To all colleges and relevant units:

The Anhui Province College IoT Application Innovation Competition (from now on referred to as the Competition) aims to promote professional development and cultivate college students' innovative abilities through academic competition. It is a provincial B-level event held for college students in Anhui Province. Since its inception in 2013, it has been held for eleven sessions and has grown to involve nearly a hundred universities within the province in recent years. The Competition focuses on IoT industry applications and innovative products, targeting university students as the main participants. It stimulates students' creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit, advances innovation and entrepreneurship education, provides a platform for high-quality IoT engineering talent training, and fosters IoT technology's deep application and development in related fields. The Hefei University of Technology has organized the school competition and participated in the event since 2020, achieving outstanding results. Centered on understanding and participating in high-level IoT competition activities, the school has decided to hold the 2024 Hefei University of Technology IoT Application Innovation Competition and the Anhui Province College IoT Application Innovation Competition qualifying round.

I. Competition Organization

The IoT Application Innovation Competition is led and managed by the Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Office, with the establishment of the Hefei University of Technology IoT Application Innovation Competition Organizing Committee responsible for promotion, organization, coaching, and judging of the competition.

II. Competition Format and Process

In line with the 2024 Provincial Competition announcement (http://jyt.ah.gov.cn/tsdw/gdjyc/dxsxkhjnjs/40694714.html) and fully considering our school's actual conditions, this year's school-level competition will include two types: Creative Contest and Skills Contest.

Competition categories:

(1) Undergraduate and Graduate Works Competitions

The theme is "Smart Connectivity and Smart Living," requiring submission of software and hardware works with IoT functions, including a report on the work, an introduction, and a functional demonstration video. The works should reflect design innovation and application effects. The creativity, design, and technical application abilities of the competing teams are assessed by submitting design reports of physical IoT works and other materials, along with on-site defense and demonstration.

The works competition requires expert review, followed by on-site defenses for some works to determine the winners at the school level and the list of those advancing to the provincial competition.

The scoring criteria for the works competition are as follows:

Complete specified technical tasks on-site, meeting all functional and skill requirements of the competition questions, such as code, screenshots, etc. This includes nine items: Industrial Internet, IoT Perception, Embedded Technology, Machine Vision and Sorting Technology, Robotics, Intelligent Vehicles, Drone Early Warning, and Drone Racing, Drone Delivery. The skills competition should demonstrate the contestants' engineering implementation ability, teamwork ability, adaptability, technical application level, and effectiveness.

Teams must prepare the abovementioned①-⑨software and hardware systems independently, each owning a complete set of equipment without sharing among multiple teams. Successful registration does not require school-level defense direct registerion for the provincial competition.

The software and hardware equipment requirements for the skills competition can be found in Annex 5.

Competitors and Supervisors:

Full-time undergraduate and master's students (excluding doctoral students) from our school may freely form teams to participate in the four categories mentioned above. The team size should not exceed three people (among them, skills competition categories②IoT Perception and③Embedded Technology require two members per team); undergraduates and graduate students cannot mix in teams; cross-disciplinary teams are allowed; no more than two supervisors per team, with each teacher serving as the primary supervisor for no more than two projects and as the secondary supervisor for no more than two projects, totaling no more than four projects.

All entries must be products designed or developed by the competitors themselves (or under teacher guidance) and include a statement of integrity. The Competition Organizing Committee is not responsible for verifying the ownership of entries. The competitor shall bear legal responsibility if any infringement or intellectual property violation occurs. Plagiarism, theft, providing false materials, or violating relevant laws and regulations will result in disqualification and bearing all legal responsibilities. Previous competition entries are not allowed to participate in this competition again.

Registration and Submission of Entries:

All competing teams must submit the electronic version of their entry materials before April 9, 2024, at 24:00. Complete and valid submissions are considered successful registrations. Details are as follows:

(1) Both creative and skills competition teams need to submit the electronic version of the registration form and scanned copies of the statement of integrity (signed by the competing students and supervisors), with the paper version of the registration form being final in case of disputes. See Annexes 1 and 2 for specific formats.

(2) Teams in the creative competition should provide a report on their work and an introduction to their work. Optional additional display materials (images or videos are acceptable, requirements are as follows: images in jpg format, no more than 10 images, videos in mp4 or flv format, and the total size of display materials not exceeding 20MB). See Annexes 3 and 4 for details.

(3) Teams in the skills competition should provide objective and detailed information about their hardware and software systems that meet the requirements, referring to Annex 5.

(4) When submitting materials, please indicate whether you are from the main or Xuancheng campuses.

Competition Timings:

The creative competition will be conducted online on the afternoon of April 9, 2024. The total time for team presentations and defenses will be at most 10 minutes. The skills competition will occur on-site at the designated venue, with specific times and groupings to be announced later. When submitting, please indicate which campus you belong to.

III. Awards:

To encourage student participation, all teams meeting the requirements will receive awards, with a total number of awards and proportion set at 10% for first, 20% for second, and 30% for third prizes. The rest will receive honorable mentions.

Representative teams from the creative competition will have a maximum of seven teams advancing to the provincial competition. At the same time, there is currently no limit on the number of teams from the skills competition advancing to the provincial competition. The Organizing Committee will select the top teams based on expert reviews after the contest ends.

IV. Contact Information:

Hefei University of Technology IoT Application Innovation Competition Organizing Committee Secretary-General: Zhou Bo (WeChat ID: 18119927703) Telephone: (0551) 62901366 Contact Person: Wei Sheng (WeChat ID: 19665669940) Telephone: (0551) 1755688090 Contact Person: Ma Xuefeng (WeChat ID: 1305007628) Telephone: (0551) 1755688580 Contact Person: Yang Qianwen (WeChat ID: 1705787070) Telephone: (0551) 1755688575 Contact Person: Fang Mao Sen (WeChat ID: 1030867628) Telephone: (0551) 1030867622 Official WeChat Group: 797674753 (Please send a friend request with your WeChat ID: 18119927703) Electronic Mailbox: 1430072918@qq.com (You can choose to randomly send one email to any of the following email addresses) Email Addresses: 1430072918@qq.com / 2735448492@qq.com / 1030867628@qq.com Submission Email Addresses: 1430072918@qq.com / 2735448492@qq.com / 1030867628@qq.com Please note: All emails should include the subject line "IoT Application Innovation Competition Material Submission."

All attachments can be downloaded from the following website:http://ci.hfut.edu.cn/info/1063/14721.htm