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Connected Cloud Design Challenge - Winners Announcement

e14phil — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:26:40 GMT

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I am happy to announce today's Winners of the Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress

After 20+ weeks of designing,Researching, Prototyping, Coding and Testing, 142 Blog Posts, 17 Videos, our Connected Cloud Challenge has come to a close.

Our challengers were tasked to use the PSoC 6 and Amazon AWS IoT Platform to connect their world!

The judges have rounded up their thoughts on the projects and selected their favorites.

Prizes

Grand Prize	Runner Up	Finisher Prize
Grand Prize Lulzbot Mini 2 Desktop 3D Printer* Valued at $1480 & A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!	Runner up HTC VIVE Pro Virtual Reality System* Valued at $1050 & A brand new, next-generation PSoC® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!	Finisher Prize For anyone who completes 10 Blogs and a project with the featured product. MultiComp Pro Multimeter Set* Valued at $60

Grand Prize

Runner Up

Finisher Prize

Grand Prize

Lulzbot Mini 2 Desktop 3D Printer*

Valued at $1480

A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!

Runner up

HTC VIVE Pro Virtual Reality System*

Valued at $1050

A brand new, next-generation PSoC® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!

Finisher Prize

For anyone who completes 10 Blogs and a project with the featured product.

MultiComp Pro Multimeter Set*

Valued at $60

Winners of the Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress and AWS

Grand Prize

Super Smart Home by - balearicdynamics
Top Member, Enrico, won us over with his Super Smart Home Autimation project, using the PSoC6 as the main hub to his AWS IoT Smart home. Using cross platform MQTT and AWS for the main infrastructure, creating his own 3D printed cases and remote ESP8266 nodes as well as UI for the PSoC6. The large amount of cross platform inter connectivity helped the judeges select this project as the overall winner.

Read All Enricos Blogs Here

Runner Up

Intelligent Mailbox by -saicheong
Sai comes in second with their Smart Mailbox. This remote mailbox seems fairly simple on first glance but the complexity within really blew the mind of the judges.
Firstly the project would light up and inform you when a letter arrives, this passes the data over AWS to a telegram service, email or SMS, Fairly simple but well done.

We had a 2 week extension at the end of this challenge and some challengers who were finished and downed tools, Sai decided to use the remaining time at the end of the challenge to Train a Neural Network with sounds of dogs playing and barking. Training this mailbox to know if a dog is barking aggressively and then to warn the mail carriers of this.

Read All of Sai's Blogs Here

Honorable Mentions

These projects won't be winning the top spot prizes but we loved their projects so much we wanted to publicize their amazing work.

sami9974

Samyak created a Billboard Rental System. Allowing users to buy advertisement space on a website, AWS would handle the data and the advertisements would be displayed on location for the time period paid for.

Read Samyaks Blogs Here

wanfp97
Wan Created a Smart Pet Watering and Feeding System, including Amazon FreeRTOS and using the Cypress PSoC 6's touch sense to stop the bowl from over filling

Read Wans Blogs Here

jeromedominic
Jerome created an Amazon Alexa Integrated pill dispenser with remote authorization and voice control using MQTT, AWS and the Cypress PSoC6 as the main controller.

Read Jerome's Blogs Here

I want to thank Cypress and Amazon for their amazing support during this challenge as they have worked very closely with the community to produce some amazing projects using the PSoC 6.

Have you enjoyed reading about the PSoC 6 and the products in this challenge, feel free to get your own here:

The Kit Options (Choose One)	The Specs
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) from Cypress Buy Pioneer KitBuy Pioneer Kit	The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 1 MB of Flash and 288 KB of SRAM The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio TFT display shield board that provides users with a 2.4” TFT display, a light sensor, a 6-axis motion sensor, and a digital microphone PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders Cypress Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package An EZ-PD™ CCG3 Type-C power delivery system is also on board and is pre-configured to be able to deliver power from a Type-C port to an on-board header while at the same time charging a 3.7 V lithium-ion polymer battery
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) from Cypress Buy Prototyping KitBuy Prototyping Kit	The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders Cypress 512 Mb Quad-SPI NOR Flash device MicroSD card slot PDM microphone and thermistor Digilent Pmod™ interface

The Kit Options (Choose One)

