October 11th: Winners of ‘IoT2Wild Contest 2022’ Have Been Announced Today at Hackster’s Impact Summit!

Dear Community,

As you know, Seeed’s “IoT Into the Wild Contest for Sustainable Planet 2022” (aka ‘IoT2Wild Contest’) was hosted on Hackster for about 4 months from June through September this year. And as a result of this Contest, we received 122 Project Submissions, awarded 104 free hardware kits, and inspired 561 Participants from 78 Countries in 6 continents.

Today, at Hackster’s Impact Summit (October 11th), winners of IoT2Wild Contest have been FINALLY announced on LIVE!!! With the judges’ evaluations and discussions, 31 winners have been selected as final winners for 6 types of Awards – that’s worthy of $18,000+ in prizes!!! In fact, during the Winner Announcement, we also announced a SURPRISE~ award called “Facilitator Award” – that’s given to the people who manifested the spirit of the global open source community through demonstrating an exceptional facilitator role by voluntarily and passionately sharing their technical and non-technical knowledge, skills, and know-hows. The prize for this award consists of swags from Seeed Studio, Helium, Nova Labs, and Zambezi Partners.

So, the 15-minute-short winner announcement was moderated by Seeed’s Sustainability and CSR Manager (Ye Seong SHIN) according to the following programs: 

1. Introduction of IoT2Wild Contest & Seeed Studio
2. Welcoming remarks by a representative judge: Bastiaan den Braber
3. 31 winner announcement

As Bastiaan den Braber, the Founder of Zambezi Partners, rightfully shared in his welcome remarks, we were able to witness the various potential of AI, IoT, and Edge Computing technologies in tackling the most urgent challenges of our time – right out there in the wild!

“The objective of this contest was to show us the power of AI, IoT, and Edge Computing for saving the Earth and biodiversity. … We have been truly impressed with the breadth of solutions submitted covering all aspects of planetary threats! … Submissions covered everything from precision farming, insect- and algae based protein production, early detection of wildfires, harmful algae, and severe weather, to monitoring volcanoes/oceans/skies/crops, to acoustic monitoring of protected areas, to tracking endangered wildlife species. You name it, and numerous amazing solutions were submitted.” 

– Bastiaan den Braber, Founder of Zambezi Partners

Now, without further due, let’s find out who the winners are!

1. Excellent Sustainable and Scalable Project Award (Project Scale-up Pack) x 1 Winner

• Smart Lake – Early Detection of Algae Bloom (Mithun Das & Sashrika Das)

2. Innovative and Creative Project Award x 5 Winners

• AgroLoRa (EdOliver & Victor Altamirano)
• IoT AI-Driven Tree Disease Identifier w/ Edge Impulse & MMS (Kutluhan Aktar)
• Weather Balloon “Mining” Using Blockchain and IoT (Nicolas Lopez)
• Study of Animal Movement: Equipment Design and Development (Laila Kazimierski, Alejandro Kolton, Erika Kubisch, Karina Laneri, Maru Echave, Nicolas Catalano, David Fernando Cordova Mora, Andres Oliva, Guillermo Abramson)
• MonSand: Monitoring Illegal Sand Mining (Raunak Singh)

3. Enthusiastic Project Award x 10 Winners

• Wildlife Sanctuary Monitor (Hendra Kusumah)
• DeViridi: IoT Food Spoilage Sensor and Monitoring Dashboard (Ashwin Sridhar)
• Smart UV Meter – Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure Monitoring (dxcfl)
• Black Soldier Fly Farming – Creating Protein Content (Team Tanzania Open Innovation: Shaukatali Hussein, Sahil Abdulalim)
• Monitoring Health of a Wind Turbine in 3D (Laziz Turakulov)
• Penguin Counting and Monitoring (Richard Wright)
• POWAR v2.0 – WIO Terminal (Pablo Zuloaga Betancourt)
• Wireless Monitoring System for GHGs Emissions in Paddy Field (JAmes Woods)
• NOMOS: Mosquito Growth Monitoring System (Rifqi Abdillah)
• Plastic Bottle Detector for Lake (JuanYi)

4. Best Helium Award x 1 Winner 

• AgroLoRa (EdOliver & Victor Altamirano)

5. Helium Award x 10 Winners

• FarmBOX (Team FarmBOX: Michael Reeves, Richard Fox)
• Fight Fire 🔥 – Wild Fire Prediction Using TinyML 🧠 (MUHAMMED ZAIN & Salman Faris)
• Smart UV Meter – Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure Monitoring (dxcfl)
• MonSand: Monitoring Illegal Sand Mining (Raunak Singh)
• Monitoring Health of a Wind Turbine in 3D (Laziz Turakulov)
• NOMOS: Mosquito Growth Monitoring System (Rifqi Abdillah)
• Project Agouti (Team Enigma: Yiding Song, Dylan K)
• Edible Algae Growing Cycle Monitor (skruglewicz)
• Volcano Activity Monitoring System for Residents and Climber (Tri Susanto)
• Trail Conservation NFT (MD R. Islam)

6. Facilitator Award x 4 Winners

(Prize: Swags from Seeed Studio, Helium, Nova Labs, Zambezi Partners)

• Hendra Kusumah (Contest participant and active facilitator for fellow participants)
• Fish (Active facilitator at IoT2Wild Discord community)
• Niki (Active facilitator at IoT2Wild Discord community)
• Jason (Active facilitator at IoT2Wild Discord community)

To conclude, congratulations to all the winners of this IoT2Wild Contest! In the coming weeks, our Seeed team will reach out to all the winners by email to arrange the prizes of each Award.

Last but not least, given the time limits at the Impact Summit, we’re planning to organize a follow-up Seeed webinar in October or November this year. There, the winners will be able to share what their projects are about, why and how they developed it, and what’s going to be their future plans on using #AIoT4SDGs. Stay tuned for webinar updates on Seeed’s LinkedIn, Discord, Twitter, Project Hub on Hackster, Facebook, and YouTube. Let’s keep this up – our pace for #SustainableMaking! Here we go again!

🌈 Kudos to all the Contest judges and supporters for all their efforts and support!