I mean , by conquering the
corruption
It seems so
It has following distinct
( unfair ? ) advantages :
It is a dictatorship ( up to
you to believe , whether benevolent or malevolent )
When it comes to the
matter of corruption, Xi Jinping does
not need to “ consult “ either his ministerial colleagues or his bureaucrats .
He just acts. Here is proof :
In the first half of 2017,
the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) received 1.31 million
complaints and opened 260,000 cases.
Over 210,000 officials were
punished for corruption in the first half of 2017.
A few years back , China released a document called , ‘ Made in China 2025 ’
As per this road-map, China plans to become the world leader
in AI by 2030
It is well on its way to achieve that !
Given this background , it is highly probable that , if Xi Jinping gets to read my following proposal, he
would call up the boss of China’s Currency Printing Press and tell him :
“ You have 6 months
to start printing RFID embedded currency notes of
100 Yuan “
I appreciate that our own Cabinet Ministers are so very busy
preparing for the elections that they may not have found time to read my 48 emails on this
subject ( listed below )
In the meantime, I am mailing my following CONCEPT NOTE to
# Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ( premier@mail.gov.cn )
# Our own Cabinet
Ministers
# NITI Aayog
# PM- Economy
Advisory Council Members
# PM – Science,
Technology , Innovation Advisory Council Members
# Indian Think Tanks
# Scientists /
Researchers mentioned below,
Shyam Gollakota / gshyam@cs.washington.edu
Sanjay Sarma / SESARMA@MIT.EDU'
Yury
Gogotsi / gogotsi@drexel.edu
Prof. B. B. Khatua /
khatuabb@matsc.iitkgp.ernet.in
Prof McAlpine
/ 'mcalpine@umn.edu'
Prof Giovanni Traverso /
ctraverso@partners.org
Qiu Jiang / qiu.jiang@kaust.edu.sa
Sayani
Majumdar / sayani.majumdar@aalto.fi
Professor Hyunhyub Ko / hyunhko@unist.ac.kr
Dr. Ramses V.
Martinez / rmartinez@purdue.edu / https://engineering.purdue.edu/FlexiLab/index.html#contact
======================================================
PROPOSAL :
Preface
:
For nations around the World , corruption
is a debilitating disease , sapping national wealth
Premise
:
For existence and proliferation of corruption , BLACK MONEY , is the foundation
Black
Money [ BM ] :
BM is money on which the recipient evades paying due tax by
hiding the receipt of such monetary payments from the income tax authorities .
In most cases , BM is in the form of high denomination currency notes .
Sometimes it can be in the form of an asset such as gold /
land etc, which is not declared in the annual Income Tax Return of the owner of
such asset and no Wealth Tax paid on the same
========================
Solutions
:
Option # 1
Except for very small value purchases ( of either goods or
services ), government to mandate that all other payments are made digitally (
which are traceable from beginning to end , using emerging technologies like
Blockchain and cross-linked with a country’s tax-compliance mechanism )
Unfortunately, this is nearly impossible ( at least for a
decade or so ) in a country like India where , despite the big gains made in Digital
Payments ( since de-monetization of Nov 2016 ), cash payments still constitute
some 85 % of all payments
Option # 2
Keep 24x7 track of
each and every high
denomination currency note in
circulation
Over the past 2 years, several technologies have evolved,
which hold promise of a government being able to do this [ - and I believe,
China will be the first to this ]
Given a political will on part of the Policy Makers , it
seems feasible to print such high denomination currency notes with embedded nano-sensors which “ announce their face value and
NaVIC satellite
based location “ to a government server , 24x7
============================
Technology
Structure :
The technology structure of this project will comprise of
the following elements :
[ A ]
A sensor embedded in the currency
note for “ storing data “ such as ,
·
Serial Number of
the currency note
·
Face Value of
the note
[ B ]
An embedded sensor to “ transmit data
“ to receivers ( mobile phones ) in its
immediate environment , using Radio
Frequencies ( RFID antenna )
[ C ]
A nano-scale Solar
Panel embedded within the currency note to “ power RFID antenna “
[ D ]
A Mobile App which
picks up the signals ( Digital Data re Currency Serial Number and face value )
from the RFID antennas ( using NFC / Blue Tooth ) and relay to government
server
Following are those potential technologies to be considered
:
=====================================================
[ A ]……..
