primary education through digital slate and telecom (pedistel)
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Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom (PEDISTEL). Dr. Abhay Gandhi Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, NAGPUR 440010 INDIA [email protected]. Agenda. Objectives Challenges Technology and features Budget and development plan. Objectives. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Primary Education through Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom Digital Slate and Telecom
(PEDISTEL)(PEDISTEL)
Primary Education through Primary Education through Digital Slate and Telecom Digital Slate and Telecom
(PEDISTEL)(PEDISTEL)
Dr. Abhay GandhiDr. Abhay Gandhi
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, NAGPUR 440010 INDIATechnology, NAGPUR 440010 INDIA
[email protected]@ece.vnit.ac.in
Agenda• Objectives• Challenges• Technology and features• Budget and development plan
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.
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.
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.
PEDISTEL - Technology
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Detachable Solar panel
Digital slate
Student’s device Teacher’s setup
Digital Electronic Slate features
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.
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)
Digital slate block diagram
Camera
Microphone
Speaker
Touch screen
Power supply + Battery
Application Specific
Processor
Flash Memory
Internet connectivity(MODEM)
Solar PanelHuman / Animal driven
generator
LCD screen
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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.
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
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)
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.
Budget (3 years)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
I)Components procurement
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
II)Assembly of demo units
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
III) HDL (Verilog) Environment
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
IV) Testing Equipment
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
V) Web based solutionSr. 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
VI)Marketing Methodology
Sr. no.
Item Estimated cost (Rs.)
1 Field testing 5,00,000
2 Concept Testing 5,00,000
Total: 10,00,000
VII)Salary of project engineers
Sr. no.
Item Estimated cost (Rs.)
1 Hardware development engineer 7,20,000
2 Software development engineer 7,20,000
Total: 14,40,000
VIII)Contingency, Consumables, Travel &
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Sr. no.
Item Estimated cost (Rs.)
1 Contingency 1,50,000
2 Consumables 1,50,000
3 Travel 2,00,000
4 1,00,000
Total: 6,00,000
Recurring budget –year wise break up
Manpower
Sr. no.
ItemI 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
I year II year III Year
Miscellaneous
Sr. no.
Other recurring expenses
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 50,000 25,000 25,000
Total: 2,50,000 1,75,000 1,75,000
Summary of recurring budget
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
Financial outlay (year-wise)
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
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.
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.
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.
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