Examples of MEC-enabled vertical segments applications include (but are not limited to) the following big categories of use cases (here called blueprints):

• automotive
• factories of the future
• drones
• consumer, media and entertainment

Submissions for one of the blueprints are allowed. In addition, as a special prize, for this edition of the Hackathon, developers are encouraged to focus on the automotive domain, in synergy with the Smart Road project (https://www.torinocitylab.com/en/).

Developers’ teams at the Hackathon will be tasked to develop Android applications for services in MEC-enabled networks, running on OpenNESS platform (1) from Intel and using ETSI MEC technologies (2).

Candidate developers’ teams are free to choose a specific challenge/blueprint adhering to the above topics. To inspire ideas, the following use case example is provided (link: here ).

Of course, candidates are encouraged to reuse their existing or past projects with their applications, and apply/adapt to the present challenge. In addition, teams will learn and exploit the ETSI MEC APIs running on the MEC Hosts at the competition (e.g. Location API, … ). (3)

An explanation of the usage of the available Location API (kindly provided by LINKS Foundation) can be founds here

On any of the above use case/blueprint or any problem that you are working on, please take up the challenge (optional) to see how the following can help you (4):

• • Data Parallel C++ or DPC++ cross-architecture language from the oneAPI initiative to create custom accelerators on the FPGA for your kernel algorithm.
  • OpenVINO™ toolkit to accelerate deep learning inference tasks for computer vision applications. The OpenVINO toolkit includes various neural network topologies and enables deep learning inference acceleration.