The Version 1 (V1) (which can be accessed here) of the CSTEP’s Solar Techno-Economic Model for Photovoltaics (CSTEM PV) was built under the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R) for the Solar Energy Research Institute for India and the United States (SERIIUS). This initiative was jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Government of India through the Department of Science and Technology.

CSTEP has been engaged with the Smart City initiative at the national level too. We have been part of the working group for creating the data strategy and have contributed to the policy document.

Our upcoming Urban Observatory is envisaged to be the first state level Urban Observatory in the country. This pilot observatory will support government agencies and officials in identifying policy issues, making better decisions and initiating appropriate actions. Our design is guided by the philosophy that the observatory should be more than a command and control platform or a simple visualisation platform. It will help in enabling easy access to information, meaningful insights, and ensuring transparency of action.

As a pilot project based in a city slum, Spoorthi, a community-owned-and-managed spatial data system, attempts to explore how an urban poor community in Bengaluru can be part of an IT initiative that can serve their interests best. Using our digital platform, Spoorthi, community facilitators from the slum created a spatial database of the community's water, sanitation and health (WASH) infrastructure and their access to it.

As part of our multipronged strategy to fight malnutrition, CSTEP is working on a state-of-the-art computer vision project, SNEHA Vision, for image-based height detection, baby-length detection, BMI calculation, among others. The focus is on keeping the technique simple, so that officials at the grassroots level can detect the nutritional status of children with mobile phone images.

SNEHA Samanvay is a data-science project, which seeks to synchronise child and mother data across departments. A massive project, it will integrate the data of around 3 million children and 1.1 million women in Karnataka. To keep the data consistent in the future, we have created additional solutions such as the Family Survey App.  

Managing and treating malnutrition is an intensive task, requiring careful monitoring and record-keeping of a child's health progress. Severe malnutrition cases are referred to Nutrition Rehabilitation Centres (NRCs) in district or taluka hospitals. SNEHA NRC is a digital platform which tracks children who are discharged from these centres. SNEHA NRC is currently running in all 30 district hospitals in Karnataka.

A state-of-the-art digital platform, SNEHA provides a comprehensive solution-detection to cure-for malnutrition management. This concept solution is being developed in partnership with the Government of Karnataka. Employing the best design principles, our platform uses mobile technology along with a robust process and data integration at the back end, allowing for a consistent view of child and women's health across departments. Bundled in this solution is the SNEHA app, a tool that makes the lives of anganwadi workers simple, efficient, and effective.