Deductive alternative hacker marathon, wit cloud The second China smart hardware 36-hour development competition to reproduce the rapid development

The booming of the Internet, the creation of the content of hardware development marathon in the world, attracted a lot of hardware talent, Chong and the popularity of smart phones from the coding trend of the hacker marathon in the global popularity, called the Programmer's "American Idol", a group of software development experts gathered a hall, Dozens of hours to develop a plug-in or decipher a program, tired or sitting or lying on-site rest, done on-the-spot hand-made works, is the world's coolest developer carnival. In recent years with the IoT industry customers and enthusiasts of all ages.

But throughout the world, intelligent Hardware Development Marathon but few people organization, the reason is that the intelligent hardware is an interdisciplinary complex, not only need to master the hardware development capabilities, but also need to have software application development, cloud computing and big data development capabilities, not by one's own power can be completed. However, thanks to the continuous development of cloud computing, and the continuous maturation of software-defined hardware, especially the support of open source development tools such as smart Cloud, the international leading intelligent hardware self-help development and cloud service platform, not only makes the form of hackathon can be innovated in intelligent hardware development, Also let software engineers and hardware engineers can not be subject to the limitations of their own development technology, breaking the technical barriers, so that intelligent hardware, and even artificial intelligence in a short period of time to complete the development of the possibility.

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36-Hour Intelligent Hardware Development contest to make the day of creativity become reality

Every engineer has different ideas and ideas, but can only run out of ideas because of some development problems. For example, you can only product hardware design, you need a team to do app development and build servers; For example, if you're a software engineer and you've developed your app, you'll want a hardware engineer to help you build and test your hardware, and when you want to collect data from your device, you'll need a cloud team. The problems that these developers encounter when they burst into "brainstorming" ideas are often aborted by a lack of like-minded and complementary developers.

"Now, engineers are developing a smart hardware product that doesn't have that much of a problem. Synge Xing, vice president of Smart Cloud, told us: "To do intelligent hardware development, we must enable communication between devices, the cloud and apps to realize remote control equipment and real-time acquisition and monitoring of equipment data, the original words need developers with software, hardware and cloud-related development experience can be achieved." Now wit Cloud provides a one-stop development tool and cloud service for different types of developers, greatly reducing the development and commissioning cycle. For an engineer with development experience, using the Smart Cloud platform can develop a practical intelligent hardware, wit cloud is currently the most popular development platform for developers, more than two years have hatched tens of thousands of intelligent hardware. ”

As Synge Xing, vice president of Smart Cloud, said, following the December 2015 first China intelligent Hardware 36-hour development competition in Beijing, the spring building successfully held, the first contestant randomly Zhiyun to Silicon Valley and intelligent hardware entrepreneurs exchange, The second China smart hardware 36-hour Development competition, jointly organized by the Wit cloud joint Huaqiang North Creator Center, was held in Shenzhen Huaqiang North in December 2016, with 7 teams developing all the products in 36 hours and on-site display, the first one will continue to be randomly zhiyun together to Silicon Valley and Silicon Valley intelligent hardware entrepreneurs to do deep communication. With powerful tools and platforms to support, intelligent Hardware Marathon development is no longer difficult.

With software-defined hardware, AI is no longer remote

In the smart hardware this product unit, hardware is the load of software, but the production capacity of the hardware is fixed, and the needs of the market is constantly changing, with software to define hardware, can no longer be limited to hardware maintenance and after-sales service costs, such as based on real-time acquisition, monitoring data and remote control functions, And can detect the early fault equipment, can automatically send early warning signal to the cloud Linkage customer service system, manufacturers can be remote maintenance before the failure, and can be through remote software to complete product function upgrade.

