Blockchain-tech in urban farming, secure law enforcement plaints by SRM workforce wins US hackathon
07 March, 2020
A good blockchain technology based urban farming platform and a secure program to guarantee the follow-up of problems such as for example police complaints, produced by SRM university learners, have won prizes at a global US Blockchain Technology Hackathon ETHDenver.
A team of pc engineering pupils of SRM university, Andhra Pradesh won the Community Prize among the top five projects at the hackathon and bagged a USD 3,000 award for UrbanBowl. The platform was created to make metropolitan areas self-sustainable by allowing unused areas owned by persons to end up being rented out for urban farming.
The theory behind Urbanbowl is that housing societies with open spaces, individual property owners with backyards, and office spaces with garden areas will get vegetables and fruits farmed on the lands by renting out them out through the platform.
UrbanBowl was developed by third-year computer research engineering students Koushik Bhargav, Pushyamitra, Srinivasa Teja and Rohit of SRM University.
Their project also pleased five UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - End Hunger, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Decrease in Forest Loss and Land Degradation, Climate Action and Sustainable Production Pattern.
Another well-received project at the hackathon, SecureNote, means that complaints authorized at police stations or civic bodies do not go unnoticed. Problems filed using the program will be authorized and digitised in a fashion that cannot be altered or marked as shut without them being taken to the notice of all authorities concerned.
Complaints are thereby safe and sound from manipulation and much more likely to be acted after if the SecureNote platform is used.
SecureNote was developed by 3rd-year learners of Electronics and Communication Engineering Yoganand and Nikhil and Computer Research and Engineering Chaitanya and Abhin.
These were awarded USD 2,000 for his or her project.
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