The Specs

PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit

(CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) from Cypress

Buy Pioneer KitBuy Pioneer Kit

The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 1 MB of Flash and 288 KB of SRAM
The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio
TFT display shield board that provides users with a 2.4” TFT display, a light sensor, a 6-axis motion sensor, and a digital microphone
PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug
Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders
Cypress Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package
An EZ-PD™ CCG3 Type-C power delivery system is also on board and is pre-configured to be able to deliver power from a Type-C port to an on-board header while at the same time charging a 3.7 V lithium-ion polymer battery

PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit

(CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) from Cypress

Buy Prototyping KitBuy Prototyping Kit

The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM
The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio
PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug
Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders
Cypress 512 Mb Quad-SPI NOR Flash device
MicroSD card slot
PDM microphone and thermistor
Digilent Pmod™ interface

Tags: connected cloud, cypress psoc 6 ble pioneer kit

Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress and AWS IoT

e14phil — Wed, 20 May 2020 20:17:17 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14phil on 5/20/2020 8:17:17 PM

Connected Cloud Challenge – Cypress and AWS IoT

Connect your world to AWS IoT cloud services with the Cypress PSoC^® 6 MCU and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth connectivity!

players.brightcove.net/.../index.html

Ready? Then Apply Here

The Challenge

Can you build a project with the PSoC 6, and connect it to Amazon Web Services?

What if we gave you the kit for free and $25 credit on AWS? How about a set of prizes including a 3D printer or VR Headset?

Yes... then this could be the challenge for you!

The element14 Community is pleased to introduce the Connected Cloud Design Challenge with Cypress and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Cypress and AWS are challenging the Community to design the most creative, cloud-connected, Wi-Fi IoT solution utilizing the PSoC^® 6 MCU and Cypress’ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. PSoC^® 6 is Cypress’ ultra-low-power, secure, and flexible MCU with rich analog/digital peripherals, purpose-built for the IoT. Pairing it with Cypress’ world class Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo radios provides the ideal development platform for innovative and exciting cloud-connected designs.

Challengers are invited to use either the Cypress PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) or the PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) to connect to AWS IoT cloud services and turn your ideas into reality. Monitor warehouse conditions, serve custom ads to retail shoppers, secure your smart home, and more, all with these easy-to-use hardware and software development tools.

Selected official applicants will get the kit of their choosing free of charge, as well as $25 in AWS credits to build and blog about their project. Those not chosen as sponsored challengers may also join the competition, if they base their project around either the CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT or CY8CPROTO-062-4343W kits and adhere to all terms and conditions of the challenge. Non-sponsored challengers will not be provided with AWS credits.

For the chance to win one of the prizes below, you must build your project using one or both of the below kits, and connect to AWS IoT cloud services via Wi-Fi. You must also blog about your build process weekly, as well as the final outcome of your project within the Connected Cloud Challenge space.

What Can I Build?

You can build anything you want as long as it use the PSoC6 and Connect it to AWS.

An example applications could include:

Fitness Wearable
Smart City
Connected Home Appliance
Smart Home
Cloud-connected Robot
Connected Agriculture
Elderly Fall Detection
Interactive Retail Help Systems
Crowd Counters

The Kit Options (Choose One)	The Specs
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) from Cypress Buy Pioneer KitBuy Pioneer Kit	The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 1 MB of Flash and 288 KB of SRAM The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio TFT display shield board that provides users with a 2.4” TFT display, a light sensor, a 6-axis motion sensor, and a digital microphone PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders Cypress Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package An EZ-PD™ CCG3 Type-C power delivery system is also on board and is pre-configured to be able to deliver power from a Type-C port to an on-board header while at the same time charging a 3.7 V lithium-ion polymer battery
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) from Cypress Buy Prototyping KitBuy Prototyping Kit	The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders Cypress 512 Mb Quad-SPI NOR Flash device MicroSD card slot PDM microphone and thermistor Digilent Pmod™ interface

The Kit Options (Choose One)

The Specs

PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit

(CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) from Cypress

Buy Pioneer KitBuy Pioneer Kit

The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 1 MB of Flash and 288 KB of SRAM
The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio
TFT display shield board that provides users with a 2.4” TFT display, a light sensor, a 6-axis motion sensor, and a digital microphone
PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug
Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders
Cypress Excelon™-Ultra 4Mbit 108-MHz QSPI nonvolatile F-RAM in an 8-SOIC package
An EZ-PD™ CCG3 Type-C power delivery system is also on board and is pre-configured to be able to deliver power from a Type-C port to an on-board header while at the same time charging a 3.7 V lithium-ion polymer battery

PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit

(CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) from Cypress

Buy Prototyping KitBuy Prototyping Kit

The ultra-low-power PSoC^® 62 MCU that integrates an Arm® Cortex®-M4 and Cortex-M0+ onto a single chip and provides up to 2 MB of Flash and 1 MB of SRAM
The Murata 1DX Module hosting the Cypress CYW4343W 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi + Dual-Mode Bluetooth combo chipset radio
PSoC 5LP MCU for program/debug
Cypress' CapSense® capacitive touch sensing enabled buttons and sliders
Cypress 512 Mb Quad-SPI NOR Flash device
MicroSD card slot
PDM microphone and thermistor
Digilent Pmod™ interface

Ready? Then Apply Here

Need help? Comment below or read the resources below:

Technical Resources:

Hardware:

Software:

Cypress’ ModusToolbox™ Software Environment is a set of multi-platform development tools and a comprehensive suite of GitHub-hosted firmware libraries providing a high quality and painless user experience for developing PSoC^® 6 + Wi-Fi/Bluetooth projects. Within this ecosystem, multiple IoT operating systems are supported, including Arm Mbed™ OS and Amazon FreeRTOS™. Cypress provides SDKs for both of these platforms with helpful resources linked below to get you started.

Remember that we have technical community forums for each where you can get help from Cypress applications engineers – please see below!

ModusToolbox Software Environment (Download available on this page for Windows®, macOS®, and Linux®)
All ModusToolbox Software Environment Documentation

Mbed OS SDK Resources:

Arm Mbed OS is a free, open-source embedded operating system designed specifically for the "things" in the Internet of Things. It includes all the features you need to develop a connected product based on an Arm Cortex-M microcontroller, including security, connectivity, an RTOS, and drivers for sensors and I/O devices. Resources for Cypress’ Mbed OS SDK are below:

Cypress Mbed OS Community Technical Forum (Get answers to your questions here from Cypress applications engineers in 24 – 48 hours!)
Cypress Mbed Homepage
Cypress Mbed OS Example Projects
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) Mbed Landing Page
PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) Mbed Landing Page
Using ModusToolbox Configurator Tools in Mbed OS Applications Knowledge Base Article
Cypress Firmware Deliverables in Mbed OS Knowledge Base Article
Adding AWS IoT Thing Parameters Knowledge Base Article
Troubleshooting PyOCD Issues Knowledge Base Article

AmazonFreeRTOS SDK Resources:

Amazon FreeRTOS is an open source operating system that extends the popular FreeRTOS kernel with software libraries that make it easy to connect IoT devices to AWS cloud services like AWS IoT Core. Resources for Cypress’ Amazon FreeRTOS SDK are below:

Cypress Amazon FreeRTOS Community Technical Forum (Get answers to your questions here from Cypress applications engineers in 24 – 48 hours!)
Cypress Amazon FreeRTOS Qualified Hardware Page
Cypress Amazon FreeRTOS PSoC^® 6 + Wi-Fi/BT Dev Kit Getting Started Guide
Cypress Amazon FreeRTOS SDK Repository
Cypress Amazon FreeRTOS Example Projects
Running Amazon FreeRTOS Code Examples Knowledge Base Article

AWS IoT Resources

The Dates

Project Phases	Dates
Applications Open	27th Jan 2020
Applications Close (1 Month)	2nd March 2020
Challengers Announced	18th March 2020
Projects Due (10 Weeks)	UPDATED TO: 25th May 2020
Winners Announced	May 2020
Prizes Shipped	May 2020

The Prizes

Prize	Prize Category
AND	Grand Prize Lulzbot Mini 2 Desktop 3D Printer* Valued at $1480 AND *A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!*
AND	Runner up HTC VIVE Pro Virtual Reality System* Valued at $1050 AND *A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!*
	Finisher Prize For anyone who completes 10 Blogs and a project with the featured product. MultiComp Pro Multimeter Set* Valued at $60

Prize

Prize Category

AND

Grand Prize

Lulzbot Mini 2 Desktop 3D Printer*

Valued at $1480

AND

A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!

