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As a part of the Data for Life 2016 event, the hackathon took in 324 participants with the youngest being five-year-old
Team MANTIS posed with Mediatrac CEO Regi Wahyu (second from right)
The Sci-Fi Hardware Hackathon (SFHH), which marks the beginning of big data mega event Data for Life 2016, closed today with the announcement of Team MANTIS as its ultimate winner.
Team MANTIS beat a total of 324 participants and 62 teams in the two-day event by proposing the idea of building a “smart floating dome” to anticipate the rising sea level which might threaten Indonesia as the world’s largest archipelago.
In this event, participants are encouraged to take inspirations from various science fiction films. The MANTIS team took on the Gundam series by proposing the floating dome as a place for “the remaining colony of human beings” to live in. The floating dome utilises big data to closely monitor sea level, and according to the team, such technology can also be used in present time to monitor sea level and give warnings to coastal areas of impending danger.
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As a winner, the MANTIS received cash prize of IDR15 million (US$1,100) and premium membership in Indonesian leading digital forum Kaskus.id. But the best prizes of all are perhaps the one waiting for them after the event.
“After the winner’s announcement, I asked them to come to my office. First, because in July [2017] they are going to depart to India to participate in an innovation center led by Anthony Vipin Das, which was the result of a partnership with MIT Media Lab. I’m going to mentor them personally,” said Mediatrac CEO Regi Wahyu who was a member of the panel of judges.
“Second, there is also an opportunity that I am not able to disclose just yet, but it turns out that their futuristic tech can be applied today. And one executive director of a particular institution happens to be looking for a solution for Indonesia’s waters issues. I called him, they presented their ideas to him, and they are going to hold a meeting tonight,” he told the press after the event.
As a result of a collaboration between Mediatrac with Makedonia and Data Science Indonesia, SFHH was held at SMESCO UKM Building in South Jakarta.
Plants versus zombies
According to a Mediatrac spokesperson, the competition received up to 600 applicants with various background, from computer programmers to fashion designers. The competition also had a wide range of competitors’ age, with the oldest being 35-year-old and the youngest being five-year-old.
In fact, a group of elementary school students called Sparky’s Homeschool became the first winner of the Best Design & UX category.
Sparky’s Homeschool team won the Best Design & UX category
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With science fiction films as a source of inspiration, it is no wonder that many of the finalist came up with fantastic ideas to solve various problems in society.
IG-2-T team took home two prizes as the runner-up for Best Design & UX and Best Concept categories with their “zombie detector” idea. Taking the form of a wearable device, that will eventually be developed into an implant, the invention aims to detect and alert citizens of the existence of zombie groups among healthy human being.
Agriculture was also a big theme among finalists. KMD Mikro built iKOW (Integrated Kettle Operation Ware), a data-driven kettle farming system. The system will detect changes in the environmental condition inside a barn, such as temperature change, and will trigger the facility to react accordingly.
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There is also Daun who aimed to use AR to visualise agricultural data. Farmers will only have to wear a device similar to Google Glass, and the system will enable plants to “talk” and communicate their condition to farmers.
“In the past two days I have seen many innovations related to nature, agriculture, farming, and maritime which are part of our identity as Indonesians. This is why I kept on stressing the importance for us to be independent in our mind, to innovate for our own needs, or even to the world,” Wahyu closed.
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