Research work on Low-cost IoT-based Downtime Detection for UPS and Behaviour Analysis, carried out by Dr. Sachin Chaudhari along with his student Sannidhya Gupta, 5th-year Dual Degree student and Prakash Nayak, IT staff member, has been awarded the Best Paper Award at the 18th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS 2026) from 6 – 10 January 2026.