IIIT Hyderabad team wins best tech award in Korean hackathon

A total of 12 university teams participated in the hackathon with two of them representing IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab. The winning team created an attractive dashboard which can display the status of each streetlight enabling remote monitoring.  

An eight-week international online hackathon hosted by the Korean Electronics Technology Institute (KETI) in association with TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association), ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute), along with the Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea saw a street light automation project from IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab walk away with the best technology award in the telecommunications category.  

The goal of the hackathon is to build IoT solutions that can solve societal problems with the mandate of using one of the open-source oneM2M platforms. OneM2M is the global standards initiative that was established to address serious interoperability issues arising out of various vendor-specific IoT solutions designed for specific applications. OneM2M provides a common architecture for IoT cross domain interoperability in terms of communication and semantic data.  

A total of 12 university teams participated in the hackathon with two of them representing IIITH’s Smart City Living Lab. Team Athena led by Vaibhav Naware saw Prashant Nandipati, Rakesh Hotkar and Sudha Kollimarla working on their goal of deploying smart streetlight control across cities to save the workload and energy usage. They demonstrated this with the help of IoT and Wi-SUN technology through oneM2M (OM2M implementation from LAAS-CNRS).  

The team created an attractive dashboard which can display the status of each streetlight enabling remote monitoring. The customisable dashboard also contains information on the general system status, notification engine alerts of important events, temperature, humidity, latency and other information.  

In addition to this, the map interface helps deep-dive into the finer details. Besides, a live mini replica of the entire street lighting network was also created in the form of a physical dashboard. “It can help determine visually if any node has been disconnected due to lack of acknowledgement from the mesh network,” said Ajay Mathew, a visiting faculty. 

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