AND

Runner up

HTC VIVE Pro Virtual Reality System*

Valued at $1050

AND

A brand new, next-generation PSoC^® 6 MCU Dev Kit (to be announced). Be one of the first to try it out!

Finisher Prize

For anyone who completes 10 Blogs and a project with the featured product.

MultiComp Pro Multimeter Set*

Valued at $60

*Or local equivalent

The Judges

Cypress Semiconductor Technical Judge Team
Amazon Web Services Cloud Platform Uses Judge
element 14 Community Judges element 14 Community Team

The Terms

Selected official applicants will be chosen to receive one of the above PSoC^® 6 + Wi-Fi/Bluetooth Kits. These successful applicants will be our sponsored challengers, and they must use either kit within their project (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT or CY8CPROTO-062-4343W). Those not chosen as sponsored challengers may also join the competition, but they must base their projects around either the CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT or CY8CPROTO-062-4343W kits and adhere to all terms and conditions of the challenge.

Challengers must also use Amazon Web Services as their Cloud Platform for their project. They will receive $25 USD in free AWS credits from Amazon for their project. Non-sponsored challengers will not receive AWS credits.

They need to post their progress and final project as at least 10 blog posts before the closing date. Posts which are media rich with photos, videos, and code samples will be viewed more favorably in the judging process.

To be eligible to win one of the final prizes, challengers must also complete a feedback survey provided by Cypress on the hardware/software tools used in this design challenge.

The final winning project post must have the following elements:

Project documentation - step by step guide on how your project was built from start to finish using hi-res images, screenshots, video and text.

Project completeness - fully working and finished projects will be judged more favorably.

BOM - list of all your components, apps and tools

Code - well structured, commented code is required, posted in a GitHub repo

Block Diagrams - clear block diagrams on how the final system comes together with all components involved.

At the end of this challenge, Cypress will have require you to fill in a survey based on the software and hardware tools used in this challenge.

Please read the full terms and conditions of the challenge, attached below.

Ready? Then Apply Here

If you are not successful in becoming a sponsored challenger but want to still enter, all you need to do is use the Kit as described above in your project and adhere to the same Terms and Conditions for a chance to be our winner! Non sponsored challengers are eligible for the Finisher and Winner Prizes.

Attachments:

community.element14.com/.../Connected-Cloud-Terms-and-Conditions-22020.pdf

Connected Cloud Terms and Conditions 22020.pdf

Tags: bluetooth, competition, wifi, design challenge, aws, psoc 6, cloud, cloud services, iot, amazon, psoc

Connected Cloud Challenge: The Challengers

e14phil — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:47:48 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by e14phil on 4/6/2020 4:47:48 PM

Connected Cloud Challenge – Cypress and AWS IoT

Welcome to the Connected Cloud Challenge Design Challenge with Cypress and Amazon Web Services (AWS)!

Cypress and AWS are challenging the Community to design the most creative, cloud-connected, Wi-Fi IoT solution utilizing the PSoC® 6 MCU and Cypress’ Wi-Fi/Bluetooth. PSoC® 6 is Cypress’ ultra-low-power, secure, and flexible MCU with rich analog/digital peripherals, purpose-built for the IoT. Pairing it with Cypress’ world class Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combo radios provides the ideal development platform for innovative and exciting cloud-connected designs.

Challengers are invited to use either the Cypress PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer KitCypress PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) or the PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping KitPSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) to connect to AWS IoT cloud services and turn their ideas into reality. Monitor warehouse conditions, serve custom ads to retail shoppers, secure your smart home, and more, all with these easy-to-use hardware and software development tools.

Please join us in congratulating the official sponsored Challengers!

We look forward to reading all of their initial blogs introducing their project designs. As challengers add blogs over the next few days and weeks, you can follow them with the links below.

ankur608

Fighting Forest Fires with PSoC-6

Ankur will be building a PoC with the aid of PSoC-6 and utmost 5 end sensor-nodes, which will be deployed wisely in strategic locations within a forest, and the following parameters will be analyzed at set time-periods (configured over the PSoC-6 Pioneer gateway through AWS IoT Cloud Services): Tracking Relative Humidity, Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, and Carbon Dioxide.

If some of these measured parameters go above the configured threshold, then the system analyzes the information and reacts by sending an alarm to the firefighters.

