The German Jordanian University (GJU), through its Program Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) as well as the NanoLab team and IBTECAR Consulting in partnership with several national and international universities and institutions organized the Energy Digitalization Hackathon 2020 as a part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The event was sponsored by Orange Jordan and the “Innovative Peer to Peer Electricity Sharing Towards the Development of Smart and Cooperative Microgrids” research project as well as Saxeed.jet project by the DAAD. The hackathon aimed at finding solutions that provide digital transformation concepts for energy sector challenges in Jordan and to bridge the gap between research outcomes and the needs of electricity networks by using applied digital innovations.
The hackathon took place online during the period from 16th to 23rd of November 2020. It started with an online webinar organized in cooperation with EDAMA association. Following that and during the week two parallel phases took place; trainings for technical and non-technical topics phase and working on the challenges phase. Design Thinking training sessions were delivered, and coaches provided the support through the whole phases to help the teams to come up with a clear vision for challenges and solutions. Besides that, the participants received training in the following topics; Internet of Things, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence with the focus on energy digitalization solutions to enable the participants gain the basics of technical knowhow to develop their ideas.
On the last day, the expert judging panel selected three winning teams.
Team Neurotech won the first place with an impressive idea that aims to solve the electricity outage at refugee camps by splitting the main feeder into two feeders; one for the high priority loads and the other for low priority loads in order to prevent the load curtailment for all loads.
Energy team won the second place with an idea to smartly re-distribute the loads between power feeders in a way that the amount of the power losses in the distribution network is dropped significantly.
ZeroCo2 team won the third place with an idea that is about increasing the share of renewable power system in the electric grid. Their solution is to have energy management device to accurately and precisely control the power flow in the network. The solution also includes the control of the storage units using AI algorithms to optimize the operation.
On top of that, Energy TITANS team from Tunisia won as the best international team with a very creative idea that is about smart garbage collection system. The system indicates the level of the garbage inside the container as well as identified the shortest path between the full containers.
The winners have been awarded with the amount of 1500JOD, which are sponsored through Orange Jordan. In addition, they will have the chance to attend more advanced trainings to help them develop their projects further.
For more information, please contact:
Program Innovation and Entrepreneurship: pie@gju.edu.jo
NanoLab: http://nanolab.gju.edu.jo/
