IGCAR Targets To Transfer 10 More Technologies By Dec By CIOReviewIndia Team

IGCAR Targets To Transfer 10 More Technologies By Dec

CIOReviewIndia Team | Friday, 30 October 2020, 09:45 IST

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IGCAR (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research), Kalpakkam is hoping to transfer 10 technologies to industries by the end of 2020 in the sectors of healthcare, environment sensors, security electronics and others.

A concerned person said, “The environment and security sensors used in the IGCAR connected centres were developed in-house and nothing was bought from outside.

A.K. Bhaduri, Director, IGCAR said, "We are targeting to transfer 10 more technologies by this December end. The technologies will be in the areas of healthcare, environment sensors, and security electronics.”

Bhaduri added, “We target to transfer our technologies to about 25 startups per annum.”

According to Bhaduri, IGCAR has developed sewage treatment plants which are being used in Kalpakkam and IGCAR will start promoting it.

Bhaduri said, "A team has been formed to promote the technologies developed by IGCAR.”

IGCAR signs up non-exclusive MoUs with interested people with a one-time technology transfer fee of Rs. 5 Lakh. It also provisions of some share in the profits earned by IGCAR.

On Friday, IGCAR said, the transfer technologies for thermal imaging for early detection of breast cancer, by using artificial intelligence/deep learning software, which will be a radiation monitoring the amount of environment radiation and a portable Air volume sampler.

The thermal imaging technology for breast cancer detection, IGCAR has created a breast thermography technique, low of cost, non-invasive method based on non-ionizing radiation.

The image in the technology is interpreted using Artificial Intelligence/Deep learning software for diagnosis.

This method is further improved by taking test cases from hospitals and an MoU was signed with Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER), Chennai.

“Normally mammography is taken only after 40 years of age. But the IGCAR technology can be used to detect a much earlier age,” said an IGCAR official.

As per IGCAR, a solar powered wireless connected radiation monitor (Autonomous Gamma Dose Logger) will measure environment radiation, which is developed and can be used in nuclear installation and will be able to measure general radiation in other places.

There are possibilities of large deployments of these units, which includes across rough terrain areas. The units can be installed in borders for monitoring movement of radioactive materials.

The intention for MoU for technology transfer is being completed with Ideal Sensors, Chennai.

The portable air volume sampler, which is an import substitute, is a lightweight device, and is made from fibre reinforced plastic and employed to collect airborne particulates in a filter paper medium.

It is applicable in pollution control boards for collection of suspended particulate matter in monitoring environmental pollution and in industries discharging particulate effluents.

The MoU intent for technology transfer was signed with First Source Impex Bengaluru.

MoU has been also signed with the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) – KrishiVigyan Kenda, Perambalur, Tamil Nadu, for joint research and development in irradiation related studies in respect of seeds, crops, and other allied and related areas.

In between this development, a technology Incubation Centre at IGCAR, Kalpakka was also inaugurated by the Department of Atomic Energy Secretary K.N. Vyas, via video conferencing.

IGCAR states that the Incubation Centre will play the role of a catalyst in incubating such technologies from IGCAR and also spin off technologies from the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and other units of the DAE, in the southern part of the country by taking appropriate hand-holding with entrepreneurs and Micro-Small-Medium Enterprises (MSME)

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