Technology for “ a sensor
embedded in the currency note for “ storing data
“
E
Mail : gshyam@cs.washington.edu
Dear Shyam,
In
yesterday’s “ Mumbai Mirror “ , I came
across following news :
“ New Fabric can store data without electronics “
I also
looked it up on your web page : https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/ and saw the video and then
wondered :
“ Can
your technology help the Indian Government , tackle the twin problems of ,
Detection of fake /
forged currency notes of high denominations ( Rs 500 / 2,000 )
Reduction of BLACK MONEY (
usually held as CASH
of Rs 500 / 2,000 notes )
Earlier , I had suggested to the Indian Authorities to consider
embedding RFID nano-chips in those notes
, to track any accumulation of ( say )
1000 notes in an area of 1 sq meter , anywhere in India
The idea
of embedding RFID was considered “
feasible “ by Sanjay Sarma
Only a few days back , I learned that the Australian Government is
considering embedding RFID nano-chips in
its $ 50 / 100 , currency notes for the purpose of tracking the Black Money
In “
Mumbai Mirror “ news item , you are quoted :
“ This is a completely electronic-free
design , which means you can iron the smart fabric or put it in the
washer and dryer. We are using something that already exists on a smart phone
and uses almost no power, so the cost of
reading this type of data is negligible “
Report
further says :
“ The team also demonstrated that the magnetized fabric
could be used to interact with a smart phone
while it is in one’s pocket … Scientists realized that this off-the-shelf conductive thread also has the magnetic
properties that can be manipulated to store
either digital data or visual information like LETTERS
or NUMBERS “
I
believe all currency notes come with a metallic SECURITY
THREAD , capable of being magnetized
So, could that thread be able to store the UNIQUE SERIAL
NUMBER , assigned to each and every currency note , which , in turn , can be “ read “ by the Smart phone , and “ transmitted “ to the Central Server of the
India’s Income Tax Department ?
If possible , this can track those high denomination currency notes lying in wallets / purses ( -
assuming that a smart phone is also next to those notes )
This still
leaves open the following issue :
Huge bundles of high currency notes ( totalling millions of rupees ) ,
are usually stored in lockers ( at home
or in bank vaults )
How can your invention help to track these ?
I would highly appreciate if you can show a way by which India can leapfrog
Australia
A few days
later, I wrote again :
Dear
Shyam,
In my earlier mail , I had wondered :
“ Can storing of unique SERIAL NUMBER
of a Rs 2000 currency note , in its SECURITY
THREAD , help detect large accumulation ( say 500 pieces of notes ) in a
Bank or Home Locker ? And enable transmitting that info to a central server of
the Income Tax Department ? “
Incidentally , one year
since de-monetization ( 08 Nov 2016 ) , Reserve Bank of India has still not been able to finish “ counting “
those millions of Rs 500 / 1000 old notes returned by the holders , despite
employing 60 Note Counting Machines , on 24
hour basis !
If their SERIAL NUMBERS were stored in SECURITY THREADs , could your
technology have completed counting faster ?
Unfortunately , I did not get any reply from Shyam Gollakota
============================================
[ B ]
Technology for an
embedded sensor
to “ transmit data
“ to receivers ( mobile phones )
in its immediate environment , using Radio
Frequencies ( RFID antenna )
For this technology , I wrote to the following scientist :
-------------------------------------------------------------
Dear
Yury Gogotsi ,
I
read this article with interest [ Spray-on antennas for
the Internet of Things ]
My
interest being :
Some two years back I suggested that our
high denomination ( Rs 500 / Rs 2000) currency notes should be embedded with RFID chips ( micro-sensors ) and create a Technology Platform (
in IT department ) through which such notes can be tracked , through NFC in smart phones carried in everybody’s pocket
Idea was to put a permanent end to BLACK MONEY generation / accumulation through CORRUPTION
But the problem was :
How to “ power “ ( - although , very small ) those RFID chips , to be able to reveal their Unique Serial Numbers to a nearby
smart phone / smart watch ( - which , in turn , communicates with the server of
the IT department ) ?
Could your invention solve this
problem ?
If yes, it could vastly reduce the
corruption in this world – since nearly all the bribes given out, are in CASH , comprising HIGH DENOMINATION currency notes
I got
following reply :
From: Gogotsi,Yury
[mailto:yg36@drexel.edu]
Sent: Sunday,
October 14, 2018 5:52 PM
To: Hemen
Parekh
Subject: Re: GETTING RID OF CORRUPTION
WITH YOUR INVENTION
It would be nice if our material could
help to solve this problem.
