PoP 91 INNOVATION CHALLENGE
PoP 91 Innovation Challenge was a unique innovation contest that aimed to find actual and implementable solution for the real-world problems through Internet of Things.
The contest aimed at seeking practical, feasible and cost-effective solutions to the challenges that the industry is facing today, through IoT and related technology. The 7 focus industries were namely – Smart Cities, Healthcare, Energy, Agriculture, Retail, Digital Communications and Manufacturing.
Winners Announced
Smart City
Kill_A_Watt
Healthcare
Ayati
Manufacturing
Megalodata
Agriculture
BackPropG
Jury:
- Arvind Tiwary, Chair, Cybersecurity WG, IET IoT Panel, Chair IoT Forum, TiE
- Ravi Pagar, Group COO & MD, DTDS Technology Pte
- Ashok G, Founder and CEO, Startup 360
- Supreeth Shetty, MD, Automation of Things
- Aziz Jiwani, Adviser, RevX Hardware
- Shailendra Miglani, Global Blackbelt Team, Technology Solutions Lead, Azure IoT Cloud, Microsoft
- Praveen Arora, VP & Chief India, IoT, Tata Communications
- Ananth Chandramouli, Managing Director, Local Business Service, Capgemini
PoP 91 Innovation Challenge Industry Segments
Smart Cities
Healthcare
Energy
Agriculture
Retail
Digital Communications
Manufacturing
The challenge was one of its kind with approximately 350 teams competing over 3 months across 7 industries to win a cash prize of INR 1,00,000 or an incubation or recruitment opportunity in a top corporate firm/startup accelerator. The platform partner for the challenge was Skillenza.
The PoP 91 challenges of each of the 7 industries is mentioned below
PoP 91 Innovation Challenge flow
Presenting the first round of winners across our 7 industry segments
Agriculture
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Obscurus | Crop insurance using blockchain technology |
| Proteours | Online crop insurance |
| greenSave | IoT and Machine Learning based detection of illegal deforestation and prediction of forest fires |
| Grun11 | Solar-powered IoT based grain storage monitoring and grain spoilage control system |
| dszlabs | A device to collect soil information and a mobile application to bridge the gap of information flow between different stakeholders in the agricultural sector |
| BackPropg | Personalized recommendation system + Voice HMI |
Smart Cities
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Revengers_1 | Napkin disposal |
| IoT2019 | Bike navigation |
| TechnoTroopers | Smart waste for seggration |
| Hakuna_Matata | People safety |
| Tech_beast | Smart sewage surveillance |
| Chakra | Seat tracking in buses |
| Kill_A_Watt | Smart meter ( Low cost) |
Healthcare
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Ayati | Portable diabetic foot screening device |
| Disruptive | Human health monitoring system at urinal |
| Dr_loopo | Connected hospital |
| DreamEpic | An IoT-based computational framework for healthcare monitoring in mobile environments with BIO-smart wear |
Retail
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Mohttt | Smart Shopping Cart |
| Electrofinity | Interactive Shopping with RFID |
| Tech_Express | RFID as smart label for tracking customer experience |
| 1_in_Centillion | Display Strips on Price Line of Items, where users will be displayed with the offers and price |
Manufacturing
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Megalodata | A systematic tool for achieving ‘true-connectivity’ of auto-components |
| Double_Trouble | IoT enabled shop floor maintenance |
| The_Bug_Slayers | Design of IoT based automatic accident detection |
Digital Communications
| Team | Topic |
|---|---|
| Revuru | Channel Modelling and simulation in digital satellite communications systems |
Mentors & Pre-jury:
- Purnendu Sinha, Group Technology & Innovation Leader, Tata Group
- Anand K, CTO, Powersquare
- Ganesh Shankar, Founder & CEO, Fluxgen Technologies
- Sunil David, Reginal Director, IoT, AT&T
- Subhendu Panigrahi, Co-Founder & CEO, Skillenza
- Aman Agarwal, Co-Founder & CTO, Syook
- Ravi Verma, Lead Engineer, Azgo
