Background

The UN Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Cities initiative has selected Noida and Greater Noida to participate in the 'University City' category, as the only invitee from India and they will be competing with elite university cities such as Cambridge, Palo Alto and Heidelberg, among others. Overall, 25 cities across the world have been selected in five categories.

Purpose

Hackathon is aimed at generating fresh, innovative ideas from the youth of today to solve the present and anticipated future problems. Greater Noida is situated in a key location, and is slated for exponential economic growth. With growth comes a gamut of problems and this event is designed to obtain novel solutions for those problems.

Themes

There are four major themes for the event. The description of each, along with the problem statements are as follows:

1. Waste Management

Modern societies generate a large amount of waste, directly or indirectly, to fulfil its various needs. These include municipal waste, e-waste, construction waste, and packaging waste, etc. Unfortunately, most of this waste is not properly managed leading to environmental, health and aesthetic issues. Such wastes are a burden to the city’s economy and well being. Appropriate management and disposal, including energy generation, volume minimization, incorporation into useful products can be viable and environment-friendly option.

Tentative Problem statements:

* Waste minimization and reuse

* Improvised and effective plastic waste management at social gatherings

* Alternatives & management of small plastic packaging in daily consumables like sauce, shampoo etc.

* E-waste management

* Agro-waste management

* Municipal waste management

2. Security & Surveillance

Security is one of the prime concerns of any human being and a city’s development is dependent on the well-being of its inhabitants. Security & surveillance play a key role in ensuring the prosperity of citizens. The various sub-areas of security & surveillance include (but not limited to) home security, medical emergency, accident & first fast SOS, city transport, security of women & children, tourist support, etc.

Tentative Problem Statements:

* City Park Project

* Environmental Stress Warning System

* Viewpoint

* Falcon Event Detection

* Roaming Pollution Monitors

* Saving Energy Costs

* Clean City

* Structural Alerts

* Gas House Security

* Accident Alert

* Stay in Your Lane

* Sharing Information

3. Smart Transportation & Traffic Management

Greater Noida, a rapidly growing city in Delhi-NCR, has its share of transportation & traffic needs and issues. To ensure its place among the elite cities, smart transportation is a need of the hour for Greater Noida. The citizens must have access to safe, affordable and sustainable transportation systems, including an emphasis on e-mobility, electric vehicles (EVs), mass transport, rapid transport, and self-driving vehicles. Apart from smart transportation, traffic management is a key requirement given the heavy influx of industries and residents expected over the coming decades. The optimal solutions may include mechanized parking, elevated corridors, underpasses, etc.

Tentative Problem Statements:

* Traffic management solutions for Pari Chowk

* Vehicle management system for Jagat Farm

* Electric vehicles

* Autonomous Vehicles

* Sensor based traffic management

* Rapid/Mass transport

4. Energy efficiency & Green Energy

With the incremental affluence, cities are becoming major sources of pollutants that are causing climate change. A key solution is the management of our energy resources, making the existing sources/network more efficient and switching to greener energy options to the possible extent. India is making a giant leap in renewable energy adoption, esp. the Solar energy. An emerging city like Greater Noida can make its own contribution in this area.

Tentative Problem Statements:

* Net-zero metering

* Charging of communication and entertainment devices at public open places

* Tracking of high power point to get maximum power

* Vehicle Energy Storage system

* Waste-to-energy

* Smart grid

* Charging solutions for Electric vehicles

* Local renewable energy solutions for small-scale systems (e.g., water pumps, houses, small scale industries, etc.)

Eligibility

* Each team can have 3-5 members.

* All the participants should be currently enrolled into a university or college.

* An individual should not be associated with the multiple teams

* All registrations will be accepted ONLY through the registration link available on the bottom of this page as per the dates given below in the Timelines. No personal queries/visits/postal mail will be entertained in this respect.

* Entries not satisfying problem statement shall be disqualified.

* The decision of the Management is final.

Timelines

Following are the important dates for the Technovation Hackathon:

* Team Registration link goes live on: 10:00 am on 15^thJanuary, 2019

* Last date for registering a team: 07:00 pm on 25^th January, 2019

* Team registration at venue (Sharda University): 11 am-noon on 26^th January, 2019

* Event commences: Noon, 26^th January, 2019

* Competition ends: Noon, 27^th January, 2019

* Evaluation of entries: Noon-3 pm, 27^th January, 2019

* Prize Distribution ceremony: 3-3:30 pm, 27^th January, 2019

Awards

* Top prize of Rs. 50,000/-

* 2^nd Prize of Rs. 30,000/- (1 per theme)

* 3^rd Prize of Rs. 20,000/- (1 per theme)

* Consolation Prize of Rs. 10,000/- (1 per theme)

* Other participation and consolation prizes

Evaluation Committee

Evaluation of the entries shall be done by a panel consisting of industry experts.

More information about the event is available at https://suhackathon.com/

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