Convinced that connected objects can provide answers to the new constraints that businesses, communities, and individuals must face, Objenious created this competition with the leitmotiv of reinventing the world of tomorrow. Among the jury and sponsors of this edition were Xavier Perret from Microsoft, Henri Tcheng from BearingPoint, Mustapha Bouraoui from STMicroelectronics, Christophe Lienard from the Innovation Division of Bouygues Group, and Célia Garcia Montero, IoT expert journalist from the Journal du Net media.
For Bernardo Cabrera, Director of Objenious by Bouygues Telecom, “We are very happy, this competition has allowed us to identify many innovative solutions. They demonstrate the diversity of services offered by connected objects. These solutions contribute to adapting, making more efficient, and reinventing our ways of operating and putting them in visibility is part of our mission.”
Expert Prize
JVD, winner of the Expert Prize, convinced the jury with its IoT Smart Cleaning HygiaConnect solution, ensuring comfort and hygiene in all public or professional spaces. Thanks to the installation of sensors communicating via LoRa, HygiaConnect collects and interprets data on hygiene, quality, and activity within premises:
- Usage of consumables (hand sanitizer, soap, paper) and equipment,
- Fill levels of trash bins,
- Foot traffic and user satisfaction,
- Environmental quality.
The solution allows real-time monitoring of hygiene equipment but also sends alerts to prevent consumable shortages and provides access to traceability and analysis of operational data.
For Thierry Launois, CEO of JVD: “Our relationship with hygiene is significantly and durably upset by the health crisis. IoT and connected objects open up tremendous possibilities to guarantee the highest level of hygiene every day and to allow cleanliness managers to react in real-time before even noticing a shortage. We can no longer conceive that the minimum threshold in hygiene is sufficient: we must reconsider and modify our usage. JVD’s connected hygiene solution, HygiaConnect, plays an essential role in supporting these changes.”
Thanks to this competition, the JVD company wins:
- Visibility of its solution through Objenious and the competition’s sponsors,
- One-day ideation workshop on a selected issue with an expert from Objenious, Microsoft, BearingPoint, and STMicroelectronics, and from the Bouygues SA Innovation Division,
- Support for the first year by a BearingPoint IoT telecoms expert at the rate of half a day per month,
- Listing of its solution with Objenious.
Hope Prize
Wavely Predict, the winner of the Hope Prize presented by the startup Wavely, allows corporate maintenance teams of any size to engage in predictive maintenance through the installation of an automatic anomaly detection sensor. Simple to use and quick to deploy, this sensor, by tracking vibrations and using artificial intelligence, learns the normal operation of the machine and, after the learning phase, sends an alert when it detects a drift or an anomaly characteristic.
For Marion Aubert, CEO of Wavely: “We want to help SMEs and mid-cap companies dare to try predictive maintenance. Thanks to artificial intelligence, Wavely Predict is a solution that is very easy to implement, requiring no special expertise. And because we believe that artificial intelligence is good, but human intelligence is better, the sensor is not a ‘black box’ and offers the ability to access data for their analysis.”
Thanks to the IoT Challenge, the Wavely Predict solution will be allocated:
- Visibility of the solution by Objenious and the competition’s sponsors;
- Connectivity offered on the first 500 connected objects (Objenious Starter LoRa or Evolutive World M2M offer*) and unlimited access to Objenious’s IoT platforms for one year;
- Up to 5 development subsystems based on STM32 microcontrollers with sensor and/or connectivity expansion cards depending on their needs to enable the implementation of an industrializable solution based on STMicroelectronics products
- Privileged access to an interlocutor in the sales teams of STMicroelectronics;
- €2,000 in Azure implementation credits giving access to the use of cloud services through the Azure portal;
- Listing of the solution in the Objenious and BearingPoint catalog.
(*) For 1 year 1 GB free Europe per month on all Objenious technologies 2G, 3G, 4G, and LTEM (beyond which a reduced speed of 64kb/s is applied)
Special Jury Prize
Finally, Alizent, Special Jury Prize winner, was praised by the special jury mention by pulling itself ahead with its first manometer connectable to the LPWAN network. Beyond the basic pressure measurement function, this connected solution allows the implementation of safety functions, automatic resupply, and leakage analysis for industrial or medical gas networks, thanks to the intelligence and communication on board. Taking advantage of the latest generation of system-on-chip from STMicroelectronics, it combines performance, energy autonomy, and low cost, allowing for broad deployment.