The world’s largest non-profit-run midday repast plan for schoolhouse children is looking at novel technologies including blockchain to back upward in addition to heighten its projection to seat an terminate to kid hunger.
The program, titled ‘Akshaya Patra‘ that translates to ‘inexhaustible or unlimited vessel’, is a mid-day repast system that serves nutrient to children inwards regime schools in addition to government-aided schools inwards Bharat that are commonly attended past times children from low-income households. The namesake non-profit foundation began inwards 2000, serving 1,5000 schoolhouse children inwards five schools to directly render nutrient to over 1.6 ane grand one thousand children from 13,529 across xi states inwards India. The meals plan has too helped in raising schoolhouse attendance. The foundation has now revealed details close a collaboration alongside services in addition to consulting theatre Accenture to strengthen its ‘Million Meals’ projection alongside disruptive technologies including blockchain, Internet of Things (IoT) in addition to artificial intelligence. The 3 technologies were specifically chosen for their potential to address ‘significant challenges’ inwards volume repast production in addition to delivery of these meals to over a ane grand one thousand children every day. Accenture Labs, the R&D arm of Accenture implemented these technologies over a six-month catamenia inwards Akshaya Patra’s kitchen inwards Bangalore, widely seen equally the engineering upper-case alphabetic character of India.
“We persuasion this was an ideal providing terra firma to seat the combined ability of AI, IoT in addition to blockchain to use,” stated Accenture Labs managing manager Sanjay Podder.
The engineering provider began its six-month projection alongside a paradigm for improving kitchen operations in addition to output. For critical processes were recognized: measure the quantity of nutrient in addition to supplies to endure purchased, monitoring repast production, tracking nutrient delivery in addition to collecting schoolhouse feedback.
Using blockchain technology, the projection was able to deed away from manually gained feedback from children in addition to schools, to digitally collect the information. Accenture hence leveraged AI engineering to predict the side past times side day’s repast requirements using the feedback. Using information over a blockchain, captured past times mobile devices, the squad were too able to rails the fourth dimension taken for nutrient deliveries at each school.
IoT sensors were used to monitor in addition to sequence the daily cooking processes to cheque for nutrient character in addition to brand optimum role of gas in addition to release energy consumption.
Ultimately, the team’s analysis determined that the project’s efficiency could endure improved past times 20%, ‘which could boost the numbers of meals served past times millions,’ according to the announcement.
Shridhar Venkat, CEO of the Akshaya Patra Foundation underlined the benefits of implementing these disruptive technologies. He stated:
This first non exclusively enhanced efficiency spell giving a boost to our operations, but ensured that character standards are met spell increasing the let out of meals served. We aim to expand our achieve to millions of to a greater extent than children alongside the assist of such technologies.
Featured picture from Akshaya Patra.