TDB eyes AI machine to finish coin sorting woes

Express News Service

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) is mulling an AI-supported machine to finish its woes of sorting and counting cash acquired as choices at Sabarimala temple. The board is in talks with a Bengaluru-based firm that had just lately manufactured a machine for this objective at Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh. An analogous machine will meet Sabarimala temple’s wants, mentioned TDB president Ok Ananthagopan, who was a part of the workforce that visited the agency.

“We saw the machine developed by the company for Tirupati. It employs AI to sort the coins. A demo was arranged for us using 3-4 lakh coins,” Ananthagopan instructed TNIE.

Last yr, the board had a tricky time counting the large coin inventory. The counting by its staff lasted even weeks after the shut of the pilgrimage season. About 5.5 crore cash had been acquired final yr.

“Several devotees make daily coin offerings at their homes and would submit it to the god during the annual visit to the temple. This is a popular practice. The number of coins is increasing each year,” Ananthagopan defined.

According to him, the proposed machine can type all sorts of Indian cash, together with various kinds of the identical denomination. The cash put into the machine are sorted, counted and delivered in packets of 100 cash as per the denomination and sort. The board plans to arrange the machine earlier than the annual pilgrimage season in 2024.

“Next, we will send a technical team to study the machine’s functioning. It would have officers of the electrical wing of the board and experts from outside. The team will be asked to review the time taken by the machine for the process,” Ananthagopan elaborated. The board plans to hyperlink the conveyor belt earlier than the sanctum with the machine.

The machine would price about Rs 2.5 crore, and the Bengaluru agency is providing operation and upkeep help for 5 years for an extra crore. The board is on the lookout for sponsors who will help it. About 60 per cent of the machine’s price needs to be paid upfront. The machine, virtually the scale of a room, will take six months to be manufactured.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) is mulling an AI-supported machine to finish its woes of sorting and counting cash acquired as choices at Sabarimala temple. The board is in talks with a Bengaluru-based firm that had just lately manufactured a machine for this objective at Tirupati temple in Andhra Pradesh. An analogous machine will meet Sabarimala temple’s wants, mentioned TDB president Ok Ananthagopan, who was a part of the workforce that visited the agency.

“We saw the machine developed by the company for Tirupati. It employs AI to sort the coins. A demo was arranged for us using 3-4 lakh coins,” Ananthagopan instructed TNIE.

Last yr, the board had a tricky time counting the large coin inventory. The counting by its staff lasted even weeks after the shut of the pilgrimage season. About 5.5 crore cash had been acquired final yr.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

“Several devotees make daily coin offerings at their homes and would submit it to the god during the annual visit to the temple. This is a popular practice. The number of coins is increasing each year,” Ananthagopan defined.

According to him, the proposed machine can type all sorts of Indian cash, together with various kinds of the identical denomination. The cash put into the machine are sorted, counted and delivered in packets of 100 cash as per the denomination and sort. The board plans to arrange the machine earlier than the annual pilgrimage season in 2024.

“Next, we will send a technical team to study the machine’s functioning. It would have officers of the electrical wing of the board and experts from outside. The team will be asked to review the time taken by the machine for the process,” Ananthagopan elaborated. The board plans to hyperlink the conveyor belt earlier than the sanctum with the machine.

The machine would price about Rs 2.5 crore, and the Bengaluru agency is providing operation and upkeep help for 5 years for an extra crore. The board is on the lookout for sponsors who will help it. About 60 per cent of the machine’s price needs to be paid upfront. The machine, virtually the scale of a room, will take six months to be manufactured.