sectoral innovation council for bio medical engineering

8/4/2019 Sectoral Innovation Council for Bio Medical Engineering

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GTU INNOVATION COUNCIL

www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in

GTU Sectoral Council for Biomedical Engineering

GTU Innovation Council has started work for creating a sectoral innovation council

for Biomedical Engineering. This council will work for fostering innovations in this

sector across the state involving industries-policymakers-students and faculties. 3meetings have been arranged involving students and faculties in last weeks to give

a preliminary touch to the action agenda. Students have participated with great

numbers and have presented their IDPs and taken suggestions from various experts

not only from their disciplines but also from area like IPR, Design and Technology

transfer associated with this field.

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www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.inThe students have taken a lead role and coordinated the meetings and arranged

series of talks involving faculties and experts. Chintak Dholakia, Pratik Gandhi,

Pavan Gupta, Sumit Shatwara and Pratik bhat have coordinated the meetings from

students side. The team has designed series of events to harness best possible

works involving IDPs and UDPs in coming 10 months. They have been ablysupported by their faculties and quite a number of industry experts. Following are

few works where students have started working under the guidance of mentors.

Telemetry Based ECG monitoring

Data logger for diagnostic equipments using USB I.C.U. Data Logger Using Can Bus

Automatic control of hydrostatic pressure for irrigation duringphacoemulsification process

Microcontroller based tourniquet system

Digital respiration rate meter

Microcontroller Based Syringe infusion Pump Rate responsive Pacemaker

Wireless battery charger for implantable device

wireless uroflowmetry

Electronic Monitoring of Blood Tranfusion Procedure

Monitoring of O.T. room Enviroment

RF based wireless Heart beat measurement system

Inversion Table

RF Pc Based Hospital Appliances Control

Heating and Mixing Using PLC and HMI

Low Cost Hearing Aid Ultrasonic Cane+Ultrasonic Distance Finder with Tactile Output

External Pacemaker

Biological Signal Generator

Wireless Patient Monitoring System For Hear-beat and BodyTemperatue

Heart Rate Monitor

Uroflowmetry based on Microprocessor

Tensile Tester to check tensile strength of PTCA Ballon Cathreter

Microcontroller Based AED

Angle Difference Simultaneously Measurement of Knee and Elbow byGonimeter

Electronic Muscle Stimulator

Blood Volume Measurement with Leak Detector , Display and Alarm




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Microcontroller Based Real Time Operated Robitic Hand Using HallEffect

LED Phototherapy

Uroflowmetry with any wireless data transfer and LCD Display

Colorimeter and innovation in its Application Easy Flow Pump

Measurement of Angle of Bone Joint and other parameters using NI -Labview

Refractive Unit Chair

Computer Based ECG Data Acquisition Monitoring and Logging Systemon LabVIEW

Multi patient multi para moniter

Multi desire wheel chair

Brain controlled wheelchair

Voice controlled wheel chair Advance patient bed (one touch access)

Microcontroller based refraction unit

Baby incubator with phototherapy

Bone joint angle measurement

Automatic wireless health monitoring system

Blind navigation system




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1.0 Introduction: GTU Sectoral Councils are being set up to bring together faculty

members, research students, students working on their Final Year projects in the

area and the concerned engineers from the industry and research establishments.

GTU Innovation Council has been working since August 2, 2011 to establish GTUs

linkages with the entire structure of industries in general and with SME sector in

particular. Today GTU has an active relationship with the entire SME sector in theState. Most of the large industries in the private sector have also come onboard.

Every one of the Chambers, big and small, and nearly all of the industry

Associations are associated with our work. However GTU Innovation Council has the

challenge of bringing PSUs of the State and the PSUs of the Center, located in

Gujarat, into an active relationship with the GTU Innovation Sankul, located close to

the industry.

Today GTU can claim to have the network of industries in nearly every area of

engineering. Therefore we can establish a joint technical personnel from the

industry-GTU community working group, called Sectoral Council easily. A handful

of national experts from National Mentoring Network at Techpedia have promised to

mentor the modules whenever and wherever needed in coming time.

Since the first task of mapping 50,010 students to industries during this summer for

obtaining Industry Defined Problems (IDPs) for the Final Year students has reached




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www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.ina stage where our Colleges are evaluating the IDPs, GTU has started the process of

establishing the Sectoral Councils one-by-one as soon as some GTU faculty

members come forward to convene it.

