Sustainable smart home hackathon

The KNX Association has launched its first KNX Hackathon, a collaborative international event exploring the use of KNX technology to create solutions for smart homes that improve people’s lives and make societies more sustainable.

With the focus of the KNX Hackathon 2023 being on sustainability, KNX will bring together participants from around the world at in-person and virtual local spaces to solve a challenge designed by KNX experts.

The criteria to choose winners will be based on suggestions as to how KNX solutions or projects can help reduce the use of energy as well as a building’s carbon footprint. The participant projects should be focused on solutions for smart homes and buildings that demonstrate energy savings and reduction of CO₂ emissions using KNX technology. Additional consideration will be given to those projects that also use the latest innovations of KNX IoT technology as well as KNX Secure devices.

“Our long-term vision is to see KNX used everywhere for energy-efficient homes, buildings and cities,” said KNX Association Marketing Team Leader Casto Cañavate, “but whilst we know KNX can make a big difference in saving energy, we need the figures to back up our claims.

“There is already a lot of great work going on by individuals and companies in reducing the carbon footprint of buildings, and the KNX Hackathon will help us bring this experience together to produce the hard facts we need to persuade the wider world that KNX is a compelling choice. This is our opportunity to prove that KNX is helping to build a more sustainable future.”

The competition is open to all comers, all over the world. Any individual or team can enter, including students, hobbyists, professionals, scientific members, manufacturers, distributors and non-members.

KNX Association provides guidelines, ideas and set challenges for all entrants, who can also present their own challenges and projects.

The competition will be a hybrid event. First, there will be the opportunity to provide a virtual submission as part of the KNXperience event in Q3/4 2023, involving a video and presentation of results. Then, there will be the opportunity to present submissions in person in a dedicated expo area at the KNX Scientific Conference due to take place Q3/4 2023. All entrants can choose whether to enter the virtual or real-life events or both. The finalists and winners will be selected by a specially appointed jury of industry experts and will be notified in the new year.

To register for the KNX Hackathon 2023, visit: https://www.knx-iotech.org/hackathon/#preregister.

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