Recently, the national finals of the 2019 National College Student IoT Design Competition (Huawei Cup) were held in Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Organized by the Steering Committee on Computer Sciences Teaching in Higher Education Institutions under the Ministry of Education, the event attracted nearly 2,000 teams from over 560 universities across China, consisting of over 8,000 students and over 2,000 teachers. After online preliminaries and regionals, two BJUT teams made the national finals. “Niagara Framework-Based Air Quality Monitoring System” developed by Xu Yongzhen, Xu Jihe, Li Pengcheng from the Faculty of Information Technology and Qiao Xuge from the Fan Gongyi College under the instruction of Yang Qishan from the Faculty of Information Technology won the first prize. It also won first prize in the 2019 Honeywell IoT Business Application Competition. “NB-IoT Based Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring System” developed by Hao Hang, Cheng Yongqiang, Yao Xing and Zhang Jing from the Faculty of Information Technology under the instruction of Zhang Liyan and Li Weiming from the same faculty won the second prize.
First Prize Winners Receive the Certificate of Merit
Second Prize Winners Receive the Certificate of Merit
13 BJUT teams signed up for the event. After online preliminaries, the top 60 teams in the North China Region qualified for regional finals. Five BJUT teams stood out from the 324 teams in the North China Region and made the regional finals with impressive design documents and demonstration videos. The regional finals include onsite defense and work display. The 21 winners of the North China Region Special Award qualified for national finals, including two BJUT teams who made their way. The review committee at the national finals consisted of 28 experts in IoT from prestigious universities, research institutes, trade associations, and enterprises. They reviewed the works of the 119 teams selected by five regions. At last, two BJUT teams won the first prize and second prize respectively at the national finals.
The College Student IoT Design Competition is the only IoT competition organized by the Steering Committee on Computer Sciences Teaching in Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Education. It is a national competition open to all college students aimed at developing the discipline and promoting the innovative capability of college students. Since its start in 2014, the event has been growing in scale, with fiercer competition and less than 6% of participants qualifying for the national finals. It has become the largest and most influential IoT competition in China. The Honeywell IoT Business Application Competition under the College Student IoT Design Competition aims to encourage and prize teams that utilize the Niagara Framework, Tridium’s open IoT software framework.