POC Deployment from 18th-24th September 2024
🏅 Winner Selection by Jury on 25th September🏅
🏆 Awards Ceremony on 26th September 🎉
About the program
The Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge aims to support hardware innovators/ Start-ups/ Academic Institutions to develop workable prototypes utilizing the Wi-SUN RF mesh. This challenge is proposed to encourage students,hardware startups and MSME’s to make best utilization of the Wi-SUN network. The Final winners will be awarded Prize money worth Rs.8 Lakhs. Grant Challenge thus enables young entrepreneurs to initiate technology start-up companies for commercial exploitation of technologies they developed.
Challenge Themes
- Domains:
- Smart Energy Solutions
- Battery powered Smart Utility (Water/Gas) solutions
- Smart Agriculture
- Environment and Clean Energy Solutions
- Mobility and Transport
- Technologies:
- Edge Intelligence
- Network Security
- Long Battery Life
- Predictive Maintenance
Why Should You Apply?
- Develop Cutting-Edge Solutions
- Total prize money of Rs. 8 lakhs for the final winners.
- Gain Recognition
- Launch Your Startup
- Advance Your Research
- Expand Your Skill Set and network
Who Should Apply?
- A Hardware Innovator
- A Startup Founder
- A Student/ Tech Enthusiast
- An MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise)
Criteria for Applicants
- Students/Researchers/Working Professionals/Entrepreneurs and Startups who are excited to build products to solve real-world problems using Wi-SUN technologies.
- Indian residents who are 18+ years of age.
- Any Individual/Startup/Student with potential & innovative business ideas can apply for the program.
- Technology-based startups for below mentioned thematic areas are eligible for the scheme:
- IoT domain
- Smart Cities
- Energy/Water utilities
- Healthcare
- Education
- Environment and Clean energy solutions
- Robotics
- Communications
- Network Security
- Smart Agriculture
- Edge Intelligence
- Network Security
- Mobility and Transport
Benefits
- Win Cash Prizes: Total prize pool of ₹8,00,000.
- Wi-SUN Kit: The 10 Shortlisted participants will receive a Custom Wi-SUN Kit and a cash prize of Rs.25k.
- Webinar was organized on June 19th 2024 about Wi-SUN technology and Smart City Challenge.
- One-day hands-on workshop and an opportunity to do the POC in smart city living lab for the shortlisted teams.
- Gain Recognition: Showcase your work to industry leaders.
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with peers and experts.
- Get an opportunity to offer solutions to India’s Smart Cities Mission.
How to Register
- To register for challenge click here
- Webinar Completed
- To view the recording click here
- Workshop Completed
- To view the recording click here
FAQ
- Stage 1: An open invitation will be issued for the challenge. The applicants will be required to submit an abstract of their plan and their capabilities in the form of a presentation. A Panel shall shortlist the participants based on the inputs submitted. A half day Webinar was organized on 19th June about the Wi-SUN Technology and the Smart City challenge.. (Post this process, around Around 10 teams will be shortlisted with a team size of max: 2).
- Stage 2: A 1-day workshop shall be conducted to the 10 shortlisted teams participants to understand the technology with hands-on training. They will be awarded a supporting amount of 25k for the POC along with the Wi-SUN kits.
- Stage 3: The top ten participants do their POC in the living lab. A panel shall review the POC and announce the grand prize winner. POC would remain in the living lab. The Grand Prize shall be Rs.8 Lakhs or distributed among top three finalists.
- Start of the campaign: June 10th
- Webinar was organized on June 19th
- Hands-on workshop was organized on August 5th
- Submissions Deadline Closed
- Deployment and testing at Smart City Living Lab: September 18th to 24th at IIITH campus.
- Finale Grand Challenge Demo (Winner Announcement): September 25th
- Award Ceremony on September 26th
- Wi-SUN technology Overview
- Real-world application Case Study-Smart City Living Lab
- Smart City Challenge Procedure explaination
- Wi-SUN Hardware and Software stack for the challenge
- Q&A
Webinar was organized by IIIT Hyderabad & Silicon labs
Agenda:
- The Idea should be related to one or more of the Challenge themes.
- What problem does it solve or what process/functionality does it improve.
- What makes it innovative.
- How would the benefits be measured.
- Description of the proposed implementation (under 500 words).
- Hardware components necessary for the solution.
- Software components required for the solution.
- Considerations for deploying the solution.
- Estimated cost.
- Future Scope.
About
SmartCity Living Lab
The IIIT-H is an autonomous university established in 1998. Over a short span of time of just over two decades, it has evolved strong research programs in various areas with an emphasis on technology and applied research for industry and society. IIIT-H currently houses one of the largest AI research groups in the country. Within the IIITH’s Smart City Research Centre, we have set up a Smart City Living Lab as an open-innovation ecosystem. This is a collaboration with two technology partners - the European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) and the Amsterdam Innovation Arena (AIA). We are funded by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and also receive support from the Smart City Mission and the Government of Telangana. The campus is being transformed into a platform for learning, research, experimentation, and for showcasing new ideas and approaches through the concept of Smart City Living Lab. The aim is to discover & develop cutting-edge innovations with smart city use cases and to enrich them with the knowledge from our wider research activities.
Visit Website: Smartcitylivinglab
Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world. Their integrated hardware and software platform, intuitive development tools, thriving ecosystem, and robust support make them an ideal long-term partner in building advanced industrial, commercial, home, and life applications. Silicon Labs makes it easy for developers to solve complex wireless challenges throughout the product lifecycle and get to market quickly with innovative solutions that transform industries, grow economies, and improve lives. Silicon Labs is headquartered in Austin, Texas with its largest wireless development center in Hyderabad, India.
Visit Website: Silicon Labs
Partners :
- Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology
- National Smart City Mission
- Govt of Telangana.
- Silicon Labs
- Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, IIITH