2.0 GTU Sectoral Council for Biomedical Engineering:Present Status: On

4th August 2010, GTU initiated the work by organizing a meeting of the Principals ofits 4 engineering Colleges, which have Biomedical Engineering programs along with

the personnel of 7 industries and one hospital. The Workshop was organized with

the help of the programme for development of HR for the Medical Device Industry in

Gujarat. This programme was being implemented by the Foundation For MSME

Clusters, New Delhi for Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of

Science and Technology. When Dr. A.S. Rao, Foundation for MSME Clusters,

Ahmedabad and Mr. D. L. Pandya, Programme Coordinator met the Vice-Chancellor,

he invited them to organize the one-day workshop at GTU along with the Principals

of the GTU Colleges.

During the 2011-2012 academic year, 145 Biomedical Engineering students in BE

and 300 in DE have started working on 107 industry/User Defined Projects. All the

issues taken are users need centric and they are taken from hospitals, start-ups,

existing Biomedical industries and modules from National Labs.

The total number of students in Biomedical Engineering at GTU are 2,700 including

36 students at M.E., 1,420 at B.E. and 1,250 at Diploma engineering. The associated

faculty (core and adjunct faculty) is 55.

A series of meetings have been held since 25th July under GTU Innovation Council to

create a road map for the above innovation ecosystem. More than 35 associated

mentors from GTU are tracking real time development of each of these IDPs. We

have taken linkages from public and private labs and associated organizations. Prof.

Bhavesh Parmar , Prof. U. V. Pancholi , Prof. Ghanshyam Parmar , Prof. Mitul Patel

and Prof. Piyush Patel are creating a framework for the projects of degree

engineering students along with participants from Defence Institute of Physiology &

Alld. Sciences and others. Dr. Prasanna Reddy, head of the Defence Institute has

designed the basic framework for a few segments, where high end affordable and

collaborative innovation framework can be created under GTU and Techpedia.in.

The start-ups have come up to prove modular IDPs to GTU Innovation Council. The

first task that the Sectoral Council has taken up is of identifying the products of

general use in both biomedical and pharmaceutical sector and of evaluating theircountry of origin.

In another parallel channel, students and faculty members are analyzing the trend

of expired patents in this technology to target futuristic needs of the BOP market




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www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.inand the possibility of improving the quality and minimizing the production cost. GTU

Innovation Council has set up a 10* 10* 10 target goal for each Bio-medical group

where multiple teams are targeting similar goals. 10 IDPs in 10 modules will be

monitored with periodic targets in a period of 10 months with a target of improving

either a product or a process.

Doctors from multiple disciplines have come up from hospitals like SAL and Apollo.

The council in this sector has not only targeted the product based innovations but it

has taken an equal no of process based innovations after surveying more than half

a dozen hospitals and dozen specialists. To develop a user centric empathetic

model of innovation the students have not only measured the need from

manufacturing industries of this field but also measured the need factors of end

users. Users choosiness and affordability has been kept as one of key target in

each module. The Innovation Council has decided to analyze the pre and post

simulation results by the mentors and guides in every module in all IDPs to reduce

the time factor for developing realistic models. Preliminary estimates by GTU

Innovation Council indicate that 20, 000 human months of efforts will be put

together by each stake holder under this Sectoral Council during this academic

year.




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www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.inNational Perspective:

Indian healthcare sector is not as modern in the terms of medical equipmentas compared to its peers in China and other countries of South East Asia.There is a huge demand for modern medical equipments in the industry. In

2006 Indian medical equipment market stood at $2.17bn. It is growing at therate of 15% per annum and it is expected to become a $4.97bn market by2012. Currently India imports 65% of its total medical equipment demand.For example- Medical Textiles (We have quality textile engineers.Ahmedabad is the hub for textile. GTU has many textile engineering andtechnology programs. But not much of a stress has been put on thissegment)

In healthcare sector, a clean environment for patients is essential. A cleanenvironment consists of clean surroundings & clean medical textiles (bedsheets, patients dress etc.). A study says that medical textile industry will bedouble to $753mn by 2012 from the current $405mn.




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www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.inin addition to that - In India bed per thousand population ratio stands at 1.03as against an average of 4.3 for countries like Thailand, Korea & China. Weneed to add nearly 1mn bed to achieve the ratio of 1.85 per thousand by2012. There is a huge investment (about $69.7bn) needed from the privatesector for adding the additional 896,500 bed to meet the above ratio.Another example is the affordability of blood collection tubes. These cost 5times the price, at which these are available in China.

At the 4th meeting of National Innovation Council on 12th July 2011, Dr. Devi Shetty ,Member NIC who is leading teams to design the road map for medical/health careinnovation for the decade has worked out an algorithm for the purpose.



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