R5 · DIVISION 05 / 05

Community Technology

Engineered systems for human and environmental wellbeing. Regulatory awareness as a first-order design constraint, not an afterthought.

Community Technology
Status
Foundational
Director
To be appointed
Location
Chennai
Active research programs
03
Maturity range
TRL 2–4
§ R5.01Scope

What this division works on.

Water

Decentralised treatment, monitoring, and resilient access systems.

Health

Engineered systems for population-scale health infrastructure.

Food systems

Engineering for resilient, distributed food production and processing.

Climate resilience

Environmental sensing and systems for adaptation.

§ R5.02Research Programs

Active research programs.

Each program carries a Technology Readiness Level — TRL 1 for foundational research, TRL 9 for systems proven in operation. Research programs are evaluated on knowledge produced, not on revenue.

R5-01
Community-scale water platform
A reference platform for decentralised water treatment with continuous quality telemetry.
TRL 03 /09
BASIC APPLIED DEPLOY
R5-02
Distributed environmental sensing
Open sensing network for air and water quality, engineered for decadal operation.
TRL 04 /09
BASIC APPLIED DEPLOY
R5-03
Primary-care infrastructure
Engineering toolkit for primary healthcare infrastructure in underserved geographies.
TRL 02 /09
BASIC APPLIED DEPLOY