Yury
Gogotsi, Ph.D., D.Sc., Dr.h.c.
Charles
T. and Ruth M. Bach Distinguished University Professor
Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
Drexel University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (383 CAT Building)
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
E-mail: gogotsi@drexel.edu
TEL 1-215-895-6446
FAX 1-215-895-1934
http://nano.materials.drexel.edu
Associate Editor: ACS Nano
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/ancac3
Director, A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute
Drexel University
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (383 CAT Building)
3141 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
E-mail: gogotsi@drexel.edu
TEL 1-215-895-6446
FAX 1-215-895-1934
http://nano.materials.drexel.edu
Associate Editor: ACS Nano
http://pubs.acs.org/journal/ancac3
========================
Seeking
further clarification , I wrote back :
Dear Yury,
Thanks for your prompt reply
But , since I
am a non-technical person , I would appreciate knowing from you , whether you foresee
the feasibility of your material powering an embedded RFID in a currency note
With regards,
Hemen
Here is what Yury replied :
Yes, just like metals are currently
embedded.
And a little later , Yury wrote again :
Dear
Hemen,
I’m a scientist developing new
materials. It’s up to people like yourself to achieve implementation of our
developments.
===================================================
[ C ] / 1
For “ a nano-scale Solar
Panel embedded within the currency note to “ power RFID antenna “
For this technology , against my inquiry , I got following
replies :
From: Prof. B. B. Khatua [mailto:khatuabb@matsc.iitkgp.ernet.in]
Sent: 05 July 2018 18:19
Sent: 05 July 2018 18:19
To: 'Hemen Parekh'
Subject: RE: CONGRTULATIONS
Dear
Hemen Parekh,
Thanks for your email and wish.
Recently, our another work on "Egg-shell
membrane" based materials for generating electricity
has been published in International Journal, and featured as news in various
news media. Some of the links are given below :
We
have not yet performed any test for RFID, but will do so in the future work.
best regards,
Dr. Bhanu Bhusan Khatua (Ph.D.)
Associate
Professor
Materials
Science Centre
Indian
Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Kharagpur-721302
West
Bengal, India
Ph:
(+91) 3222 283982 (off)
09932507444 (cell)
Fax:
(03222) 255303
Researchgate id: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bhanu_Khatua
Google Scholar id: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=KaYk8oIAAAAJ
Skype: 919932507444
============================================
[ C ] / 2
But did not get any response to following request :
E Mail : 'mcalpine@umn.edu'
Dear Prof McAlpine,
Just read your interview re 3D printed electronic tattoos
Being a non-technical person , I have following question :
Can this technology print a RFID sensor coupled to a nano
scale “ Solar Panel “ , onto a plastic currency
note of high denomination , so that such notes can be tracked 24 X 7 ?
If yes , this could rid the world of CORRUPTION – all of
which happens through BLACK MONEY ( unaccounted / tax evaded money – cash
)
For over 2 years , I have been trying to convince the Indian
Government to adopt this RFID embedding of high denomination currency notes
I believe biggest hurdle is to provide a tiny electrical
power to the embedded RFID
May be your innovation can overcome that problem
==================
But , I did not get any reply to my inquiry for the
following technology , from Prof Traverso
It was this paragraph which aroused my interest :
“ The researchers are now working
on making the power delivery more efficient and transferring it over greater
distances.
This technology also has the potential to improve RFID
applications in other areas such as inventory control, retail
analytics, and “smart” environments,
allowing for longer-distance object tracking and
communication, the researchers say. “
References :
Prof Giovanni Traverso [ ctraverso@partners.org ]
[ C ] / 3
But reply
to my inquiry to Qiu Jiang , opened up a window
!
utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssfeed+%28ScienceBlog.com%29
Qiu
Jiang
Ph.D.
Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, SA,
Materials
Science and Engineering,
Office:
Bldg.3, level 3, 3203-WS17, Mobile phone: +966 (0)54 670 1529
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: Hemen Parekh
Cc: Jr-Hau He
Subject: Re: TENG /
Triboelectric Nanogeneratot
Dear
Hemen:
The
typical power consumption of RFID is ~10 µW, and Energy density of a
microcapacitor can easily go 1 mWh/cm3, which means a microsupercapacitor with
1 cm3 volumn can power the RFID for 100 h.
