Have you already heard about Android Things? This is a platform for developing smart devices using Android APIs and Google services, that is, Android for the Internet of Things. Android Things is not a software platform, as it might seem at first glance, but a software and hardware complex based on Intel Edison, NXP Pico and Raspberry Pi 3.
Now the owners of Android are Google. together with partners Hackster and NXP, announced a competition of ideas for developers. Participants will be required to submit their own ideas for using Android Things with other Google services and platforms.
Step 1: Explain your idea
The first stage of the competition ends on September 29, 2017. Before this date, participants must submit a “bare” idea for a future project related to one of the following topics: “smart home”, “smart city”, robotics, “industrial Internet of things”, “retail” and “entertainment”. The authors of the 120 most interesting projects will receive a Pico Pi i.MX6UL kit for the subsequent implementation of their idea.
Winners will be selected based on the following criteria:
best project for enterprises: industrial IoT, Smart Cities, Automotive, etc.;
Best Startup Project: Building IoT Products for Commercial Use;
best IoT project: best general contractor for IoT projects.
Final stage: implement the best project!
All participants of the first stage will be able to take part in the finals, and not just the top 120. Final projects must be submitted by October 31, 2017. The top three winners in each category will receive a cash prize ($5,000 for a project for enterprises, $2,500 for implementation for a startup, and $1,000 for the developers of the best IoT project) and support for the development of the project from Avnet, Dragon Innovation and Kickstarter.
The winners will be announced on November 10, 2017. Interesting? You can register and find out more details on the organizers' website .
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