Sarvajanik College of Engineering and Technology Department of Computer Engineering

An Expert Talk under AICTE-INAE DVP Schemeon

“Role of Internet of Things in the Smart Age”

Objectives of the Talk:• Elaborate on what IoT really means.• What IoT really means for future of students.• To guide the students towards innovative ideas in the IoT.

Date & Time: 21st March 2017 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Venue: N.J Seminar Hall, 1 st Floor, Above Admin Department, SCET

Coordinator: Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta, Department of Computer Engineering

Speaker: Dr. Vithal Kamat, Managing Director, Baroda Electric Meters Limited, Anand.

Participants: 138 students and few faculty members from Computer Engineering Department

Summary:Dr. Vithal Kamat, Managing Director, Baroda Electric Meters Limited, Anand has beeen associatedwith SCET under AICTE-INAE Distinguished Visiting Professorship Scheme. He has been selected asINAE Distinguished Visiting Professor for a period of one year i.e. Up to May 31, 2018. During histenure, he will visit SCET periodically and will be reimbursed TA and honorarium by INAE. He will...

• Deliver lectures on the state-of-art of Industry, industrial ambience and R&D needs of theindustry to the students and faculty of technical institutions.

• Guide student projects/ theses of interest to industry.• Help curriculum development, keeping in view, the changing industrial needs.• Develop cooperative undergraduate and postgraduate programmes with industry having

potential benefits to faculty, students and Industry.• Take up any other activities for the mutual benefit of engineering institutions and industry

As an initial step under this scheme, we arranged a talk on 'Role of Internet of Things in the SmartAge' on 21st March, 2017 from 10.30 am to 12.30 pm for BE III and ME I students of ComputerEngineering.

The talk was aimed to guide the students towards IoT applications in industry. Prof. (Dr.) MayuriMehta commenced the session at 10:30 AM by welcoming and introducing eminent speaker Dr. VithalKamat, Managing Director, Baroda Electric Meters Limited, Anand. Vithal Narasinha Kamat (born inMumbai, India in 1963) received his Doctorate in 1996 in the field of Artificial Intelligence from theUniversity of New Brunswick, Canada, where, as a Commonwealth Scholarship and FellowshipStudent, he specialized in Learning Machines. He has a Master of Technology (1986) in Control and

Instrumentation, (Elec. Engg.), from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. He receivedBachelor Degree with Gold Medal in Electrical Engineering from BVM Engg. College, Sardar PatelUniversity, Gujarat, India in 1984.

Dr. Kamat is currently at BEM as its Managing Director with a challenge to revive the sick unit - a nearimpossible mission. BEM has successfully launched under his guidance energy efficient Smart LEDstreet-lamps called Light-Saber. He is also currently serving as Director (Industries) of GTU InnovationV.V.Nagar-1 Sankul. He is also a visiting faculty to local engineering colleges and has a number ofDoctoral, Master’s and Bachelor’s students working with him. He has a number of conference andjournal publications to his credit.

During talk, Dr. Vithal Kamat conveyed the knowledge on the significance of IoT in the smart age.Coming from the industry he gave a introductory talk on what IoT means because this is the age of IoT.This is the revolution that everyone is talking about. Next wave of internet is not about people, its aboutintelligent connected devices.

He clearly explained what all we can do with IoT : Monitor things, Search for things, Manage thingsand Control things. The session became more interesting and interactive when Dr. Kamat activelyengaged the curious students about applications of IoT.

Finally, the session was concluded by vote of thanks by Prof. (Dr.) Mayuri Mehta. We acknowledgeand thank Sarvajanik Education Society and Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology forproviding the necessary infrastructure for conducting the expert talk. We also thank Dr. VaishaliMungurwadi, Principal, SCET for her continuous guidance and motivation in organizing .

Herewith we have attached some glimpse of our expert lecture.

Compiled by: Prof. Mayuri Mehta, Prof. Vasundhara Uchhula and Prof. Fagun Vankawala