As you
said, you want some thin devices, take 100 µm thickness for example, a
microsupercapacitor with 1cm2 area and 100 µm thickness can power the RFID
for 1h.
Also,
you don't need to continuously power the RFID, thus it is practical to do so.
Regards
Qiu
======================================================
[
C ]
/ 4
And then I
found following about the research of an Indian girl , working in Finland :
New printable thin films could
help power Internet of Things
Scientists, including one of Indian origin, have designed printable, organic thin films for
"neuromorphic" computers inspired by the human brain, which will help
power Internet of Things.
Internet of Things (IoT) need components and chips that can handle huge
quantities of data.
In 2020, there will already be 50 billion industrial internet sensors in
place all around us. A single autonomous device - a smart watch, a cleaning robot, or a driverless car - can produce
gigabytes of data each day, whereas an airbus may have over 10,000 sensors in
one wing alone.
Current transistors in computer chips must be miniaturised to the size
of only few nanometres, and analysing and
storing unprecedented amounts of data will require huge amounts of energy.
Sayani Majumdar, from the Aalto University in
Finland, along with her colleagues, designed and fabricated the basic building
blocks of "neuromorphic" computers inspired by the human brain.
"The technology and design of neuromorphic computing is
advancing more rapidly than its rival revolution, quantum computing," said
Majumdar.
"The key is to achieve the extreme
energy-efficiency of a biological brain and mimic the way neural networks
process information through electric impulses," she said.
In a study published in the journal Advanced Functional
Materials, researchers showed how they have fabricated a new breed of
'ferroelectric tunnel junctions', that is, few-nanometre-thick
ferroelectric thin films sandwiched between two electrodes.
They have abilities beyond existing technologies and bode
well for energy-efficient and stable
neuromorphic computing. The junctions work in low voltages of less than five
volts and with a variety of electrode materials – including silicon used in
chips in most of our electronics.
They also can retain data
for more than 10 years without power and be manufactured in normal
conditions.
"Our junctions are made out of organic hydro-carbon materials and they would
reduce the amount of toxic heavy metal waste in electronics," said
Majumdar.
"We can also make thousands of junctions a day in
room temperature without them suffering from the water or oxygen in the
air," she said.
"What we are striving for now, is to integrate millions of our tunnel junction memristors into
a network on a one square centimetre area," she added.
"We can expect to pack so many in such a small space
because we have now achieved a record-high difference in the current between on
and off-states in the junctions and that provides functional stability,"
Majumdar said.
"The memristors could then perform complex tasks
like image and pattern recognition and make decisions autonomously," she said.
======================================================
[ D ]
Technology for a “ Mobile App which
picks up the signals ( Digital Data re Currency Serial Number and face value )
from the RFID antennas ( using NFC / Blue Tooth ) and relay to government
server “
This technology already exists and almost all IoT devices
use it . No issue here !
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ADDITIONAL
INPUTS :
25 March , 2016
Dear
Mr. Parekh,
Yes, placing tags on money has certainly been considered
in the past. I think it is a matter of
time before it happens. I do agree with your idea.
---------------------------------------------------------------
13 Nov 2016
Hi
Hemen,
It
can be brought down to about 3-5 cents with scale.
Meanwhile
check out a variant of the technology which is cheaper:
=============================
Not to be ignored, here is a technology ( of course , under
development ) , which could enable a Rs 2,000 / - currency note to “ announce “
( loud enough for everyone in the room to be able to hear ) as follows :
“ Hemen handing over a Rs 2000 note , bearing Serial
Number 3EC 689605 to Prof. Ko “
E-mail
: hyunhko@unist.ac.kr
/ Tel: 052-217-2532
=========================
Do see :
Following are my past 48 emails ( to
our Cabinet Ministers ) on this subject :
Currency Notes for Visually impaired ? …………………………………………………….[ 10 June 2018
]
#RFID , A breakthrough , at last ? ……………………………………………………………[ 06 June 2018
]
#ATM running dry ? …………………………………………………………………………… [ 17 April
2018 ]
Back to Square One ?
