TiE Silicon Valley SmartCities Hackathon, powered by Atomiton, enables
coders, non-profits and social activists to produce solutions to improve cities
across the globe. This year's winning teams have produced technology for some of
our most pressing waste management issues, especially for developing countries.
TiE Silicon Valley is proud to
announce the winners of the 2016 Smart Cities Hackathon initiative featuring
the theme "Tackling the World’s Urban Social Issues". The event
featured more than 100 teams who used their coding skills to produce innovative
solutions for some of the most pressing environmental problems in the world.
Three teams pulled ahead of the rest this year, with Team Culminant walking
away with first prize.
Cleaning Up Our
World Through Code
Through entrepreneurship and stellar
leadership, this year’s technological solutions are on track to put a major
dent in the waste that threatens our global environment. The hackathon featured
highly talented teams from over 10 countries and 50 cities coming together to
brainstorm, code and create in the name of a greater social cause.
Six outstanding projects were
shortlisted for more detailed judging — and they did not disappoint. Three key
problems were available for teams to address, including parking, waste and
water management. However, the three top teams chose to specifically address
the waste management issue. After all, the challenge for waste management is
huge, with the World Bank estimating that global solid waste is
set to increase by 70 percent by 2025, which will generate six million tons of
waste per day. This problem will require huge sums of money to manage, which
are expected to exceed $375 billion annually by 2025, with developing nations
baring the brunt of these costs.
In order to find solutions for the
future, the first place Team Culminant produced a brilliant worker routing
system. This Internet-of-Things (IoT) solution offers real-time tracking of all
the top sites where garbage is accumulating and other waste management trends,
and then efficiently reroutes workers according to this data. Their intuitive
UI dashboard even helps tracks company balances and revenue to help waste
managers as they build a smart and efficient marketplace for waste management.
Their solution earned them a $5,000 prize and passes to TiEcon
2016, world’s leading annual conference on entrepreneurship.
A $3,000 second prize plus TiEcon
passes went to Team Vermigold, which offered a self-learning waste management
collection system that not only maximizes garbage collection in the minimum
amount of time, but also grows revenue for waste management companies.
Team Vishwakarma snatched the third place prize of
$2,000 plus TiEcon passes by devising a cost-effective trash bin system that uses odor sensors to improve
metrics such as trash bin usage, dump sites and company revenue.
The event was made a reality through
the tireless support and resources of our partners including
BayBrazil, the City of Palo Alto, Outsource Brazil, and the academia.
Outstanding
Submissions From Finalists
Vipin Jain, Chair of TiE Smart Cities,
stated that, “It was very
satisfying to see the quality of work produced by the finalists. They
approached the problem differently making various observations about the
environment, available resources, costs and resident behavior. Team Culminant
stood out in terms of their approach to problem-solving, attention to detail,
design, implementation and visualization, all leading to an optimized solution
that delivered an impressive business and functional outcome. TiE congratulates
all of the winning teams for a job well done.”
Submissions were evaluated based on key criteria, including
meeting the business goals, functionality, usability, originality and
articulation.
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