The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry partnered the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), Kolkata in organizing the Workshop on Technology Disclosure of Handheld Electronic Nose (HEN) and Resham Darshan on 11th August 2014 in the Chamber.

CDAC is the pioneering R&D institute under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and IT, Government of India which has recently developed two products, namely, Handheld Electronic Nose (HEN) and Resham Darshan.

Handheld Electronic Nose is a battery-operated portable instrument that can be used to classify tea objectively based on its aroma. This device can be very helpful for the buyers, sellers and manufacturers to determine quality of tea, and hence the price. The device can also plot aroma intensity profile during fermentation stage of tea manufacturing process that would assist the factory supervisors to detect proper end-point fermentation.

Resham Darshan is a unique innovation in the Tasar silk domain. This instrument can be used to determine the entire nuance of shades and colours of the silk yarn. Therefore, this is a very useful tool to sort the silk hanks.

CDAC, Kolkata has already published “Expression of Interest” notification in National Newspapers with the intent of transferring these two potentially marketable products to interested manufacturers and entrepreneurs. In order to sensitize the potential users in the Tea and Silk Industry as well as the potential technology partners for these technologies, the workshop was organized.

The programme was attended by participants from Tea Industry, Textile Industry as well as Manufacturers from the MSME segment.