The Centre for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (Centre for E3), an advanced R&D facility for compliance evaluation of electronic devices and super-structures from a mobile phone to a complex ship or aircraft environment by the Central government, has become fully operational.
This is one among many projects promised for the State post-bifurcation, which is fully operational at Gambheeram on the city outskirts. The R&D lab, touted as first of its kind in the country, is set up under the aegis of Society for Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering (SAMEER). The State government allotted 13 acres to the project on September 29, 2014.
SAMEER, which is an autonomous body under the Department of Electronics and IT in the Ministry of Communications and IT, has its first R&D lab in Mumbai and later it established world-class labs in Navi Mumbai and Chennai. SAMEER has the expertise for application-oriented research in microwave and electromagnetics.
The stone for project in the city was laid by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on February 18, 2016 after allotment of land in 2014.
“We are very happy that project is now fully operational,” SAMEER-Vizag Project Director B. Subba Rao told The Hindu. The Centre has allotted ₹80 crore for the project. He said Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu would pay an official visit to the facility on Thursday.
Mr. Subba Rao said the facility was of significance for defence sector in ensuring satisfactory performance of strategic hardware. The Centre for E3 will undertake evaluation, design and consultancy services.
The SAMEER project, located adjoining IIM-Vizag, is completed in all respects with highly specialised facilities like electromagnetic pulse (EMP), pulsed current injection (PCI), ultra-wide band (UWB), electromagnetic modelling and simulation lab and large RF shielded anechoic chamber (EMC chamber) for evaluating compliance of electronics as per military and several civilian standards.
The project is empanelled as EMP consultant for country’s prestigious project for establishment of EMP compliant centres across the country for strategic applications. It is competent to develop indigenous point-of-entry (POE) protection systems against EMP for strategic applications.
It has encouraged internship and industrial training programmes and has provided the opportunity so far to over 100 undergraduates and 20 post-graduates every year. It also offers paid apprenticeship to diploma holders and graduates.