Edgex Challenge China 2021 is an international hackathon event on EdgeX, hosted by LF Edge. EdgeX Foundry provides IoT and edge computing reference architectures for vertical segments: commerce, health, industrial, logistics, enabling more industry solutions and solving more business challenges. It is Co-hosted by the Linux Foundation, STCSM, BMSTC and ACoZSP , sponsored by Alibaba cloud, Baidu Cloud, Canonical, EMQ, InnoSpace, Intel, IOTech, ThunderSoft, VMware, Zizhu-ET. This Hackathon was held in Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen simultaneously but with orchestration in the central. 55 proposals have been obtained before deadline, 26 were selected for the final round.
Winners list of the final round
| Tracks | Prizes | Winners | Use Cases | |
| Industrial & Logistics | 1st | 30K¥ | Advantech | Smart water pipe control |
| 30K¥ | ZTE | Industrial AGV with 5G | ||
| 2nd | 20K¥ | Changzhou Institute | Truck weighting system & access control | |
| 20K¥ | Suzhou Airtou LTD | Building automation | ||
| 3rd | 10K¥ | Nanyang Wanbang | Data collection & analytics for smart cities | |
| Merit | 10K¥ | H3C | Water pipe control | |
| Commerce & Healthcare | 1st | 30K¥ | Fanmi | CV based smart community |
| 2nd | 20K¥ | Netease | Smart workplace & energy saving | |
| 20K¥ | Meijia Robot | CV based anti-COVID lab filtering | ||
| 3rd | 10K¥ | Nanjing Future IOT | Water way monitor and alert | |
| 10K¥ | HYDsoft | Intelligent medical cart | ||
| 10K¥ | JX Intelligence -1 | Smart community management | ||
| Future star | 5K¥ | SUST | Fatigued Driving Detection | |
| Open Source Ingredients | OpenVINO | 20K¥ | JD digital | Digital signage & smart recommendation system |
| EII | 20K¥ | HYD-soft | Intelligent medical cart | |
| 20K¥ | JX Intelligence -2 | Unattended on-site monitoring, O&M for industrial | ||
| Baetyl | 20K¥ | Nanjing Future IOT | AI based waterway monitoring and alert | |
| 20K¥ | Netease | Smart workplace & energy saving | ||
| 5G AGV | 20K¥ | ZTE | Industrial AGV with 5G | |
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