Soha Muskaan Sayyad, Samah Maaheen Sayyad, Juhita Naga Priya Velagapudi, and Trisha Chilukuri from 2nd-year Computer Science Engineering have achieved 2nd place in the I-Wallet Design Techfest, organised by IIT Bombay. Dr Sonam Maurya, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, guided the students to achieve this incredible feat.

The students started their work in December and explored a lot about IoT while working on it. More than 100 teams participated in this competition. In January, ten teams got selected for the second round, i.e., Report Submission, and our students were one of them. In February, based on the reports submitted, six teams, including our students, were selected for the final round, i.e., to present the proposed idea to the judges’ panel. Finally, the students bagged second place in the competition with cumulative prize money of INR 90,000.

Regarding the I-Wallet, students say that “Smart Wallet is an easy-to-use wallet that is designed for providing secured transactions”. It has minimal energy consumption, more security, and a few advanced features, some of which are not included in the regularly used wallets. The advanced IoT features enable it to be kept in our pockets with smartphones and smartwatches. The design received recognition from the expert panel members based on these features.

The team has also initiated the process to file a patent on the design of wallet. Students expressed their gratitude to Dr Sonam Maurya, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, for her relentless guidance and continuous support towards the project. They also thanked SRM University-AP for providing the opportunity to participate in this national level competition organised by IIT Bombay.

Prof B V Babu, Dean, School of Engineering and Sciences, appreciated the students and their faculty mentors. “Keep up the good work, continue to excel in all your future endeavours at professional and personal levels and bring laurels to your alma mater”, he said in the congratulatory message.

Mr Mudigonda Himansh, a 3rd-year BTech-CSE student, has presented a research paper in the IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology-2022 organised by IIIT Kottayam, Kerala India, in Feb-2022. The paper will be published in IEEE Xplore (Scopus indexed). Dr V M Manikandan, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at SRM University-AP, is the co-author of the presented paper titled “A Statistical Study and Analysis to Identify the Importance of Open-source Software”.

Open-source software has picked up pace in the past decade with support from multinational conglomerates and huge open-source communities. We hear a lot about the success of many open-source projects, but we fail to understand how many do not make it. In this paper, Mr Himansh and Dr Manikandan understand the dynamics behind open-source software. They start with the need for open-source alternatives. Then look at a few concerns open-source software developers and maintainers face. Next, we would understand the various requirements of open-source software. Later, we would touch upon the different attributes that affect the selection of open-source software and the decisions to make while building general-purpose, open-source software. Then we would analyse the 5-determinants of open-source software success. Finally, we would look at the data collected from 482 data points from 24 countries and then analyse the data by forming graphs and charts.

This research provides the required knowledge to the open-source and non-open source software developers before-during-after development and production of the software or project. “Our future work is focused on the applications and predicting the scalability of large-scale OSS with machine learning,” says Dr Manikandan.