Make inventive solutions to real-world wicked problems using the KNX Technology. The first KNX Hackathon is a collaborative international space which aims to become the largest annual global hackathon using the KNX technology to create solutions for smart homes that improve people’s lives and impact the planet in a positive way, making societies more sustainable.
Pre-registration is open now!
KNX Hackathon 2023 will focus on sustainability, with the aim of motivating the making of ideas that would enable a more sustainable world.
Over the course of two days, KNX brings participants from around the world together at in-person and virtual local spaces to solve a challenge by KNX experts .
The criteria to choose winners will be based on what describes and measures how KNX solutions or KNX projects help to reduce the use of energy as well as CO² carbon footprint.
The participant projects should be focused on solutions for smart homes, buildings that demonstrate energy savings and reduction of CO2 emissiong for a sustainable for and smart living using the KNX technology.
Additional added value will be considered for those projects also using the latest innovations of KNX KNX IoT technology as well as KNX Secure devices.
You’ll be featured in all our communication media
You’ll be in with the chance of winning a financial prize
Promotion within the media of sponsor and partners
Webinar promoting the idea so that it can be executed by other professionals around the world
Are you interested in participating at the KNX Hackathon 2023 but need ideas to join?
Your challenge is to demonstrate how KNX technology makes the most efficient use of energy and has a good impact on global warming through the reduction of CO2 emissions. Think about how you can demonstrate that KNX products, KNX solutions or KNX projects help save energy for the users and how to make a stand on the importance of integrating the concept of energy efficiency in their daily life.
Every team or individual can participate to solve one or several challenges. After selecting the challenges, we will provide you with a template in which you will have to complete all the detailed information about your solution.
In general, all the challenges will bring you to answer questions such as: how much energy was used without this product, service, or project? And, how much energy does the user save thanks to its creation? Provide the estimations in energy and cost for the user, what is the saving of CO2 footprint emissions? And so on.
We want you to get as creative as possible so if you have your own idea to submit to the KNX Hackathon, please opt for the “My own challenge” below and tell us about your personal or team idea, we will be pleased to incorporate it into the competition.
Because KNX can help build a more sustainable future. KNX Association is aware that so many of you are helping to reduce energy consumption in buildings using KNX in all sorts of ways, which is why it is launching KNX Hackathon 2023 as an opportunity to prove what a difference using KNX can make. As KNX Association Marketing Team Leader, Casto Cañavate, puts it, “Our long-term vision is to see KNX used everywhere for energy-efficient homes, buildings and cities, but whilst we know KNX can make a big difference in saving energy, we need the figures to back up our claims. There is already a lot of great work going on by individuals and companies in reducing the carbon footprint of buildings, and the KNX Hackathon will help us bring this experience together to produce the hard facts we need to persuade the wider world that KNX is a compelling choice. This is our opportunity to prove that KNX is helping to build a more sustainable future.”
The competition is open to all comers all over the world. Any individual or team can enter, including students, hobbyists, professionals, scientific members, manufacturers, distributors and non-members.
There are a range of challenges to choose from. As long as you can prove how KNX saves energy, your entry will be publicized and you will be in with a chance to be selected as a finalist.
Absolutely! This is a great opportunity to put yourself, your team or your company on the map as an energy-saving champion. KNX Hackathon 2023 offers something for everyone, as every valid submission will be listed and receive a free marketing package for the year. In addition, selected finalists will be in the running to win prize money plus the prestigious ‘KNX Hackathon 2023’ trophy.
The effects of KNX Hackathon 2023 will be far-reaching and long-lasting. Not only will it provide our industry with hard evidence that could make all the difference in pitches, proposals, consultations, tenders etc, but it will also provide a platform to share experience, ideas and best practice in terms of energy saving, so that others can benefit from it.
