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machineQ Smart City Hackathon

 A hackathon focused on solving city challenges

with the Internet of Things. 


June 9 + 10, 2017

Philadelphia

 

Presented by Comcast

 

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The Smart City Story

Since October, Philadelphia has become a testing ground for machineQ, a new Internet of Things business being developed by an innovative team at Comcast. This new technology can gather, transmit and create intelligence from the physical world, and has the potential to improve ways to monitor public infrastructure, enable predictive maintenance on consumer appliances, and other exciting implementations. This kind of connectivity will have a huge impact on how we think about solving challenges and innovating in our cities.


machineQ Technology

machineQ is a low-power wide-area network, which uses LoRaWAN technology to connect to sensors, which can activate measurements and create change in the physical landscape. It is designed for simple, yet critical transmissions, like a sensor telling a system that the temperature in a room has changed dramatically, or a bus in the city is running late. The network is low-power, optimized for 10+ years of battery life and minimal maintenance. And the network is wide-reaching, able to connect to sensors that are up to 30 miles away and reach sensors deep within urban environments.


join us June 9th & 10th

FRIDAY, JUNE 9: Team-building and Setup

Because this is a focused one-day hackathon, we are hosting a reception on Friday night to build teams, select projects and setup the hardware and software.


6:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Networking

6:30 PM - 6:40 PM | Introduction from Sponsors

6:40 PM - 7:00 PM | Technical Details

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Team Building, Project Selection

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | SDK Setup, Networking

SATURDAY, JUNE 10: Hackathon

Teams will code all day Saturday, with presentations, judging and awards taking place at the end of the event.


8:00 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast, Welcome and Orientation

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM | Coding

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Coding

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM | Presentations and Reception

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Hacking Hardware

This hackathon is meant for developers who are interested in Internet of Things technology and creating solutions that integrate sensor-based hardware with software. Each developer team at the hackathon will have access to devices, sensors, a network server, and application server in order to create solutions for a smarter city using LoRaWAN technology. It’s up to the developers to augment this base system with dev-friendly APIs to create solutions.


In one day, teams will be able to get familiar with these new technologies (LoRaWAN, Marvin/Arduino, ClearBlade, sensor technology) and create applications that interact with sensors, like visualizations, dashboards or other interactive demos. Attendees will come to deeply understand the technologies involved, the data and workflow and how they can harness it for future ideas.


60+ Sensors

More than 60 types of sensors, including those that detect loudness, moisture, sound, water, temperature, humidity, light and more.

Marvin plug-n-play IoT development boards

Marvin plug-n-play IoT development boards which collect data from sensors and transmit that data via LoRaWAN network technology. These are Arduino-based devices which can utilize multiple sensors and can communicate to the network. You can learn more about Marvin boards here.

ClearBlade application server

ClearBlade application server, a dev-friendly environment used to create applications for displaying and collecting sensor data across the network. ClearBlade provides SDKs available for iOS, Android, JavaScript, Java, GoLang, NodeJS, Python and C. You can read more about the ClearBlade development ecosystem here.

Actility network servers

Actility network servers are the backend infrastructure that enables data transmission.

Imagining solutions

We hope attendees of the machineQ Smart City hackathon will design innovative solutions for city challenges. Here are just a few ideas of the kinds of applications that could be created using these new technologies:

Outdoor Lighting

Sensors automatically regulate and schedule lights to control energy consumption and luminosity. 

Traffic Lights & Safety

Protect pedestrians and bikers by reducing traffic congestion around campuses and adjusting speed limits in populated areas.

Bikes

Equip a bike share system with sensors to track how they’re being used and minimize lost bikes. 

Smart Parking & Parking Meters

Reduce traffic congestion and monitor availability of parking spaces.

Who should attend?

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Software Developers

All developers are welcome and the software stack at this event is friendly to a variety of languages and platforms. IoT and hardware experience isn’t necessary and you can learn during the hackathon.

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Hardware Hackers

If you’ve got hardware expertise, you can be a crucial part of a team by matching up with a team of software developers. If you’ve got software skills to match, that’s even better.

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Startups

Startup teams that are building projects and businesses around IoT technologies are welcome, as long as a new idea is being explored and it follows MIT open source licensing standards.

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IoT Generalists

Having the “big idea” has impact. Even if you don’t code, be a valuable subject matter expert, and learn about coding and hardware while you’re there.

Prizes!

To start, all attendees that participate in the hackathon competition on June 9 and 10 will get to take home their own Marvin IoT development board, valued at $90.


Prizes will be awarded to the teams that demonstrate the most innovative smart city solutions using LoRaWAN technology and will be judged by creativity, problem-solving, and use of the full hardware/software tech stack.


1st: $5,000
2nd: $2,500
3rd: Team members each receive $200 gift cert. to Adafruit

 

The winning teams and ideas will also be shared during the adjacent LoRa Alliance summit, where IoT network carriers from around the world will be gathered in Philadelphia.


In order to be eligible for hackathon prizes, projects built at this hackathon must use LoRaWAN technologies available onsite and must be submitted as open source projects, using the standard MIT License.


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