{"id":15946,"date":"2021-06-30T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/30\/digital-water-hackathon-demodaysiww-announces-winners\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:50:00","slug":"digital-water-hackathon-demodaysiww-announces-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/06\/30\/digital-water-hackathon-demodaysiww-announces-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Water Hackathon DemoDay@SIWW Announces Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 30&#13;<br \/>\nJune 2021 &#8211; Two teams have emerged as winners of the inaugural Digital Water&#13;<br \/>\nHackathon, organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r2wi.com\">ripple2wave<\/a> incubator (r2wi) and Singapore University&#13;<br \/>\nof Social Sciences (SUSS). This event is supported by A*STAR Central,&#13;<br \/>\nEnterprise Singapore (ESG), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and PUB,&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore&#8217;s National Water Agency. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>47 entries from eight countries\/regions, namely&#13;<br \/>\nFrance, Taiwan, India, Denmark, USA, Bulgaria, Israel and Singapore&#13;<br \/>\nparticipated in the nation&#8217;s first digital water hackathon. From the&#13;<br \/>\nparticipants, eight teams were selected as finalists to present their solutions&#13;<br \/>\nat the virtual <b>Digital Water Hackathon DemoDay@SIWW. <\/b>The eight finalist&#13;<br \/>\nteams who presented were ESGnie, Neptune, WaterFutureTech, Groundup.ai, Fieldbox.ai,&#13;<br \/>\nDatakrew, Teredo Analytics and Memsing. The winners were announced on 23<sup>rd<\/sup>&#13;<br \/>\nJune at the prize presentation ceremony. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Ripple2wave Water Prizes<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The ripple2wave Water Prizes were awarded to the two&#13;<br \/>\nteams with the highest scores during the Digital Water Hackathon 2021&#13;<br \/>\nDemoDay@SIWW.\u00a0 The final scores are&#13;<br \/>\ndetermined by a team of esteemed judges. The winner for the ripple2wave Water&#13;<br \/>\nPrize (Entry level) is Neptune. The team received USD $5000 Alibaba Cloud&#13;<br \/>\nCredits and $1000 cash prize. The winner for the for the ripple2wave Water&#13;<br \/>\nPrize (Advanced level) is Datakrew. They walked away with a USD $5000 Alibaba&#13;<br \/>\nCloud Credits and $2000 cash prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Proof-of-Concept Pilot Trials by PUB<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the water prize winners, two&#13;<br \/>\nteams-Teredo Analytics and Memsing (in partnership with SGlab), were selected&#13;<br \/>\nby PUB to test their solutions at PUB&#8217;s facilities and receive guidance from&#13;<br \/>\nthe organisation&#8217;s in-house experts. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Teredo Analytics&#8217; project uses its proprietary&#13;<br \/>\nhardware and a machine learning based algorithm which was developed in-house to&#13;<br \/>\nprovide timely and comprehensive insights on the integrity of water pipelines&#13;<br \/>\nbefore leaks occur. As for team Memsing, the prototype involves the development&#13;<br \/>\nof miniaturized hydrophone sensors (that consumes little power) to perform leak&#13;<br \/>\ndetection, and an AI algorithm for leak prediction.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Michael Toh, Director for PUB&#13;<br \/>\nIndustry &amp; Technology Collaboration Department, said, &#8220;PUB is constantly&#13;<br \/>\nseeking innovative water solutions to meet its water needs and solve its&#13;<br \/>\nchallenges. PUB is glad to support the inaugural Digital Water Hackathon&#13;<br \/>\norganised by ripple2wave and SUSS, as it provides another platform for PUB to&#13;<br \/>\ndiscover new innovative digital water technologies and work together with&#13;<br \/>\nstart-ups, mid-career professionals and even fresh graduates to develop and&#13;<br \/>\ndeploy these technologies at PUB&#8217;s plants and networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b>Proof-of-Concept Pilot Trials by Sembcorp&#13;<br \/>\nIndustries<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The organisers also announced that team Datakrew&#13;<br \/>\nhas been selected to explore a Proof-of-Concept Pilot Trial supported by&#13;<br \/>\nSembcorp Industries. Together with other industry partners, Sembcorp&#13;<br \/>\ncontributed a list of problem statements that are relevant to the water&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, one of which included the exploring of a low-cost and reliable remote&#13;<br \/>\nmonitoring solution for smaller-sized industrial wastewater treatment plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Dr Adrian Yeo, Senior Vice President, Innovation&#13;<br \/>\n(Water), Group Centre of Excellence at Sembcorp and a member of the Hackathon&#13;<br \/>\njudging panel, said, &#8220;Sembcorp is actively developing and supporting technology&#13;<br \/>\ninnovations that will help solve the global challenges facing the water sector.&#13;<br \/>\nThrough this Hackathon, we are heartened to see the diversity of ideas provided&#13;<br \/>\nby young passionate innovators, and we look forward to nurturing, guiding and mentoring the next generation of&#13;<br \/>\ntalents joining the industry to combat climate change together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Further to the&#13;<br \/>\nsponsored awards by supporting agencies, the event has also produced a special&#13;<br \/>\nincentive category known as she1K fast track to C-Shark Tank&#13;<br \/>\nFinalist.\u00a0 Team Datakrew was selected to&#13;<br \/>\nbecome one of the 9 finalists of the she1K C-Shark Tank season 5 programme.