The Innovation Lab has advanced prototyping and indigenous embedded system development facilities. It is specifically designed for inter-disciplinary research in robotics, AI, and industrial automation. This lab environment enables the development of completely functional prototypes for real-world problems using 3D printing, sensor technology, and edge device technology.
The setup includes various robotic systems, vision systems, microcontrollers, and fabrication technology, which enables students and researchers to develop indigenous solutions. This helps in experimenting and developing prototypes, and innovative machines for real-world problems in alignment with the IIC vision.
Vision
The vision is to develop a research-based ecosystem in alignment with IIC for smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 solutions. The development of a sustainable and innovation-driven ecosystem for fostering creativity, research, and entrepreneurial skills among students. Our vision is to develop a continuous innovation pathway by empowering learners to develop impactful solutions, fostering a culture of problem-solving, and developing future innovators and entrepreneurs in various education institutions.
Mission
Our mission is to develop a dynamic innovation ecosystem in terms of preparedness, responsiveness, and performance through hands-on, interdisciplinary projects. Our focus is on developing practical solutions in fields like AI, robotics, automation, IOT and sustainable technologies.
By promoting indigenous development, research-based thinking, and continuous experimentation, we hope to help students innovate, adapt, and develop impactful solutions according to the industrial and society needs.
Member:
Head: Shopan Dey, Research Associate, UEM Jaipur
Member: Aniket Jaiswal, Lab Assistant, UEM Jaipur
Facilities
Hardware and Software Components:
- Nvidia Jetson (Thor, AGX Orin, Nano)
- 3-D Printer and CNC
- High-End PC with GPU
- Soldering Machine
- Drills, Cutter Machine
- Laser Engraver
Project:
Our research group has been actively engaged with various innovative and interdisciplinary research projects that align with the objectives of the Institute Innovation Council (IIC) and have been focused on problem-solving and technology-based innovations. Some of the research projects undertaken by us include the development of smart wearables for child safety, such as GPS-based smart shoes, and automation-based projects, including an automatic soldering machine for precise electronics manufacturing.
In the field of robotics and industrial automation, we have developed and designed a 4-axis SCARA robotic arm for efficient pick and place operations, and an Edge AI and computer vision-based system for real-time object detection and sorting with a fully indigenous 3D printed mechanism. We have also worked on a sustainable technology-based project, including the Smart Solar Media System, with the aim of enabling energy-efficient digital classrooms in rural and underserved areas.
Looking ahead, our research group is focused on further developing these innovations with AI, IoT, and smart manufacturing technologies. We aim to work on various research projects including autonomous robotic systems, AI-based industrial analytics, smart energy management systems, and scalable assistive technologies, with the aim of addressing societal and industrial challenges, thereby aligning with the IIC vision.
Project: GPS enabled Smart Shoe
Aim of the Project
To develop smart shoes that enable real-time tracking and activity monitoring of school children using GPS and sensors. The system aims to enhance safety by sending alerts during unusual movement or boundary violations.
Output
The project delivers a functional prototype of smart shoes capable of real-time location tracking and motion monitoring. It provides alerts to guardians when abnormal activity or movement outside safe zones is detected.
Future Modifications
Future improvements may include mobile app integration, SOS emergency alerts, AI-based activity analysis, better battery optimization, and advanced geofencing to enhance accuracy, usability, and overall system intelligence.
Project: Automatic Soldering Machine
Aim of the Project
To design an automatic soldering machine that ensures precise and efficient soldering of electronic components using controlled mechanisms. The system aims to improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and support Industry 4.0 applications.
Output
The project delivers a working prototype of an automatic soldering machine capable of performing precise and consistent soldering. It also includes a camera module for real-time monitoring of the soldering process.
Future Modifications
Future enhancements may include AI-based defect detection, automated component placement, improved precision control, IoT connectivity for remote monitoring, and integration with smart manufacturing systems for advanced Industry 4.0 applications.
