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Hackathon

The Swisscom IoT Platform connects your things to your apps seamlessly integrating any devices, production assets and remote sensors with your web-based and mobile apps and enterprise systems.

The Internet of Things Hackathon will take place at the newly opened co-working space of Impact Hub Zrich.

energy efficiency: battery lifetime of 5+ years with a single AA battery

long communication range: up to 1km in a dense urban environment and 10 – 15km in a Line-of-Sight scenario

Want to get started early? After signing up for the event you will have the chance to participate in an introduction workshop to the LPN Developer Kit even before the event.

LPN  has the potential to be leveraged to easily address new use-cases and create new market opportunities.

Meet the brand new product for developers: Application Cloud

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The team behind the new product counts 25 passionate developers, representing more than ten programming languages. In its development work, the team has been using the open source PaaS environment from Cloud Foundry since 2013. Swisscom has a seat on the Board of Directors of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Thanks to wide support from major manufacturers, Cloud Foundry has developed into a de facto standard for modern Cloud-based applications. Today, Swisscom already runs more than 100000 applications in the Swisscom Cloud.

We are very happy to announce at this place the winners of the Swisscom IoT-Hackathon.

So what are the typical use cases where such a network would be useful? There are the obvious ones like smart water and gas meters, pet and people trackers. But what about pillbox, water Hydrant, parking spot, mailbox, chair or even an umbrella? With the Low Power Network we could connect such simple things and many more

The right information, at the right place, at the right time.

You can persist data in SQL or NoSQL databases, use messaging for building asynchronous applications or caches for speeding them up.

Increase of the customer interaction thanks to additional content on smartphones

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We invite you take advantage of this unique opportunity and join Switzerlands first Internet of Things Hackathon and get acquainted with the technology that is set to play an essential role in the digital IoT landscape of the future.

You will be free to follow any idea you come up with. As an inspiration there will be thematic challenges provided by Swisscom and selected partners.  You can come as a team, join a team at the event or create your own team  on site.

The do-it-yourself Swisscom Cloud service gives you instant and full access to the mature and comprehensive features and all the necessary tools and resources. Additionally, Swisscom customers enjoy professional maintenance and support and ongoing upgrades to new features and capabilities. No upfront investment is required and engineers can focus on building apps, not infrastructure.

There are various advantages of the Swisscom Interact-Platform:

Beacons are small, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based, electronic transmitters, which send out weak signals continuously and in periodic intervals. Smartphones or other mobile devices receive these signals and use it to execute defined actions, e.g. show messages on a display.

In short: Swisscom Application Cloud is the platform you need to be innovative and productive.

affordable, open, standard-based cloud platform based on Cloud Foundry.Application Cloud is the next generation Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) carefully designed for the most demanding developers like you.Continuous innovation and stripped-down time-to-market are competitive challenges. Tackle them and release your full creative power with the open-standard Application Cloud.

The interact-platform provides various functionalities with the help of beacons in order to support developers in shaping a more individual and personalized interaction with customers.

The right information, at the right place, at the right time.

The Swisscom IoT Platform connects your things to your apps seamlessly integrating any devices, production assets and remote sensors with your web-based and mobile apps and enterprise systems.

LPN  has the potential to be leveraged to easily address new use-cases and create new market opportunities.

We will provide free food & beverages during the whole hackathon.

So what are the typical use cases where such a network would be useful? There are the obvious ones like smart water and gas meters, pet and people trackers. But what about pillbox, water Hydrant, parking spot, mailbox, chair or even an umbrella? With the Low Power Network we could connect such simple things and many more

cost effective hardware integration: communication chip = 1-2 CHF

Targeted customer approach with relevant information/offers at the point of interest

and good wall propagation: low communication frequency 433/868 MHz

we invite you to join a gathering of many of Switzerlands most talented programmers, makers, designers and entrepreneurs in the first ever Swisscom IoT Hackathon.

We provide a space where entrepreneurs and all kinds of innovators come together to prototype new models for a world that works for all. We offer access to inspiring work spaces, a vibrant learning community, startup incubation programs, corporate innovation workshops and entrepreneurial leadership trainings. With 11000+ members in 60+ Impact Hubs across the world, the Impact Hub Network has become the center of gravity for people innovating a new kind of economy. Locally rooted and globally connected.

Introduction to technologies, clinics & experts

Want to get started early? After signing up for the event you will have the chance to participate in an introduction workshop to the LPN Developer Kit even before the event.

Swisscom does not claim any license or any intellectual property in participants submission, except for limited license to review the submission as part of hackathon judging and awarding of prizes.

The Swisscom M2M Centre of Competence connects things, products and machines wirelessly with each other and makes them intelligent. The core of our IoT eco system is the flexible Connectivity Management Platform (CMP) supplemented by the cloud-based Application Enablement Platform (AEP) for the central management of devices and data in the cloud. We develop IoT solutions for customers from A to Z.

No matter what programming language you use or what frameworks: Application Cloud buildpacks will let you deploy almost any application to the cloud with ease.

