You should be able to provide a rough-and-ready proof of concept and function such that your idea can be demonstrated for review by the judges. This can be either done by building a prototype or functional demonstrator.

There is no restriction to use any language, technology stack, or libraries. You can use any of them to create your solution.

You can use the Arduino IDE – open source environment and PnP (Arduino’s ESLOV abstraction).

At the end of the 4.5 months development phase your final project documentation should be uploaded to the Junction App. Following documents are required:

• A project presentation addressing the evaluation criteria and giving a synopsis of your idea. The presentation should not exceed 15 slides. (Possible formats: ppt, pptx, pdf)
• A final Video that demonstrates your idea (max. 3 minutes). (Possible formats: Mov, MP4, Avi, Mpg)

Submission deadline: 30th of September 2021. For details please see the Rules and Regulations of the Bosch Sensortec IoT Innovation Challenge.

The submitted projects will be evaluated by a professional jury consisting of members of the MST Kongress’ steering committee, Robert Bosch GmbH and Bosch Sensortec GmbH. Depending on the number of registered teams, the competition will be held in one or two stages. A maximum of 10 teams will be admitted to the finals at the MST Kongress in November 2021 in Ludwigsburg.

All team projects are compared and evaluated on the basis of the following weighted criteria:

• Innovation (30%)
• Feasibility (20%)
• User Experience (20%)
• Functional Demonstrator (20%)
• Presentation Style (10%)

For details please see the Rules and Regulations of the Bosch Sensortec IoT Innovation Challenge.

Yes, the challenge is free to enter.

Participants grant Bosch Sensortec a non-exclusive, sublicensable, transferable, worldwide, perpetual right to use any work results, whether protected by intellectual property rights, copyrights or other similar rights or not, created by participants during the course of the Bosch Sensortec IoT Innovation Challenge. Upon request of Bosch, participants will grant an exclusive license (in the same scope as listed above) or transfer ownership rights in such work results against an appropriate compensation to be paid by Bosch Sensortec. Each member of a team of participants is entitled to agree on the appropriate compensation in a legally binding way for all team members.

All registration related things happen on the Junction App.

1) When registering on the Junction App, choose ‘Yes’ when asked if you are applying as a team.

2) Click the ☰ icon in the top left corner of the page and go to team page.

3) If you are the team lead, click ‘Create a new team’.

4) The platform now generates you a unique team code. Send this team code to your team members.

5) If you are a member of a team, ask your team lead for the team code. Go to the same team page and insert the team code to join an existing team. If you have not received a code from your team lead, ask the team lead to follow these instructions.

Link sharing is not possible through the Junction App, so please share the team code between all team members for example by e-mail.

Yes, he serves as the team's first point of contact for the organizers and receives the starter kit for the challenge by mail. It is his responsibility that all members of the team will receive the content of the communication with the organizers of the challenge.

The starter kit contains two Arduino Development Boards* with the following sensors: BHI260AB, BMM150, BME688, BMP390L. Software is available for download on the Bosch Sensortec website www.bosch-sensortec.com, subject to the Bosch Sensortec license terms. Additionally Software is available for download on the Arduino website https://www.arduino.cc/en/software, subject to the Arduino license terms.

* Or similar development board. Final product specifications to be confirmed. .

Phase 1: Student teams develop their own IoT solution online from 15th of May to 30th of September 2021.

Phase 2: The 10 best teams present their projects at the MikroSystemTechnik (MST) Kongress 2021, which will take place from 8th to 10th of November 2021 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

Yes, we do offer reimbursement for travel expenses for the 10 best teams who are invited to the MikroSystemTechnik Kongress.

Write us an email and we will help you out or see the General Terms and Conditions for Participants by Bosch Sensortec GmbH.