SYNNEX invited Microsoft IoT Center of Excellence and Intel to co-host event named "The Making of IoT Hackers" in Taiwan. This was for the purpose to cultivate talents using AIoT technologies and upgrade ecosystem value chains bringing together local partners and global tech giants. Market demand for increasingly sophisticated devices and applications plays to Taiwan's strengths by deepening Taiwan's talent pool in the fields of AIoT trends.
This hackathon event took place from December 7 to 9, 2121 at Microsoft Taiwan headquarters in Taipei. There were total 10 teams joining the event. Through Azure IoT platform and services, Intel OpenVINO toolkits, and solution team experts with team coaching to bring hands to help them, the participants learned to collaborate on solving problems, generating new ideas and building business models.
Daniel Li, the director of Taiwan's Microsoft IoT Center of Excellence, talked about the event and pointed out that 5G and AIoT technologies accelerating digital transformation. Leveraging the powerful Azure IoT services including Digital Twins, Azure IoT Hub to develop landing applications, AI technologies play an important role to introduce multiple scenarios into smart use cases. This momentum drives multiple talents across manufacturing, engineering, developing and healthcare categories together to bring new brilliant ideas for digital transformation into reality.
HTC creates smart factory solution with Metaverse
The top three winner teams came up to stage receiving awards. HTC team, winning the first place, fires up smart factory solution leveraging Metaverse concept. The idea is applying virtual reality concept to demonstrate the usability of real and virtual scenarios with different view angels switching from production line workers and supervisors while implementing process simulation and monitoring. It is creating an environment where physical and virtual objects can exist and interact in real-time. With HTC's VIVE tracker device, the software will take the human tracings into account in the entire design flow. The team provides the software with features empowered by Azure Digital Twins services and tool sets. This makes the software to draw interests from other team members. Now, the next steps for the future development is looking at the use cases of smart applications that make virtual reality technologies a huge number of potentials. This is also the reason why the first award comes to HTC.
CTCI REI builds construction safety monitoring platform improving safety
The second prize-winner was CTCI Resources Engineering Inc. The company builds the sensor networks in the construction site using Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS). The massive collected data will include readings of rebar stress meter, strut strain gage, groundwater level observation well and piezometer etc. Leveraging Azure Digital Twins models, the system will apply the collected data to predict the risks and trigger the warning management control. Then it will present the warning situation by BIM 3D modeling tools for demonstration. This monitoring system will reflect the company's values of "Where There is CTCI, There is Sustainability and Trust".
JelloX Biotech focus on AI-based Pathological examination solution
JelloX Biotech Inc won the third prize. The company is a startup looking for up-to-date healthcare solutions at AI-powered Pathological Examination that automates the recognition process of tumor tissues. Due to this AI-enabled solution requiring to analyze a large amount of 3D imaging data, the company uses 3x less time to run the AI inferencing tasks by taking the advantage of Azure cloud platforms and Intel OpenVINO systems. At the same time, the company builds edge computing systems for improving recognition outcomes by applying Azure innovative cloud platform and services to perform more complicated inferencing technologies. Azure platform is becoming popular in healthcare sector because the powerful API and software tools for helping startups ramp-up software production development.
This event was hosted by SYNNEX and DIGITIMES together with Microsoft, INTEL, FET and IoT Edge solution partners including AAEON, AOPEN, ADVANTECH, Congatec and DFI. The 3-day hackathon program showcased desired outcomes. The skilled software developers create brand new business opportunities by introducing AIoT use cases and applications. And the most important thing is creating an opportunity to flex skills, demonstrate potential, and expand supply chain networks, as well as allow participants to reinforce their culture around innovation and technology.
Leveraging Micorsoft Azure IoT cloud services and Intel OpenVINO development Kits, the successful event of "Making of IoT Hackers" showcases participating teams to create applications of Metaverse Smart Factory, Construction Safety Monitoring platform and AI-based Pathological Examination.