Project : SCARA Robotic Arm
Aim of the Project
To develop a 4-axis SCARA robotic arm for efficient object handling and precise placement in industrial applications.
The system aims to support both manual and automatic operations, enhancing productivity and flexibility.
Output
The project delivers a functional SCARA robotic arm capable of picking and placing objects with accuracy. It can operate in both manual and automatic modes and effectively connects two assembly lines.
Future Modifications
Future enhancements may include vision-based object detection, AI-driven automation, increased payload capacity, improved precision control, and IoT integration for real-time monitoring in smart manufacturing environments.
Project : TESPACK sponsored Smart Solar Media System
Aim of the Project
To develop a smart solar media system that provides sustainable power and digital learning access in rural areas using solar energy and integrated technology.
The system aims to enable smart classrooms and support education with efficient energy tracking and management.
Output
The project delivers an integrated system combining solar panels, power electronics, and software to create a smart classroom setup. It provides reliable energy supply and tracks energy generation and usage from solar and conventional sources.
Future Modifications
Future enhancements may include improved energy storage systems, AI-based energy optimization, offline content servers for remote learning, IoT-based monitoring, and scalability for larger educational and humanitarian deployments.
Project : Edge AI Powered Automated Object Sorting Machine
Aim of the Project
To develop an edge AI and computer vision based system for real-time industrial object detection and automated sorting.
The system aims to provide a fully indigenous, cost-effective solution.
Output
The project delivers a fully functional 3D printed machine capable of detecting and sorting objects using edge AI and computer vision. It performs real-time classification and automated sorting with minimal human intervention.
Future Modifications
Future improvements may include higher accuracy models, multi-object detection, faster processing units, IoT integration for monitoring, and scalability for complex industrial automation and smart manufacturing environments.
Publications:
Conferences
- Sougata Banerjee, Gaurav Ganguly, Sourav Kumar, and Shopan Dey, An Experimental Study of Application of Edge AI for Accelerated Computation, 2025 13th International Conference on Intelligent Embedded, MicroElectronics, Communication and Optical Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2025, pp. 1-6
- Shopan Dey and Sougata Banerjee, An Edge-AI and IoT Based Predictive Maintenance Device for Electric Motors via Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion, 2025 13th International Conference on Intelligent Embedded, MicroElectronics, Communication and Optical Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2025, pp. 1-6
- Shopan Dey and Preeti Sharma, Predictive Maintenance for Smart Manufacturing: An AI and IoT-Based Approach, Library of Progress-Library Science, Information Technology & Computer, Vol. 44, No. 3, 2024
- Shopan Dey, Afaq Ahmad, and Sougata Banerjee, Segmental analysis of GPS accuracy in ESP based device for Linear Distance Measurement, 2024 12th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave, Embedded, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 2024, pp. 1-6
- Shopan Dey, Aniruddha Mukherjee, and Amit Soni, A Case Study on Electric Vehicle Conversion from an Internal Combustion Engine Vehicle, Intelligent Computing Techniques for Smart Energy Systems: Proceedings of ICTSES 2021, Springer Nature Singapore, 2022, pp. 17-23
- Shopan Dey, Aniruddha Mukherjee, and Amit Soni, Design and implementation of Android-based digital dashboard for electric car, Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles: Select Proceedings of FlexEV—2021, Springer Nature Singapore, 2022, pp. 553-558
- Supratik Sen, Sritama Sengupta, Sayan Mukherjee, Shopan Dey, Sagarika Ghosh, Rupayan Das, and Sauvik Bal, Encryption in MicroSD card reader or USB data storage devices, 2019 9th Annual Information Technology, Electromechanical Engineering and Microelectronics Conference (IEMECON), Jaipur, India, 13-15 March 2019, pp. 232-236, DOI: 10.1109/IEMECON.2019.8736152
