The Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) of AAACET organized internal hackathon for Smart India Hackathon 2020 on 30^th January 2020 (Thursday). Students from various departments, in teams, offered technical solutions to the problem statements released by various Ministries, Departments, Industries, Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) and NGOs.  The judges of the event are

1. J.Sutha, Professor and Head / Computer Science and Engineering
2. C.Senthil Kumar, Professor and Head / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
3. S.Sevugarajan, Professor and Head / Electronics and Communication Engineering
4. A.Shenbagarajan, Associate Professor / Computer Science and Engineering
5. P.AKilesh, Managing Partner, Chatting Birds, Hosur
6. Manoj Kumar, Managing Partner, Chatting Birds, Hosur

The teams demonstrated their project ideas and implementation. About 14 teams participated and among them, 7 teams comprising of 5 software teams and 2 hardware teams were selected. 2 Waitlisted teams were also selected as given below.

1. Image Processing for Face Detection from CCTV- Arun & Team members, III year CSE
2. Image Processing for Number Plate Detection Management – K.Vishnu & Team Members, III year CSE
3. Smart City (Waste Management System) – P.Dharani & Team Members, III year CSE
4. Potholes Challenge – X.John Martin & Team Members, III year CSE
5. Air Pollution hotspot and source trajectories detection using ML techniques – K.Subiksha & Team Members, III year CSE
6. Fire Fighting through high resistance robots – T.Ajay Vishaal & Team Members, III year EEE
7. IoT Vehicles in Smelters – Beno Daniel Ebenezer.F & Team Members, III year Mech
8. Cost Effective Mechanism to treat Waste Water in small villages (Waitlisted team) – N.Hari Priya & Team Members, III year Civil
9. Vehicle Maintenance Index (Waitlisted team) – Samuel Rajan.D & Team Members, IV year CSE