Organization and scope

Details

Driven by ETSI ISG MEC, LF Edge Akraino and OCP
Final Phase hosted at OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California

Teams are challenged to design & prototype an Edge-Native solution, focusing on the use of AI and considering overall application performance optimization in three application verticals categories:

•AI and Automation: How to utilize edge-native and AI into data analytics and automation?

•Sustainability: How is edge-native and AI useful to enhance sustainability in applications, services, and networks?

•5G Edge: How to deploy and utilize AI in 5G edge infrastructure to enable edge-native distributed applications?

The Edge AI Hackathon 2023 was run remotely from 1st July to 18 october 2023 with a short-list of best teams invited to complete with demonstrations and a Hackathon “pitch-off” at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California

Edge Computing provides developers with localized, low-latency resources that can be utilized to create new and innovative solutions, which are essential to many application vertical markets in the 5G era.

ETSI’s ISG MEC is standardizing an open environment that enables the integration of applications from infrastructure and edge service providers across MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) platforms and systems.

LF Edge’s Akraino project offers a set of open infrastructure and application Blueprints for Edge, spanning a broad variety of application vertical use-cases. Each blueprint offers a high-quality full-stack solution that is tested and validated , that are validated by the community.

The purpose of this Hackathon was to demonstrate an innovative Edge Application or Solution focused on the following application vertical use-cases with supporting ETSI MEC Service APIs and LF Edge Akraino Blueprint resources:
- Automotive: Realize a vehicular use case or service to enable intelligent traffic control, driving capabilities, increased safety, etc.
- Mixed and Augmented Reality: Realize an immersive application enabling interactivity of physical systems and human experiences.
- Edge Computing and 5G: Deploy and use 5G and hybrid edge infrastructure to enable federation for distributed edge applications

However, teams were also encouraged to be creative and propose to develop solutions in other application verticals than these highlighted.

Supporting organizations

Hackathon phases:

Call for developers: 29 June
Hackathon start - Remote Competition: 17 July
Team Final Submission - remote competition: 15 Sept
Short-list teams announced: 25 Sept
Onsite competition: 18 Oct
Winners: On-site Hackathon Demos and “Pitch-off”: The three best teams were invited to demonstrate their solutions at the OCP Global Summit event in San Jose, Silicon Valley on October 18th. The winning team was selected following the “pitch-off” and announced at the conference.

Prizes :
- Exposure at the OCP Global Summit – 3 best teams
- Travel expensed to San Jose - ~$2,000 per team
- Cash Prizes:
  - First place - $3000
  - Second place - $2000
  - Third place - $1000

Resources

ETSI MEC resources

Suggested ETSI MEC Services and APIs:
- MEC011 - Edge Platform Application Enablement (Mp1): MEC App and Service Support and Management (e.g., MEC application registration, MEC service advertisement and discovery)
- MEC012 - Radio Network Information Service (RNIS): 4G / 5G radio network contextual info
- MEC013 - Location Service: network and geo-location information about terminals and infrastructure, etc.
- MEC015 - Bandwidth Management Service & Multi-access Traffic Steering Service
- MEC016 - Device Application Interface: service that enables terminal devices to discovery MEC applications and create application contexts
- MEC021 - Application Mobility Service (AMS): relocation of user context between MEC application instances across deployed MEC platforms
- MEC028 - WLAN Access Information Service (WAIS): WiFi network contextual info
- MEC030 – V2X Information Service (VIS): predicted quality of service for vehicle routes

ETSI Forge:
- OpenAPI representations for the all the MEC Service APIs; implementation ready (forge.etsi.org/rep/mec)
ETSI MEC Sandbox:
- Experimentation Environment for MEC Service APIs (try-mec.etsi.org)

LF Edge - Akraino Blueprints

Set of Six Akraino Blueprints / Families
- 1) Smart Cities; 2) KubeEdge Edge Service; 3) AI Edge Blueprint Family; 4) Computing Force Network CFN) - Ubiquitous Computing Force Scheduling; 5) CPS Robot Blueprint Family; 6) 5G MEC System Blueprint Family;
Akraino Platform Security Architecture - Core knowledge about platform security, requirements, and its importance for Edge solutions
Edge Catalog - recipes for edge deployment of templates
LF Edge Community lab - Teams can reserve compute and networking resources

OCP

Cloud / Edge Development Environments from OCP members
- FLAX (https://www.flaxcomputing.com/sustainable-server-labs)
- QARNOT (https://qarnot.com )

Awarded projects

Podium

13 Teams from Europe, US and Asia have participated to this exciting hackathon, submitting high-quality and innovative projects.

Big Thanks to all of them.

The Jury has reviewed and awarded the following Top projects:

1^st Prize : Team "Green Cyclops" from Optare Solutions
2^nd Prize : Team "Sheikah Tower" from Google LLC
3^nd Prize : Team "PalC" from PalC Networks

Details of the awarded projects

Coming Soon !!!

ETSI - LF - OCP - MEC Hackathon 2023