Three students; Chidroop I, Pratik Mohapatra, and Srihari HS, of RV College of Engineering, have won the award and the cash prize of $15,000 at the 2018 Microsoft Imagine Cup world championship, for developing an app that can identify fake drugs.
They had developed “DrugSafe” app that works on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other complex technologies to identify tiny details in design and packaging of medicines and verify them by comparing with original manufacturer’s patented and trademarked attributes.
However, the DrugSafe application hasn’t been released commercially.
Microsoft has mentioned on its website, “DrugSafe aims to address the growing global issue of counterfeit drugs by helping people verify the authenticity of medicines,”
These three students are also thinking to improve the application to make it more relevant to the masses.

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