The Indian Government's Department of Science and Technology is executing the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), approved by the Union Cabinet in December 2018. As part of the mission, iHUB DivyaSampark at IIT Roorkee focused on technology development, human resources, technology incubation, startups, and international collaborative research.

The hub will foster research innovation towards product/technology development and commercialization in CPS with relevant and next-generation Devices and Materials in the areas of

• Healthcare

• Industry 4.0

• Smart Cities

• Defence

The hub envisions that the smart devices and materials are the key enablers for CPS, which includes sensors, actuators, computing, communication, and control devices built on the smart engineering of the existing and novel materials intelligently coupled with frontier trends like artificial intelligence, machine learning, augmented/virtual reality, etc. The ability to interact with the cyber world and expand the capabilities of the physical world through smart devices and materials would be the core for future technology developments. The HUB will continuously identify research trends and need areas in the marketplace and Indian social sector and will liaise with both government and industries to map the needs with the key technologies developed in the HUB and work towards a self-reliant India.