Hexathon 2023: Enigma, Strat Masters named champions; take home Rs 10 lakh
Around 163 including startups, businesses, students, and Hexagon's staff made it to the final round on April 29 and 30. of Over 1600 teams had enrolled for the competition
By Newsmeter Network Published on 4 May 2023 6:05 AM GMT
Hyderabad: Enigma and Strat Masters have been named champions of Hexathon 2023, a 24-hour hackathon organized by Hexagon to create sustainable solutions for a better future for the globe.
The winning teams received a total prize money of Rs. 10 lakh.
Around 163 including startups, businesses, students, and Hexagon's staff made it to the final round on April 29 and 30. of Over 1600 teams had enrolled for the competition.
Participants Displayed Innovative Solutions across 5 Tracks: Green Tech Disruptors, Sustainable Energy, Environment, Manufacturing, and Assets.
Erik Jofesson, the president of R-evolution at Hexagon, M. Srinivas Rao, the CEO of T-Hub, and Prof. Sireesh Saride, the chair of the Greenko School of Sustainability & Climate Change at IIT Hyderabad, were among the judges.
Teams of CBIT third-year engineering students named Enigma and Strat Masters from Hexagon took home awards for their creative ideas. While Strat Masters developed a method to improve plant equipment maintenance, Enigma created an automated system to decrease energy waste, pollution, and waste generation in industrial processes.
The judges also announced five additional recognitions for excellent initiatives. These initiatives addressed a range of difficulties, including tracking carbon credits on a blockchain, optimizing building designs, managing scrap for plastic recycling using AI, monitoring solar panel power, and deep learning that is optimized for manufacturing flaw detection.
āHexagon considers sustainability to be both the planet's greatest commercial opportunity and its greatest problem in the twenty-first century. The goal of Hexathon 2023 was to inspire and empower the following generation of innovators. We genuinely think that technology can alter the world for the better, and it was inspiring to see innovation and creativity on exhibit. We eagerly anticipate seeing how these brilliant individuals' proposals will play out in the real world,ā said Navneet Mishra, Hexagon Capability Centre India's SVP and General Manager.
The core standards that support sustainability, the use of suitable technology, developing scalable and novel solutions, as well as having financial depth, resolving business issues, and consequently having commercial viability, were used to decide the winning teams.
About Hexagon
Hexagon, which combines sensor, software, and autonomous technologies, is a world leader in digital reality solutions. They use data to improve industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and transportation applications' efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety.
Their technological advancements assure a scalable, sustainable future by transforming industrial and human-related ecosystems into more networked and self-sufficient systems.
Hexagon has over 24,000 people in 50 countries, with annual net sales of about 5.2 billion euros.