- Shopan Dey, Ayon Roy, and Sandip Das, Point to point and multipoint to point acoustic modem for ultrasonic data communication, 2017 4th International Conference on Signal Processing and Integrated Networks (SPIN), Noida, India, 2-3 February 2017, pp. 10-14, DOI: 10.1109/SPIN.2017.8049908
- Abhishek Kumar Verma, Saurabh Kumar, Suramya Prakash, Ashish Singh, Chandan Chatterjee, Bikash Ghosh, Arnab Patra, Himadri Nath Saha, Somen Nayak, and Shopan Dey, Multi-operational home automation system using IOT, An approach, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 305-308, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117192
- Shopan Dey, Tapasundar Kar, Asif Iqbal, Doipayan Roychoudhury, Subham Laha, Anubhab Chowdhury, Anirban Chakraborty, Kaunteya Shaw, Somen Nayak, and Shatabdi Basu, An IoT framework for smart power management system, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 214-218, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117208
- Somen Nayak, Kunteya Shaw, Jayashish Choudhury, Anirban Chakraborty, Asif Iqbal, Tapasundar Kar, Sumit Kumar Bera, Sourav Saha, Debojyoti Deb, and Doipayan Roychoudhury, Unmanned multifunction robot for industrial and military operation over resource constrained networks: An approach, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 286-289, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117188
- Somen Nayak, Surajit Das, Saikat Das, Siddharth Sarker, Preyoshi Sarker, Aniket Dey, Anirban Sinha, Jyotirmoy Saha, Aniket Banerjee, and Nabanit Saha, An application for end to end secure messaging service on Android supported device, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 290-294, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117189
- Rohit Agarwal, Nikhil Ladha, Mohit Agarwal, Kuntal Kr Majee, Abhijit Das, Subham Kumar, Subham Kr Rai, Anand Kr Singh, Somen Nayak, and Shopan Dey, Low cost ultrasonic smart glasses for blind, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 210-213, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117207
- Dipta Mukherjee, Suman Godara, Atanu Kumar Das, Shopan Dey, Saroj Kumar, Rakibul Islam, Abhishek Pati, Nagarjun Dhar, Uttam Narendra Thakur, and Sayak Pramanik, Unique digitized activity signature for human authentication, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 714-720, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117215
- Shopan Dey, Murshed Nawaz Kamal, Soumya Dutta, Abhishek Tiwari, Santanu Ray, Md Jamil Moatasimbillah, Nabanit Saha, Nilkantha Adhikary, Dipta Mukherjee, and Somen Nayak, Ad-hoc networked UAVs as aerial mesh network for disaster management application and remote sensing: An approach, 2017 8th IEEE Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 3-5 October 2017, pp. 301-304, DOI: 10.1109/IEMCON.2017.8117191
- Shopan Dey, Ayon Roy, Anil Kumar Chandravanshi, and Sandip Das, An IoT Framework for Reconfigurable Smart Sensor Interface of WSN, International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2017, pp. 4540-4545
- Shopan Dey, Afaq Ahmad Anil Kumar Chandravanshi, and Sandip Das, A Secured Framework for Encrypted Messaging Service for Smart Device (Crypto-Message), 4th International Conference on Information System Design and Intelligent Application, Da Nang City, Vietnam, 2017, Springer AISC
- Shopan Dey, Ayon Roy, Anil Kumar Chandravanshi, and Afaq Ahmad, An Unmanned Surface Vessel for Non-Combat Military Operation over Resource Constrained Networks, International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 5, 2017, pp. 7356-7360
- Shopan Dey, Afaq Ahmad, Anil Kumar Chandravanshi, and Sandip Das, A Theoretical and Detail approach on Grid Computing, International Journal of Advanced Research and Innovative Ideas in Education, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2017, pp. 5169-5175
- Shopan Dey, Ayon Roy, and Sandip Das, Home automation using Internet of Thing, 2016 IEEE 7th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), New York, NY, USA, 20-22 October 2016, pp. 1-6, DOI: 10.1109/UEMCON.2016.7777826
Patents
- Preeti Sharma, Sweta Pareek, Rhythm Mukherjee, Rishita Das, Shopan Dey, Sougata Banerjee, A VIRTUAL REALITY TRAINING PLATFORM FOR MARKETING SKILL DEVELOPMENT, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411057787, Published date: 16 August 2024, Filing date: 30 July 2024
