An industrial visit to the Tata consultancy service (TCS), white field, Bengaluru, was organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering, on 23rd August 2016, at 9.30 am for the students of 7BTCS / IT.
The visit to TCS was learning and knowledge gaining experience, as the students got an opportunity to know more about EngiNX and some technical aspects of IoT, its current applications and ongoing projects on it. The visit was very useful to the students in a professional manner.

Visit Details:

The visit to TCS started  at 7:30am from our campus. After travelling for around 2 hours or so we reached the TCS campus at Whitefield. We were welcomed with tea and snacks. After having a good mid morning snack we moved into the Auditorium for the event. The event for the day was mainly of 2 sessions.
The first session started off by a welcome address by Ms. Anjana, Regional Head- Talent Acquisition. She gave us a brief on all the events conducted by TCS which is open to students and gives students the opportunity to showcase their talents and skills. The various events are EngiNX, CodeVita etc.
After that we were addressed by Mr.TamalDatta the winner of EngiNX 2013. He won it 3 yersbak and was offered the job which he took up after his graduation. He shared his experience on how the transition from college to corporate world feels and also how TCS make Work Fun by having various activities like Quiz etc.,
We were after that just briefed on the EngiNX event and how they came down from 40000 contestants to 5 top teams.
After this session in the auditorium we went on to see the model of the top-5 teams. Each of the team demonstrated and explained their models. We were asked to understand and vote for the best model after a look at all the 5.

The 5 models were
IoTfied homes: - “IoTfied homes” is a building management system purposefully for residential sector. It focuses on two component of Smart grid that is demand response and Home area network, it does so by acting as a retrofit to the currently employed switches and energy meters. It also provide user an application interface that enables automatic/semi-automatic DR, optimized air conditioning and a comprehensive control over all the electrical appliances.

Cognitive Healthcare Network: Making available healthcare resources to the people has become inefficient, resource exhausting and hectic especially because of low level automation in the field of healthcare network or less available Healthcare Personnel (HCP). So to make the process of prevention and remedies a bit more methodical, they are implementing methods to automate the existing medical facilities. Further the vast medical data that is recorded is used to foretell the disease trend and predict diseases by feeding the data to the machine learning algorithms.

Smart Water Management System: Thirst is the cry of today's world. "Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink....".   Efficient usage is the need of the hour. From Kerala, GECians, the students of Government Engineering College Thrissur, presented the key to tackle this problem. And it is, the Smart Water Management System. Most cities in India are water stressed, with no city having a reliable and adequate supply of safe potable water. Their innovative Smart Water Management System (SMWS), makes use of the latest Internet-of-Things technology as well as big data and predictive analysis to automatically and efficiently manage the demand and supply of water in cities, where municipal water supply is the primary source of water for millions. Using historic data of water usage patterns and predictive analysis, their system can also alert users about their water usage, recommend modifications and notify them about possible water shortages and maintenance. It also helps to automatically generate bills and detect possible leaks.

Smart Driving System: The system helps the driver to have a safe ride, it identifies the road humps and potholes on the road in the drive way and alters the driver about it, by which the driver can take necessary action so as to minimize the damage to the car and Himself/Herself.

Gathering Head Count in an Emergency: - system that enables us to count the number of people in a building or premises and allows to locate their position in case of an emergency. They used BLE beacons to provide safe exit paths and other emergency details to the user through mobile phones. The system also sends alert messages to fire force, ambulance, police and the management. Television broadcast to warn the audience about the situation is also provided. A health device given to patients helps to monitor their health status throughout their presence in the premises. Their system can be implemented in malls, stadiums, apartments and many more.   

After we saw all the projects we were asked to vote for the project we liked the most. After the voting we headed for lunch which was arranged for us. After the sumptuous lunch we went back to the auditorium for the last session and the Grand Finale where we were addressed by a few of the top executives from TCS.
The day ended with the distribution of the prizes to the winners. After the whole ceremony was over we again were served a high tea after we left campus.

Faculty members accompanied with the students are: