Smart City startup challenge winners announced

Hyderabad: SMART City Living Labs at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) has announced the winner for smart city startup challenge 2021.

Vacus Tech Pvt Ltd and Minion Labs India Pvt Ltd came out as the winners for the challenge and will be awarded with the equity free grant of Rs 5 lakh each and an opportunity to do a pilot, the institute said.

Among the two winners, Vacus used US patented technology to make cities/data centres go towards green approach. They have developed a sensor that is capable of indoor location tracking, temperature and humidity measurement, vibration measurement, and low power indicator.

Their tracking capabilities are helping their clients to reduce downtime by minimising the human errors, it added. Minion is a hand sized energy auditing device, which has the ability to analyse the data for valuable actionable insights with non-intrusive energy managementsolutions.