Networked Electronic Voting Machine

These EVM, Electronic Voting Machines are high valued asset for democracy.

They are now holding a very very important, high value information.

These EVMs have the information about the future power in India.

In India, we spend a lot of tax money to conduct elections. Not only the money; but also other resources such as, human; transportation; security.

In some states, we bring in military to conduct elections.

People now have trust and faith in our democracy system. Initially they did raise many questions on this electronic voting machines. Over a period of time, people gain confidence in the system.

This EVM is designed by the Bharat Electronics Limited, Bangalore. Sujatha Rangarajan was the technical lead of the team, who built this EVM. Human being like Sujatha Rangarajan, sees the society with social responsibility; understands the  challenges of the society; transforms these challenges into innovative opportunities; solves the problems once for all; improves the human lives.

Sujaratha Rangarajan, when he studied at Madras Institue of Technology, Chromepet; there were no digital electronics. But, Sujatha used to keep up to date with technological development all over the world. Sujatha was a visionary. In one of his stories, Sujatha predicted a young girl from a village close to Trichi will soon develop software for computers. Sujatha made that statement around 1980.

Most of the engineers of his batch knew only about big size radio and the first generation of television. But Sujatha could comfortably talk about the latest development; also could predict the next stage.

It is very sad to learn that all our glorified Nandan Nilekani, Narayanamurthi, Wipro, HCL, TCS and Reliance and Government High Tech organizations.

How could miss this kind of wonderful opportunity for growth.

That is the big challenge now. These high tech professionals confine themselves with other technocrats and keep talking about wi-fi, cloud, big data and so on.

They have all the technology to solve the problems of the world. But they don't know or understand the problems of government; or others.

Someone needs to bridge this gap.

Right now, these EVM are standalone system. They were designed, when the first microprocessor was launched in 1980.

These standalone EVM systems has, CPU, Memory, Display and battery power.

After the election, these EVMs become high value asset; needs to be protected by military 24 x 7 in high security environment.

These are all challenges; it costs huge resources and money.

So, there is an innovative opportunity to transform this standalone EVM into networked EVMs.

Make these EVM as thin client; just  a few buttons to press and display unit. A simple Android phone kind of device with wi-fi connection facility.

These Thin EVMs shall collect all data and at the end of polling; push the entire data into cloud servers.

Then from the cloud servers, you shall process these data and announce the results.

So, it creates opportunity for network wi-fi with security and so on.

It will solve the current challenges of protecting these EVMs in high security environment.

See, what happened in Jharkand.

When they transport the EVMs, there was a blast and all the data are lost.

It is so sad, we don't care about loss of human lives in that blast.

With networked EVM, from the polling station, you could just upload these data.

All of us are looking at India as those seven blind men perspective of an elephant.

It's time, we need to come together and start working on a whole perspective.

Technology, Politicians, Farmers, Artists and others. Let us come together and work together.