Shaastra Circuit Design Challenge 2009 was the first virsion of the event which took place at Shaastra 2009 (September 30th - October 4th). It was started with a vision of being the best circuit design contest in India and is well on its way to be so.
ABSTRACT:
The aim is to build a Green Circuit that can optimize the energy utilization in a room by avoiding unnecessary energy usage. For the purposes of this contest, you're expected to build a small-scale version of the Green Circuit that can be suitably scaled up during actual implementation.
You've to mail a report by September 6, 23:59 hours to scdc@shaastra.org, with “SCDC Report” as the subject-line, clearly describing how you plan to design, build and demonstrate the Green circuit. Reports should be in .pdf or .doc/docx or .odt format. The details that must be included in the report are described in the problem statement pdf. Teams sending the eight best designs, evaluated on the basis of the reports, shall be shortlisted for the final round of SCDC and invited to demonstrate their designs at Shaastra 2009.
As a compulsory module, you need to build a robust real-time counter that can maintain and display a count of the number of persons in the room. Based on this count or otherwise, you need to come up with innovative ideas and implementations to optimize the energy usage of various electric appliances in the room. You can choose the appliances whose operations you intend to optimize (though you are expected to do some optimization for at least the fan(s) and light(s) in the room). You are also free to decide how to implement and demonstrate your designs for the different appliances you choose (clearly explain them in the report); the closer your demonstration is to the actual implementation, the higher will be your score. You can make any reasonable assumption during your design, but clearly state and justify all of them in the report.
Please keep in mind that in the report, just ideas stated in words aren't sufficient; you need to provide circuit implementations (schematics/self-explanatory block diagrams) of all your ideas in your report. It's a circuit design challenge, after all!
PROBLEM STATEMENT:
