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Welcome to InnoHub. Known earlier as InnovationHub, InnoHub is a social enterprise that is focused on serving the visually impaired through the power of innovations and research in core technology.
VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN INDIA
There are an estimated 4.95 million blind and 70 million
vision impaired persons in India, out of which 0.24 million are blind children. Their quality of
life through better learning and productivity is indeed a matter of national significance. More
importantly, empowerment to the visually impaired enhances their self-esteem and gives them the
confidence to contribute to the progress through innovation and work output.
InnoHub is committed to make this happen is to improve the quality of life of the visually
impaired. Our technology will make a difference by building solutions that are life-essentials for
them, viz.,
- Mobility
- Navigational Aids and
- Book Readers
We at InnoHub are aware that most of the visually impaired live in villages and small towns. They
speak different languages with different dialects. So InnoHub solutions are designed based on 3
basic rules:
• Simple design
• Easy to use, and
• Affordable
Come, find out more about our solutions for the visually impaired. You can play a role in ensuring
that more users become rightful beneficiaries of our innovations and lead an enhanced quality of
life. Because what they need is an enabling hand to rise to their potential.
And you can make a difference.
INNOHUB WAS EARLIER KNOWN AS INNOVATIONHUB.
InnovationHub was started in the year 2012, when 2 of our
founding members moved out of corporate jobs to seed a social enterprise that would create
meaningful solutions for the visually impaired. Vinod and Paddy brought all their expertise in
core technologies to create robust and useful solutions for the visually challenged. A partner
ecosystem has been built to create a manufacturing environment.
InnoHub’s first solution is URead, a product that converts text as audio output. The solution is
offered for text written in different languages. URead is being used across the country in
demanding use case scenarios. It is fulfilling that users right from Rajasthan to Kerala have
all reported positive interactive experiences.
InnoHub’s second solution is Ausion, which is designed to make mobility and travel easier for
the visually challenged.
We are now keen to take our products farther and deeper into interior India and subsequently,
the world.
With relentless passion, he has worked for over a decade in
application of technology for social good. as entrepreneur and technologist dedicated to using
technology to improve the lives of those with limited means. Vinod is the founder of
InnovationHub Technologies, a platform aimed at creating practical solutions that enhance the
quality of life for the visually challenged.
Vinod holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Nagpur
University. He furthered his studies with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Vinod started his career as a scientist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, later
contributing to the research and development wing of Wipro. His work played a role in the
company’s growth and global recognition. In the early ’90s, he established a design center for
Wipro in the United States. Subsequently, he served in many executive roles at MindTree,
contributing to the company’s revenue growth and IPO. His focus was on leveraging technology for
value creation and growth, especially in short-range wireless technology.
Vinod’s passion lies in using technology for social good. He is dedicated to creating practical,
tech-driven solutions that improve the lives of individuals with disabilities. Additionally, he
believes in the potential of social entrepreneurship to bring about positive and lasting change.
Padmanabhan (Paddy) believes in putting his technology
skills to use, for social causes. An engineer by heart, a technologist and a hobbyist, he is a
founding member of InnovationHub, along with his longtime colleague, Vinod.
Driven by his interests in Electronics right from his school days, Paddy completed his BE in
Electronics & Communication Engineering with Honours from Madras University in 1984. His passion
for technology and research motivated him towards completing his Masters in Electrical
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1986.
Paddy joined Wipro’s R&D as a campus recruit in 1986 and went on to hold several positions
there. He was involved in the development of intelligent peripheral controllers during his
initial years at Wipro. Subsequently he was responsible for designing high end processor and
memory subsystems. In 1990, he moved on to build capabilities in VLSI Design and helped to grow
this as one of the larger strengths of the organization. He has been a part of some of the
industry wide initiatives in the chip design area.
Paddy joined MindTree Ltd in 2000 and has been involved in building its Hardware and IC Design
capabilities. He has been responsible for bringing in the tools and methodologies in these areas
and has incubated multiple Silicon IP initiatives. He has served as a Senior Vice President
addressing the Semiconductor market and also as Technology Evangelist at MindTree’s R&D Services
Business.
Paddy was actively involved with various initiatives of the India Semiconductor Association
(ISA). He served as a Core Committee member of Technovation initiative of ISA, its Technology
Special Interest Group and the National Semiconductor Vision Group. He had been a member of the
Embedded Technology initiative taken up by NASSCOM. He has served as an Expert Committee member
for the past 10 years to select the best pan India student project in the VLSI / Hardware areas,
instituted by Cadence Design Systems.
Paddy believes in putting his technology skills to use towards social causes, thereby making a
positive impact to enhance the Quality of Life of people with disabilities.
Janakiraman (Jani), acknowledged as an authority in
Information Technology Business, has over 35 years of experience in IT Industry.
Driven by his interests towards social causes and making a difference to people with
disabilities, Jani found synergy with the vision of InnovationHub Technologies and joined the
founding team.
He is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Nuvepro Technologies, a Cloud Product Startup enabling IT
as a Service (ITaaS) for its customers.
For the past seven years, Jani is also serving as the President for Indo Japan Chamber of
Commerce and Industries (IJCCI). IJCCI promotes business partnership between India and Japan and
has more than 90 Indian and Japanese member companies.
He is on the Board of Yokogawa India Ltd as an Independent Director.
Jani is the Chairman of Advisory Council of StartupXseed, an investment organization seed
funding technology startups.
A Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) – Bangalore, Jani is supporting promotion of
startup eco system and entrepreneurship and is actively mentoring few Startups out of Bangalore.
Prior to Nuvepro, Jani, along with nine others, Co-founded MindTree Ltd in 1999, currently a
$600 Million IT Services organization based out of Bangalore. Jani had played various roles at
MindTree including President and Group CEO of Product Engineering Services Business and Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) of MindTree, in addition to serving as a Board Member till Oct 2014.
One among the first five employees, Jani started his professional career at Wipro and spent 19
years there. He was the Chief Executive of Wipro’s Global R&D division during his last four
years there, prior to MindTree.
Jani is the founding member of India Semiconductor Association (ISA) and served its Executive
Council for the first five years and later two years as Chairman and Advisor of ISA (currently
called IESA).
Jani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications from the National Institute of
Technology (NIT) Trichy, India and a Master’s degree in Electrical from the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Chennai, India. He was recognized by NIT Trichy as Best Alumni through an
award for his Entrepreneurial Excellence.
Director at InnoHub, Vijay is a BTech from IIT, Delhi and Post Graduate from IIM, Ahmedabad. Vijay has over 4 decades of experience in business management, product life cycle program leadership, business transformation and human resources management.
To improve the quality of life of the visually challenged.
To sustain innovations in technology and build partner ecosystems to bring hope in sight for the visually challenged.