🎊Congratulations to Dongho Koo, Yeon Hee Rho, and Hua Lo, one of three teams whose projects have been accepted for publication into the virtual PETRA Conference (PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments). Their team identified that, now more than ever, there needs to be a way of determining if surfaces in shared areas have been properly and thoroughly cleaned or wiped. The team created a hardware solution that uses a thermal imaging camera to detect if a surface has been wiped, before using machine learning to recognize the areas that have been wiped down. This information is then optionally shared to the public. Users can access the wipe-analysis by scanning a QR code. In this way, those cleaning can verify that they have fully wiped down a surface, and shared-space users have a way to confidently know if the space is clean. 

Be sure to follow our Instagram this week to learn more about the other two projects accepted into the PETRA conference, and leave a comment for the team down below. Well done! 🚀

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Congratulations to Team MicroPlant for winning second place in the 2021 GIX Innovation Competition! $2500 and $2500 in Azure credits were awarded to @uw_ece students and alumni Lawrence Atienza, Aziz Lakhdar, Mark Lattimer II, Anatoliy Martynyuk, and Matthew Trahms. Team MicroPlant’s automated plant moisture monitoring, reporting, and control system uses local sensors and a remote web app to give hobbyists, nurseries, and farmers more insight and control over the level of water their plants receive. The system allows remote users to view metrics including soil moisture or light, with the ability to control additional lamps or irrigation, manually or automatically using pre-defined parameters. Looking ahead, the team plans to reduce per-unit cost to be more competitive on the market. ⁣
This year’s finalists were selected through two rounds of review from more than 60 submissions from 14 countries. Projects were judged on a variety of categories, including how clearly the problem and solution were defined, affordability and global impact of the proposed solution, and quality of presentation. ⁣
This year’s competition, sponsored by Microsoft FarmBeats, the UW MS in Technology Innovation Program, and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, sought original, technologically inventive projects in areas such as the internet of things, intelligent hardware, low-cost sensors, drones, robotics, computer vision and machine learning algorithms, and cloud computing to help address farming challenges. ⁣

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Congratulations to Team HydroFarm for winning the 2021 GIX Innovation Competition! MSTI students Guanting Li, Germaine Ng, and Wesley Muthemba will split $5,000 cash and $5,000 in Microsoft Azure credits. Noting that more than 70% of the world’s freshwater usage goes towards irrigation, and 40% of that water is lost to the environment, HydroFarm created a hardware/software solution that improves water usage efficiency, targeting its application to urban farming. ⁣
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The team’s solution aims to reduce water waste, lower farming costs, and increase peace of mind for farmers and growers. The system monitors soil conditions, weather, and other environmental factors to inform users of their plants’ water needs and provides a more efficient irrigation schedule. This results in lower total water usage, increased and more predictable crop yields, and a lower impact on the environment.⁣
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This year’s winners were selected through two rounds of review from more than 60 submissions from 14 countries. Projects were judged on a variety of categories, including how clearly the problem and solution were defined, affordability and global impact of the proposed solution, and quality of presentation.  ⁣
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This year’s competition, sponsored by Microsoft FarmBeats, the UW MS in Technology Innovation Program, and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering, sought original, technologically inventive projects in areas such as the internet of things, intelligent hardware, low-cost sensors, drones, robotics, computer vision and machine learning algorithms, and cloud computing to help address farming challenges. ⁣

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Congratulations and welcome to this year’s Prototyping Labs crew! MSTI students Hua Lo, Yifei Fang, Daniel Azua, and Marcus Choi have newly joined the crew, and Hernan Herrera and Yue Yu are continuing on as crewmembers from previously. The Labs crew helps MSTI students, industry partners, and other users on their projects, keeps the tools and facilities in excellent condition, and creates instructional content for a variety of needs. Congratulations, all! 

 

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