Android Things Contest Winners









Posted by Dave Smith,
Developer Advocate for IoT


Back in September, we href="https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/09/android-things-hackster-contest.html">worked
with Hackster.io to encourage the developer community to build smart
connected devices using Android Things and post their projects to the href="https://www.hackster.io/contests/Google">Developer Challenge for Android
Things. The goal was to showcase the combination of turnkey hardware and a
powerful SDK for building and maintaining devices at scale.



Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest and submitted a project or
idea. We had over 1100 participants register for the contest, resulting in over
350 submissions. Out of that group, we've chosen three winners. Each winner will
receive support and tools from href="https://www.dragoninnovation.com/">Dragon Innovation to develop their
concepts into commercial products. Join us in congratulating the following
makers!



Best Enterprise Project: href="https://www.hackster.io/james-puderer/distributed-air-quality-monitoring-using-taxis-69647e">Distributed
Air Quality Monitoring



Maker: James
Puderer



Monitor air quality on a street-by-street level using Android Things, Google
Cloud IoT Core, and taxis!



This project showcases how Android Things makes it easy to build devices that
integrate with the various services provided by the Google Cloud Platform for
robust data collection and analysis. It's a clever end-to-end solution that
shows understanding of both the problem domain as well as the technology.




Best Start Up Project: href="https://www.hackster.io/iot-design-shop/brewcentral-great-tasting-all-grain-brewing-for-everyone-d7660a">BrewCentral



Maker: Trent Shumay and href="https://www.hackster.io/spridie">Steven Pridie



Brewing amazing beer is a balance of art, science, and ritual. The
BrewCentral system makes it possible for anyone to do an all-grain brew!



BrewCentral pairs a real-time PID controller with the touch-enabled UI and
decision-making compute power of Android Things. The result is a system that
accurately controls the time, temperature, and flow rates necessary to achieve
repeatable results during a brew cycle. The planned enhancements for cloud-based
brewing recipes will make this a connected experience for the entire brewing
community.




Best IoT Project: href="https://www.hackster.io/hitherejoe/braillebox-braille-news-reader-e86060">BrailleBox
- Braille News Reader



Maker: Joe Birch



BrailleBox is a small piece of hardware that empowers users who are
hard-of-sight to read the latest news articles in Braille.



This project is a great use case of using IoT to have a social impact. The
current proof of concept streams articles from a news feed to the Braille pad,
but this project has the potential to leverage machine learning on the device to
translate additional input from the physical world into a Braille result.




Honorable Mentions



The community submitted some amazing projects for the contest, which made the
choice of picking only three winners extremely difficult. Here are a few of our
favorite projects that weren't selected for a prize:


  • Andro
    Cart    : A shopping cart device powered by Android Things. Designed to help
    decentralize point of sale (POS) billing.
  • SIGHT:
    For the Blind    : A pair of smart glasses for the blind, powered by Android
    Things and TensorFlow.
  • href="https://www.hackster.io/mhanuel/industrial-iot-gateway-based-on-android-things-c680d1">Industrial
    IoT Gateway: A smart industrial gateway for the IoT world based on Android
    Things.
  • href="https://www.hackster.io/oscarsalguero/sentinel-8234b3">Sentinel: The
    first semi-autonomous home security robot based on Android Things.
  • href="https://www.hackster.io/daniele-bonaldo/android-things-word-clock-46cc14">Word
    Clock: A creative take on reading the time, powered by Android Things.
    Control it via the Nearby API or the Google Assistant.


We encourage everyone to check out all the new projects in the href="https://www.hackster.io/google/products/android-things?sort=trending">Google
Hackster community, and submit your own as well! You can also join href="https://g.co/iotdev">Google's IoT Developers Community on Google+, a
great resource to get updates, ask questions, and discuss ideas. We look forward
to seeing what exciting projects you build!



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