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Indian smart city lab launches back-to-campus challenge
The focus areas include testing and screening for people on campus, automatic cleaning and sanitation, crowd control/monitoring and air quality improvement.
India’s Smart City Living Lab, part of the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad’s (IIITH) Smart City Research Centre, is launching a “back-to-campus technology challenge.
The winning start-ups/teams will get a paid proof-of-concept opportunity in the smart campus at IIITH. Those participating will also be able to showcase the solutions to IT campus park chiefs, facility managers, education institutions and other corporations.
Safety and security challenge
The safety and security challenge aims to provide a platform to bring the private and public sector together with research facilities to discover digital capabilities that help campuses “stay nimble” during difficult times and universities and colleges tackle the pandemic.
The focus areas for the challenge are – but aren’t limited to – testing and screening for people on campus, automatic cleaning and sanitation, crowd control/monitoring (people, vehicles, queue/ social distancing), remote temperature/health monitoring, air quality to prevent infection (mitigation of Covid aerosols on campuses), social distancing and contactless solutions for commerce.
“In these post-Covid times, giving students the confidence to come back to campus is critical,” said Anuradha Vattem, lead architect, Smart City Living Lab. “Thus, deploying solutions which ensure a safe and secure environment and demonstrating their efficiency in a live campus would be the right approach. This challenge aims to give participants a platform to ideate, build and test their solutions.”
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The Smart City Living Lab began operation in December 2020 and the creation of a smart campus, equipped with data lake with live sensors data is underway. It has been organising multiple roundtables and innovation challenges in the areas of water quality and quantity measurement, smart city/building solutions and post-pandemic solutions in association with smart cities, governments and corporate partners.
Start-ups identified during the challenges and the problem statements identified during the roundtables are being incubated and supported through the living lab to develop and improve solutions and get access to markets.
“In these post-Covid times, giving students the confidence to come back to campus is critical”
Smart City Living Lab is an open-innovation ecosystem, supported by the Government of India’s Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Smart Cities Mission, the Government of Telangana, European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC), and Amsterdam Innovation Arena.
Startups/teams working on the above-mentioned areas in the post prototype stage can apply to the challenge before 3 November at Back-to-Campus Challenge.
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