PoP 91 INNOVATION CHALLENGE
PoP 91 Innovation Challenge was a unique innovation contest that aimed to find actual and implementable solution for the real-world problems through Internet of Things.
The contest aimed at seeking practical, feasible and cost-effective solutions to the challenges that the industry is facing today, through IoT and related technology. The 7 focus industries were namely – Smart Cities, Healthcare, Energy, Agriculture, Retail, Digital Communications and Manufacturing.
Winners Announced
Smart City
Kill_A_Watt
Healthcare
Ayati
Manufacturing
Megalodata
Agriculture
BackPropG

Jury:
- Arvind Tiwary, Chair, Cybersecurity WG, IET IoT Panel, Chair IoT Forum, TiE
- Ravi Pagar, Group COO & MD, DTDS Technology Pte
- Ashok G, Founder and CEO, Startup 360
- Supreeth Shetty, MD, Automation of Things
- Aziz Jiwani, Adviser, RevX Hardware
- Shailendra Miglani, Global Blackbelt Team, Technology Solutions Lead, Azure IoT Cloud, Microsoft
- Praveen Arora, VP & Chief India, IoT, Tata Communications
- Ananth Chandramouli, Managing Director, Local Business Service, Capgemini
PoP 91 Innovation Challenge Industry Segments
The challenge was one of its kind with approximately 350 teams competing over 3 months across 7 industries to win a cash prize of INR 1,00,000 or an incubation or recruitment opportunity in a top corporate firm/startup accelerator. The platform partner for the challenge was Skillenza.
The PoP 91 challenges of each of the 7 industries is mentioned below

PoP 91 Innovation Challenge flow

Presenting the first round of winners across our 7 industry segments
Agriculture
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Obscurus | Crop insurance using blockchain technology |
Proteours | Online crop insurance |
greenSave | IoT and Machine Learning based detection of illegal deforestation and prediction of forest fires |
Grun11 | Solar-powered IoT based grain storage monitoring and grain spoilage control system |
dszlabs | A device to collect soil information and a mobile application to bridge the gap of information flow between different stakeholders in the agricultural sector |
BackPropg | Personalized recommendation system + Voice HMI |
Smart Cities
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Revengers_1 | Napkin disposal |
IoT2019 | Bike navigation |
TechnoTroopers | Smart waste for seggration |
Hakuna_Matata | People safety |
Tech_beast | Smart sewage surveillance |
Chakra | Seat tracking in buses |
Kill_A_Watt | Smart meter ( Low cost) |
Healthcare
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Ayati | Portable diabetic foot screening device |
Disruptive | Human health monitoring system at urinal |
Dr_loopo | Connected hospital |
DreamEpic | An IoT-based computational framework for healthcare monitoring in mobile environments with BIO-smart wear |
Retail
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Mohttt | Smart Shopping Cart |
Electrofinity | Interactive Shopping with RFID |
Tech_Express | RFID as smart label for tracking customer experience |
1_in_Centillion | Display Strips on Price Line of Items, where users will be displayed with the offers and price |
Manufacturing
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Megalodata | A systematic tool for achieving ‘true-connectivity’ of auto-components |
Double_Trouble | IoT enabled shop floor maintenance |
The_Bug_Slayers | Design of IoT based automatic accident detection |
Digital Communications
Team | Topic |
---|---|
Revuru | Channel Modelling and simulation in digital satellite communications systems |
Mentors & Pre-jury:
- Purnendu Sinha, Group Technology & Innovation Leader, Tata Group
- Anand K, CTO, Powersquare
- Ganesh Shankar, Founder & CEO, Fluxgen Technologies
- Sunil David, Reginal Director, IoT, AT&T
- Subhendu Panigrahi, Co-Founder & CEO, Skillenza
- Aman Agarwal, Co-Founder & CTO, Syook
- Ravi Verma, Lead Engineer, Azgo