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In the Air Design Challenge - The Winners

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The full press release can be read by clicking here.
A big thank you to all who participated in the In the Air IoT Design Challenge, the partners, element14 and the wider public have been deeply impressed by the projects we've seen to help create a greener, cleaner world.
It was not an altogether straightforward matter to pick a winner: however, in the end, we've awarded the prizes to the following individuals and their projects.
The Grand Prize
The Grand Prize has gone to Christever del Rosario of New Zealand for his Carbon Footprint Monitoring System.  His project's final summary can be read by clicking here.
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Christever will receive:
  1. 15 inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display
  2. U1273A OLED Multimeter from Keysight
  3. SimpleLinkTm Bluetooth SmartRegistered/Multi-Standard SensorTag (Manufacturer Number: CC2650STK)
Community Choice Winner
The Community Choice Winner by a clear plurality of votes was Inderpreet Singh of India for his Firecracker Aftermath Analyzer.  His project's final summary can be read by Clicking here.
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Inderpreet will receive:
  1. 13 inch MacBook Air
  2. SimpleLinkTm Bluetooth SmartRegistered/Multi-Standard SensorTag (Manufacturer Number: CC2650STK)
Additionally, we felt that two other projects deserved recognition as Honourable Mentions; both engineers will receive a SimpleLinkTm Bluetooth SmartRegistered/Multi-Standard SensorTag as a prize.
Honourable Mention 1
Our first Honourable Mention goes to Ambrogio Galbusera of Italy for his AirMobile project. The project summary can be found by clicking here.
Honourable Mention 2
Our second Honourable Mention goes to Janis Alnis of Latvia for his Air Quality Monitoring In School Classes project.  The project summary can be found by clicking here.
Thank you once again to all the participants for their time, energy and effort: we look forward to more innovative and exciting design challenges in 2015 coming to life.
  • in reply to shabaz

    Hi shabaz

    please don't misunderstand my posts

    My intention is not to get any prize. I wouldn't say anything if fvan would have been awarded: he demonstrated to be a serious challenger and kept on working on its project till the end of the challenge (and I didn't checked but I'm quite sure he didn't send any tweet). I just want to point out that may be there is something wrong in how the Community award is conceived

    Probably in (my) human nature there is something that force people to fight against injustice, and I strongly believe that not playing fair in a competition is really something to blame

  • in reply to amgalbu

    Hi Ambrogio,

     

    I think you're absolutely right, it is not good to canvas for votes, however I wonder for those who occasionally tweet etc., it probably doesn't seem like canvassing. Also, possibly many of us didn't see any tweets. (I view or tweet perhaps once per year). By looking at the mix of votes, probably Frederick would have had the next highest amount of votes. Frederick had a strong project too, I guess it would be tight between Inderpreet and Frederick on this particular challenge.

    I have a different theory: if there are some very strong projects, e.g. from person A and person B, then instinctively people may vote for person C since they believe A or B will win the main prize anyway. That may be just human nature to vote this way, although it is not logical of people. I could be wrong.

    Anyway as a result I believe the honourable mention is an important mark to achieve. (I would believe that : ) - It reminds me at university - I didn't win the award for my degree project, but I got an honourable mention, so I had to be happy with that). I also agree it is nice to win something however, just saying that it is more complex than we might wish once we factor in everyone's voting habits.

    Anyway, Ambrogio, congratulations again for the honourable award, your project was amazing I thought, and you had rich detail that I (and I am sure others) will learn from for years. I can see you're passionate about engineering because you want the level of competition to remain high (as do I). Inderpreet and Frederick and others deserve our congrats too, without them there would not be such amazing high quality competition from you, because they did work to a high standard too. (I wonder if we can blend bits from the projects to produce the ultimate 'in-the-air' solution by the way).

  • Congratulations! I enjoyed following all the hard work.

  • completely agree with .. even I am participant in this challenge, I have voted for some one else other then me who have done brilliant work... simply because I know that I haven't done well compered to others, who deserves win...

  • in reply to ipv1
    I understand how you feel Ambrogio Sir since I have been there myself

    Really? Could you point out where there has been such an unfair behavior (please also have a look at the mcb1 post regarding you tweets)

    I put people, my friends and family before any THINGs because I believe that is the real wealth of life

    Come on, we are just talking about a design challenge, not about the meaning of life. BTW, I firmly believe in correctness and playing fair

    Anyway (and this will be my last post on this topic), let's put it in this way: would you give a "A+" to a students of yours that in a classwork answered just one question out of 10 just because he or she has more friends than others? For sure such an evaluation criteria has never been used by any of my professors...

    It should be advisable that someone put shame on this kind of unfair behaviours, or -in my opinion- the level of the challenges will inevitably drop. Who will bother about making a well thouight and built project if I can get a prize by simply tweeting and making some sort of public relations?