TCS Innovation Labs

TCS' flagship research centre, TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC was established in 1981, when IT had hardly emerged as an industry. Today TCS has a global network of labs that provide an environment for sophisticated IT research in leading edge technologies as well as in various domains. Our labs connect to academic research centers of international repute on collaborative research projects. Internships, learning programmes and workshops with academia also contribute to the vibrant interaction. The number of PhDs who have joined our labs has shot up in the recent years.

Our labs are customer aligned and metrics driven. Our scientists and researchers continually publish/edit/present research papers and publications.

A number of innovative solutions emerging from our labs have won national and international awards.

Technology LabS

Domain Labs

 

 

 

Technology LabS

TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Software Engineering Lab

Research Areas:

  • Software Tools: Tools for software lifecycle, Test Management and Maintenance that can automate and improve quality of applications.
  • Adaptive and agile enterprise systems
  • Zero defect software: The lab has made significant contributions to re-engineering assignments, large mission critical project development, product development for the verticals, embedded software development, programming standards checking, and requirements specification. This has been possible due to the philosophy of developing our meta-tools for modeling, program analysis, and transformation, and building on available tools for constraint solving, model checking, and so on.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Process Engineering Lab

Research Areas:

  • Metals/Materials Innovation: i2Steel, i2Stamp,Solidification ICME (Integrated Computational Materials Engineering), MVO( Multi Vehicle Optimization), Polymer Melt Processing, Rational design of Industrial Performance Chemicals, Iron Ore Beneficiation, Flocculation/Dispersion in Colloidal Suspensions,Solid-Liquid Separation.
  • Green Technologies: Green Data Centers, Multi-fuel Combustion
  • Nano-Bio Technology Initiatives: Synthesis of Nanoparticles, Nanogels, Nanoparticle processing, Drug Delivery Systems.

This lab uses process modeling and computational fluid dynamics, thermal processing and virtual manufacturing that can bring large efficiency, savings and compliance to industry units.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - TRDDC - Systems Research Lab (SRL)

Research Areas: The lab addresses some of the most challenging issues in designing and optimizing large-scale systems:

  • Large-scale IT systems – such as data centers of large enterprises
  • People systems – such as workforce of a service provider
  • Complex engineering systems such as thermonuclear reactor or a multi-antenna telescope
  • Research activities at SRL are inter-disciplinary in nature involving broad areas of algorithms and optimizations, machine learning, networks, distributed systems and operating systems. The lab collaborates actively with many academic institutions, including Stanford, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, UT Austin, Indian Institute of Technology at Mumbai, among others. We also interact and interface with many startups as well as strategic alliance partners in several technology areas.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Hyderabad

Research Areas:

  • Life sciences: Computational methods in life sciences, meta-genomics and systems biology.
  • e-security: Advanced encryption methods, digital watermarking, biometric authentication, traitor tracing.
  • Open source technologies, Content Management Systems, Indian Language Tools
  • Quantitative Finance: Pricing and hedging of complex derivatives and modelling of credit defaults.

Bio-Suite™, from the lab, has won the Nasscom Innovation Award 2005 and FAPCCI Award for Best New Product Innovation in 2004. The eSecurity group’s solutions have positioned TCS as licensed Certifying Authority and leader in the IT space, to provide end-to-end security solutions.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Delhi

Research Areas:

  • Multimedia and Vision: Video Surveillance, Virtual Worlds and 3D Internet, Shopping by Example and Multimedia Explorer.
  • Natural Language Interfaces and HCI: Natural Language Interface to Business Applications, Semantic web technologies.
  • Enterprise Architecture - Service Oriented architecture, Software as a Service, Model Driven Architecture 
  • Virtual Reality - Virtual Worlds and 3D Internet

The lab’s InstantApps Technology enables development of situational applications entirely within a browser - by business analysts instead of developers - and is a new paradigm in enterprise architecture.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Mumbai

Research Areas:

