Bad weather has affected the search for survivors, but Mr Nanda promised more coastguard helicopters once conditions improved.
"The system was built for anyone, " said Nanda, who presented the work at last week's Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia conference in Maryland.
Research associate Gauri Nanda's two-wheeled "Clocky" automatically rolls off the bedside table when the alarm goes off and the snooze button is pressed.
"I don't like being told when to wake up but I've come to terms with the idea that I have to, " says Nanda.
Adrian Cable, Gauri Nanda and Michael Bove from MIT's Media Lab developed computerized fabric patches that could be placed in clothing or everyday objects.
Building information-providing and environment-sensitive devices from the patches is as easy as playing with Lego bricks, according to designers Gauri Nanda, Adrian Cable and Michael Bove.
"The danger with pervasive computing is that difficult-to-use devices are infiltrating our lives in a way that are not natural to the way we interact, " said Nanda.
Indeed, managers who have been promoted since earning their degrees are now urging their own eligible employees to attend, says Nanda Kumar Cheruvatath, vice president of Eaton Corp.
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West Bengal's Fisheries Minister Kiranmoy Nanda told the BBC that at least 60 trawlers had been out at sea when the storm picked up strength in the Bay of Bengal.
This was underlined by a study of star security analysts in American investment banks in 1988-96, conducted by Boris Groysberg of Harvard Business School and Ashish Nanda of Harvard Law School.
When John Bissell arrived at the government-owned Central Cottage Industries Corp. in New Delhi on a two year Ford Foundation fellowship in 1958, Bimla Nanda, who was working there, had to give up her desk to accommodate the American visitor.
"We were motivated by a desire to design a system for anyone to both build with fabric in a way similar to playing with Lego and create objects that are rich with relevant context-aware computation without having to program, " said Nanda, who devised the patches for a project towards a Media Arts and Sciences masters degree.
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