- Rhythm Mukherjee, Preeti Sharma, Rishita Das, Sougata Banerjee, Shopan Dey, Sweta Pareek, SELF-SUSTAINING MICRO-CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR URBAN ENVIRONMENTS, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411058035, Published date: 16 August 2024, Filing date: 31 July 2024
- Shopan Dey, Prof. (Dr.) Pradeep Kumar Sharma, VOICE-CONTROLLED CAR SWITCHBOARD DEVICE, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411058036, Published date: 16 August 2024, Filing date: 31 July 2024
- Shopan Dey, Satyajit Chakrabarti, GPS AND ACTIVITY TRACKING SHOES FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411058034, Published date: 16 August 2024, Filing date: 31 July 2024
- Rishita Das, Preeti Sharma, Rhythm Mukherjee, Shopan Dey, Sougata Banerjee, Sweta Pareek, INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOR MANAGERIAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059843, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Preeti Sharma, AUGMENTED REALITY ENABLED INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) GATEWAY WITH EDGE AI, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059844, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Preeti Sharma, A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE IN SMART MANUFACTURING, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059845, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, FOUR-AXIS SCARA ROBOT SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED GRIPPER FOR PICK AND PLACE OPERATIONS, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059846, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, PERSONAL ASSISTANT ROBOT FOR ELDERLY INDIVIDUALS WITH AI CAPABILITIES, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059852, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Satyajit Chakrabarti, MULTI-FUNCTIONAL RGB LAMP WITH VOICE CONTROL AND MOBILE APPLICATION INTERFACE, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059851, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Mrinal Kanti Sarkar, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Gunjan paul, Ashis Kumar Singh, THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) USB MOUSE AND ANDROID BASED 3D AIR MOUSE SYSTEM, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059849, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Biswajoy Chatterjee, VIRTUAL REALITY ENHANCED EDUCATION PLATFORM (VREEP) FOR STEM LEARNING, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411059850, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 08 August 2024
- Sougata Banerjee, Afaq Ahmad, Shopan Dey, ROAD ACCIDENTAL ALERT MODULE (RAAM), Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411060727, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 12 August 2024
- Sougata Banerjee, Afaq Ahmad, Shopan Dey, PROSTHETIC ROBOTIC ARM, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411060733, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 12 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Sougata Banerjee, Afaq Ahmad, A WI-FI ENABLED PENGUIN WALKER ROBOT FOR ROBOTIC LEARNING, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411060730, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 12 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Afaq Ahmad, Sougata Banerjee, A WIFI ENABLED HUMANOID ROBOT, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411060734, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 12 August 2024
- Afaq Ahmad, Sougata Banerjee, Shopan Dey, A WI-FI ENABLED SPIDER ROBOT FOR ROBOTIC LEARNING, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411060729, Published date: 30 August 2024, Filing date: 12 August 2024
- Shopan Dey, Suman Acharya, Somen Nayak, Yuvraj Kumawat, Braj Kishore Chauhan, Bhavya Kumar Sharma, Kunal Sharma, Nandani Gurjar, LIBRARY SILENCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411052230, Published date: 26 July 2024, Filing date: 08 July 2024
- Afaq Ahmad, Sougata Banerjee, Shopan Dey, IOT ENABLED SMART GLUCOSE WATER MONITORING SYSTEM, Utility Patent Published, Application number: 202411052234, Published date: 26 July 2024, Filing date: 08 July 2024
