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About IIT Tirupati

Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati) is incorporated under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961 and has its campus at Yerpedu-Venkatagiri Road, Yerpedu Post, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh-517619. It is the first among the 3rd phase of Indian Institutes of Technology, announced in 2014, to have its foundation stone laid in March 2015. IIT Tirupati started functioning with the support of its mentoring institute, IIT Madras, from the academic year of 2015-16. IIT Tirupati is currently offering the programmes – B.Tech, M.Tech, M.Sc, MPP, M.S(Research), and Ph.D. IIT Tirupati has nine departments – Civil \& Environmental Engineering, Computer Science \& Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics \& Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Humanities \& Social Science. The pedagogy is aimed at nurturing innovation, creativity, quality, teamwork, communication skills, ethics, and societal interaction.

About Linköping University

Linköping University (Swedish: Linköpings universitet, LiU) is a public research university based in Linköping, Sweden. It is one of Sweden's largest academic institutions. The university has four campuses across three cities: Campus Valla and Campus US in Linköping, Campus Norrköping in Norrköping and Campus Lidingö in Stockholm. It is organized into four faculties: Arts and Sciences, Medicine and Health Sciences, Educational Sciences, and the Institute of Technology. To facilitate interdisciplinary work, there are 12 large departments combining knowledge from several disciplines and often belonging under more than one faculty. It is a member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities, as well as a founding member of the Conceive Design Implement Operate Initiative.

About IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation

Positioning and Precision Technologies (PPTs) are indispensable tools for monitoring, integrating, and analyzing spatially and temporally distributed resources to aid in effective decision-making across multiple domains. These technologies include remote sensing (non-invasive), Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). The Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) primarily focuses on Public Private Partnership (PPP) model to generate revenue through (i) Research and development sponsorship from industries, government, and start-ups in the form of innovative products and services in PPT; (ii) linkage with industries, accelerators and Venture Capital to create funding ecosystem; (iii) training and consulting; (iv) standards development and policy creation for rapid adaptation of PPT across various stakeholders; and (v) databank creation across strategic areas of PPT. IIT Tirupati Navavishkar I-Hub Foundation (IITTNiF), a not-for-profit Section-8 company, is set up to host the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) in Positioning and Precision Technologies (PPT). For more details please visit: https://iittnif.com

Major Objectives of TIH: i) Technology Development; ii) Human Resources and Skill Development; iii) Start-up Ecosystem; iv) International Collaboration

Core Areas: Atomic Clock, Defense, Indoor Navigation, Radio Frequency, Data Science, Image Processing

Applied Areas: Precision Agriculture, Disaster Management, Navigation, Smart Cities and Villages, Policy and Legal Framework