1st 5GCity Hackathon in Bristol Hack the 5G City: new smart apps in 5GCity slices

1st 5GCity Hackathon in Bristol Hack the 5G City: new smart apps in 5GCity slices

July 11 – July 12, 2019 – Bristol

The 5GCity Consortium has organized in Bristol at the suggestive location of M-Shed, the 1^st 5GCity Hackathon. The 5GCity project, in its last year of execution, focuses on live demonstration of 5G services in three cities already going through digital transformation: Bristol, Barcelona, Lucca. 5GCity consortium will be involved in the organization and implementation of the 5GCity Hackathon.

Through the 5G management and orchestration platform and a powerful Service Development Kit (SDK) the consortium offered access to a rich set of primitive functions for network and vertical application services which can be used to programme connectivity with QoS, media acquisition and transcoding, traffic monitoring in the new NFV infrastructures for 5G.

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5GCity 1st HACKATHON

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A creative and courageous international group of millennials joined 5GCity technical team, during a unique two days hackathon event in Bristol, to attempt to design and deploy new smart applications for cities in the 5GCity infrastructure available in Bristol.

5GCity 1^st HACKATHON CHALLENGES

What are the 5GCity Hackathon is looking for Innovative practical solutions that reflect the team’s abilities in defining a Concept, doing Implementation, Presentation to generate Business impact!

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The Challenges to Hack the City!

Design services in 5GCity SDK to implement new Digital Tourism apps.
Design services in 5GCity SDK to implement new Participatory and Collaborative Media Journalism.
Design services in 5GCity SDK to implement new Health Applications on the 5GCity.
Test your vertical applications in the domains of Health, City Services, Public Safety with our SDK and Orchestration platform.

1^st 5GCity HACKATHON TUTORS & TEAMS

Three great 5GCity Tutors lead the member of the three groups formed:

Teodora Sechkova,

Software Engineer Virtual Open Systems

Michele Paolino,

Innovation Manager at Virtual Open Systems

Apostolos Papageorgiou,

Senior Researcher i2CAT Foundation

The three great groups of millennials from different background start working on new ideas to design and deploy smart applications for cities using the 5GCity infrastructure.

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DIGITAL TOURISM

Dāvis Kūma (daviskuma1)
Douglas Harewood-Gill (dh14491)
Maria Ivanova (menchi87)

e-HEALTH

5GCity Tutor: Apostolos Papageorgiou

Brendon Warwick (bluey31)
Hilary Frank (hilaryfrank)
KA H CHIU (willian-air)
Lewis Bell (Lewiky)

SMART MANUFACTURING

5GCity Tutor: Teodora Sechkova

Jack Zhao (fz17963)
Kar Hor Yap (khyap17274)
Kévin Jolly (kevjolly78)
Vijay Kumar (vk12122)
Ozan Vanlioglu (vanliogluozan)

JUDGING

THE WINNER

e-HEALTH Team with their Air Quality service

Congrats Brendon, Lewis, Hilary, Ka Hu!

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A feedback note from winners member: “Thank you very kindly, indeed it was a huge honour for me, and I think for my colleagues also, to have registered, participated and declared members of the winning team. I thank 5GCity, Gino and everyone around 5GCity for the great work you all are doing. I hope my research work and other activities would one day cross our paths again. Meanwhile, I look forward to utilizing every privilege that has come with this participation, by doing everything possible to attend the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2020. Thank you once again and kind regards, Hilary.”

Source: Smart Internet Lab

It was indeed a Great Experience! Thank you, guys, to have been part of this exciting and interesting 1^st 5GCity Hackathon; for your effort, creativity, knowledge and willingness to Hack the City!

OPPORTUNITIES

To thank participants for the time and effort during Hackathon, a Certificate of participation, a Presentation Letter for Internships, and 5GCity gadgets were offered to all group members.

MEDIA COVERAGE

A particular thanks to Ildiko Fogel – Smart Internet Lab Project Coordinator University of Bristol, Smart Internet Lab for photo coverage. More pictures on: www.5gcity.eu