Read Ankur's project blogs here

balearicdynamics

The Home Super Smart

Enrico is building a Super Smart Home Device which implies a series of in-home modifications and some circuit bending (e.g coffee maker, oven, etc.). His current project view has already some clear points, while some others are not yet fully designed. The idea of using the AWS cloud fits perfectly as he has already experienced the usage of this wide platform; about the AWS cloud, he already owns an EC2 server for some years hosting also his sites, a MySQL database and other stuff including components that he plans to use to develop this project, e.g. a nodeJs server implemented as a state machine over a nodeRed architecture.

Read Enrico's project blogs here

brianchilders

USA

IoT Gaming Table

Brian is building a D&D Gaming Table. The gaming table is to know where your representation in the game is at all times. This project aims to not only provide a user friendly interface, but to enable gamers to know where and what their character is doing in the world that the character is in. In the example of Dungeons and Dragons, most Dungeon Masters struggle to keep a log of what actually happened during a gaming session. The gaming console would enable individuals (DMs) to have a log of the gaming session published to each of the players.

Read Brian's project blogs

cmelement14

USA

Smart Backup Sump Pump

Charles's design is a smart backup sump pump with alert system. He will use the Cypress PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) to control an uninterrupted power supply (UPS) to power the sump pump while the power grid is out. The water level sensors will determine when it should power up the sump pump. It will also detect dangerous water levels, so the alarm system can be triggered and send text message to his wife and himself. In the worst case, if any flooding occurs on the floor, the alarm system will send text message as well as a picture. The sump well water level and other status will be updated on secure AWS IoT cloud. Also through the cloud, he can manually start/stop the sump pump remotely.

Read Charles's project blogs here

crisdeodates

Smart Home IoT

Cris is building a smart home system which will have the following capabilities:

Smart presence Awareness, Energy monitoring and reporting, Cloud data evaluation of household energy usage via AWS, Remote control and monitoring of household appliances, LED indication of warnings, Send User notification through TFT display, User inputs via touch and button interface, Arduino shields/ Digilent modules with smart relays & current sensor interfaces, Proximity warning during unattended operations, and with a Connection to local and cloud connectivity via BLE and WiFi.

Read Cris's project blogs here

jediguy

USA

Smart Fridge Dry Ager

Jared is building a Dry Ageing Solution. The plan will be to create a hardware platform with the project materials to turn any fridge into a smart fridge for dry aging in a cost-effective manner. The two most important things for dry aging are air flow and humidity control. Putting the right sensors and mechanisms in place can make the dry aging process hassle free without having to worry about food waste.

He will build a mechanism to introduce moisture when needed. A scale will be utilized to monitor moisture loss to produce consistent results instead of relying on days aged. A camera can be used to remotely monitor the meat without having to open the fridge helping maintain a consistent humidity.

Read Jared's project blogs here

jeromedominic

Smart Pill Dispenser

Jerome is building an SPD (Smart Pills Dispenser) that helps people to intake pills on time with a doctor's prescription. The idea is to create cloud based generic prescription (json formatted) across all the hospitals, doctors, and clinics. This format should be followed by everyone who is in medical industries. Everyone in a family will have their own DB (json) information of pills and timings. One Smart Pill Dispenser can be shared across multiple users. The Smart Pills Dispenser will be built in with the Cypress Wifi-BLE combo chip and Eink display. The SPD will interact with users via voice through Amazon Echo. Users can set timing and reminders as well. The SPD will dispense the pills once the user shows the hand or a plate.

Features: Dispense the pills for a patient or family members, Voice interaction to get the pills on plate, Schedule it for month/week for multiple people, can work in offline mode with button interface, Displays the stock of pills on E-ink Paper display, Easy to carry anywhere., Logging medical history on the cloud.

Read Jerome's project blogs here

magnet0

Smart City Connected Bus Transport System

Yogesh is building a Connected Bus Monitoring System. As part of the smart city project this ideas sole purpose is to propose the need for real time data tracking and cataloging into AWS cloud storage for the purpose of data mining and analytics. Smart cities need smart solutions to the challenges listed in the problem description, and as mentioned before technology alone cannot win this situation, hence we need an intelligent system that will work in coordination as a whole to provide better & coordinated solutions to existing issues.

