'AI, IoT help to deliver million midday meals in India'

Disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) will enable organisations to deliver a million midday meals to school children in India, said a top official of software major Accenture on Thursday. "We have applied AI, IoT and block-chain to exponentially increase the number of midday meals served to children in state-run schools under'Million Meals' project with NGO Akshaya Patra," said Accenture Labs Managing Director Sanjay Podder in a statement here. Block-chain is a distributed database that compiles a growing list of ordered records called blocks. The US-based Accenture collaborated with the city-based Akshaya Patra Foundation, which operates the government-funded MidDay Meal Scheme in state-run and state-aided schools, in implementing the novel project with new IT products and solutions. "The project has also demonstrated how new technologies can help address challenges in mass meal production and delivery by revolutionising supply chain and operations," asserted Podder.