The Korea Electronics Technology Institute held the “7th KETI Mobius International Developer Competition” on/offline award ceremony at the Pangyo 2nd Techno Valley Business Support Hub on June 13 to showcase international standard-based IoT services.
The event was hosted by KETI and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and was sponsored by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Korea Intelligent IoT Association, the Korea Internet of Things Society, and TTA.
Mobius is a global open-source IoT platform released by KETI in 2015 based on oneM2M, an IoT standard. About 1,000 companies and institutions around the world are currently using it for their projects.
The competition was held in an online format for about three months from March, and 44 teams from all over the world, including the United States, Korea, India, and Spain, submitted various IoT application service ideas, and 22 teams advanced to the finals.
KETI awarded the following prizes:
- 1st prize (Minister of Science and ICT Award, 3 million won): Summit team from Summit Corporation
- 2nd prize (KETI Director’s Award, ETSI Director’s Award, 2 million won each): SFIM team from Sejong University, CompEng PSU team from Pennsylvania State University
- 3rd prize (Best Achievement Awards, 1 million won each): 5 teams, including the Indian Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Malaga, Raonnuri, and Korea University
The 1st prize winner, the Summit team from the Summit Corporation, implemented a safety service for people walking down the crosswalk using a smartphone using oneM2M’s latest standard technologies such as location information inquiry API.
The 2nd prize winner, the SFIM team from Sejong University, implemented a remote management system for smart farms using metaverse. The system used various APIs of the oneM2M standard to perform remote control on farms by recognizing the user’s motion, rather than just monitoring the farm status in real time.
The ETSI award winner, the CompEng PSU team from Pennsylvania State University, USA, developed a remote control robot system using AI image recognition and the oneM2M standard.
The Indian Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the University of Malaga in Spain, the Raonnuri from Korea and the Korea University team also won awards.
Shin Hee-dong, director of KETI, said, “The Mobius International Developer Contest, which took place for the 7th time this year, gave us a good opportunity to observe the development of IoT services such as smartphone users’ safety system and metaverse-based smart farm service.” He added, “We will actively provide the winners with opportunities for growth so that they can develop their services into commercial products, not just entries for a contest.”
KETI will participate in the “2023 Mobius – oneM2M International Forum” scheduled for October with the winning teams. During the event, KETI will have a discussion on how to expand the Mobius technology and oneM2M standard to Taiwan’s IoT market. It also plans to operate a PR center dedicated to Mobius at the 6th Taiwan International AIoT Exhibition.
