The Judging Panel will make their selection based on the content of the Entries and using the following criteria:

• Perceived market opportunity.

• Originality and creativity, including perceived differentiation from competition.

• Technical maturity and viability of proposed approach.

• Proposers’ expertise and ability to feasibly create a successful outcome.

• Judges decision is final and cannot be altered.

OUR ESTEEMED JUDGE:

Peter Manoj, Facility Technologist CeNSE

Peter Manoj is a Sr. Facility Technologist for the Industrial Collaborations at CeNSE (Centre for Nano Science and Engineering), IISc (Indian Institute of Science). He works with CeNSE’s Industry Affiliate Program Team - interaction with industries and the CeNSE Newsletter quarterly issue. Also, he does technical briefing with system engineering facility experts at CeNSE on IoT, Role of nanotechnology, Wireless & Embedded Technologies. He holds master degree in mobile & pervasive computing and his future research interests in MEMS/Nanotechnology based sensors, communication and processing unit for IoT. He was previously employed as Researcher – M2M & Wireless at Tonse Telecom, Bangalore featuring Indian M2M market research report.

He has given a talk on Impact of nanotechnology in IoT at Erocks'14 recently.