1. Christian, can you elaborate on the ownership of the designs we create? Does all our hardware, firmware and other software need to be open source/published? After the challenge, are we free to develop the design ourselves commercially?
2. Data is supposed to be transferred to a smartphone app in real-time. Bluetooth and wireless (I assume this means WiFi) are mentioned, but both of those will have problems getting sufficient range e.g. to cover a football field (or ski run!).
3. Will we need to send our hardware in for evaluation? Is the entry marked purely on design or also on implementation?
1. Yes to both points; we want the initial solution to be open source, but what you develop with it afterwards is yours to do.
2. We don't expect perfect solutions, just better than what we have now (namely, very little!)
3. It's marked on the criteria listed in the detailed description: we expect the winning solution to be the most practical one, which will be tested by Leeds Beckett University.
1. Yes to both points; we want the initial solution to be open source, but what you develop with it afterwards is yours to do.
2. We don't expect perfect solutions, just better than what we have now (namely, very little!)
3. It's marked on the criteria listed in the detailed description: we expect the winning solution to be the most practical one, which will be tested by Leeds Beckett University.
