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Technology solutions for defence, armed forces, and national security
6 Problem Statements in this Domain (5 Standard + 1 Open Innovation)
Soldiers deployed rapidly to high-altitude posts (Siachen, Ladakh) face real risk of High Altitude Pulmonary/Cerebral Edema (HAPE/HACE), which can progress from mild symptoms to life-threatening within hours if not caught early, but early symptoms (mild breathlessness, subtle cognitive changes) are easily dismissed as normal altitude discomfort by soldiers themselves. Current practice relies heavily on self-reporting and periodic medical checks, which can miss the critical early window, especially in remote outposts far from medical support with unreliable connectivity.
GPS signals in deep Himalayan valleys and near border areas are frequently degraded by terrain masking, multipath reflection, or deliberate jamming, forcing reliance on inertial navigation systems (INS) that accumulate drift error over time without external correction. Existing terrain-aided or vision-aided correction methods developed for open or urban terrain do not transfer well to snow-covered, visually repetitive, and rapidly-changing mountain terrain where visual landmarks are sparse or seasonally obscured.
Modern buried explosive hazards increasingly use minimal or no metallic content, defeating traditional metal-detector-based clearance methods, while ground-penetrating radar and other non-metallic detection approaches suffer high false-positive rates in India's diverse soil conditions (wet clay, rocky terrain, mineral-rich soil), which severely limits clearance speed and operator trust. This is fundamentally a signal-discrimination problem — distinguishing genuine buried hazards from the very high volume of naturally-occurring subsurface anomalies (roots, rocks, moisture pockets) that produce similar signal signatures.
Combat medics in forward or remote locations must make rapid triage and treatment-prioritization decisions with limited medical supplies, no specialist backup, and no reliable connectivity to a central medical facility, but currently rely almost entirely on training and judgment without decision support tools designed for this specific resource-constrained, offline context. The challenge is fundamentally different from hospital triage: decisions must account for what limited supplies are actually on hand and evacuation time uncertainty, not just injury severity in isolation.
Remote border outposts often depend on single-path communication links (satellite or line-of-sight radio relay) that are vulnerable to jamming, severe weather (heavy snow, dust storms), and terrain obstruction, creating dangerous communication blackout periods precisely when reliable communication matters most. A resilient solution needs multiple, dynamically-recombining communication paths that can maintain at least minimal essential communication under adversarial or environmental disruption — a genuinely hard networking and RF engineering problem in extreme terrain.
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