Funded Projects
Integrating human and animal health with surveillance and disease ecology in a global urban center
Thematic area
Health and Wellness > One Health
Objectives
• Create a dynamic data dashboard on zoonoses
• Design a predictive tool to minimize outbreak risk
• Enable citizen and stakeholder engagement to allow participatory action
• Test evidence-based intervention in select wards in the city
Proposed Outcomes
• Governance: To ensure that a system is in place to govern, manage, coordinate and oversee all OneHealth activities in the city of Bengaluru. Such governance will serve as a model for other cities and regions.
• Capacity Building: To assess and strengthen the multi-disciplinary OneHealth core capacities required to prevent, detect, and respond to zoonotic diseases and mitigate their impact.
• Human Disease Surveillance: To enhance citywide coordinated surveillance, preparedness and response for prevention, detection, and control of zoonotic diseases.
• Environmental and Vector Surveillance: To identify circulating pathogens by metagenomic sequencing, to get a granular map of the pathogen landscape in the city.
• Disease Ecology: To provide information that can help design effective vector control strategies, and better understand zoonotic spillover dynamics.
• Model and Predict: To build predictive models to predict, pre-empt and minimize spillover events, make digital health maps available and suggest frameworks for OneHealth-based public health programs.
• Partnerships and Public Engagement: To establish a framework and raise awareness and motivation for monitoring, predicting, and responding to disease outbreaks for public health decisions in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru.
Impact Goals
• Integration of real-time surveillance and scientists in the field
• Involvement of local institutions
• Plan in place to mitigate outbreaks of prevalent diseases
• Social group and political groups involvement for implementation
• Citizen involvement
End beneficiaries Citizens through BBMP
Members
Project Leads:
• Prof. Farah Ishtiaq, TIGS
• Prof. Uma Ramakrishnan, NCBS
Other key members:
• Prof. Kavita Isvaran, IISc
• Dr. Shannon Olsson, The Echo Network
• Dr. Bhaskar, ARTPARK
• Dr. Taslimarif Saiyed, C-CAMP
• Mr. Ajay Raghavan, ICA
Partner Institutions
• AI & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK)
• Bangalore Sustainability Forum
• Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP)
• Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms (C-CAMP)
• Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
• Initiative for Climate Action (ICA)
• National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS)
• Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS)
• The Echo Network
Funded by Office of PSA to GoI
Digital Podiatry Kiosk
Thematic area
Health and Wellness > Digital Health
Objectives
• Manufacturing customizable dynamic off-loading footwear based on our proven technology of self-offloading concept that uses snap-through arches by IISc and Foot Secure
• Validating the efficacy of footwear in the Karnataka Institute of Endocrinology and Research (KIER), Bengaluru, using in-situ pedoscan
• Clinical testing and trials of the novel footwear at KIER
• Certification and deployment by Foot Secure Pvt. Ltd.
Proposed Outcomes
• Customization algorithms and software for self-offloading footwear design in a clinical testing
• Manufactured self-offloading footwear
• Clinically validated and certified footwear
Impact Goals
• Number of self-offloading footwear clinically validated with subjects chosen at KIER (50)
• Number of subjects screened at a digital foot clinic (1000 per year)
Diabetics who are vulnerable for peripheral neuropathy
Members
Project Leads:
• Prof. Anantha Suresh, IISc
Other key members:
• Dr. Pavan Belehalli, KIER
• Dr. Sanjay Sarma, Foot Secure
Partner Institutions
• Foot Secure Pvt Ltd
• Indian Institute of Science
• Karnataka Institute for Endocrinology and Research
Funded by Office of PSA to GoI
Precision Agriculture for Protected Farming
Thematic area
Urban Life > Precision Agriculture
Objectives
• Monitoring and regulation of microclimatic condition for protected farming
• Pest management in protected cultivation system
• Sensing, Imaging and Delivery Systems in Precision Agriculture
Proposed Outcomes
• Design and development of micro-climate-controlled polyhouse for roof-top and peri-urban agriculture
• Pest control: Air-sampler to monitor fungal spores, insect and pest loads in the polyhouse; Use of bio-derived insecticides, and pheromones to control pests in brinjal and tomato plants
• Precise and targeted pesticide delivery system
• Monitoring of plant status
• Design of a high impedance-based moisture sensor
• New sensor for rapid measurement of evapo-transpiration
Impact Goals
Innovative products and solutions to improve urban and peri-urban agriculture with precision delivery of water, nutrients, and pesticides in newly developed polyhouses for urban and peri-urban agriculture.
End beneficiaries
• Agritech companies: Seed companies, Drip irrigation companies, Manufacturers of hydroponics, aeroponics systems, Pest management companies
• Farmers: High value crops, Protected agriculture of high value vegetables, flowers and seeds, Virus-free potato tuber cultivators
• Agri startups: Drone based pesticide delivery, Agri-robots, Sensing of soil moisture and irrigation, AI & ML based imaging for detecting plant health status and disease
Members
Project Leads:
• Prof. M S Bobji, IISc
Other key members:
• Dr. Kesavan Subaharan, NBAIR
• Dr. Markandeya Gorantla, ATGC
• Prof. Jishnu Keshavan, IISc
• Prof. M S Sheshshayee, UAS
• Prof. Mohan Raju B, UAS
• Prof. Sreenivas K R, JNCASR
• Prof. Sushmita Dash, IISc
• Prof. Utpal Nath, IISc
• Dr. Laxman R H, IIHR
• Dr. Nagesh M, NBAIR
• Dr. Shankara S Hebbar, IIHR
• Prof. Eswaramoorthy M, JNCASR
Partner Institutions
• ATGC Biotech Limited
• ICAR-IIHR & NBRC, Bengaluru
• Indian Institute of Science
• Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore
• University of Agriculture Sciences, Bangalore
Funded by Office of PSA to GoI