Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge 2024 (Prize worth Rs.8 Lakhs)

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About Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge 2024

The Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge aims to support hardware innovators/ Start-ups/ Academic Institutions to develop workable prototypes utilizing the Wi-SUN RF mesh. This challenge is proposed to encourage students, hardware startups and MSME's to make best utilization of the Wi-SUN network. The Final winners will be awarded Prize money worth Rs.8 Lakhs. Grant Challenge thus enables young entrepreneurs to initiate technology start-up companies for commercial exploitation of technologies they developed.
The Challenge themes include:

• Smart Energy Solutions
• Battery powered Smart Utility (Water/Gas) solutions
• Smart Agriculture
• Edge Intelligence
• Network Security
• Long Battery Life
• Environment and Clean Energy Solutions
• Mobility and Transport
• Predictive Maintenance

• School: International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

Benefits of Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge 2024

• Win Cash Prizes: Total prize pool of Rs.8 Lakhs.
• Wi-SUN Kit: The 10 Shortlisted participants will receive a Custom Wi-SUN Kit and a cash prize of Rs.25k.
• Webinar on June 19, 2024 about Wi-SUN technology and Smart City Challenge.
• One-day hands-on workshop and an opportunity to do the POC in smart city living lab for the shortlisted teams.
• Gain Recognition: Showcase your work to industry leaders.
• Networking Opportunities: Connect with peers
• Get an opportunity to offer solutions to India's Smart Cities Mission.

Smart City Living Lab Wi-SUN Challenge 2024 Requirments

• Open to students / researchers / working professionals / entrepreneurs and startups who are excited to build products to solve real-world problems using Wi-SUN technologies.
• Indian residents who are 18+ years of age.
• Any Individual / Startup / Student with potential & innovative business ideas can apply for the program.
• Technology-based startups for below mentioned thematic areas are eligible for the scheme:
• loT domain
• Smart Cities
• Energy/Water utilities
• Healthcare
• Education
• Environment and Clean energy solutions
• Robotics
• Communications
• Network Security
• Smart Agriculture
• Edge Intelligence
• Network Security 
• Mobility and Transport

Application Date and Process

• Click on the link to the application website to apply.

Application Deadline

03 July, 2024

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