ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामया, सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत्।

With the blessings of Lord Shri Manjunatha Swamy and our revered president Dr. D Veerendra Heggadeji that I got this opportunity to complete my graduation B.E (ISE) from 2003 to 2007, campus placement at Cognizant, Bengaluru from 2007 to 2009 and M.Tech (PTQIP CSE) from 2009 to 2012 and thus served the CSE Department/ SDMCET institution from 1st Aug, 2009 till 31st December, 2017, increasing my knowledge and experience. I have enjoyed my tenure of 8 years and 5 months at SDMCET. I truly acknowledge the opportunities the institution has provided me for personal and professional development in best possible ways. I profusely thank Shri. Shreyes Kumar sir for recognizing my services and making me incharge of Startup Core Committee and happy to inform that all the 3 startups are doing great and they have made good financial transactions. I hereby thank each and every individual who have helped me directly or indirectly in delivering all my services. I wholeheartedly thank SDME So

Many thanks to organizers at VDRIT, Haliyal  for inviting us to conduct a 2 Days Hands-on Workshop on IoT with Cloud for 3rd, 5th and 7th sem students of CSE Dept on  4th and 5th November, 2017. On day-1, MPS Labs , student startup from SDMCET conducted hands-on session on basics of Arduino with some sensors like LDR, DHT etc. On day-2, hands-on sessions on Bluetooth and ESP8266 WiFi module was conducted by MPS Labs. Later a session on MIT App Inventor and Arduino simulation using Tinkercad was conducted by me. Abhijit Naik 7th sem CSE, Ankur 5th sem ECE joined in conducting hands-on sessions. Workshop concluded with brainstorming project ideas as mentioned in our IoT with Cloud course blog.

Click here for Slides ..The journey from Guru-Shishya Parampara to e-Guru, e-Shishya with e-Content.. Happy to be a part of Robomate+ Tablet distribution event at ICS Mahesh PU College, Dharwad on 08-09-2017 as a chief guest along with Prof. Pravin Hanchinal . Tablets have helped in achieving flipped classroom and professors/students are now spending more time in classroom discussions, thus overall results have improved. It was made very clear that any technological advancements will not replace human teacher. Thanks to regional news papers like Vijay Karnataka ,  Samyuktha Karnataka  and Vijayavani of September, 10, 2017 for covering this event.. The ethical values, importance of  healthy living habits and proper/safe/secure usage of tablet/internet were stressed by Mr. Praveen.

Many thanks to UAS, Dharwad for providing us ( Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop , Prof. Govind G N and me) with this opportunity to present a session on  Cloud Computing based Android apps to make Day-to-Day tasks easy. We request you to kindly enter your ideas/problem statements in the domain of Agriculture and we would try to help you in solving it using the power of latest technologies like Cloud Computing, Machine Learning and Internet of Things (IoT). Please click here to enter your ideas/problem statements

Many thanks from the bottom of my heart to the organizers of FLIGHT-2017, Akshaya Patra , ISKCON, Hubli-Dharwad  for providing me with this opportunity to address engineering students of different branches as Guest Speaker as a part of   FLIGHT 2017 (Batch 2) Internship Program on 4th August, 2017, Friday from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM at Akshaya Patra, ISKCON, Hubli. Credits FLIGHT stands for " F uture L eaders I nclusive G rowth and H uman T ransformation". This being the signature event of TAPF ( T he A kshaya P atra F oundation )  is held in multiple locations across India for the last 3 years. For the first time FLIGHT 2017 is launched in TAPF Dharwad.  Credits I chose the topic of Demonstration of 3 D Printer  as it is   relevant to all branches of engineering and is useful in their career. The topics covered are : 1) Introduction to 2 D and 3D printers 2) Concept behind 3D printers 3) Where to Buy and  How to assemble 3D printer on ou

Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me for  CoE for IoT – 2nd Academic Community Meet & Hands-on IoT  by CoE-IoT , Banaglore held on  3rd August 2017, Thursday, 09:30 AM – 05:30 PM at  CoE for IoT , Lower Ground Floor, DD3, Diamond District, ISRO Colony,  Old Airport Road, Domlur, Bengaluru, Karnataka. Visited Innovative Lab at CoE IoT  which enables startups in areas of IoT, Big Data, AR/VR, AI, and Robotics to reach their maximum potential..   Image Credits NASSCOM                                   CoE IoT

Heartfelt thanks to the organizers at  International Conference  On  Recent Innovations in Computer Application  held at  P.C.Jabin.Science.College Campus, VidyaNagar, Hubballi   on 20th and 21st July, 2017 for giving us this opportunity to present our experience of running Internet of Things with Cloud   engineering course as a Review Paper on IoT with Cloud and Poster Presentation on Web Services.   IoT with Cloud is being offered as an elective for 7th sem Computer Science and Engineering Department students at S.D.M College of Engineering and Technology , Dharwad, Karnataka, India. The paper is co-authored  by Dr. S R Biradar, ISE Dept and Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop, Prof. Govind G Negalur of CSE Dept, SDMCET . Click here to watch Student Project Videos in YouTube Course Channel IoT Course Blog We also thank the organizers for giving us this opportunity to present our experience of running Web Technology using Web Services elective course in hands-

