IoT Week 2018 Innovation Hackfest: FIESTA-IoT Challenge

Euskalduna Conference Centre – IoT Week 2018

This year IoT week is organising an Innovation Hackfest to allow software developers, systems architects, services and solutions designers, entrepreneurs students, researchers and business makers, from different start-ups, large industry, industrial research units, etc., to explore the potential of the IoT Platforms, developed technologies, solutions and applications that reflect the results and are the outcomes of three years projects in the context of the IoT-EPI (European Platforms Initiative).

The Objective

The main objective this year is to motivate that results from H2020 European projects and innovative ideas go into market products, services  and solutions that can incentivise entrepreneurship (start-ups), market adoption (industries make use of available technologies), knowledge transfer (large industries) to adopt and adapt technology coming from donor projects in the form of open source technologies and include them in their business plan, and/or products ideas, and/or production process.

The Challenges and Hacking Opportunity

Registered participants will have access to learn the details, and experiment or test the technologies, platforms and services, and have the opportunity (in advance of the competition) to look across the different IoT platforms information sites, development wikis, software code repositories, etc. The offered technologies, services and solutions described can be used freely during this period.

$3,000 in prizes

•  BIG IoT Challenge Prize – 1000 Euro

  The best use of BIG IoT technology in your business model

•  SymbIoTe Challenge Prize – 1000 Euro

  The best use of SymbIoTe technology in your business model

•  FIESTA-IoT Challenge Prize – 1000 Euro

  The best use of FIESTA-IoT technology in your business model

To find out more about the hackathon, and learn how to register – see: IoT Innovation Hackathon 2018.

FIESTA-IoT is Open for Access

Do you need access to IoT data for your experiments? Want IoT data from multiple domains and locations? Need lots of data? Consider applying to the FIESTA-IoT rolling open call.

We have the pleasure to announce the Rolling Open Call for experiments of the FIESTA-IoT project (see http://fiesta-iot.eu/opencall/). We hereby solicit proposals for innovative IoT experiments making use of the FIESTA-IoT Platform. They should be short experiments to be quickly integrated within the FIESTA-IoT Platform.

• Successful proposals will not receive funding but they will have guaranteed access to the testbeds and will get support from the FIESTA-IoT consortium’s partners.
• Experimenters that are granted with access to the FIESTA-IoT Platform will be requested to provide a short report with feedback from their experiments and the experience of using the FIESTA-IoT Platform before 15th June 2018.

The FIESTA-IoT project (http://fiesta-iot.eu/) is a Research and Innovation Action (RIA) under the European Horizon 2020 Programme addressing the work programme topic ‘Future Internet Research and Experimentation’.

Overall, the project’s experimental infrastructure will provide experimenters in the IoT domain with the following unique capabilities:

• Access to and sharing of IoT datasets in a testbed-agnostic way. FIESTA-IoT will provide researchers with tools for accessing IoT data resources (including Linked sensor data sets) independently of their source IoT platform/testbed.
• Execution of experiments across multiple IoT testbeds, based on a single API for submitting the experiment and a single set of credentials for the researcher.
• Portability of IoT experiments across different testbeds, through the provision of interoperable standards-based IoT/cloud interfaces over diverse IoT experimental facilities.

A call summary flyer with basic information can be read here:  flyer

Any question related to this Open Call or the FIESTA-IoT project in general can be addressed to oc-info@fiesta-iot.eu.

Hackathon Results

The FIESTA-IoT Hackathon took place at the Technical University of Berlin on the 18-19th of March 2018. The event was part of the 2018 IEEE Workshop on Big Data Governance and Metadata and Management (BDGMM). The title of the hackathon was “FIESTA-IoT: EXPERIMENTATION-AS-A-SERVICE FOR BIG IoT TESTBED DATA”. The duration of the hackathon was 24 hours. The hackathon involved the participation of “experimenters” to create novel experiments that involve the discovery of datasets from a range of IoT testbeds that produce data concerning smart cities, smart buildings, environment, maritime, wireless networks, data centres, etc. The hackathon solicited for the design and deployment of advanced (experimental) applications, notably applications that leverage data and resources from multiple administratively and geographically dispersed IoT testbeds. Experimenters were requested to exploit the semantic and interoperable nature of the datasets and data-streams within their experiments.

Participants

A total of 8 participants registered for the hackathon. An introduction and tutorial was given at the start. The participants were provided access to data collected during the previous month. Some chose not to continue because they felt the learning curve was too steep for the short period of time, and others did not find the data they wanted to use e.g. marine data. Ultimately two teams of two were formed and continued with the challenge, Team Kyoto and Team Linuxy.

Results

After initial experimentation and understanding of the FIESTA-IoT platform interface, each team decided to focus on a theme. Team Kyoto focused on a range of datasets from the smart city domain, and Team Linuxy focused on datasets from smart buildings. The teams worked hard throughout the day and at their accommodation. The next morning each team presented their solutions.

Team Kyoto presented a solution to support tourism activities of foreign tourists. The goal was to provide detailed information about destinations in advance, which can relate to expectations of accommodation and transport options. A case for using Santander was presented based on the study of tourism statistics for Spain, and the use of MESHSTATS, which provides statistics based on a geographic grid. The dataset used ranged from temperature and illuminance, to parking presence state. The aim was to understand the relationship between quantities measured by PresenceStateParking sensors and actual environment. They also wanted to want to use quantities measured by PresenceStateParking to monitor congestions on streets. The team did identify an issue with the parking presence devices, as the state was changing to frequently.

Team Kyoto

Team Linuxy