INTIOT SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED

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Landslides cause major infrastructure damages and deaths globally. According to an estimate, more than 5,000 people are buried alive under landslides with economic losses of more than INR 26,000 crores suffered every year globally. India tops the global landslide list. Landslides cause more than INR 1000 crores/year in economic losses and more than 1000 deaths/year in India. Due to landslides, average losses in Himachal Pradesh alone cost more than INR 550 crores per year and cause more than 200 deaths per year. Given the catastrophic effect of landslides on life and property, Intiot Services Pvt. Ltd. (iIoTs), a company incubated by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi’s technology incubator Catalyst, is at the forefront of developing a patented low-cost system for sensing and warning against landslide disasters. This inexpensive system is installed in landslide-prone areas for remote IoT-based monitoring of weather parameters, soil movements, and soil properties. The system senses significant soil movement and warns vehicular traffic via traffic signals at the landslide site as well as advises people living in the vicinity of the site via SMSes. The sensed weather and soil data are logged in a cloud database, and it provides policymakers and researchers with the ability to monitor landslide activity at the deployment location. The system also generates weather-related advisories for different stakeholders. At an early stage, iIoTs holds the distinction of deploying a record number of landslide monitoring and warning systems at 10-different landslide locations in the Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh. The system has already saved lives and infrastructure in the 2018 monsoon season at the famous Kotropi landslide, where the system sounded an alarm just before a flash flood. Police heard the signal and stopped road traffic minutes before the disaster struck. Since then, the low-cost landslide monitoring system has been covered by several media outlets including the India Today, Telegraph, Financial Express, and the BBC. In October 2018, the Himachal Pradesh Government introduced a state-wide contest for the “Development of Innovative Prototypes for Disaster Preparedness and Response.” Dr Varun Dutt and Dr K. V. Uday, Assistant Professors, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi and, the iIoTs group, a student-faculty group incubated by IIT Mandi’s technology incubator, Catalyst, won the 3rd prize in this contest. The prize was given to the iIoTs team on the development and deployment of a low-cost landslide monitoring system (LMS) by Mrs Manisha Nanda, IAS and Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue) during the celebration of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on 13th October 2018. Currently, several system deployments are underway in the Sirmaur and Mandi district. iIoTs’ landslide monitoring and warning system is the cheapest in the market and the group plans to deploy this technology at a massive-scale at different landslide-prone areas in India and the world.

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