Moodbidri: ITI Student Develops Fingerprint-sensitive Technology for Vehicles

Report and pics: Shekar Ajekar
Daijiworld Media Network – Moodbidri (RD/SP)

Moodbidri, Apr 27: Sheetal Kumar Jain, a student of Kalikamba Industrial Training Institute (ITI), has developed a finterprint-based theft-proof technology for starting of two-wheelers. This comes as heartening news for two-wheeler owners, who are worried at the increasing cases of vehicle thefts.
 
Kalikamba ITI is managed by SKF Group of Concerns under the chairmanship of K Ramakrishna Achar, who has been financing such technological feats since the past many years.

Sheetal Kumar Jain demonstrated the efficacy of his technological invention in the presence of instructors, fellow students, and K Ramakrishna Achar, here on Tuesday April 26.  Sheetal has externally installed this innovative technological gadget on his Bajaj motor cycle. This gadget can be installed in any automobile.  Demand for such safety features is likely to go up steeply because of the protection it extends against possible thefts.

The master thumb impression of vehicle’s owner can be installed with the help of electrical wires.  The fingerprints of owner’s family members can also be stored likewise.  The technology that was developed by Sheetal can store fingerprints of up to 15 persons. He has stored the fingerprints of his colleagues and friends in his invention, and there is provision to increase the storage level to 100 such fingerprints. 

SKF Group chairman, G Ramakrishna Achar, congratulated Sheetal Kumar Jain for this technological invention. 

This is the era of innovations. Tata Motors has already taken the lead in introducing state-of-the-art technology in its new generation cars.  These vehicles are customer-friendly, enabling the owners to install innovative gadgets in them. Tata Motors has been installing GPRS in its vehicles at the option of the person who buys them, since a year.  Gangadhar Shetty Mudrady, proprietor of Mumbai-based Om Sai Motors, dealers of Tata and Fiat automobiles, has also congratulated the technological feat of this rural youth.

Sheetal, after observing increasing cases of vehicle thefts, started thinking on ways and means to make the vehicles theft-proof. Then he got this idea. Ramakrishna Achar financed his research work, and helped him to install a model of his innovation, while his friends Vikram and Sandeep assisted him.

The technological innovation developed by Sheetal can be fitted to any automobile, doors of houses, offices etc.  It took about a month for him to develop this technology and the total cost involved was Rs 10,000.  However, the cost would come down to around Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000, if the gadget is mass-produced, says Sheetal.