From the techies who have interacted with the World’s First Digitally Interactive Pookalam (flower carpet) and participated in the lucky draw, following names (first name and organization’s name) have been drawn at random to be the winners! Congratulations to you all!
Ananthakrishnan, IBS Software
Bhavyalakshmi, Envestnet Retirement Solutions
Gokul, Allianz Technology
Kadeeja, Tata Elxsi
Manu, RR Donnelley
Maxvel, Veristics Networks
Nikhila, Speridian Technologies
Noufal, UST Global
Reshma, PIT Solution
*Shinto, Techmahindra
*Suguna, H&R Block
Vinod, SC Soft technologies
*Update: Hi Shinto and Suguna, our attempts to contact you were unsuccessful. Please call 0471-2547565 to claim your prizes.
In addition to the memorabilia that we have created specially to mark the occasion, winners will also receive an Amazon gift coupon.
We had an overwhelming response and that prompted us to select twelve winners instead of the initially announced three. We thank each one of you who have participated. Hope you had fun too š
The news was covered by more than 7 national and Malayalam newspapers. Some published it in front page. Here are a few clippings.
Malayala Manorama daily, 3 September 2019Kerala Kaumudi daily, 3 September 2019The New Indian Express daily, 3 September 2019Mathrubhumi daily, Nagaram supplement, 3 September 2019The Times of India daily, 3 September 2019Siraj daily, Onam suppliment, 11 September 2019
Besides this, the team members were interviewed by Big FM, Kochi. This approach for creating pookalam set a new trend and there were many organizations, colleges and individual groups that picked up the concept and used similar designs for their 2019 Ona-pookalam (flower carpet).
We thank the media for helping us to spread the idea across to a larger mass past Technopark’s boarders! We also thank all those sent us encouraging comments!
Engineers see things in their own perspectiveāalways with a touch of tech in them.
Visitors interacting with the pookkalam
When it was time to create a Pookkalam for Natanaās Orumayode Onam Pookkalam competition held on 2 September 2019 at Technopark, engineers at Mettle Networks thought of creating one with a difference as a form of self expressionāthey created worldās first, fully floral, interactive Pookkalam (flower carpet) .
When looked at it first, it appeared to be a different kind of layout and design. It didnāt confirm to what traditionally Malayalees consider a Pookkalam. It has a different shape. Different patterns. It would take a while to understand its beauty and ingenuity.
What is So special About this Flower Carpet? This Pookkalam, though it is made fully of flower petals and laid on the floor, if you try to take a photo of this Pookkalam, your phone will recognize something in it and it will respond! Yes! Before you even take its photo, your phone will tell you that the Pookkalam is suggesting you visit a website! If you proceed, you will be taken to an Onam greetings page on Mettle Networksā web site where you could enter an Onam Lucky-draw!
How is it done? This Pookkalam has digital data encoded in it that mobile phones will understand and respond without any special command or third-party app. The technology used is same as that of QR code. QR code has a square geometry but it looks a bit different from a regular QR code in its shape. It looks more like a trapezoid. Because it has to undergo an optical correction called inverse perspective to make it work in this case.
This Pookkalam has digital data encoded in it that mobile phones will understand and respond without any special command or third-party app. The technology used is same as that of QR code. QR code has a square geometry but this Pookkalam looks a bit different from a regular QR code in its shape. It looks more like a trapezoid. This is because it has to undergo an optical correction called reverse perspective to make it work in this case.
Interested to know more about this? Please watch out this space.