Read Yogesh's project blogs here

matt17wish

Smart Grain System

Matthew works on a large farm, farming over 10,000 acres. In order to make money with farming the last few years, precision is key. Every year the technology of the machines, seeders, sprayers, harvesters improves, making high precision farming possible.

But one thing that is really getting neglected is the crop management after it is in the bin... Matthew has a large grain handling facility, but the technology on it is outdated, so he is proposing to use the powerful Cypress microcontroller as the main controller for the system. Each bin gets an Arduino to sense temp, humidity and capacity. All the information gets logged to a influx database which will be visualized by grafana.

Read matt17wish's project blogs

neuromodulator

Chile

Laboratory Animal Conditions Tracker

Miguel is building a prototype that can track multiple environmental and animal conditions which will continuously be uploaded to an AWS server. The prototype generated data will verify if external disturbances could have impacted the experimental results with animal conditions and correlate the disturbances with the experimental data.

Read neuromodulator's project blogs here

saicheong

An Intelligent Mailbox

Sai is building an intelligent mailbox. The mailbox will inform users using AWS cloud, and in addition will monitor dog bite alarming.

To reduce the bill of materials and improve the reliability, he plans to use the PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit by Cypress and plans not to use any mechanical detection method.

The kit will be installed inside the back side of a typical vertical mailbox which opens on top, to detect the mail arrived. The pioneer kit motion sensor will be used for triggering the device from idle mode, so that the device lights up an LED which is installed on the front side of the mailbox. If there are obstructions inside (mail), the light level will reduce so the device will know there is mail inside.

Read Sai's project blogs here

sami9974

IoT Billboards

Samyak's initial idea is to use the Pioneer kit and AWS servers which are connected via the internet for an IoT Billboard. He will create sync interaction between the server and the PSoC 6 so that images can be replaced and can reflect that on the TFT screen.

After this successful sync interaction, he will make a user interface on the cloud so that the project prototype can relate with real scenarios. And for the final submission, he will use 2 PSoC kits and manage them by the server and create a scenario for a different location with a live user interaction interface.

Read Samyak's project blogs here

vlasov01

Bio Highway

Sergey's Bio Highway project is to continuously capture bio telemetry from sport enthusiasts and feed it to trusted parties over secured channels to get real-time actionable feedback.

The PSoC 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) can help to collect data from sensors and communicate it securely to the AWS IoT platform. The AWS IoT platform provides important components to securely manage and connect wearable devices to AWS cloud to analyze and securely share vital data, which can help make actionable decisions in real-time.

Read Sergey's project blogs here

wanfp97

Smart Pet Home

The Smart Pet Home will be powered by the Cypress PSoC® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit connected to AWS IoT cloud services to control the sleeping pod of the pet, food and water dispenser, ball launcher, air conditioner, heater, web-cam and Bluetooth speakers, so that the owner can interact with their pets even when they are not at home.

Read Wan's project blogs here

weiwei2

Smart Mischief Coin Box

Leow is building a smart mischief coin box which allows and encourages children to save money. It will provide the user a smart device to monitor their saving behavior and a smart, fun way to manage financial goals. It will allow users to set a goal for his saving, keep track of user saving (via the screen), and it also will provide such information to the cloud over AWS. Parents or adult users can keep track of saving online, analysis and dashboarding can be provided via AWS for more advanced analysis. The smart mischief coin box, when not in use, will use the LCD screen as a clock and also show daily savings tips and reminders about savings if the user has forgotten.

Read Leow's project blogs here

Interested in joining the Challengers? You can do it as a non-sponsored Challenger! Here's how:

Simply get either the Cypress PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062-WIFI-BT) or the PSoC^® 6 WiFi-BT Prototyping Kit (CY8CPROTO-062-4343W) to connect to AWS IoT cloud services and turn your ideas into reality, post 10 blogs about your design journey in the Connected Cloud Challenge space (tagging your blogs ' connectedcloud ') and you'll be eligible to win the awesome prizes.

Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress and AWS IoT

Read full terms & conditions for more details.

Good Luck Everyone!

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Documents

Documents

Connected Cloud Design Challenge - Winners Announcement

Prizes

Winners of the Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress and AWS

Grand Prize

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Honorable Mentions

Connected Cloud Challenge with Cypress and AWS IoT

Connected Cloud Challenge: The Challengers

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Runner Up