Team Hacking Bad from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology (SPIT), Mumbai, emerged victorious in the first 36-hour Manipal Hackathon, which concluded here on Sunday.
A press release here on Tuesday said that the SPIT team also walked away with a cheque for ₹ 1 lakh. Team Codelion from Mumbai University finished runners-up in the event organised by the Student Council of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), as part of the annual fest, “Tech Tatva 19”. This team also bagged a cheque for ₹ 50,000.
Rajen Padukone, group president, Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG), Bengaluru, was the chief guest.
Also present were B.H.V. Pai, Joint Director of MIT, and Narayana Shenoy, Associate Director (Student Welfare).
The theme for the hackathon was,“Social innovation”. Each team worked on one of the five given problem statements: To make roadways more efficient; To improve healthcare systems; To reduce crime against women; To make better medical prescription systems, and To develop smart city projects. The astounding solutions submitted by the teams served as an attestation to the success of the event.
Team Hacking Bad developed an application to help improve women’s safety. The application marks regions in a locality as safe or unsafe. Further, it automatically sends SoS alerts to the appropriate authorities and pre-selected contacts upon the application user entering an unsafe zone. It is designed to reduce the reaction time taken for help to reach in these situations.
The runners-up, Team Codelion, from Mumbai University, developed a dynamic traffic light system which works by detecting the number of vehicles approaching a traffic signal and displaying traffic signals accordingly. Such a system would be more efficient than the conventional timer-based traffic lights. It also has the potential to reduce congestion and pollution in cities.
Four other teams received a special mention: Team Kuber Techies, Ramaiah Institute of Technology; Team Default, Pune Institute of Computer Technology; Team Code O Holics also from the same Pune institute, and Team Coldblooded.io from Pillai College of Engineering, the release said.
