Grand Challenges and Competitions

Objectives

To find & nurture new and innovative solutions for major challenges being faced by the society that are viable and sustainable.
To pick up ideas from untapped sources and convert them into start-ups.
To generate better awareness about entrepreneurship amongst India’s masses and reach out to aspiring and existing entrepreneurs through active media outreach.
To provide structured mentoring, guidance, prototyping grants, and seed funding for ideas applying for such challenges and competitions.
To build a vibrant start-up ecosystem, by establishing a network between academia, financial institutions, industries, and other institutions.

Aim of the Competition

The aim of the competition is to provide a platform that brings innovative, modular, and cost-effective solutions to develop “Interconnecting Water, Land, and Air” for three different use cases. The present competition is focused on the Ideation Stage where the applications will be screened based on the presentation. The next level of competition is a develop stage where the shortlisted applicants will demonstrate the proof of concept/working model they develop after two months for any one or more of the 3 use cases covering three locations.

Technology Focus

Background

Recent scientific and technological advancements driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), distributed computing, and data communication technologies have opened up a vast range of opportunities in many scientific fields—spanning from fast, reliable and efficient data communication to large-scale cloud/edge computing and intelligent big data analytics.
However, there are still technological challenges faced when it comes to “Interconnecting Water, Land, and Air.”
The competition brings innovative, modular, and cost-effective solutions to develop an “IoT Technologies for Interconnecting Water, Land, and Air” to be deployed at any one or more-use cases to collect and facilitate centralized monitoring of data. The deployment should be demonstrated on any use case provided below.
The Identification of problem areas is what differentiates this competition from other hackathons or challenges conducted by educational institutions. TIH IoT has been able to determine a few real-world problem statements in the specified IoT domain, which, if resolved, would greatly benefit a large population.

Problem Statement

The problem statement is the “Interconnecting Water, Land, and Air” which is to develop IoT devices and interconnections for interconnection of water, land, and air. The ideation of the problem statement can be applied to any one or more of the 3 use cases.