UDG students won the VIRAL hackathon on digital agriculture!
Congratulations to our students that formed team GoDigital and successfully participated in the VIRAL hackathon. The topic was the use of IT in agriculture and they won creating a solution for smart irrigation based on the IoT and Cloud for which they earned the first place!
The VIRAL hackathon grand finale was held at the Innovation entrepreneurship centre Tehnopolis. DEMO Day – the crown of two days of work – was an opportunity for the four teams to present to the jury their innovative ideas in the field of information communication technologies and agriculture, which they came up with after 48 hours of work on the hackathon.
Backed by mentors from four fields: business developer, pitch, software, and hardware prototyping, the teams worked from 17 to 19 May to solve defined hackathon problems, creating innovative and creative solutions to help farmers improve processes and systems in their businesses.
The teams GoDigital, Mechanic Crops, Demetra, and Perfect H20 proved by presenting their innovative ideas that 48 hours is not a short time to create a great and functional solution.
The title of winner of the VIRAL hackathon was won by team GoDigital, have created a hardware/software solution FIRM system (Farmer Irrigation Remote Monitoring), which offers irrigation capabilities with a “single-click” – optimization of resources for irrigation of farms, more efficient allocation of labour, information on air temperature, percentage of humidity of air and soil, higher yield volume with less investment and the ability to adapt to plant species.