To solve this problem, smart cloud is undoubtedly the best choice for developers. Developers can use the smart Cloud self-help development platform, eliminating the hassle of building a complex business cloud, using the smart Cloud Fool interface to define hardware device data points, in the absence of physical devices, engineers can use smart cloud virtual device real-time simulation of the hardware environment, to help test the app ; Use the open source IoT suite Gokit to get started with IoT development, use the Open Source app framework to dramatically shorten app development cycles, reduce development costs, and automatically generate smart cloud MCU code, and developers only need to add sensor control functions to the corresponding event-handling logic. Can complete the development of products, greatly reducing the difficulty of development;

Developers can also use the Smart Cloud Open API to quickly develop HTML-based light applications such as Web pages or applications, and use the Serial Port Standard Protocol (gagent) to provide two-way data communication for upper-level applications (such as mobile app control, cloud) to product devices In this process, developers only need to care about the business logic development of the product; Wit cloud also supports arbitrary invocation of third-party APIs to create app applications, applications, device networking configurations, and autonomous selection of public, private, and hybrid cloud deployment scenarios. In addition, wit cloud complete IoT big Data and machine learning system, but also provides a stable enterprise-class IoT Big data analysis, so that data management humanization, equipment Operation intelligence. Developers can achieve product development by focusing on their areas of expertise.

The first prize of the contest, "Air quality inspection Station", is a two-bit hardware development engineers with the cloud and app development tools provided by the smart clouds to complete the product development, and for their own not good app development, the use of Smart Cloud Open source app framework, only half a day to develop the completion, The project supports mobile app to view data in real-time, can connect the early-warning response device according to the actual scene, and can make the air quality report by the intelligent cloud Server generated data graph. By collecting device data and customer usage habits, big data based on the cloud can also perform preference analysis to improve product functionality and services, and then enter the next phase of AI to enable local real-time customization of product services.

Air quality monitoring Station

Liu Dahai, is the second China intelligent Hardware 36-hour Development Competition champion project leader, although in the robotics industry has been engaged in hardware development for 6 years, but this is his first time to participate in the limited development contest. When asked about Liu workers's biggest difficulty in doing the project, he said: "A few years ago, when I saw the haze, I wanted to do an air quality monitoring station, but I didn't understand app development, how to build a server, small circles and busy work, and difficult to find like-minded friends." In November 2016, when the show came into contact wit Cloud, found that the smart cloud provides a strong cloud services, open source app framework and professional technical support services, just make up for my short board, so began to learn, and then pick up the previous idea of the contest, finally smoothly into the final, to meet my idea of the product. ”

Complete ecological chain to help commercialize products

For most developers, work is usually focused on a certain direction in a particular area, and developers who are generally familiar with hardware development, because of the time cost, it is difficult to cross-line deep learning software programming. So most of the time, not because the developer is not creative, but the technology is limited to lead to the creation of creativity. and a creative to product realization, far less than the hacker marathon, the creation of the marathon as simple and easy, not only need to clarify its real needs, whether it is feasible, in this process also need to work with the team to do product planning, hardware development, app development, UI design and so on.

In the smart hardware 36-hour development contest, not only to provide the developer with technical support and life needs, back to the developer to restore the entire development process, the team in 36 hours to complete product planning, procurement of sensors, cloud-defined data points, hardware prototyping, app development, 3D production industrial design, product testing, Roadshow and so on all aspects, the most interesting is that after the project idea is determined, the developer can buy their own sensors in Huaqiang Electronics City Limited time, but also use the competition to provide the oscilloscope and 3D printer to complete the prototype of the work.

The team also won the cloud creation, Zhiyuan Electronics, Apicloud, Qingcloud, Pmcaff, Craigie and other IoT industry leading enterprises and Huaqiang Electronics City many sensor merchants, for the team to provide a complete hardware and software development services, including component procurement, PCB proofing production, testing certification, cloud Platform access, technical support, site occupancy, legal advice, investment and financing services, to help the creation of product commercialization.

The competition brings together the tools and resources needed in the process of product originality, realizes the short-time creative landing of the intelligent hardware, and effectively constructs a development platform with free, open and innovative spirit. This novel way of competition, but also attracted the people live, pepper live, Dragon beads Live, KK Live, Fighting Fish, b station and other six authoritative media platform for 36 hours of uninterrupted live broadcast, and by the Japanese NHK TV and Shenzhen, the attention and interview of TV.

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It is not difficult to imagine that developers using smart cloud mature development tools and cloud services, has broken the intelligent hardware development of technical differences barriers, can help the entire industry to create more and better products, and strongly support the sustainable development of the Internet of things industry. It is learned that the future of such a novel form of smart cloud will persist, and will continue to update and improve the development tools, and even provide developers with artificial intelligence and fog computing advanced development technology.

Deductive alternative hacker marathon, wit cloud The second China smart hardware 36-hour development competition to reproduce the rapid development