This device can track your lost phone!

Mobile thieves beware! ‘Smart track,’ an innovate mobile tracking application developed by students Kaushal Moondhra, Amritha S and Rajneesh Prakash of Acharya Institute of Technology can track lost phones and also click and e-mail pictures of the thief.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Software developer Kaushal Moondhra said that with Smart Track, the owner should send an SMS to his lost phone. The software will react to the SMS and secretly operate the camera, click three pictures of the thief and immediately e-mail it back to the owner.

Apart from this, it shall also give the location of the phone every minute. “The software has a GPS continuous tracking system and it is linked to the google map.

With this we can also get the exact address of the thief,” he says and adds that currently many phones are giving single tracking system. However, this application gives single as well as continuous tracking options.

One can also change the phone from silent to ringing mode and vice-versa with an alternate mobile. “The thief cannot keep the phone in silent and this will act like an alarm,” he says.

One can also track the incoming and outgoing calls with this software and receive alert messages whenever the SIM is changed.

“The software is currently in the demo version. We still have to work on it,” says Moondhra. The software was developed in two and a half months.

“It was hectic as Android is a new feature and we had to study the coding in a short time,” he adds.

The students are currently in Mangalore, demonstrating their project at Srishti 2012, a State-level Project Exhibition and Competition.

Vegetable recogniser

Another interesting innovation was by KLE Institute of Technology. The students have developed a software which can recognise vegetables in various light conditions.

“We have to click pictures of the vegetables and upload it in the software. The software will recognise the vegetable and the lighting conditions,” says Ajay Prabhu. He further explains that the human eye identifies things with colour and shape. The students have developed the software in these lines. “The project may look simple, however, it can be a huge step in robotics. In case if robots are sent to the market, then this software will help them identify the vegetables they are asked to buy,” smiles Prabhu.