taking these activities forward. And after the faculty, we would like to request one or two students also to share your opinion, your feedback about today's session. It would be of much help for us. And then after that we'll conclude. In fact, we are much thankful to the college administration of LR Tiwari College and Thakur College. If I have missed any other college, my sincere apologies, we request the faculty to come forward and share your opinion. Ma'am, you want to come forward, sir? Any faculty, please come forward. Camera. Ma'am, you can please the camera. On behalf of LR Tiwari College of Engineering, I would like to thank you Rajesh Sir, Usha Ma'am, Vinita Ma'am to give opportunity to celebrate this Arrino Day. Definitely our student will going to participate in the FOSC activities, which you have informed us. And other, even in academic, they have all the project related to the Python and Arrino based project. Definitely they will use all these books, which today we have launched on this Arrino Day. And we will hope that you are our future. So we will collaborate with the IIT Bombay and so that we will have the huge building block between IIT and our college. So that you will, the future of, you can, from that project, you will going to have some good project, you can contribute it to your society. Thank you everyone. And I would thank you, Nagesh Sir also, so that they will definitely use all this simulation software for their project to get an idea before implementing the actual project. Thank you, sir. From Thakur College. Good evening, John. I'm from Thakur College of Science and Commerce, Dr. Girish There. Actually working in our college is different and working here that will be different. That's why we always wish to have association with spoken tutorial with FOSC and so on. Last 15 years, our students are doing many workshops of spoken tutorials and FOSC also. And there are continuously more demands from students because IIT Bombay, that is what everybody is looking for, means working with IIT Bombay. In fact, last three, four years back, some two students from our college selected for internship also. And now that particular demand is also increasing. So this year also, we shall try to participate in this particular activities of internship and work will continue. Thank you. Any student who wants to share the feedback, anyone? No campaigning, voluntarily please come forward. Yeah, please come down. Anyone else? If you want to share your feedback, please come down. First of all, thank you to IIT Bombay for providing such platform to speak, to understand these things. And if I speak personally, then even after studying online in COVID, I used to think that distance learning is not good for me. For learning real life applications like Arduino. But after doing this and trying some videos of IIT Bombay, some videos and all, I am now thinking that I can learn from distance learning. Thank you. Anyone from girls? You have any questions? Okay. So I would request Mrs. Venita Pamar to convey the vote of thanks on behalf of the Fawciti. Okay. So I have to see and read out because I don't miss out on people. So firstly, I would like to thank everyone who has present here, especially the students, the teachers, and everyone who have come all the way. I know traveling in Mumbai is a big task, but you guys have managed and come and really thank you for attending the Arduino Day celebration. So thank you, Swapna Ma'am, Aditya sir, and faculty from Thakur Engineering College. So thank you everyone for coming and attending and making this Arduino Day celebration a big thing. So firstly, and I would like to thank Mr. Noha, who is the founder of ElectroBlocks. So ElectroBlocks is something which we came to know recently. Actually, it is very good for school students. You can just drag, drop the blocks and you can just do a simple experiments of glowing LED and all. So it's a very good thing which he has developed and he has joined us from San Francisco. So thank you so much for getting out time and joining us. So thank you so much, Noha sir. I would also, hello, I don't need a mic actually. So I would also like to thank Sudhakar, are you listening? I don't have a recording. I have a lot of air video. I will give you the audio number. Shall we start? Are you listening to headphones? Deepak ji. So yeah, just I know you guys are sleeping, so I'm just waking you up. So Sudhakar is our ex-colleague and he has contributed immensely to Arduino and the books which you see. So thank you Sudhakar for joining and giving your experience to our future generation sitting out here. So thank you for joining. Also, I would like to thank Mr. Shafiq and his team from ICFOSS who has shown all different projects to us on how they are working on IoT and their development towards open hardware. So thank you so much for joining in this event. Also, I would also like to thank all the authors of the book who have actually written books in Julia, Python, Sylab, XCOR. So it's very informative information if you see books are also available online. But yeah, the traditional method of using a textbook is a different experience altogether. So you can just explore these books. So thank you authors and Shafiq publications for printing out these books and they always support us in all the books printing and everything. So thanks to them also. Also, I would like to thank Professor Kannan who has given us this vision and guidance for moving towards open source software and developing these new things. And yeah, lastly, our team, Nagesh Firuza, Rajesh sir, both the pratiks from the Arduino team sitting here. So all of you have done a great job on developing and contributing towards the FOSI team. So who would have ever imagined that hardware to put it on a cloud. So Nagesh and Firuza, kudos to your nice work which we have seen. And even we'll have, I hope most of you are from electronics background. So we will have eSim which is for electronic simulation and PCB designing. So you can design your PCB designs on cloud itself. So yeah, we are still in the testing phase. Digital circuits we are yet testing on the cloud. So once that is done, we'll call you again for eSim on cloud. Okay. So and also last but not the least, the studio team, Deepak Ji and his team who is recording us and making sure all our voice come in the video. So thank you so much for all your efforts. They are always available for recording all our sessions. Thank you so much. No, thank you. I forgot to thank our funding agency or ministry of education who is giving us constant support for all the FOSI activities. Thank you. We also have refreshments. Food is not allowed here. So please go out and eat. I was telling you guys please go out and eat. We have arranged refreshments. Please enjoy it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Thanks Noah. Thanks. Thanks Noah. It was great to see you all throughout the session. Thanks a lot. Bye bye. Thank you. Hello.