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Asia Pacific University wins the Atos IT Challenge 2020 with innovative app

‘PestKillerBot’ takes advantage of drones to handle pest manage in floricultural fields

Paris, July nine, 2020

Atos, a world wide chief in electronic transformation, now announces the winners of its worldwide student levels of competition, the Atos IT Problem. The winners had been offered with their awards yesterday during the Ceremony which took position during the electronic Atos Know-how Times. Now in its ninth year, the levels of competition saw teams from 27 countries all over the planet contend on the theme of ‘Cooperative Artificial Intelligence’.

Soon after an first 1st spherical in which sixteen teams had been picked, the Atos IT Problem Jury, designed up of specialists and Atos executives, chose three finalists. These are:

  • 1st prize and levels of competition winner: Asia Pacific College, Malaysia

“PestKillerBot” is an revolutionary and uncomplicated-to-use application which eliminates the pest in floricultural fields making use of drones which complete pest manage and info selection. The Drone simulator autonomously flies above a area to detect illnesses or unsafe bugs and kills them. The remedy architecture is divided into 4 sections: the Location Allocation, Route Obtaining with Route Scheduling, Pest Detection, and Drone Activation Simulation allowing users to see how the divided area is included by every drone. The learners have made a drone prototype with a 3D printer and a number of elements.

The crew received €10,000 and every student was supplied the possibility to do either an internship at Atos or to perform collectively with the enterprise to create their challenge.

  • 2nd prize: Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Mexico

This revolutionary remedy named “Digital Water” aims to produce h2o usage solutions to homes and the h2o provide enterprise. It is a world wide web application that predicts h2o usage and the h2o level throughout three dams. The intention of the challenge is to give details so that users can monitor usage levels, waste, and difficulties to make improvements to h2o useful resource administration. The crew has five years’ worth of info. They have properly trained their modes for 4 several years and have tested it for 1 year.

The crew received €5,000 and every student was supplied the possibility to do either an internship at Atos or to perform collectively with the enterprise to create their challenge.

  • threerd prize: Josip Juraj Strossmayer College of Osijek, Croatia

With an revolutionary remedy to make improvements to website traffic, the “CTC – Cooperative Targeted traffic Control” application simulates website traffic light-weight controls making use of Deep Reinforcement Discovering. Each and every junction functions as an agent that requires an action (extends or cuts down the green/purple time) depending on the automobiles and waiting time in the lane. The application also receives info from the closest junctions. The crew has properly trained and tuned the model to get the best model configuration for the website traffic light-weight manage.

The crew received €3,000 and every student was supplied the possibility to do either an internship at Atos or to perform collectively with the enterprise to create their challenge.

This year, the jury also awarded a specific prize to an entry that specifically stood out, for the two the significance of the subject matter tackled and the determination of the crew.

  • Distinctive Jury prize: Loughborough College, United Kingdom

“Initial Survey Swarm” is a remedy for a maze simulator exactly where drone brokers collect information about a maze above a set period of time. The drones can share the info they locate to search ruined buildings by producing a 3D map or illustration of it right after an earthquake or exactly where there is a absence of online coverage.

At the stop of the ceremony, Sophie Proust, Group Chief Technical Officer, Atos stated: ”AI technology is revolutionizing all sectors of the overall economy and culture, and now the fantastic learners in the Atos IT Problem shown real entrepreneurial techniques by giving revolutionary and concrete solutions that meet up with the new requires of cooperative AI expressed by enterprises and persons. I am amazed by the outstanding creativeness and the quality of the contributions of the award-winning finalists. Congratulations to our winners and to all of our contestants!”

 The Atos IT Problem 2021 was also introduced. Future year, learners will have the possibility to create revolutionary concepts all over the theme of “How electronic can aid decarbonize non-digital”.

Considering that its generation in 2012, the Atos IT Problem has empowered learners from all over the planet to create applications connected to significant tendencies in the electronic revolution, these as wise mobility, connected automobiles, interactive media, connected daily life, the “right to be forgotten”, blockchain and synthetic intelligence. Students are mentored by members of Atos Scientific Community who give specialized and useful assist, assistance and encouragement.

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About Atos

Atos is a world wide chief in electronic transformation with above one hundred ten,000 staff in seventy three countries and once-a-year revenue of above € eleven billion. European selection 1 in Cloud, Cybersecurity and Substantial-Overall performance Computing, the Group presents stop-to-stop Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Knowledge, Enterprise Applications and Digital Office solutions. The group is the Throughout the world Facts Know-how Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Video games and operates under the brand names Atos, Atos Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), stated on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to aid layout the future of the info technology space. Its experience and expert services assist the growth of information, education as effectively as multicultural and pluralistic methods to analysis that contribute to scientific and technological excellence. Throughout the planet, the group permits its shoppers, staff and collaborators, and members of societies at massive to are living, perform and create sustainably and confidently in the info technology space.

 

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