INNOPA will hold the 7th International Young Inventors Awards (IYIA) with Online Judging System due to the COVID-19 outbreak around the world. Along with the IYIA, there will be held also the 3rd World Invention and Technology Expo (WINTEX). The main difference between both events is, IYIA is categorized for high school students or inventors below 18 years old, meanwhile, WINTEX is for university students, individual researchers, company/institution, or inventors over 18 years old.
Last year, the IYIA participated in 440 inventions from 17 countries. This year, we predict there will be more than 500 inventions from 20 countries to participate in the event. We also have separated the competition into 3 categories:
1.The International STEM-based Innovation Competition 2.The International Paper Competition 3.The International Business Plan Competition
I would like to cordially invite you and your organization to participate in this year’s event. Please see the attached documents for further information regarding the event. The registration can be done through our website www.innopa.org until 30 October 2020. And for this month’s registration, there is a 15% OFF discount from the normal fee, which is you need only to pay USD 150/project.
13th International Fair and Competition INTARG® 2020 Online – Social Innovation. This initiative was created in response to the needs of academic circles. The aim of the project is the international presentation and promotion of innovations aimed at solving various social problems, to transfer them to everyday social and economic life, as well as to establish cooperation between the world of science and the administration, non-governmental organizations, and business. Social innovations are new solutions (products, techniques, services, models, processes, activities, procedures, etc.), aimed at improving the quality of life of people, communities, nations, and the development of new areas of cooperation, as well as better use of existing resources. This novelty may result from the introduction of unique solutions, but also the implementation of an already known solution appearing in a new social context. These are innovations that benefit both society and business. The essence of creating social innovations is creative solving of social problems at the local, national and international level, for example: in and outside the workplace; resulting from climate and demographic changes; from the need to protect life and health; meeting human needs, and safety in various life situations, including crisis and emergencies; social responsibility, etc.
The 2nd Edition of Advanced Innovation Global Competition (AIGC) will be held on 12th December 2020. The Advanced Innovation Global Competition (AIGC) is the largest, and most prestigious innovation contest for students. AIGC is held with the spirit of providing a unique and different competitive platform in innovation. The 1st Advanced Innovation Global Competition was held in 15-19 November 2019 in Nanyang Technological University, Alumni Hall in Singapore, around 10 countries joined such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Japan, Egypt, Iran and Ukraine. This year, Advance Innovation Global Competition 2020 will be organize through correspondence or online competition. Please find enclosed further information about Advanced Innovation Global Competition 2020. Furthermore we attached you the AIGC Manual Entry form and submit to www.aigc-singapore.com before 15 November to proceed the payment.
The program of “Korea International Youth Olympiad 4I” 2020 consists of contests, lectures, and various events. In regard to contests, there are two sections for students to participate: ‘The Best of Best Invention’ and ‘Team Competition’. World Women Inventors & Entrepreneurs Association (WWIEA) invites the prize awardees of invention contests for ‘The Best of Best Invention’ contest. WWIEA also invites teams of four creative students to the ‘Team Competition’ to gather their ideas to work on assignments.
-Event name: The 5th KIYO 4i(Korea International Youth Olympiad) -Registration deadline: 20th September 2020 -Online Evaluation: 5th to 10th October -Announcement of Winners: 12th October 2020 -Venue: in Seoul, Korea, Online Competition Registration deadline: 20th September 2020 Announcement of Winners: 12th October 2020
Due to COVID-19 Virus, Korea International Youth Olympiad (KIYO 4i 2020) is going to be held online by World Women Inventors & Entrepreneurs Association (WWIEA) under IFIA’s sponsorship.
I am Sanjaya Gunasiri, my invention is a liquid atomizer machine that is researched and developed before the COVID 19 pandemic which however this pandemic gave us the idea to use the same machine as a Sanitizer machine that uses lot less liquid than conventional methodologies. Having developed this as a multipurpose machine with the added advantage of using this as a Sanitizer machine this has evolved in to a truly multipurpose machine.
I like to extend my gratitude to the SLIC team for their assistance (sponsorship) in obtaining a benchmark report from ITI that has given me the opportunity broaden the market for this product.
