An automated machine controlled by an industrial PC that executes high-current short-circuit tests on Miniature Circuit Breakers according to IEC standards.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution · Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) · Hardware
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Circuit Combination Module
Automatically switches resistive and inductive banks for power factor control.
High-Current Power Source
Delivers up to 10,000A using a transformer-based setup.
Test Station and Safety
Features universal MCB mounting and an arc chute to handle safety.
Control and Data Acquisition
Manages tests, captures high-speed waveforms, and analyzes data using a PLC or industrial PC.
User Interface and Reporting
Provides a human-machine interface for inputting parameters and generating automatic reports.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The jury will check if the system fully adheres to IEC 60898-1:2015, accurately controls test currents up to 10,000A, and generates automatic test reports.
A jury can still ask about these. Decide them deliberately rather than by accident.
Generated from the brief's own wording and the competition's published rules, never from a guess about what this ministry prefers.
Exact hardware components and budget available for the prototype?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Specific software protocol for the industrial PC or PLC?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
The brief asks for circuit combination module. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26029 itself: Automatically switches resistive and inductive banks for power factor control. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for high-current power source. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26029 itself: Delivers up to 10,000A using a transformer-based setup. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for test station and safety. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26029 itself: Features universal MCB mounting and an arc chute to handle safety. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for control and data acquisition. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26029 itself: Manages tests, captures high-speed waveforms, and analyzes data using a PLC or industrial PC. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for user interface and reporting. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26029 itself: Provides a human-machine interface for inputting parameters and generating automatic reports. The brief asks for it by name.
Where does your data come from: a published source, one you collect, or one you generate?
No dataset is attached to this problem statement, so sourcing it is part of the work and nobody told you that.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
Ours, not a rule: a narrow thing that fully works survives questioning better than a broad thing that half works. If nobody on the team can name it, that is the finding.
Show me this working: the jury will check if the system fully adheres to IEC 60898-1:2015, accurately controls test currents up to 10,000A, and generates automatic test reports.
This is the evaluator read for your problem statement, decoded from the brief's own wording.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
Needs physical hardware
Listed as a hardware problem statement, so a working demo needs physical components you have to source yourself.
Needs data you may not get
The problem requires building physical hardware capable of generating and handling up to 10,000A of high-energy fault current, which is extremely difficult for a student team to procure or demo in a 36-hour hackathon.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
Same organisation, same year. Reading two of theirs tells you more about what they care about than reading one.