Tech Companies At Kumbh Intending To Test Real Time Innovations
Startups are also participating in this better Kumbh project. To initiate Modi’s dream of a cleaner Kumbh celebration, solar lamps by Urjakart, an Indian startup will be distributed among devotees by religious hierarchies. This is an attempt of Twitter and Facebook-savvy gurus like Swami Chidanand Saraswati, founder of Ganga Action Parivar, along with Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji, secretary-general of Global Interfaith WASH Alliance.
Students under the supervision of tech associations also invented two useful apps that are of very importance in the Kumbh zone. Epimetrics, one of the apps aims to control the spread of epidemics by digitizing doctors' logs across the nearby city or town. Meditracker is a '911' service that will notify medical practitioners in case of any emergency.
Innovations in this Kumbh have more to the list.
The availability of mobile towers allows crowd steering implying it reflects density distribution of a large crowd, its current location and wherever it moves about within the Kumbh zone.
To facilitate more crowds take part in the Kumbh, low-cost pop-up housing systems is the new trend. Industrial racks from cold storage have been transformed into multi-level habitable spaces for common people.
Annadan, aims to curb food wastage by diverting food donated to temples to those who need it.
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