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Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom (PEDISTEL)

Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom (PEDISTEL). Dr. Abhay Gandhi Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, NAGPUR 440010 INDIA asgandhi@ece.vnit.ac.in. Agenda. Objectives Challenges Technology and features Budget and development plan. Objectives.

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Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom (PEDISTEL)

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  1. Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom (PEDISTEL) Dr. Abhay Gandhi Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, NAGPUR 440010 INDIA asgandhi@ece.vnit.ac.in

  2. Agenda • Objectives • Challenges • Technology and features • Budget and development plan

  3. Objectives • Development of low cost electronic slate with distance education capability. • Development of complete distance education system using the electronic slate. • To launch the education solution on a large scale.

  4. Challenges • No access to education for rural and tribal children. • No school / school faraway / daily commuting not possible. • Difficult access to quality education for urban slum dwellers. • Children of migrant labour, construction workers do not stay at one place.

  5. Challenges (Contd.) • To provide infrastructure for a few people in each village is not economically feasible. • Steady brain-drain from villages to cities over the last 6 decades. • Talent pool that can teach better is concentrated in cities and towns. • Teachers unwilling to stay in villages.

  6. PEDISTEL - Technology

  7.       Digital Electronic Slate features

  8. Digital Electronic Slate features • Detachable solar panel • Winding spring / animal or human power for battery charging. • Touch screen, web-cam, speaker, mic • Full duplex voice(ASVD or DSVD) or GPRS/3G/landline connectivity. • E-book reader, video playback, drawing etc. Useful for higher education also.

  9. Digital slate features (contd.) • Ability to store off-line content for example home work. • Minimum 3 hr use per day. • Patent filed for the electronic slate. (Application no. 1625/MUM/2009 date: 10/07/2009)

  10. 1 • Camera 6 Application Specific Processor Internet connectivity (MODEM) 2 Microphone 3 Touch screen Power supply + Battery 7 4 LCD screen Flash Memory 5 Speaker Human / Animal driven generator Solar Panel Digital slate block diagram

  11. Teacher’s setup • Training software on Laptop/ Desktop PC • Web-cam, tablet or touch screen. • Display divided in nine parts to handle 9 students at a time. • Contents on slate or student’s face shown in the window allocated.

  12. Who will be teachers? • 9:1 ratio means a large number of teachers required. • College students (engg., medical, law, arts, science, commerce, pharmacy) • Housewives, retired personnel • Physically challenged persons

  13. Team and resources • VNIT- Department of Electronics, VLSI Lab • A. S. Gandhi (Communications and overall solution development) • Prof. R. M. Patrikar (VLSI issues) • Ravindra B. Keskar (Web solution)

  14. Team and resources • MTech(VLSI Design), MTech(Computer Science) and BTech students. • Currently, one engineer for hardware and one for software is proposed. Perhaps, the no. needs to be increased.

  15. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) I) Components procurement 4,00,000 II) Assembly of demo units 3,60,000 III) HDL environment 7,00,000 IV) Testing equipment 7,00,000 V) Web-based solution 18,00,000 VI) Field testing and Concept testing 10,00,000 VII) Salary of project engineers 14,40,000 VIII) Contingency, Consumables, Travel & Miscellaneous 6,00,000 Total: 70,00,000 Budget (3 years)

  16. Sr. no. Component Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 Display or monitor panel 1,00,000 2 Touch screen 20,000 3 GSM/GPRS/Broadband modem 20,000 4 Microphone and speaker unit with USB interface 10,000 5 Camera with USB interface 20,000 6 Memory, FPGA and other digital ICs 1,50,000 7 USB 2.0 IP core licence 50,000 8 Power supply circuit and battery 10,000 9 Solar panel 20,000 Total: 4,00,000 I)Components procurement

  17. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 PCB layout design 60,000 2 PCB fabrication 1,00,000 3 Enclosure design 1,00,000 4 Enclosure fabrication 1,00,000 Total: 3,60,000 II)Assembly of demo units

  18. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 Code development 2,00,000 2 Simulation tool 2,00,000 3 FPGA Implementation System 3,00,000 Total: 7,00,000 III) HDL (Verilog) Environment

  19. Sr. no. Equipment Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 USB Protocol Analyzer 4,50,000 2 Mixed Mode Digital Storage Oscilloscope 2,50,000 Total: 7,00,000 IV) Testing Equipment

  20. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 Web-server for education service provision 2,00,000 2 Data base server for CRM solution 1,00,000 3 Web application development tools 2,00,000 4 Networking and Internet access equipment 4,00,000 5 Tutor training and content development 9,00,000 Total: 18,00,000 V) Web based solution

  21. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 Field testing 5,00,000 2 Concept Testing 5,00,000 Total: 10,00,000 VI)Marketing Methodology

  22. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.) 1 Hardware development engineer 7,20,000 2 Software development engineer 7,20,000 Total: 14,40,000 VII)Salary of project engineers

  23. Sr. no. Item Estimated cost (Rs.)  1 Contingency 1,50,000  2 Consumables 1,50,000  3 Travel 2,00,000  4 Miscellaneous 1,00,000 Total: 6,00,000 VIII)Contingency, Consumables, Travel & Miscellaneous

  24. Manpower Sr. no. Item I year II year III Year 1 Hardware development engineer 2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 2 Software development engineer 2,40,000 2,40,000 2,40,000 Total 4,80,000 4,80,000 4,80,000 Recurring budget –year wise break up

  25. Sr. no. Other recurring expenses I year II year III Year  1 Contingency 50,000 50,000 50,000  2 Consumables 50,000 50,000 50,000  3 Travel 1,00,000 50,000 50,000  4 Miscellaneous 50,000 25,000 25,000 Total: 2,50,000 1,75,000  1,75,000 Recurring budget –year wise break up

  26. Item I year II year III Year Manpower 4,80,000 4,80,000 4,80,000 Contingency 50,000 50,000 50,000 Consumables 50,000 50,000 50,000 Travel 1,00,000 50,000 50,000 Miscellaneous 50,000 25,000 25,000 Total: 7,30,000 6,55,000 6,55,000 Summary of recurring budget

  27. I Year II Year III Year Non recurring 21,60,000 18,00,000 10,00,000 Recurring 7,30,000 6,55,000 6,55,000 Total: 28,90,000 24,55,000 16,55,000 Financial outlay (year-wise)

  28. Business model and costing • Target cost of digital slate Rs. 500 to 2500 (US$ 10 to 50). Possible due to large volumes. • Franchisee model for urban area • NGO+SHG for rural area • Web based CRM solution.

  29. Business model and costing • NRE Cost (Development cost) • Operational expenses • Teachers and support staff salary • Telephone usage charges • Devices (Students and Teachers) • Device loss, damage, maintenance.

  30. Development plan • I year: Prototype slate to be assembled, Verilog code to be ready. • II Year: Web-based solution to be developed.Pilot project to be ready. • III Year: Full deployment across the country.

  31. Thank you!

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