Electrical Engineering

IIT Palakkad and the Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre (SRLDC), GRID India signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 15 September 2023. It aims to strengthen academia-industry interaction with the goals of knowledge sharing and capacity building through collaboration, encourage research on issues related to India’s power sector, enable data sharing between IITPKD and SRLDC & encourage publication of jointly-conducted technical work in national/international journals and presentations in national/ international conference/seminars/workshop.

IIT Palakkad has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology Indore on 28 February 2023. With this agreement, the parties agree to conduct a collaborative research project titled "Development of an affordable wearable IoT-GPS enabled intelligent vital signs monitor for smart health monitoring services" for addressing the major design, development and deployment issues by considering the improvement of diagnostic accuracy and reliability, false alarm reduction, affordability, and battery lifetime. The project is being funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and is being executed by Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore and Dr. M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad.