CROC has opened a collection of tasks for the All-Russian industrial hackathon ProHack 4.0. Any industrial company interested in improving the efficiency and safety of production processes can become the author of the problem. In the final of the competition, IT teams with the participation of leading industry experts and IT manufacturers will test hypotheses and offer conceptual solutions to real business cases using the Internet of Things, video analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, drones and other industry 4.0 technologies in 36 hours. Acceptance of tasks from the industrial sector will last until September 30, applications from teams - from September 16 to October 25.
Sibur, UralChem, PhosAgro, Gazpromneft and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences have already joined the hackathon. The participation of a number of other energy, metallurgical, petrochemical, machine-building and other industrial enterprises is being discussed. Among the stated tasks is control over the availability of personal protective equipment using video analytics. The participants will also determine the possibility of using machine vision to recognize defects on the metal surface, and identify anomalies in the operation of equipment using data science and blockchain.
The final of the competition will take place on November 16-17 in Moscow. Here, IT teams (from 3 to 5 people), who proposed the best solutions at the selection stage, will be able to implement their ideas, taking into account additional input from the companies that authored the problems, discuss ideas with experts and test vendor tools. The hackathon's technological stack will evolve as new tasks arrive. For example, participants will be able to test their hypotheses and test the developed prototypes using a flexible and scalable sandbox based on the CROC Cloud Services platform. Blockchain-related tasks can be solved using the Exonum blockchain framework from Bitfury. Citrix has also joined the technical partners.
“Industrial companies often come to CROC with non-standard software development tasks, where several ideas need to be tested to find an optimal solution,” says Sergey Strelkov, Director of Software Development at CROC IT company. - To solve such problems, CROC already has an ecosystem, which includes specialists from various technological practices and CROC development groups, proven partners and vendors with their best tools. As part of the hackathon, we scale this experience so that after two days of active work, our industrial customers receive viable solutions to problems, as well as insights for future projects. ”
CROC has been developing competences in Industry 4.0 technologies for more than 5 years and has many years of experience in solving problems of the largest industrial companies in the country, for example, Rosatom and Rosenergoatom, Mosenergo, RusHydro, Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant, Severstal. The technology experts of the hackathon will be the developers of software for controlling drones, diagnostic terminals, an IoT module for a smart helmet, industrial video analytics and Digital Worker platforms, as well as representatives of professional associations.
The event is held with the informational support of the media - Neftegaz.RU, RUBEZH, "Metal supply and sales", "Journal of the chief engineer", "Automation in industry", "Automation and IT in the energy", "Automation and IT in the oil and gas field" , Tproger, RUSCADASEC, "Labor protection" and others. The hackathon also supported the Security Technologies Forum (TB Forum), an authoritative event on national security issues, and TECH WEEK 2019, an applied conference and exhibition on innovative technologies for solving business problems.
The final of the event will be held at the CROC headquarters in Moscow. The hackathon winners will receive cash prizes and certificates for training in the launch and development of IT products within the CROC Accelerator. The hackathon's prize fund will be 450 thousand rubles. You can find out more details, send a task or an application for team participation, suggest tools for the technology stack on the website - www.prohack.croc.ru.
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CROC is one of the leaders in the Russian information technology market. An IT company creates a new digital ecosystem of society, implementing projects in 40 countries around the world. CROC provides a full portfolio of IT services in the field of system integration, consulting, replicated products, managed B2B services, promising end-to-end technologies - Big Data, blockchain, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, Internet of things, robotization, machine learning.