  • Wireless Technology: Bringing together various CDMA technologies to create a mobile based advisory platform, as with mKrishi –TCS Mobile Based Agro Advisory System.
  • Speech and Natural Language: Purposeful integration of speech recognition and speech grammar modelling to enable build usable solutions.
  • Next Gen Mobile Applications: Wi-Fi, GPRS, and 3G; also Rapid Application Development (RAD) projects, based on its patents.  At present, lab is primarily focusing on BREW as a preferred platform for development.

mKrishi, the TCS Mobile Agro Advisory System, which is a confluence of various patented technologies developed by the Lab and an ecosystem of various organizations for the economic empowerment of Indian farmers. It has won several prestigious awards such as The Wall Street Journal Award 2008, Golden Peacock Innovation Award 2008, Nasscom Top 50 Innovations during the Year 2008 etc.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Chennai

Research Areas:

  • Infrastructure Services: All aspects of IT Infrastructure such as configuration, monitoring, management, and transformation.
  • Green IT solutions and consulting
  • Grid and Utility Computing: Harnessing distributed computing resources for resource-demanding applications and utility computing to dynamically provision shared resources for different applications.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Web 2.0

Research Areas:

  • Next Gen Web Technologies: social software, semantic web, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms.
  • Usability: Consulting in Enterprise2.0, Usability and Social Interaction Design. Creation of Web Oriented Architectures and Mashup platforms and tools & assets for facilitating these.

The Web 2.0 Lab brings the consumer internet user experience into the enterprise to bridge the growing gap between the open, democratic, flat systems and the top-down, hierarchical way of working that pervades most companies.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Kolkata

Research Areas:

  • Multimedia: TCS Home Infotainment Platform, Industrial Automation using Machine Vision, Networked Video Surveillance.
  • Wireless Technologies: Security in wireless networks Cross-layer optimization for quality of service, Radio layer enhancement.

The lab focuses on convergence of applications/contents like voice, video and data over the new-age Information Super High-way, and also uses the sensor network to connect the distributed world of information. Solutions from this lab addresses Telecom, Media and Information Services and Manufacturing domains. The lab has research alliances with leading universities in India and abroad.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Bangalore

Research Areas:

  • Embedded and Wireless Technologies: Distributed multimodal sensing, communications, monitoring and control.
  • Research in error control coding, ubiquitous sensor networks, biomedical & multimedia signal processing, applied electromagnetics, emerging technologies & algorithms for next generation radio communication technologies.

The applications of the research activities include health monitoring of persons, structure and equipment monitoring, safety and security of assets and premises, automatic data gathering for managing environment, infrastructures and natural resources, Monitoring for regulations & policy evaluation for Network Industries. Solutions cater to telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, government, and Insurance verticals.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Performance Engineering

Research Areas:

  • Performance Engineering in all phases of the software delivery cycle and high performance technologies for large systems
  • Performance Monitoring and Analysis – Java profiling, Transaction profiling
  • Virtual Production Environment – WAN Emulation, Production Database Emulation
  • Capacity Planning- Hardware sizing tools to provide estimates of capacity for J2EE and database applications in the RFP/planning stage.

The lab also performs Reliability analysis and Automated Provisioning. Many of the tools that the lab has created have been released to Open Source at http://wanem.sourceforge.net. The java profiling solution (Jensor) and the WAN emulator solution (WANem) have won Open Source awards.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Peterborough

Acts as a collaboration hub between the 18 TCS Innovation Labs across the world and the customer, in conjunction with the TCS account teams. The engagement model is focused on agile methods and use of rapid systems development to offer a safe environment for trialling new solutions.

By collaborating with this lab in Peterborough one can benefit from the expertise of the TCS Co-Innovation Network (TCS COIN).

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Cincinnati

Research Areas: 

  • Product Design and Sustainability: Challenges in extracting semantic understanding in design data/information and making tacit knowledge useful for others involved in the design process (Working Knowledge Models - WKM), Visualization, interaction and collaboration (social Networking) frameworks in early stage product design, and methods/tools for product re-design and sustainability.
  • Analytics and Process Based Modeling: Application of process based modeling concepts to product and process improvement. The work would focus on development of tools and techniques for applying formal modeling, simulation, and optimization techniques for product design and improvement in industry verticals such as medical devices, automotive, lifesciences, etc.
  • Multi-product Optimization: Development of processes and methods for optimization driven product rationalization for manufacturing domain. The initiative focuses on solving challenging problems in product rationalization leading to cost advantage in downstream manufacturing and service functions.