&#13;<br \/>\nThese finalists will get 1 out of 3 chances to secure funding in each season of&#13;<br \/>\nC-Shark Tank in which the cash are committed upfront and guaranteed for the top&#13;<br \/>\n3 winners by the investors.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Tan, Managing Director, Enterprise&#13;<br \/>\nDevelopment Group, Temasek International, said, &#8220;Great to see many of&#13;<br \/>\nthe teams leveraging on the latest developments in sensors, big data and AI\/MI&#13;<br \/>\nto come up with innovative, scalable and commercialisable digital water&#13;<br \/>\nsolutions that can address the growing needs of the global water markets, not&#13;<br \/>\njust in Singapore.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Lin Zhiyuan, Director of Business Development of&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence also shared, &#8220;Our future is ultimately in&#13;<br \/>\nthe hands of the youth. As the leaders today, our responsibility is to nurture&#13;<br \/>\ntheir innovative and entrepreneurial spirit so they can realise their fullest&#13;<br \/>\npotential as the leaders of tomorrow. Through platforms like the Digital Water&#13;<br \/>\nHackathon DemoDay@SIWW, Alibaba Cloud is pleased to be able to provide the&#13;<br \/>\nteams with access to experienced mentors who can help them succeed and the&#13;<br \/>\nresources they need to unlock the next stage of growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><b><i>Quote&#13;<br \/>\nfrom Winners<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Ripple2wave Water Prize (Entry Category) Winner &#8211; Neptune<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Choo Jing Yuan, representative of Team Neptune, said &#8221; Team&#13;<br \/>\nNeptune is honored to participate in the Digital Water Hackathon. It has&#13;<br \/>\nprovided a platform for SUSS Biomedical Engineering and UIT-VNUHCMC Data&#13;<br \/>\nScience to present our combined cross domains multi-disciplinary solution,&#13;<br \/>\naddressing critical global challenges encountered in the digital water space.&#13;<br \/>\nOur team hopes to progress further by collaborating with the problem statement&#13;<br \/>\nowners and the global scientific \/ engineering communities with a cost-saving&#13;<br \/>\npredictive model and reduce untimely material failures. Deeply appreciate the&#13;<br \/>\nopportunity provided by the organizers to showcase our solution to the&#13;<br \/>\ninternational communities and making this hackathon a valuable and fruitful journey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Ripple2wave Water Prize (Advanced Category) Winner &#8211; Datakrew<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Fast Tracked to she1K C-shark Tank Finalist Winner &#8211; Datakrew<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>SEMBCORP POC Awardee &#8211; Datakrew<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Sumanta Bose, Founder and CEO of Datakrew, said, &#8220;The Digital&#13;<br \/>\nWater Hackathon has been an upward growth journey for Datakrew, as it has&#13;<br \/>\npresented us with the opportunity to apply our product and technology to solve&#13;<br \/>\nsome of the most challenging issues in the digital water space. We are excited&#13;<br \/>\nto work together with problem statement owners and deliver sustainable value&#13;<br \/>\nthrough the implementation of our solutions. A special thanks to the&#13;<br \/>\norganisers, judges and fellow participants to make this event a success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>PUB POC Awardee<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Teredo Analytics<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Wong Liang Jie, Co-founder of Teredo Analytics said, &#8220;Joining the&#13;<br \/>\nDWH has allowed Teredo Analytics to further fine-tune their existing solution&#13;<br \/>\nto meet PUB&#8217;s operational requirement needs. Not only that, Teredo Analytics&#13;<br \/>\nhas also gained numerous insights from fellow participants on their different&#13;<br \/>\napproaches towards solving the problem statement.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>PUB POC Awardee<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Memsing, in partnership with SGlab<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Tyler Huang, Co-Founder of Memsing, said, &#8220;It&#8217;s our great honor to&#13;<br \/>\nbe part of the learning journey with DWH team. A fantastic experience for us to&#13;<br \/>\npolish our novel acoustic sensors and solutions and to address the real world&#13;<br \/>\nissues from problem statement owners. We appreciate the opportunities provided&#13;<br \/>\nthrough the Digital Water Hackathon platform and the various mentoring sessions&#13;<br \/>\nto bring us to securing a POC pilot trials with PUB. Most importantly, we also&#13;<br \/>\nfind like-minded local tech company SGLab to partner with to provide a more&#13;<br \/>\nholistic solution. 1+1&gt;3. Together, we can innovate for a more sustainable&#13;<br \/>\nand liveable future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalwaterhackathon.com\/\">https:\/\/digitalwaterhackathon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-06-30\/84168\/digital-water-hackathon-demodaysiww-announces-winners\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 30&#13; June 2021 &#8211; Two teams have emerged as winners of the inaugural Digital Water&#13; Hackathon, organised by ripple2wave incubator (r2wi) and Singapore University&#13; of Social Sciences (SUSS). This event is supported by A*STAR Central,&#13; Enterprise Singapore (ESG), Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and PUB,&#13; Singapore&#8217;s National Water Agency. &#13; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}