DCU Computer Applications student Laura Browne has carried off top prize of €1,000 at the final of the Intel Galileo Third Level Technology Competition at the Science Gallery in Dublin.
The competition, which began in February, invited third level students to create projects based on the Intel’s Galileo single-board PC (designed in Ireland).
The winning project was a Power Scout Energy Monitor built using a Galileo, Grove base shield and Grove energy sensors to monitor the energy usage of various electrical appliances the home. This energy data was collected every 30 seconds and stored in a MySQL database hosted on Amazon Web Services. The information was then displayed on on separate graphs by querying the database using plot.ly and python.
Following the first round of the competition, which involved students submitting their project ideas and a short video summary online, a shortlist of six projects was selected. The finalists came together on 1 May for a special showcase in coordination with Techweek 2015.
The award was presented by Philip Moynagh, VP Internet of Things Group at Intel. “The digital world has been completely transformed in the last decade and the physical world is now at a similar tipping point,” he said. “In this next computing wave driven by the Internet of Things it will be those who can move quickly and seize opportunities fast that will benefit most from the transformation. We have been very impressed by the projects on display today and it is really exciting for us to see these students bringing these innovative applications to life using a technology that was designed right here in Ireland”.
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