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What is the News?
The Centre for Development of Telematics(C-DOT), the premier Telecom R&D centre of the Government of India, has bagged three awards at the 12th Annual Aegis Graham Bell Awards.
What is the Aegis Graham Bell Award?
Aegis Graham Bell Award is a tribute to the father of telephony and great innovator, Alexander Graham Bell.
The Aegis School of Business, Data Science and Cyber Security has initiated this award to promote innovations and recognize the outstanding contributions by the innovators.
This award in India is supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Skill India and National Informatics Centre.
Why was C-DOT given the Aegis Graham Bell Award?
C-DOT was given this award for three innovations which are:
Indigenous Early Warning Platform for Disaster Management & Preparedness: This system can effectively send location-based disaster alerts in vernacular language to the people in disaster-prone areas during various natural hazards like Cyclones, Floods, Pandemic over multiple media.
C-DOT SAMVAD – A Unified Platform for Secure Messaging and Calling Solution. This platform offers secure messaging, voice and video calls, video conferencing in a secured manner.
C-DOT Quarantine Alert System(CQAS): It is a comprehensive solution for effective monitoring of the Covid quarantined persons and detection of quarantine breaches based on geofencing and caters to both smart-phone and feature phone users.
Source: This post is based on the article “C-DOT bags 3 awards for its indigenously designed & developed innovative Telecom solutions at 12th Annual Aegis Graham Bell Awards” published in PIB on 26th February 2022.