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

‘PestKillerBot’ employs drones to manage pest management in floricultural fields

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in digital transformation, nowadays announces the winners of its global scholar competition, the Atos IT Problem. The winners have been presented with their awards yesterday all through the Ceremony which took spot all through the digital Atos Technological innovation Days. Now in its ninth year, the competition noticed teams from 27 nations around the world all over the planet contend on the concept of ‘Cooperative Synthetic Intelligence’.

Soon after an preliminary initially round in which 16 teams have been selected, the Atos IT Problem Jury, produced up of specialists and Atos executives, chose 3 finalists. These are:

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

“PestKillerBot” is an revolutionary and straightforward-to-use software which eliminates the pest in floricultural fields working with drones which perform pest management and information selection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies in excess of a subject to detect conditions or dangerous bugs and kills them. The remedy architecture is divided into 4 areas: the Spot Allocation, Route Finding with Route Planning, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation letting buyers to see how the divided subject is lined by just about every drone. The students have developed a drone prototype with a 3D printer and a number of components.

The team gained €10,000 and just about every scholar was provided the option to do either an internship at Atos or to perform together with the enterprise to produce their venture.

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

This revolutionary remedy called “Digital Water” aims to supply water use methods to homes and the water provide enterprise. It is a internet software that predicts water use and the water level across three dams. The intention of the venture is to provide information so that buyers can monitor use concentrations, squander, and troubles to enhance water source administration. The team has 5 years’ worthy of of information. They have experienced their modes for 4 many years and have analyzed it for one year.

The team gained €5,000 and just about every scholar was provided the option to do either an internship at Atos or to perform together with the enterprise to produce their venture.

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

With an revolutionary remedy to enhance site visitors, the “CTC – Cooperative Targeted visitors Control” app simulates site visitors light controls working with Deep Reinforcement Understanding. Each individual junction functions as an agent that takes an action (extends or lowers the environmentally friendly/crimson time) dependent on the cars and ready time in the lane. The software also will get facts from the closest junctions. The team has experienced and tuned the product to get the best product configuration for the site visitors light management.

The team gained €3,000 and just about every scholar was provided the option to do either an internship at Atos or to perform together with the enterprise to produce their venture.

This year, the jury also awarded a exclusive prize to an entry that specially stood out, for the two the significance of the subject matter tackled and the determination of the team.

• Exclusive Jury prize: Loughborough College, United Kingdom

“Initial Survey Swarm” is a remedy for a maze simulator where by drone agents obtain understanding about a maze in excess of a set time period. The drones can share the facts they find to lookup ruined structures by generating a 3D map or illustration of it after an earthquake or where by there is a absence of online coverage.

At the end of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Team Chief Technological Officer, Atos said: ”AI technological innovation is revolutionizing all sectors of the overall economy and modern society, and nowadays the good students in the Atos IT Problem shown real entrepreneurial capabilities by supplying revolutionary and concrete methods that meet up with the new wants of cooperative AI expressed by companies and men and women. I am impressed by the excellent creativity and the good quality of the contributions of the award-profitable finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

 The Atos IT Problem 2021 was also introduced. Next year, students will have the option to produce revolutionary concepts all over the concept of “How digital can assist decarbonize non-digital”.

Since its generation in 2012, the Atos IT Problem has empowered students from all over the planet to produce programs connected to main tendencies in the digital revolution, such as smart mobility, connected cars, interactive media, connected everyday living, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and synthetic intelligence. Learners are mentored by associates of Atos Scientific Community who provide technical and realistic help, guidance and encouragement.

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