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DRDO devices to enhance quality of life in five years
- Several applications of immense use to the common man being developed by the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) will be available to the public in the next five years
- The DRDO had created a number of equipment, kits and other devices over the past few years, including a typhoid detection kit, Sanjeevani – life detection kit to trace people trapped underneath buildings during earthquakes and many other devices.
- Stating that research on creating applications using nanoscience was going on in the country for only for a few years
- India, along with The Netherlands, Russia, Italy and Brazil among other nations were in the minor league of nations in terms of nanoscience, technology and research, while the dominant nations were the U.S., Japan, Germany, South Korea and Taiwan.
- Worldwide, the market of final products incorporating nanotechnology now was $254 billion and this would go up to $ 3 trillion by 2020 and emerging economies and countries like India had to use this opportunity
- The Centre had already created the Nanomission and its final objective was to increase India's competitive edge through technological excellence.
- This could be achieved through a synergy of the industry, the academia, research and development laboratories and large scale infrastructure at special zones.
Spectrum to be freed for utility services
- Soon your water, cooking gas and electricity meter reading will be transmitted automatically to the supplying agencies using airwaves.
- The Department of Telecom is planning to de-license the 433 Mhz frequency band after several agencies sought it for their use.
