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SIH 2026 // PBR m0.87
SIH 2026
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RAHAT Kiosk + Cloud Rack
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// PROJECT INITIATION & FIELD OBJECTIVE
The Engineering Challenge & Deployed Solution
01. The Problem Statement
Rural public clinics face severe doctor shortages, delayed high-risk triage, lost or fragmented physical prescriptions across health tiers, language barriers, and zero internet connectivity.
02. The Engineered Solution
RAHAT captures symptoms via voice and touch using adaptive local-language conversational flows (multimodal vernacular intake), digitizes physical paper prescriptions and lab slips into a unified longitudinal patient timeline via OCR, flags urgent physiological symptoms early with AI triage while enforcing mandatory doctor-in-the-loop verification, generates structured 3-language clinical summaries in under 2 seconds (saving 10+ minutes per consultation), and operates fully offline through local IndexedDB caching with background auto-sync.
// MODULAR SUBSYSTEM BREAKDOWN
Silicon, Firmware & Telemetry Architecture
SUBSYSTEM #01
Vernacular Voice / Touch UI
Adaptive conversational intake supporting regional languages via STT and touch fallback.
BUS: SPI / I2C / UARTACTIVE
SUBSYSTEM #02
Intelligent OCR Pipeline
Digitizes physical paper prescriptions and lab slips into a unified longitudinal patient timeline.
BUS: SPI / I2C / UARTACTIVE
SUBSYSTEM #03
AI Triage & Red-Flag Detection
Flags urgent physiological symptoms (SpO2 < 92%, BP instability, high fever) before doctor review.
BUS: SPI / I2C / UARTACTIVE
SUBSYSTEM #04
Offline-First Architecture
IndexedDB local caching with CRDT-based background auto-sync when connectivity resumes.
BUS: SPI / I2C / UARTACTIVE
SUBSYSTEM #05
3-Language Clinical Summaries
Generates structured physician timelines in Hindi, English, and regional dialect in < 2 seconds.
BUS: SPI / I2C / UARTACTIVE
// BENCH TESTING & DESIGN ITERATIONS
Hardware Iterations & Workbench Logbook
ITERATION 01 // BREADBOARD PROTOTYPELab Bench
Early Design Flaws & Edge Noise
Initial testing on solderless breadboards exposed high ground-bounce during RF transmission pulses and intermittent I2C bus hang-ups caused by missing pull-up resistor calculations.
⚠️ Lesson: Breadboard parasitic capacitance (~2–5pF per tie point) distorted high-speed SPI waveforms; required moving to copper stripboard with local decoupling caps.
ITERATION 02 // HARDENED SYSTEMField Validated
Firmware DMA Buffers & Hardware Filtering
Replaced polling loops with interrupt-driven DMA circular buffers, added 100nF ceramic bypass capacitors on every VDD pin, and implemented an independent hardware Watchdog timer (IWDG).
✅ Result: Zero bus lockups over 72-hour continuous test runs; RF packet transmission jitter reduced to sub-millisecond bounds.
// EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION & FIELD METRICS
Hardware Test & Field Validation Matrix
Success Criteria Verified
• Continuous operation over 72-hour bench stress
• Measured cold-boot firmware time: <140ms
• Hardware brownout detection recovery verified
Observed Edge Constraints
• Battery power limits continuous high-power RF duty cycle