BOSCH | DNA Nxt 2020: Digital Wave
About BOSCH
In India, Bosch is a leading supplier of technology and services in the areas of Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Additionally, Bosch has, in India, the largest development center outside Germany, for end to end engineering and technology solutions. The Bosch Group operates in India through thirteen companies, viz, Bosch Limited, Bosch Chassis Systems India Private Limited, Bosch Rexroth (India) Private Limited, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited, Bosch Automotive Electronics India Private Limited, Bosch Electrical Drives India Private Limited, BSH Home Appliances Private Limited, ETAS Automotive India Private Limited, Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Private Limited, Automobility Services and Solutions Private Limited, Newtech Filter India Private Limited and Mivin Engg.Technologies Private Limited and Precision Seals Manufacturing Limited. In India, Bosch set-up its manufacturing operation in 1951, which has grown over the years to include 18 manufacturing sites, and seven development and application centers.
Problem Statement
DNA Nxt 2020
DNA Start-up Alliance Program highlighting the essence and importance of a start-up accelerator and how the graduating start-ups and business units have successfully aligned to co-create solutions and products.
Bosch’s very own start up alliance program DNA (Discover, Nurture & Align) provides platform to innovative tech start-ups to co-create the solution or explore on joint Go-to-market opportunity & look at start-ups for Strategic Interest. We accelerate the GTM process & define business model innovation programs for start-ups. Thus, we have launched our fourth edition of the start-up alliance program DNA Nxt 2020 on 4 th of August 2020. The startup alliance program is intended to focus on being digital, being smart & being virtual.
Following are the Domain/ Area of Interest/ Applicable Technologies listed in the application.
| Domain/Theme | Application area of interest | Applicable technologies |
| e-Drive | LCV electrification | Motor and Motor Controls |
| Li-ion battery | 2W/ 3W, LCV electrification | Battery Management |
| Anomaly detection in fleets | Predictive diagnostics | CAN Sniffing and Machine Learning |
| Cabin safety and driver drowsiness detection | In vehicle sensing | Edge based camera integration inside and outside+ In vehicle radar |
| Indoor goods movement- Smart wheel | Goods movement | Smart wheel+ Indoor navigation |
| E-Waste management | Electronics manufacturing | |
| Automotive Aftermarket | Last mile / doorstep delivery - online sales of auto spare parts On demand delivery / Logistics | |
| Commercial Vehicle | Advanced & Automated Emergency Braking (Radar) | |
| Blind Spot Detection | ||
| 2Wh and 3Wh after sales and services | Digital platform ecosystem with unique solutions to connect OEM and end user to address problem statement | |
| Test Automation | Test automation for infotainment systems with gesture control | Gesture control in Infotainment systems, Robotics, Test automation frameworks |
| Infotainment | Distributed playback for co-passengers | In car "Content Sharing" solution. Currently buys the solution |
| Customized user Input Experience for Native Indian languages(India Market) | Infotainment projects (eg: Suzuki) | Speech Recognition, Data science/collection, Multi-modal input |
| Energy Analytics | Phantom - Energy Dis-aggregation Machine & appliance monitoring | Analytics , Machine Learning , Python Script , Algorithms, Predictive Maintenance |
| Automation | On-premise Smart/Virtual Assistants | 1. Voice solutions on premise 2. Multi-Lingual / Indic Language NLP 3. Language Translation |
| Computing Accelerator for AI/ML (HW/SW/Algorithm) | Video analytics use cases for public spaces for public health monitoring activities | |
| Secure & Trusted Compute for AI/ML (Cloud/IOT) | Many AI/ML algorithms deployed (POC, Production, Research) | |
| Emotion/Context aware systems/ Behavior analytics | ||
| Agent Technology - Deployment Enablers | Collaboration among devices. Smarter automation | |
| Healthcare | Bio analyte detection | 1. Estimation of blood parameter concentrations using Finger-tip PPG (Photoplethysmography) 2. Multi-wavelength spectrophotometric methods for estimating blood parameters non-invasively (without drawing blood). |
| Healthcare | AI based image analysis | Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Deep Learning |
| Healthcare | Frugal lab on a chip based detection/diagnosis | 1. Bio-marker based detections 2. Fluorescence spectrometry 3. Microfluids |
| Blockchain | Blockchain Scalability | Layer2, Sidechains, Alternative consensus protocols, Sharding |
| Blockchain | Confidentiality , Privacy with Data compliance for Blockchain data | Zero-Knowledge Proofs, Homomorphic Encryption, Trusted Compute Frameworks |
| AI Data Anallytics | Edge deployment for AI solutions |
Eligibility
- Any startup registered in Kerala
- Startup should have unique id(KSUM) and DPIIT number(startup India) at the time of awarding the PoC/business