Happy to share the works done by 6th sem CSE, SDMCET  students as part of Web Technologies [ BLOG ] elective during Jan-May 2017. src All the project ideas are inspired by Smart India Hackathon - 2017  and are related to Geo Tagging  of public places like Govt offices, Bus Stands, Police Stations,  Gyms, Software Industries, PU Colleges, Wild-life sanctuaries, Temples / Churches etc, Hotel/Meal Delivery, Marriage halls etc etc.. using Google Maps APIs.  Entire project was divided into 3 parts and were evaluated during lab exams: Lab-IA 1 [To be done individually / One week time was allotted / Can refer internet]:  Programming/Scripting language used: HTML5 with JavaScript APIs used: Google Maps APIs , Facebook APIs , Gigya APIs Development IDE (PaaS): Codenvy.io Deployment Platform (PaaS): Google App Engine Click here to view the deployed IA-1 applications  [Column E] Lab-IA 2 [Extension of Lab-IA-1 / One week time was allotted]:  New Feature: Any conce

We profusely thank the HoD & organizers at Department of MBA, SDMCET for inviting Prof. Govind G N and myself to conduct a hands-on session on Working with Excel for Financial Use & Common Man Technologies on 27th March, 2017. We thank SDME Management for this kind opportunity. Most of the participants were PG students from MBA and M.Tech disciplines. Click here for PPT - Use of Excel for Financial Applications   Src: Google Images Click here for PPT - Common Man Technologies The session began with a discussion on  Digital Payments using Paytm and BHIM, learnt that many students were already using e-wallets. Then we had an introduction to MS Excel, its importance and basic features followed by hands-on session on Pivot Table, EMI and Depreciation Value calculation using built-in features/formulae from financial perspective. Later students were introduced to Google Drive, Google Forms and were asked to install Google Spreadsheet Android App. Google for

Hearty thanks to organizers at KLE Dr. M S Sheshagiri College of Engineering  for inviting Prof. Govind G N and myself for a hands-on workshop on  IoT with Cloud for MCA, M.Tech and 8th sem BE CSE students . The workshop is split into 2 Tuesdays on 21st & 28th March Tuesday, 2017.  Image Source Click here for Brochure Click here for PPTs on Cloud Computing On 21st March, 2017 i.e Day-1 the session began with a general introduction to Cloud Computing. Then the participants developed a simple calculator using HTML with PHP Script on Codenvy (Cloud IDE) and deployed on Google App Engine using Google Cloud Console  followed by demonstration of various possible cloud applications and final year projects . Participants got convinced of the need to deploy their mini/major projects on cloud which can be on Google / IBM / Microsoft clouds.  Hands-on workshop at MCA Dept Lab,  KLESCE, Belgaum (above) Post lunch sessions began with an introduction to Inter

Hearty thanks to  AIR Akashvani Dharwad  for giving me this opportunity once again to give a radio talk in Kannada on    ಆಧಾರ್ ತಂತ್ರಜ್ಞಾನ  ( Technology Behind Aadhaar Card) .... my previous AIR (All India Radio) talks were on  What kind of Anti-Virus should be chosen for Desktop/ Laptop/ Mobiles  and  Cloud Computing .   Many thanks to Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop  and Prof. Govind G Negalur  who meticulously reviewed the draft and corrected many points. Sincere thanks to Prof. Prathap Kumar M K ,  Prof. Aijaz Qazi and  Prof. Basavaraj V   who patiently listened to me and gave me valuable inputs.  My sincere thanks to Dean CIII , HoD-CSE & SDMCET for supporting me as usual. Many heartfelt thanks to my mother & wife who support all my endeavors.. and thanks to all those who have helped me directly and indirectly in making this talk successful. This program is AIRed at 765KHz at MW Aakashvani Dharwad on 1st March, Wednesday, 2017 in Science Magazine section at 9:30

S.V.S College of Engineering, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu  has scheduled its  Second IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (IEEE ICECCT) from 22 - 24, February 2017. Sincere thanks to the organizers for  inviting us to offer a one day pre-conference workshop on "Internet of Things" on 21 - 02 - 2017, Tuesday. image credits Click here for PPTs on Internet of Things (IoT) The session began with an inaugural function followed by an online talk on  Overview and Architecture of IoT  by   Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop   using Google Hangouts. Please click here for  Porf. Dastikop's One Minute Videos . Live (online) Presentation by Prof. Ravindra G Dastikop (above) Then a typical Architecture of IoT using Arduino and LM35 & LDR as case-study was discussed.  Typical Architecture of IoT based System (above) Further sessions were on IoT micro-controllers (Arduino), Sensors like LM35 and Modules (Blue