…………………………………………………………………………. [ 17 March
2018 ]
Black Money : Solution at last …………………………………………………………………….[ 14 Jan 2018
]
8th
Nov : Anti Black Money Day ?.....................................................[ 26 Oct 2017 ]
Reducing Black Money : The Grand Strategy
?................................................[ 26 July 2017 ]
To Catch Black Money , Ask Google ? …………………………………………………………….[ 13 Dec 2016 ]
Conundrum ? Chaos ? Catastrophe ? Cataclysm ? …………………………………… [ 12 Dec 2016 ]
For Want of a Nail ……………………………………………………………………………………………….[
5 Dec
2016 ]
A Solicited Opinion ?.................................................................................................[
22 Nov
2016 ]
Chakra Viewh / 2016 AD……………………………………………………………………………………..[
16 Nov
2016 ]
Embrace the Inevitable…………………………………………………………………………………….
……[ 13 Nov 2016 ]
Oh ! For a Painless Birth………………………………………………………………………………………….[
12 Nov 2016 ]
One Innovation would have sufficed ! .....................................................................[
11 Nov 2016 ]
Have A Good Suggestion ? Send it to PM …………………………………………………………….[ 08 Nov 2016 ]
Still , there is Hope …………………………………………………………………………………… ………….. [ 06 Nov
2016 ]
Song / Dance / Retro Step ? ………………………………………………………………………………….[ 21 Oct 2016 ]
Tip of the Iceberg ? …………………………………………………………………………………………………..[ 13 Oct
2016 ]
A Devil's Advocate ? …………………………………………………………………………………………………[ 11 Oct
2016 ]
Shall We Follow or Lead ? ………………………………………………………………………………………..[
12 Sept
2016 ]
It is a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, World ! ……………………………………………………………………[ 28 Aug 2018 ]
1984 was nothing !
……………………………………………………………………………………………………[ 23 Aug
2016 ]
Help ! please , rescue me ! ……………………………………………………………………………………[
08 Aug
2016 ]
Needed : A 3 Month Plan for 3 C …………………………………………………………………………..[ 30 July
2016 ]
Silver Lining Vs Missing Perspective ……………………………………………………………………….[ 25 July 2016 ]
Fak - e – Mon
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….[ 17 July 2016 ]
Well Begun is Half Done ! …………………………………………………………………………………………[14 July
2016 ]
The March of Algorithms ……………………………………………………………………………………………..[ 05 July 2016 ]
Wealth of India ?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………[ 08 June 2016 ]
Redesign Banknotes For Black Money Management ……………………………………………[ 20 May 2016 ]
One Small Step for a Man ……………………………………………………………………………………….[ 19 May 2016 ]
Currency Maps of India ? ………………………………………………………………………………………….[ 08 May 2016 ]
Transparency : The Biggest Reform ……………………………………………………………………….[ 01 May 2016 ]
Election Season is Rumour Season …………………………………………………………………………[ 12 April 2016 ]
Oracle has spoken
……………………………………………………………………………… ……………[ 25 Mar 2016 ]
RFID Tagging of Currency / Two Views …………………………………………………………………[ 25 Mar 2016 ]
There is a Simpler Way ! …………………………………………………………………………………………[ 06 Mar 2016 ]
A Tale of Two Tracking ! …………………………………………………………………………………………[ 27 Feb 2016 ]
TRASH the CASH ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………….[ 25 Feb 2016 ]
Does this Ring a Bell ? ………………………………………………………………………………………………[
17 Feb 2016 ]
FOREVER PROBING ?
……………………………………………………………………………………………….[16 Feb
2016 ]
THIS CANNOT BE TRUE ! ……………………………………………………………………………………………[ 05 Feb 2016 ]
GLOBAL CORRUPTION INDEX …………………………………………………………………………………..[ 28 Jan 2016 ]
GOING CASHLESS ?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………….[ 23 Jan 2016 ]
How to conquer Corruption ? ………………………………………………………………………………….[ 21 Dec 2015 ]
THEFTS CAN BE OBSOLETE ! …………………………………………………………………………………..[ 26 Nov 2015 ]
NETWORK OF CURRENCY NOTES ? [ My first E Mail
on this subject ]…… ……………[ 03 Nov 2015 ]
Dear Shri
Narendrabhai,
Your advantage
over Xi Jinping is :
You are a
democratically elected popular leader, elected with a clear mandate to root out
Corruption and Black Money
Whatever damage
the “ De-monetization “ might have caused , here is your chance to undo that , through
my suggested “ Re-monetization “
At least ,
please ask the Science-Technology-Innovation
Advisory Council to
initiate a discussion on the feasibility of my suggestion by , convening a
meeting of the Scientists / Researchers mentioned in this email
22 Oct
2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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