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What does Keysight do?SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 26, 2019
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the student finalists of the Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge, who receive an all-expenses paid trip to New York City to demonstrate their design ideas before a panel of esteemed judges at a live-streamed event to be held in September 2019.
The Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge is a design competition challenging graduate and undergraduate engineering students to conceptualize low-power sensor networks to tackle issues brought on by today's rapid urbanization. The contest has two tracks: the Smart Land challenge and the Smart Water challenge. Students submitted IoT sensor network ideas via online written and video submissions from April 1 – May 15, 2019. The competition attracted nearly 300 entries from around the world, with each entry scored by a panel of 15 semi-final judges on metrics such as innovation, manufacturability and impact. The general public also played a role in the judging by voting for their favorite design entries. These votes contributed to 10 percent of each entrant's overall score.
After a careful compilation of the judges scores and a tally of all popular votes, the Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge finalists are:
Smart Land Challenge
United States and Canada finalists:
Asia-Pacific/Greater China finalists:
Europe, Middle East, Africa, India finalists:
Smart Water Challenge
United States and Canada finalists:
Asia-Pacific/Greater China finalists:
Europe, Middle East, Africa, India finalists:
"Our finalists set a very high bar with their innovative and unique design entries, all of which have the potential to improve our planet through sustainability efforts," said Cheryl Ajluni, Director, IoT Innovation Challenge Program at Keysight. "We're thrilled to have inspired student innovation worldwide and welcome the opportunity to watch the finalists' design ideas unfold live in New York this fall. The IoT Innovation Challenge is yet another way Keysight is actively working to inspire next-generation student innovators, while planting the seeds for a long-term relationship with universities and communities."
The world-class panel of judges for the final IoT Innovation Challenge event in New York includes: Ariel Alexovich, associate public information officer for United Nations; Mehdi Sadaghdar, electrical engineer and popular YouTube influencer known as ElectroBOOM; Martin Rowe, senior technical editor for Aspencore Media; student innovator Jeremiah Pate, founder and CEO of LunaSonde; Jeff Harris, vice president of corporate and portfolio marketing for Keysight; Ee Huei Sin, vice president and general manager of Keysight's General Electronics Measurement Solutions; and Christopher Cain, vice president and general manager of Keysight's Electronic Industrial Products.
Winners of the Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge will be announced at the conclusion of the live event. Along with worldwide recognition, the top winning team will receive a $50,000 USD cash prize and $50,000 USD worth of Keysight test equipment for their school.
For more information on the IoT Innovation Challenge, check out the competition video or go to the event website at: www.iotchallengekeysight.com.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal year 2018. More information is available at www.keysight.com.# # #
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From left to right:Yap Sheng Yao, Lim Wen Qing, Tan Kai Siang, Khor Jun Bin, Au Jin Cheng, from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia. They are the Smart Water challenge's Asia-Pacific/Greater China finalists for their entry, IoT Detachable Waterway Monitoring Device with LoRa and Self-Sustainability.
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Darryn Wells, Madhav Kruthiventy, Baden Parr, Tyrel Glass, of Massey University in New Zealand are the Smart Land challenge's Asia-Pacific/Greater China finalists for their entry, CAIRNet (Climate Air Information Real-time Network).
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Raphael Jaures, a student at Université de Technologie de Compiègne (Sorbonne Universitiés) in France, is the Smart Water finalist from the EMEAI region for his entry, Watsyn: Better Monitoring of Our Waterways to Ensure a Better Future.
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From left to right: Kishore Charan, Gaurav Barua and Harsh Prasad, from Institute of Engineering & Management in India, are the EMEAI finalists for the Smart Land track for their entry, Malaria Detection Using Foldscope.
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Pictured from left to right: Nikhil Murthy, Gabriella Garcia and Sunny Tran, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are the U.S./Canada finalists for the Smart Land challenge. Irin Ghosh, not pictured, is also on the team. Their concept is berrySmart.
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Left: Anand Lalwani, from Stanford University, a finalist for the U.S./Canada region of the Smart Water challenge. He is part of the team that designed Immersible Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sensors for Cloud-based Water Quality Monitoring.
Right: Max Holliday, from Stanford University, a finalist for the U.S./Canada region of the Smart Water challenge. He is part of the team that designed Immersible Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sensors for Cloud-based Water Quality Monitoring.
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