Sri Lanka Inventors Commission has scheduled to conduct inventors meeting for Western province inventor identity card holders at 1.30 pm – 3.30 pm on 14th August and 18th August 2020 at the Auditorium of the Commission. A valuable motivational program for capacity build-up is also included in the session. Relevant inventors are requested to confirm participation on preferred date on or before 12th August 2020 to the Projects Division of the Commission via 0112676650 or email ‘projects@slic.gov.lk’.
WIN AWARDS for your Most innovative ICT based product developed for targeting national disasters.
BCS the Charted Institute for IT Sri Lanka Section (BCSSL) in association with the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) has introduced a new award for your most innovative ICT based product developed for targeting national disasters for the second time.
The online application calling was launched and please apply and refer extract more information via the website on or before 17th of July 2021
(A Computer vision-based System to Perform Differential Count of White
Blood Cells)
We are a group of inventors working towards developing a computer vision based system that can be used to replace the expensive hematology analyzers and the inefficient manual counting method to produce WBC differential count reports. Team members are Dr. Nuwan Dayananda, Senior Lecturer, Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Prof. Indira Silva, Senior Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Iyani N. Kalupahana, Biomedical Engineer, University of Moratuwa, Lokesha R. De Seram, Biomedical Engineer, University of Moratuwa, Dilshan N. Wickramarachchi, Biomedical Engineer, University of Moratuwa and Chinthalanka B. Wijesinghe, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineer, University of Moratuwa.
There are 5 main types of White Blood Cells (WBC) present in the blood and they are Neutrophils, Lymphocytes, Monocytes, Eosinophils, and Basophils. The measure of WBC in the blood is an important indicator of pathological conditions. By determining the differential counts of these WBC, diseases such as microbial infections (virus, bacteria, etc.), leukemia, and other blood related diseases can be diagnosed. In hematology laboratories, manual counting methods and automated analyzer method are used for the differential counting of WBC. The manual counting method is monotonous, laborious and time consuming. Apart from that, static sampling errors and subjective judgment errors also affect the classification accuracy of the manual counting. In automated analyzer methods, the presence of components like nucleated RBC, parasites and platelets lead to misclassifications and affect the WBC count. Furthermore, these devices are expensive and have a higher maintenance cost. Therefore, the CELLBOTIC system is developed to automate the WBC differential count process. CELLBOTIC is a computer vision-based system that can produce WBC differential count reports similar to an expert hematologist. The system consists of a hardware platform that navigates the microscope stage to acquire microscopic images from a blood smear and an algorithm implementation to generate the WBC differential count reports.
We wish to thank the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC) for their financial support towards further development of the prototype and guidance in the patent application process. Furthermore, we highly appreciate SLIC’s role in fighting against the COVID-19 virus by supporting technological developments.
Thank you for inviting us to the program,
“Eka Mage Rata” – Inventor-Investor Meetup and giving us the
opportunity to discuss about the future potentials and improvements required to
develop in the invention. We received valuable feedback from the investors
about our invention, “CELLBOTIC – A computer Vision Based System to
Perform the Differential Count of White Blood Cells (WBC)”. Investors
showed us a big picture of the potential market of our invention and they
extended their hands to further develop our invention into a prototype in
agricultural side as well. Moreover, they explained us, how we can help
patients from this invention during COVID-19 pandemic. We could not have done
it without the expert service from Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC). Your
help has been invaluable, and we cannot imagine how we would have managed it
without your help and support. Again, thank you so much for the great support
and guidance.
We, as a team, would appreciate your continuous assistance, and looking forward to continuing the work together with SLIC.
We at SRQ robotics is a startup initiated at University of Moratuwa. Our team consists of 5 professional engineers and 2 undergraduates. In order to help the government to control the prevailing Covid 19 situation we have implemented a Robot to disinfect public places utilizing Ultraviolet rays. The current method used in SL (Disinfectant Liquids) consumes a considerable time for the process. This time can be reduced by 60% with our robot at a 85% cost reduction in a 100 day run.
With the equipped ultraviolet light tower, the robot can disinfect and kill diseases, viruses, bacteria, and other types of harmful organic microorganisms in the environment by breaking down their DNA-structure. We have conducted laboratory testings and proved a 99.997% disinfection rate. The invention
increases the safety of both staff, patients and their relatives by reducing the risk of contact with bacteria, viruses and other harmful microorganisms. This can effectively prevent and reduce the spread of infectious diseases, viruses and bacteria. The system pays special attention to “infection hotspots”, such as washbasin, patient bed, handles etc.