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The Swisscom IoT Platform reduces risk, time-to-market, complexity and cost of deploying solutions for monitoring and control, industrial automation, asset tracking and field service operations across all industries and market segments around the world.

energy efficiency: battery lifetime of 5+ years with a single AA battery

The Swisscom IoT Platform reduces risk, time-to-market, complexity and cost of deploying solutions for monitoring and control, industrial automation, asset tracking and field service operations across all industries and market segments around the world.

REST APIs and SDKs available for iOS and Android

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The Solution Center Business Process Solutions & Services (BIZ) is the industry expert for all business processes. Besides providing consultancy, BIZ implements customer projects based on its profound technological and integration expertise. Here the focus is on designing lean, agile processes, cutting costs and increasing efficiency and flexibility right up to developing new business models, e.g. within the scope of Industry 4.0. Thanks to proprietary platform-based solutions and managed services, BIZ takes the pressure off companies and shapes the digital future with customers.

Increase of the customer interaction thanks to additional content on smartphones

Extended analysis and statistics on communication activity and customer flows

The challenges will be published two weeks before the event.

cost effective hardware integration: communication chip = 1-2 CHF

Digitalization is playing an ever greater role in our everyday lives. To enable devices to communicate more efficiently with each other in future, Swisscom is testing a network for the Internet of Things. This low-power network (LPN) is the first of its kind in Switzerland and connects devices that exchange only small amounts of data with each other and require only a minimal supply of power. Widely supported by Research Analysts, it is believed that LPN is highly complementary to traditional cellular networks such as 2G, 3G and 4G.

Central administration of the beacon infrastructure

The Low Power Network (LPN) offers features such as;

Every team will have access to a Low Power Network Developer Kit, an Application Enablement Platform and an Application Cloud account. The location will be equipped with beacon technology and the teams will have access to the mobile application SDK.

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Extended analysis and statistics on communication activity and customer flows

No matter what programming language you use or what frameworks: Application Cloud buildpacks will let you deploy almost any application to the cloud with ease.

The Low Power Network (LPN) offers features such as;

Welcome & Keynote by Christian Stammel

Pirates Hub is a strategic initiative located in an open space office in Zurich. We collaborate with startups by combining our assets of a corporate enterprise and the ones of early-stage and seed companies. Our objective is to run open business innovation, in order to create new products and services. We want to strengthen Swisscoms position as an innovative and open company, which designs the future of IoT.

Introduction to technologies, clinics & experts

We also offer services that provide great capabilities for your applications:

REST APIs and SDKs available for iOS and Android

long communication range: up to 1km in a dense urban environment and 10 – 15km in a Line-of-Sight scenario

Welcome & Keynote by Christian Stammel

In short: Swisscom Application Cloud is the platform you need to be innovative and productive.

There are various advantages of the Swisscom Interact-Platform:

and good wall propagation: low communication frequency 433/868 MHz

Digitalization is playing an ever greater role in our everyday lives. To enable devices to communicate more efficiently with each other in future, Swisscom is testing a network for the Internet of Things. This low-power network (LPN) is the first of its kind in Switzerland and connects devices that exchange only small amounts of data with each other and require only a minimal supply of power. Widely supported by Research Analysts, it is believed that LPN is highly complementary to traditional cellular networks such as 2G, 3G and 4G.

Central administration of the beacon infrastructure

Beacons are small, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based, electronic transmitters, which send out weak signals continuously and in periodic intervals. Smartphones or other mobile devices receive these signals and use it to execute defined actions, e.g. show messages on a display.

Christian Stammel is the founder and CEO of Wearable Technologies (WT). As serial entrepreneur, Christian founded his first two companies during university. His work enables multinationals and entrepreneurs alike to connect with forward thinkers, investors and most influential people within disruptive and converging industries. He developed the renowned open innovation platform Innovation World Cup Series through which he and his team support thousands of companies every year. As keen as he is about technology as passionate he is about surfing and snowboarding always riding the biggest waves first.

Targeted customer approach with relevant information/offers at the point of interest

Within the near future, there will be a continuously increasing number of items, which will be equipped with sensors and that will interact and collect data, then communicate this data through the internet with users and systems.  Swisscom provides these new, innovative technologies and infrastructure that enable connected devices to communicate with each other indoor as well as outdoor. During the Hackathon`s 40 hours, Swisscom will provide the participating teams of programmers, makers, and designers exclusive access to its latest IoT technologies.

You can persist data in SQL or NoSQL databases, use messaging for building asynchronous applications or caches for speeding them up.

We also offer services that provide great capabilities for your applications:

Meet the brand new product for developers: Application Cloud

The do-it-yourself Swisscom Cloud service gives you instant and full access to the mature and comprehensive features and all the necessary tools and resources. Additionally, Swisscom customers enjoy professional maintenance and support and ongoing upgrades to new features and capabilities. No upfront investment is required and engineers can focus on building apps, not infrastructure.

affordable, open, standard-based cloud platform based on Cloud Foundry.Application Cloud is the next generation Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) carefully designed for the most demanding developers like you.Continuous innovation and stripped-down time-to-market are competitive challenges. Tackle them and release your full creative power with the open-standard Application Cloud.

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