Template for the Unisys Innovation Program Student Technical Contest-

Preliminary Project Plan and Abstract

Cover Page
State the title of the project, names of team members, names of project guides,
name of institution, start date and end date. Please include full names and e-mail IDS of all
team members and project guides.

Abstract
State the problem, your approach and what you think will be the main
contributions of your work. Focus on the originality of the work that you are proposing
and write in a line or two how your work differs from other works in the standard
literature. Insert your submitted abstract – reduce it to about 100 words.

Introduction
Provide a detailed introduction to the topic of the project, project deliverables,
and also explain how the domain evolved over time and the key problem in that domain
that you are addressing in the proposed project work.

Solution
Problem Statement - Describe with clarity the problem statement. If possible,
take an example and explain with respect to the example, the details of the problem and
why the problem merits attention of the researchers/consultants. The example should
clearly bring out the essentials of the problem under consideration. If needed, you can
use figures to illustrate the key aspects of the problem. Additionally, you can take the
aid of notations (eg. set theoretic notations and others) to describe your problem and
highlight why the problem is so important to be addressed.

Existing solution – This section is intended to give a brief synopsis to the

readers about the kind of problems that have been addressed in the past by the other
authors and their way of solving problems similar to yours. You should also provide
overview of the existing solutions available in the market. You can also describe the
shortcomings of existing solutions.

Project Design –In this section you should describe your project in detail,
providing the approach and algorithms, value to the market, details on your project
execution, how it differs from the existing solutions, any constraints or issues that were
faced.
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Insert diagrams in this manner

System Requirements

As part of this section, you should highlight the project set up that you have considered
to test your solution approach. You should describe the hardware details, the versions
of the software used, tools, etc. for your project. List the hardware and software that you
plan to use in your project under the following categories. Some projects may have no
entries under some of the categories.

1. Standard commercially available hardware

2. Describe ‘Hardware’ that you plan to build for project. Briefly describe the
hardware components that you are likely to build. E.g.: Printed circuit boards,
chassis/cabinet and other mechanical/aesthetic parts, list of ICs, semiconductors
and passive devices that may go into the system.
3. Standard commercially available licensed software
4. Open source software
5. Describe the programming environment that you plan to use to in the project. List
the programming languages and operating systems ( e.g.: C/C++/ 8086
Assembler/Java/Unix/Linux/Windows etc.)

Expected Results

Provide a brief summary of the expected results at the end of your project that will
successfully establish and prove your project objectives.
Project timelines:
Provide the project timelines. Break the project into small and manageable components
and list the planned start and end dates.

Deliverables Register Template

Planned Planned
Deliverable Description Status / Comment
Start Date End Date

References
Use proper referencing techniques such as IEEE.