THEME :
Urban Resilience:
Future-Proofing Cities Through IoT & Innovation
packetHACKS 2025 challenges are related to building resilience, which can mean strengthening infrastructure, improving disaster preparedness, or developing innovative technologies to aid recovery. Participants should leverage on IoT and future technologies to develop innovative solutions addressing the given challenges
Choose only ONE (1) category to solve.
The objective is to design, deploy, and integrate
new physical sensors into facilities and infrastructure.
DISASTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY
This challenge aims to develop tools and technologies to improve disaster preparedness, emergency response and facilitate recovery efforts. The goal is to increase resilience and minimize the impact of natural and man-made disasters.
SUSTAINABILITY
This track focuses on using IoT to promote environmentally friendly practices and resource efficiency. The aim is to contribute to a sustainable future by reducing environmental impact and promoting responsible resource consumption.
CLIMATE RESILIENCY
This challenge aims to address issues like sea-level rise, wildfires, earthquakes and other climate-related disasters.
PLASTIC WASTE MANAGEMENT
This challenge aims develop solutions to address plastic waste and enhance community resilience.
Are you ready to take the challenge?
MECHANICS
Participants
This is open to all college students, Young Professionals, Innovators, Tech Enthusiasts, Startups, Freelancers.
Pre-Requisites
A team member must have a basic overview of electronics or arduino.
Note: A Free bootcamp – training with packetDUINO will be given.
Team Effort
Each group must consist of 3 up to 5 individuals and must register with their team name. The team lead should
pro-actively manage any communication with the organizers for any required information during and
after the hackathon. We highly recommend that the team should consist of the following:
– Any of the team member should know how to code.
– Any of team member who can do graphics / presentation.
– A team member who can do sales pitch is an advantage.
Terms & Conditions
All participants must submit their signed waiver agreeing to the terms & conditions which will be emailed to all participants upon confirmation.
Documentation
Utilization of all APIs, DLLs and WEB SERVICES should be disclosed during submission, and providing documentation. Use of any paid app/licenses will be shouldered by the team.
Project Output
Each team is expected to submit a Minimum Viable Product output. A project with enough features to attract early-adopter customers and validate a product idea.
Note: We can consider thesis projects or existing projects that are currently being enhanced as long as you can prove that it belongs to you or your team and with no proprietary problems or ownership.
Online repository (Github, Bitbucket, etc) is required.
Code Verification Protocol
Each team must create a public repository on a version control web application, such as Github, Bitbucket and the like. Private repositories are allowed on the condition that the technical team are provided access. Failure to provide the repository link may be a consideration for overall point deduction or disqualification.
The technical team will access the repository after submission (hack ends), review the code for progression, readability and code quality. The team will also search for similar apps. Copyright infringement will be considered grounds for disqualification.
Pitching
Each team will be allotted 5 minutes to present and demo their project plus 5 minutes Q & A from the judges.
This applies for both Preliminary and Final Judging.
Ownership
Intellectual property of the build and code belongs solely to the team.
Technology
packetHACKS will utilizes a range of different technologies, such as: – Sensors (environmental, motion, etc.)
– Microcontrollers (Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
– Cloud platforms (AWS IoT, Google Cloud IoT, Azure IoT)
– Mobile applications
– Web platform
– Data analytics and visualization tools
– Communication protocols like LoRaWan, and other wireless communication methods.
CRITERIA FOR JUDGING
Preliminary Round
15%
Execution of Theme
Does the technology present any link or relevance to the theme?
Is the technology able to show that it addresses a problem that their trying to solve?
25%
Impact
The technology can demonstrate the potential for impact and a high rate of success for effectiveness. It has the potential of making a difference in target users’ life.
– Can this be used?
– Will this make my (target users’) life better?
30%
Viability
Is there a potential for future replication or upscaling?
30%
Over-all Quality
Is the idea well thought of?
Is there an IoT solution Integration?
Final Round
30%
Innovation
Is the project game changing?
20%
Business Impact
Is the project viable for commercialization?
20%
Sustainability
Is there a feasible model for ongoing development of the project and
does the team show a strong desire to see the project through.
30%
Demo
Is the project working?