Asia Pacific University wins the Atos IT Challenge 2020 with innovative app

‘PestKillerBot’ utilizes drones to regulate pest regulate in floricultural fields

Paris, July 9, 2020

Atos, a world chief in digital transformation, these days announces the winners of its global scholar levels of competition, the Atos IT Challenge. The winners have been offered with their awards yesterday for the duration of the Ceremony which took position for the duration of the digital Atos Technological innovation Times. Now in its ninth yr, the levels of competition noticed groups from 27 countries all over the entire world contend on the theme of ‘Cooperative Synthetic Intelligence’.

After an initial very first round in which sixteen groups have been selected, the Atos IT Challenge Jury, made up of authorities and Atos executives, chose 3 finalists. These are:

• 1st prize and levels of competition winner: Asia Pacific College, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an innovative and simple-to-use application which gets rid of the pest in floricultural fields using drones which conduct pest regulate and data collection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies in excess of a subject to detect conditions or dangerous bugs and kills them. The answer architecture is divided into 4 components: the Place Allocation, Path Obtaining with Path Setting up, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation enabling customers to see how the divided subject is covered by each individual drone. The pupils have developed a drone prototype with a 3D printer and a number of components.

The crew won €10,000 and each individual scholar was available the possibility to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done together with the organization to establish their undertaking.

• two^nd prize: Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Mexico

This innovative answer named “Digital Water” aims to deliver drinking water usage answers to households and the drinking water supply organization. It is a net application that predicts drinking water usage and the drinking water stage throughout three dams. The aim of the undertaking is to supply particulars so that customers can track usage amounts, waste, and challenges to strengthen drinking water useful resource administration. The crew has 5 years’ value of data. They have properly trained their modes for 4 years and have analyzed it for just one yr.

The crew won €5,000 and each individual scholar was available the possibility to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done together with the organization to establish their undertaking.

• three^rd prize: Josip Juraj Strossmayer College of Osijek, Croatia

With an innovative answer to strengthen website traffic, the “CTC – Cooperative Site visitors Control” application simulates website traffic gentle controls using Deep Reinforcement Studying. Each and every junction acts as an agent that requires an action (extends or minimizes the environmentally friendly/crimson time) dependent on the cars and trucks and waiting around time in the lane. The application also will get information and facts from the nearest junctions. The crew has properly trained and tuned the product to get the best product configuration for the website traffic gentle regulate.

The crew won €3,000 and each individual scholar was available the possibility to do both an internship at Atos or to get the job done together with the organization to establish their undertaking.

This yr, the jury also awarded a exclusive prize to an entry that specifically stood out, for equally the importance of the subject tackled and the devotion of the crew.

• Distinctive Jury prize: Loughborough College, United Kingdom

“Initial Survey Swarm” is a answer for a maze simulator the place drone agents gather understanding about a maze in excess of a set time period. The drones can share the information and facts they obtain to search wrecked structures by producing a 3D map or illustration of it after an earthquake or the place there is a deficiency of world wide web protection.

At the end of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Team Chief Complex Officer, Atos stated: ”AI technological innovation is revolutionizing all sectors of the economic system and society, and these days the excellent pupils in the Atos IT Challenge shown serious entrepreneurial expertise by supplying innovative and concrete answers that meet up with the new demands of cooperative AI expressed by businesses and people. I am impressed by the outstanding creativity and the quality of the contributions of the award-profitable finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

 The Atos IT Challenge 2021 was also introduced. Subsequent yr, pupils will have the possibility to establish innovative principles all over the theme of “How digital can help decarbonize non-digital”.

Due to the fact its generation in 2012, the Atos IT Challenge has empowered pupils from all over the entire world to establish applications connected to key tendencies in the digital revolution, these kinds of as sensible mobility, connected cars and trucks, interactive media, connected daily life, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Students are mentored by associates of Atos Scientific Community who supply specialized and realistic help, information and encouragement.

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