IIT Guwahati students 2020: Design great 'Flyzy' for air travel
IIT Guwahati students have developed a mobile application called ‘Flyzy’ to provide seamless air travelling experience to passengers during pandemic.
IIT Guwahati students who developed the app are Mr. Deepak Meena, 3rd-year B.Tech student, Department of Chemistry, co, Mr. Hansraj Patel, 3rd year B.Tech student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati and Mr. Arjit Singh, 4th year B.Tech student, Department of Electrical Engineering, JMIT.
The aim of the application developed by IIT Guwahati students is to provide contactless boarding keeping in mind the easier baggage drop, manageable parking, a better shopping experience and providing necessary updates during the whole journey.
The focus of the start-up is the software that they have developed and will be installed at the airports. The application is their way of taking the software to the public.
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The idea behind a mobile-based software is majority of the people have a smartphone. Moreover, it’s a hybrid software which will support face-biometric recognition in the future, without even changing the complete software system of the airport.
The idea behind bringing out the app by IIT Guwahati students would be relevant not only during the present pandemic time but also at those times where there is no crisis.
The main idea behind the application by IIT Guwahati students is to provide a seamless journey to passengers as they move through the airport, especially to the first-time flyers.
The app brought out by IIT Guwahati students has another use. Passengers can shop from the airport using the application and can also pay from the application.
They can either opt for the takeaway or gate delivery option. The application by IIT Guwahati students also supports multi-currency payments.
For food ordering purpose, the app dynamically suggests the passenger the best option he or she could choose, based on the flight status.
For instance, if the flight departs in 1 hour, the app will suggest the passenger the food items that could be prepared within the available time.
There is more to the app by IIT Guwahati students. It also has The application also has a Smart UI Assistant which helps the elderly to use the app easily.
Apart from that the other features in the app brought out by IIT Guwahati students include real-time flight notifications, universal web check-in portal, check-in baggage status and map of the airport.
The app is also secure as the app is hosted on the cloud and proper IATA and DGCA guidelines were followed and it will also be contactless.
IIT Guwahati students further said they believe that the app will help the aviation industry save money as the process will become automated, faster and easier.
The company provides an end-to-end service at a low infrastructure cost. The team is already in the process of speaking to the authorities for implementing the application at some airports.
The students have established it as a start-up and it has been recognised by Startup India. The team was a finalist at Start-up India Covid-19 Challenge 2020.
Flyzy has been developed as per International Air Transport Association (IATA) guidelines. Mr. Sankalp Borthakur, an alumnus of IIT Guwahati is the advisor of the start-up.
About – IIT Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati established in 1994 has completed 25 years of glorious existence in 2019. At present, the Institute has eleven departments and five inter-disciplinary
The institute offers a residential campus to 412 faculty members and more than 6,000 students at present. Besides its laurels in teaching and research, IIT Guwahati has been able to fulfil the aspirations of people of the North East region to a great extent since its inception in 1994.
The picturesque campus is on a sprawling 285 hectares plot on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, around 20 kms from the heart of the Guwahati city.
IIT Guwahati is the only academic institution in India that occupied a place among the top 100 world universities – under 50 years of age – ranked by the London-based Times Higher Education (THE) in the year 2014 and continues to maintain its superior position even today in various International Rankings. Along with the older IITs and Delhi University, IIT Guwahati has been ranked below 500 in the QS World ranking released recently.
IIT Guwahati has retained the 7th position among the best engineering institutions of the country in the ‘India Rankings 2019’ declared by National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) of the Union ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD).
IIT Guwahati has been also ranked 2nd in the ‘Swachhata Ranking’ conducted by the Govt. of India. Recently, IIT Guwahati has been ranked as the top ranked University in 2019 for IT developers by HackerRank in the Asia-Pacific region.
Among other frontier areas of research and innovation, IIT Guwahati is working towards augmenting critical science research initiatives in Genomics, Developmental Biology, Health Care and Bioinformatics, Flexible Electronics, Advanced Functional Materials, Sustainable Polymers, Rural Technologies, Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction, and Water Resources and Management. In its silver jubilee year, IIT Guwahati is poised to scale newer heights through all round growth and development.
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