Winning teams impress judges in IoT Challenge

"We were extremely impressed by the enthusiasm, engineering knowledge, and ability to make difficult technical design trade-offs from each of the teams," said Jeff Harris and Chris Cain, competition judges and Keysight co-sponsors of the IoT Innovation Challenge. "They each chose diverse IoT problems and wasted no time building their prototypes, collecting data in real environments, and analysing their results. It was exciting to witness."           

"We are thrilled to have inspired student innovation worldwide and were humbled by their passion to improve the planet," said Cheryl Ajluni, Director of the Innovation Challenge Program. "The student response we received was overwhelming and we hope we played a small part in inspiring a next-generation of student innovators, cultivating long-term relationships with their universities and enriching the worldwide engineering community."

After an impressive set of student presentations, the judge's scores were compiled and the IoT Innovation awards were presented to:   

Grand Prize Winner -- $50,000 USD in cash to the design team and $50,000 USD of Keysight test equipment to their university: 

• Stanford University in the U.S. students Anand Lalwani, Max Holiday (both pictured) and Valmik Lakhlani for their entry, Immersible Internet of Things Sensors for Cloud-based Water Quality Monitoring

Anand Lalwani of the Stanford team commented, "Keysight and this competition helped shape my graduate research work and pushed us extensively in the world of IoT. Keysight has been incredibly supportive of cutting-edge research and promoting innovation across countries."

First Prize in Smart Land Category -- $25,000 USD in cash to the design team and $25,000 USD of Keysight test equipment to their university:

• Massey University in New Zealand students Tyrel Glass, Baden Parr, Darryn Wells and Madhav Kruthiventy of for their entry, CAIRNet (Climate Air Information Real-Time Network)

First Prize in Smart Water Category -- $25,000 USD in cash to the design team and $25,000 USD of Keysight test equipment to their university:

• Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia students Lim Wen Qing, Yap Sheng Yao, Tan Kai Siang, Au Jin Cheng and Khor Jun Bin for their entry, IoT Detachable Waterway Monitoring Device with LoRa and Self-Sustainability

Special Prize, The Keysight Diversity in Tech Award -- $25,000 USD in cash to the design team and $25,000 USD of Keysight test equipment to their university:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology students Nikhil Murthy, Sunny Tran, Gabriella Garcia and Irin Ghosh for their Smart Land entry, berrySmart.