 

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Domain labs

TCS Innovation Labs - Insurance

Research Areas:

  • Improving Operational Efficiency of various key stakeholders including insurers, policy holders, agents and service providers through the use of emerging technologies.
  • Managing Customer Lifestyle through proactive advice and support in the area of health, travel and automobiles. 
  • Improving Customer Experience and Relationship through customer self-service systems, business process management, customer profiling and customer driven product design. 
  • Insurance Product Innovation in the creation of new products to meet the changing market needs as well as in the process of designing and launching new products. 
  • Enabling micro insurance especially in emerging markets like India and China by offering convenience at an affordable cost using technology.
  • Straight Through Processing (STP) and Process Improvements in the Insurance business process  
  • Improving Member Experience with Web 2.0
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics in Insurance
  • Next Generation Architecture for IT Systems for Insurance: Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing (CC) solutions for Insurance
  • Model Driven Development (MDD) and Testing for developing large IT systems for Insurance
  • Reference Architecture for Insurance systems 

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Engineering and Industrial Solutions (EIS)

Research Areas:

  • Design optimization
  • Process/plant optimization
  • Modeling, simulation and control of plants, equipments and processes
  • Data Analysis and Data Mining 

The lab has created tools for 2 stage tolerance optimization, capital maintenance planning, fixed-structure parametric identification, data mining, and for the development of Virtual Sensors using operational data. It has also created a framework for Supply Chain Planning under Uncertainty; a methodology for identification of linear and  nonlinear dynamic systems; algorithms for adaptive networks based on adaptive resonance theory for classification and identification, and for fault diagnosis for linear and nonlinear systems using model based approach; and an object oriented module for online multivariable control and optimization of linear systems.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Telecom

Research Areas:

  • Digital Surveillance based on Intelligent Video Analytics,
  • IPTV: Video Analytics, STB, Media Streaming, IP Cameras
  • Mobile based solutions for shopping, advertising, mobility etc

The Lab acts as a hub for incubation of new ideas based on IP based technologies primarily in Content Delivery of video and other rich media and Digital Surveillance System domain.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Travel and Hospitality

Research Areas:

  • Integrated Merchandising Framework
  • Process Driven Tactile Interfaces
  • Seamless Flight Disruption Notification Framework

The lab focuses on themes of ’Enhancing Customer Experience’, ’Enabling Airline Enterprise’ and ’Measuring and Optimising the Enterprise’ in the travel industry, especially in the airline segment. It has also evolved a Travel Services Platform and also a Web Kiosk which is a Web browser based light-weight check-in application.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - Retail

Research Areas:

  • Customer Shopping Experience: Digital Personal Shopping Assistant, Loyalty Framework , Digital Signage, Smart Checkout Systems, People Counter, IR Beacons
  • Radio Frequency Integration Device (RFID) Tags.
  • Store Operations: Galleria: Space Optimization, Workforce Management System
  • Enterprise Project Management System, Personal Digital Assistant, Master Data Management, solutions such as KSS PriceStrat, Retek Management System

The lab has also worked on an Assortment Dashboard which is a collaboration tool that enables users (assortment planners and category managers) to have a single view of all the information needed for decision making for assortment of the inventory.

 

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TCS Innovation Labs - CMC

Research Areas:

  • Biometrics: Palm print to palm print matching, Latent palm to palm print matching
  • Palm to latent palm matching, Latent palm to latent palm matching.
  • Games & Events Management System: Development of a prototype for Volunteer Management System, Migration of Accreditation system to a Web based system, Development of a prototype for handheld results capture system for Field Events in Athletics.
  • Mobile Computing Technology Solutions: Census application for data capture on OLPC in JAVA, Finger print identification system on Windows CE handheld device, Transport Logistics Application
  • Automatic Vehicle Location System
  • Printing and Imaging: XHTML-Print to PS converter, XPS to PS converter, OpenDocument to PS converter, Matlab model for Motion control for Print transfer mechanism, TTF rendering component. 

 

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