Final Year & Hackathon Project Ideas
Project 1: NeuroNudge - AI-Powered Mental Health Companion
Domain: Healthcare / Psychology / AI
Target Users: Students, professionals, and depression-prone users
Platform: Mobile + Web App
Problem Addressed:
- Lack of affordable mental health access in remote areas
- Stigma around seeing a therapist
- No personalization in existing tools
Resources Required:
Frontend: React Native / Flutter
Backend: Node.js / Django
AI/ML: Hugging Face Transformers (BERT or DistilBERT), Dialogflow
Database: WHO, Kaggle mental health datasets
Hosting: Render, Firebase, Hugging Face Spaces
Challenges:
- Emotion detection accuracy
- Ensuring privacy
- Supporting multiple languages and offline mode
Unique Selling Points:
- Emotion-aware chatbot with real-time response
- Multilingual and offline-capable
- Emergency alert system for high-risk scores
Companies Interested:
Wysa, MindPeers, Google Health, TCS, Accenture, Apollo Digital
Final Year & Hackathon Project Ideas
Pitch Points:
- One psychologist per 100k people in India - this AI acts as a bridge
- Emotion detection before full sentence is typed
- Transformer model runs on-device in advanced version
Project 2: AgroSense - Smart Farming & Marketplace App
Domain: Agriculture + IoT + Commerce
Target Users: Small-scale Indian farmers
Platform: Android + Optional Hardware
Problem Addressed:
- Lack of smart irrigation and weather data access
- Overreliance on middlemen
- Unpredictable market prices
Resources Required:
App: Android (Kotlin)
AI + Weather: OpenWeatherMap API, ML
IoT: ESP32, moisture/temp sensors
Backend: Firebase, AWS Lambda
Gov APIs: eNAM, Agmarknet
Challenges:
- Poor internet in rural areas
- Reliable sensor data collection
- Market prediction algorithm
Unique Selling Points:
Final Year & Hackathon Project Ideas
- Combines smart farming with mandi pricing
- Offline-first design
- Demand prediction based on regional data
Companies Interested:
Ninjacart, CropIn, Gramophone, Mahindra AgTech, TCS
Pitch Points:
- Empowers India's 70% agriculture workforce
- Predictive farming + digital commerce
- Built-in regional language support
Project 3: VibeComm - Sign Language to Speech Converter
Domain: Accessibility / AI / Computer Vision
Target Users: Hearing/speech-impaired individuals
Platform: Android + Web
Problem Addressed:
- No real-time sign language translation tool for Indian languages
- Lack of accessibility in public places
- Interpreter shortage
Resources Required:
Vision: OpenCV + MediaPipe / TensorFlow
Dataset: Indian Sign Language Dataset, RWTH
App: React Native or Android Studio
TTS: gTTS / Amazon Polly
Backend: Flask or FastAPI
Final Year & Hackathon Project Ideas
Challenges:
- Accurate gesture recognition
- Variable lighting/conditions
- Regional sign language diversity
Unique Selling Points:
- Focused on Indian Sign Language (ISL)
- Offline support for kiosk usage
- Can be deployed in hospitals, stations, etc.
Companies Interested:
Microsoft Accessibility, Google Research, NASSCOM, Enable India
Pitch Points:
- Interpreter-less communication for the deaf
- Built for government-mandated accessibility standards
- Live deployment demo ready