Revision as of 16:07, 3 December 2021

Organization

Details

ETSI is pleased to be the official partner of THE EDGE COMPUTING WORLD who hosted this annual Hackathon on 12-14 October 2021. The Hackathon was held virtual over the summer. Edge Computing World was hosting the Hackathon information portal and was the venue for final pitches and judging of the Hackathon entries during the Edge Developers Conference on 12 October 2021.

This year’s challenge was “What innovative Edge Application or Service can you imagine using MEC Service APIs?” Contestants will be asked to bring that app or service to life with the ETSI MEC Sandbox. Teams are encouraged to be creative in selecting an application vertical to focus on for their submission, include:Automotive, Drones, AR/VR, media, and entertainment & Smart Cities.

Supporting organizations

Hackathon phases:

Submissions Due: 28 July 2021
Teams Notified: 6 August 2021
Hackathon: 9 Aug -- 1 Oct 2021
Winners: 12 October 2021 (Edge Developers Conference)

Jury members

Technical challenge

Teams were provided with a dedicated instance of the ETSI MEC Sandbox for their work over the duration of the Hackathon. The MEC Sandbox is an online environment where developers access and interact with live ETSI MEC Service APIs in an emulated edge network set in Monaco, which includes 4G, 5G, and WiFi configurations.

The MEC Sandbox offers edge contextual information via the following ETSI MEC Service APIs:

Location (MEC013)
Radio Network Information (MEC012)
WLAN Access Information (MEC028)

Awards

Prizegiving day

Winner team

The MEC Hackathon 2021 winner (The “A Team”, composed by personnel from Optare Solutions) developed a solution called “Follow Mec”, consisting in a surveillance drone application. Outside the hackathon, Optare Solutions helps Telecoms to streamline their OSS and BSS Systems. More than 11 years of experience and a specialized team makes them the go-to choice for many to fulfill their system integration demands.

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-ETSI is pleased to be the official partner of THE EDGE COMPUTING WORLD who hosted this annual Hackathon on 12-14 October 2021. The Hackathon was held virtual over the summer. Edge Computing World was hosting the Hackathon information portal and was the venue for final pitches and judging of the Hackathon entries during the Edge Developers Conference on 12 October 2021.
+<p>ETSI is pleased to be the official partner of THE EDGE COMPUTING WORLD who hosted this annual Hackathon on 12-14 October 2021. The Hackathon was held virtual over the summer. Edge Computing World was hosting the Hackathon information portal and was the venue for final pitches and judging of the Hackathon entries during the Edge Developers Conference on 12 October 2021.   </p>
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-This year’s challenge was “What innovative Edge Application or Service can you imagine using MEC Service APIs?” Contestants will be asked to bring that app or service to life with the ETSI MEC Sandbox. Teams are encouraged to be creative in selecting an application vertical to focus on for their submission, include:Automotive, Drones, AR/VR, media, and entertainment & Smart Cities.
+<p>This year’s challenge was “What innovative Edge Application or Service can you imagine using MEC Service APIs?” Contestants will be asked to bring that app or service to life with the ETSI MEC Sandbox. Teams are encouraged to be creative in selecting an application vertical to focus on for their submission, include:Automotive, Drones, AR/VR, media, and entertainment & Smart Cities.</p>
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 === Hackathon phases: ===
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+* Submissions Due: 28 July 2021
-* April 2020 – publication of the [https://www.etsi.org/images/files/Events/2020/Droidcon_MEC_Hackathon/Droidcon-MEC-Hackathon-2020-CfD.pdf Call-For-Developers]
+* Teams Notified: 6 August 2021
-* June 4th – [//mecwiki.etsi.org/images/2020_droidcon_webinar.pdf  MEC Webinar]
+* Hackathon: 9 Aug -- 1 Oct 2021
-* June 15th Submission Deadline (extended to 30/06)
+* Winners: 12 October 2021 (Edge Developers Conference)
-* July 2020 – remote access to MEC servers offered to the admitted MEC Hackathon developers
-* July-November – actual WORK
-* 12 – FINAL DAYS of the Hackathon!
-Final deadline for submission 28 July 2021
-Registration Notification to the teams: 6 August 2021.
-* Event Webinars part 1: https://youtu.be/YqWPad-O_SE
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 === Jury members ===
 [[File:2021-hack-jury.png|600px|center|top|class=img-responsive]]
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 = Technical challenge =
-Teams were provided with a dedicated instance of the ETSI MEC Sandbox for their work over the duration of the Hackathon. The MEC Sandbox is an online environment where developers access and interact with live ETSI MEC Service APIs in an emulated edge network set in Monaco, which includes 4G, 5G, and WiFi configurations. The MEC Sandbox offers edge contextual information via the Location (MEC013), Radio Network Information (MEC012) and WLAN Access Information (MEC028) ETSI MEC Service APIs.
+<p>Teams were provided with a dedicated instance of the ETSI MEC Sandbox for their work over the duration of the Hackathon. The MEC Sandbox is an online environment where developers access and interact with live ETSI MEC Service APIs in an emulated edge network set in Monaco, which includes 4G, 5G, and WiFi configurations.</p>
+<p>The MEC Sandbox offers edge contextual information via the following ETSI MEC Service APIs:
+* Location (MEC013)
+* Radio Network Information (MEC012)
+* WLAN Access Information (MEC028)
+</p>
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 = Awards =
 === Prizegiving day ===
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-The MEC Hackathon winner, UniMore, showcased a project on Cognitive mobility at the Edge, an automotive application solution exploiting features and services provided by the 5G MEC architecture (including a MEC Location API) in order to deliver low-latency location-based event notifications about traffic, congestion forecast, and mobility patterns.
-[[File:2020-hack-award2.png|800px|center|top|class=img-responsive]]
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-[[File:2020-hack-award3.png|800px|center|top|class=img-responsive]]
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-See the video here:
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-As a part of the final software prototype, the UniMore team also released the Openness Connector java library on Github (https://github.com/openness-4-java) to ease the life of developers willing to interact with the MEC API provided by the Openness platform.
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-[[File:2020-hack-award4.png|center|top|class=img-responsive]]
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 === Winner team ===
+The MEC Hackathon 2021 winner (The “A Team”, composed by personnel from Optare Solutions) developed a solution called “Follow Mec”, consisting in a surveillance drone application. Outside the hackathon, Optare Solutions helps Telecoms to streamline their OSS and BSS Systems. More than 11 years of experience and a specialized team makes them the go-to choice for many to fulfill their system integration demands.
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+[[File:2021-winners1.png|700px|inline|class=img-responsive]]
-The UniMore team is composed by very experienced Droidcon Hackathon developers and researchers at the Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
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-[[File:2020-hack-award1.png|250px|center|top|class=img-responsive]]
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-Among the other prizes, the Hackathon winner was offered the possibility to participate to the Smart Road project (a consortium of partners, from car makers, network operators, universities and the City of Turin), with the aim of proposing their developed solution as possible implementation for testing activities in the Turin urban environment. In this perspective, the UniMore Team continued the implementation activities related to their V2X applications scenarios.
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