IoT HackHyderabad
The excitement in me woke me up early. With all the
freshness & enthusiasm, me and my team headed to Progess office for the first IOT Hackathon conducted by
Mozilla. All organizers and volunteers reached by 8:00 & we arranged all
that needs to be done. There we saw many enthusiastic people with passion who
were eager to put their skills to work for next 32 hours. They collected their
ID cards & headed towards the hack zone. I have addressed the participants & discussed the agenda for the weekend
which was to learn and build something new without missing out fun :D Then i have given an insight about Mozilla community
& opportunities it brings .
Then we had a Skype session with Dietrich head of connected
devices at Mozilla Dietrich, spoke about how connected devices are going to
change the world &mozilla’s mission towards connected devices. Then we had
a question and answer session and Dietrich wished our participants &
boosted them up.
Later Kalayan discussed about importance of security & privacy
in connected world & spoke about IOT risks, Cyber threats & security
challenges . He also discussed about how our wearable devices collect huge
amount of personal data as well as the surrounding environment information,
which can be easily disclosed to third parties & how threat actors adopt
sophisticated TTPs . One of the first under
attack case was observed by Proofpoint
where cyber criminals sent bursts of
100,000 three times per day, targeting enterprises and individuals
worldwide,more than a lakh refrigerators ,smart Tv’s and other smart household
appliances have been hacked !!! Showing how IoT is dramatically enlarging our
attack surface, he also came up with the set of solutions on how to minimize
these vulnerabilities :)
It was lunch time, people interacted with each other. People
formed teams & started discussing their innovative ideas. We were helping
participants get their required hardware components.15 teams( =15 new ideas :D) started working on
their creative ideas. Geeks Harsha, Kalyan , Deepak & Hitesh were helping
the hackers build better prototype. People took short naps, some caffeine
& samosa (not to be forgotten!) breaks . Special mention to Hitesh &
Giridhar for keeping the crowd active with their sense of humor :)
Sunday (next day) people were almost done ,they started adding additional features & started testing their
product. By 12pm their ideas were all set to present. Our judge for the event
was Mr.Ramesh CEO of Progress Software. Such
a visionary person he is, he also suggested the participants about how they
could go ahead with their product in market.
Judgment
time! Winning team-Smart air conditioning team got first prize and the youngest
participant belonged to this team :) they
were awarded with Firefox OS phones:D Runnerups-Alchol detection team were awarded
with Firefox Bags and Goodies :D
Then
we all had tasty biryani as our last meal of the event. Then we had swag
distribution bands, tattoos, badges everywhere& everyone captured our
perfect weekend in selfies . I learnt about arduino, raspberry pi& got
familiar with many other technical aspects & understood that age is never a
barrier to do something you like. As
promised by Harsha ,we all had great moments to cherish &32 hours to
treasure :D
Project Titles:
- Smart Parking in busy city environment. Monitoring of parking spaces in the city. Monitoring of vibrations and material conditions in buildings, bridges and historical monuments which info is critical to government.
- Noise pollution monitoring in Urban and Rural areas Sound monitoring in importan zones like schools,hospitals,residential,factory etc.. in real time.
- Traffic Congestion and warning systems. Monitoring of vehicles and pedestrian for efficiant traffic management for driving and walking routes.
- Smart Lighting Intelligent and weather adaptive lighting in street lights for efficiant use of power.
- Smart Waste Management in cities. Detection of garbage points and rubbish levels in containers to optimize the trash collection routes.
- Smart Roads Intelligent Highways with warning messages and diversions according to climate conditions and unexpected events like accidents or traffic jams.
- Home automation : project kit that allows user to easily control home appliances and automate homes using Internet of things to control loads.
- Ambulance tracking System in Traffic
- PowerSaver using raspberry pi
- Thermal Detection
- Alcohol Detection for Drunken People. Helping the Traffic Police of the city
- Smart air conditioning
- Tagit - smart way of connecting the household things
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