KNX Association provides guidelines, ideas and set challenges for all entrants and you can also present your own challenges and projects. The competition will be a hybrid event. First, there will be the opportunity to provide a virtual submission as part of the KNXperience event in Q3/4 2023, involving a video and presentation of results. Then there will be the opportunity to present submissions in person in a dedicated expo area at the KNX Scientific Conference due to take place Q3/4 2023. All entrants can choose whether to enter the virtual or real-life events or both. The finalists and winners will be selected by a specially-appointed jury of industry experts and will be notified in the new year.
Registration for KNX Hackathon 2023 is now open.
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You and your team have your own solution to save energy and to measure the reduction of the CO2 footprint impact. We are looking forward to meeting your ideas.
What to do with an excess of energy can also become an additional problem when aiming to be sustainable. It is therefore also important to make proper use of that extra energy. The challenge here is to find the best solution for it once all demand is fully covered already.
Being sustainable can be seen from different perspectives. A main use case of sustainability comes when renewable sources of energy take part as a supply for consumption in smart homes or buildings. By integrating such sources of energy, we don’t only lower the dependency to the grid, but drastically reduce the CO2 carbon footprint. It is your challenge to build a solution, service or project that integrates one or more renewable sources of energy to a smart home project.
It is often necessary to combine different devices to create a solution that fulfills the requirements in smart home and or building projects. For instance, to monitor the use of energy it is needed to create a project with different sensors, actuators, interfaces, monitors and screens, and even specific monitoring software might be required to create an integral solution that helps the user to save energy as well as to reduce the carbon footprint. Other examples can be saving in the use of heating systems, air-conditioning, etc. It is your challenge to create a solution that creates the perfect mix.
When working in the arena of smart homes and smart buildings, we need to use individual devices to save energy. There are lots of smart products, it is your challenge to make the best configuration of the specific device you select so that it helps achieve saving energy where it is installed.
The process culminates in the development of a fully and truly connected network when combining all possibilities. For example: KNX classic, KNX net/IP, KNX IoT Third Party API, and KNX IoT Point API, with the semantics of the information model on top of all, makes the possibilities to connect with any KNX product and solution limitless.
As we have already witnessed this opens new business opportunities under the so-called Services with KNX.
KNX was born to integrate diverse applications from different vendors into one common project for smart home and building. Now, customers demand more comprehensive solutions, and so professionals have asked us for new technology. That’s why we’ve developed Services with KNX, a consequence of the unlimited possibilities KNX IoT brings to the technology.
Thanks to Services with KNX, professionals can extend their portfolio with new services, and so end-customers will be able to see all their needs integrated through the whole project. A more connected world for Smart Living.
Thirdly, with the open source technology KNX Point API, we optimize and make the language fully agile by implementing the construction of truly IP networks which can integrate a scalable number of devices, so you can do less and enjoy more. Moreover, we still guarantee the highest security so your home or building is always protected.
By 2022, KNX Point API will allow IPv6 communication, and so enable installations to be extended with devices using media like Thread or WiFi to exchange KNX data.
Secondly, we expand the integration possibilities thanks to the newly approved standard KNX Third Party API and the KNX Information Model. We open a new era of connections through a common language by KNX, oriented to make life easy and, moreover, smart. We are preparing the path for not only smart homes and buildings, but also smart cities.
Thanks to the KNX Third Party API, we expand cloud integration with bidirectional communication between KNX and and the third party. Cloud applications can, therefore, subscribe to information on demand, minimising costs and data transfer to the cloud.
Because of the widespread use of the internet, the market demands a well documented way to interact with every system, using the mechanisms and codes of the IT industry. This is now possible thanks to the KNX Information Model, so that all projects are better documented for KNX professionals and any other IT professional willing to connect with KNX over IP.
KNXnet/IP was the first step we took back in 2007. We opened our doors to the IP world, enabling, creating, and standardizing new integrated connections, while improving the KNX security system within the IoT world with KNX IP Secure.
KNX IP Secure extends the IP protocol in such a way that all transferred telegrams and data are completely encrypted. In addition, KNX Data Secure effectively protects user data against unauthorised access and manipulation by means of encryption and authentication. Learn more about KNX Secure.
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