To All Schools and Relevant Units:

The Anhui Provincial Collegiate IoT Application Innovation Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "Competition") is a Category B provincial-level competition for university students in Anhui Province, aimed at promoting academic excellence and fostering innovation capabilities among students. Since its inception in 2013, the Competition has been held twelve times, attracting participation from nearly 100 universities across the province in recent years.

The Competition is designed to inspire innovation and cultivate practical skills, comprehensively evaluating participants' creativity, design, and engineering implementation abilities. It serves as a platform to explore talent development models in IoT-related disciplines. Targeting university students, the Competition encourages collaboration between academia and industry experts, promoting the improvement of practical teaching systems in IoT-related fields. It enhances problem-solving skills and provides a stage for exchange, demonstration, and cooperation in high-quality IoT talent cultivation. Additionally, it drives the application and development of IoT technologies in various sectors, supporting Anhui Province’s efforts to foster ten emerging industries, build industrial clusters, and strengthen universities' capacity to contribute to new quality productive forces.

Since 2020, Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) has consistently organized and participated in the Competition with outstanding results. To further engage students in high-level IoT innovation activities, the university will host the 2025 HFUT IoT Application Innovation Competition, which will also serve as the selection round for the provincial contest.

I. Competition Organization

The IoT Application Innovation Competition is overseen by the Academic Affairs Office, with an Organizing Committee established to manage promotion, coordination, mentoring, and evaluation.

II. Competition Format and Process

Aligned with the 2025 Provincial Competition Guidelines (https://jyt.ah.gov.cn/tsdw/gdjyc/dxsxkhjnjs/40737845.html) and tailored to HFUT’s context, this year’s competition includes two categories:

Creative Competition

Skills Competition

1. Competition Categories:

(1) Undergraduate & Graduate Project Competition

Theme: Smart Connectivity and Intelligent Living

Requirements: Teams must submit IoT-based hardware/software projects, including a project report, introduction, and functional demo video. Submissions should highlight innovation and practical application.

Evaluation: Projects will be assessed based on technical implementation, creativity, and design. Selected teams will proceed to on-site presentations and demonstrations to determine university-level awards and eligibility for the provincial competition.

(Note: Additional sections such as registration details, deadlines, and awards can be appended as needed.)

Scoring Criteria for the Project Competition:

(2) Undergraduate Skills Competition, Graduate Skills Competition

Complete technical tasks with specified requirements on-site, achieving all functions and indicators of the competition topics and skill requirements, such as code, screenshots, etc. This includes 9 projects: ① Industrial Internet, ② IoT Perception, ③ Embedded Technology, ④ Machine Vision and Sorting Technology, ⑤ Robotics, ⑥ Autonomous Vehicles, ⑦ Drone Early Warning, ⑧ Drone Racing, ⑨ Drone Delivery. The skills competitions should demonstrate participants' engineering implementation capabilities, teamwork abilities, adaptability, technical application levels, and effectiveness.

Participating teams are responsible for preparing the software and hardware systems for ①-⑨ above. Each team independently possesses complete equipment, and multiple teams are not allowed to share a set of equipment. No school-level defense is required upon successful registration; direct registration for the provincial competition is allowed.

Requirements for software and hardware equipment for the skills competitions are detailed in Annex 5.

2. Participants and Advisors:

Full-time enrolled undergraduates and graduate students (excluding doctoral students) at our university may freely form teams to participate in the above four categories. The team size cannot exceed 3 members (specifically, for skills competitions ② IoT Perception and ③ Embedded Technology, each team requires 2 members). Undergraduates and graduate students cannot mix in the same team; interdisciplinary team formation is allowed. The number of advisors cannot exceed 2, with each advisor serving as the primary advisor for no more than 2 projects and as the secondary advisor for no more than 2 projects, for a total of no more than 4 projects.

All entries are products designed or developed by the participants themselves (or under the guidance of a teacher) and must be accompanied by a declaration of integrity. The competition organizing committee is not responsible for verifying the ownership of entries. In case of infringement or violation of intellectual property rights, participants shall bear legal responsibility themselves. Those who plagiarize, misappropriate, provide false materials, or violate relevant laws and regulations will be disqualified and bear all legal responsibilities themselves. Previous competition entries are not allowed to participate in this competition again.

3. Registration and Submission Format:

(1) Creative Competition Registration and Submission Format:

Creative competition teams need to submit an electronic version of the registration form and a scanned copy of the declaration of integrity (signed by participating students and advisors). In case of disputes over competition information, the paper version of the registration form shall prevail. Specific formats are detailed in Annex 1 and Annex 2.

Creative competition teams should provide a project report and project introduction. Optional additional presentation materials (such as images or videos, with the requirements: images in jpg format, not exceeding 10, and videos in mp4 or flv format, with the total size of presentation materials not exceeding 20MB). See Annex 3 and Annex 4 for details.

The complete and valid submission of creative competition materials is considered successful registration. The submission deadline is 24:00 on April 1st.

(2) Skills Competition Registration and Submission Format:

Skills competition teams need to submit an electronic version of the registration form and a scanned copy of the declaration of integrity (signed by participating students and advisors). In case of disputes over competition information, the paper version of the registration form shall prevail. Specific formats are detailed in Annex 1 and Annex 2.

Skills competition teams need to provide descriptions (images + text) that meet the system's software and hardware requirements, as well as the team's previous awards and other honorary qualifications. The format is not limited but should strive to be objective and detailed. See Annex 5 for software and hardware requirements.

The complete and valid submission of skills competition materials is considered successful registration. The submission deadline is 12:00 on March 25th.

(3) Participating teams should indicate: Hefei Campus or Xuancheng Campus when submitting materials.

Competition Format:

The creative competition will be conducted online uniformly in the afternoon of April 3, 2025. Specific groupings and times will be announced separately. The total time for each team's project presentation and expert questioning does not exceed 10 minutes.

The skills competition does not require a defense, and advancing lists will be determined through expert reviews.

III. Award Evaluation

This competition sets four award levels: First Prize, Second Prize, Third Prize, and Excellence Award. To encourage students' widespread participation, any team that completes the competition content on time and meets the basic requirements will receive the Excellence Award or higher.

The total number of awards and their proportions for this competition are set as follows: First Prize accounts for 10%, Second Prize accounts for 20%, and Third Prize accounts for 30%.

The school competition organizing committee is responsible for award evaluation. After the evaluation, the organizing committee will select teams to represent our school in the 2025 Anhui Provincial IoT Application Innovation Competition. The maximum number of teams for the creative competition is 10 (8 undergraduate teams + 2 graduate teams), and the number of teams for the skills competition is temporarily unlimited.

IV. Contact Information for the Competition

The Secretariat of the School IoT Application Innovation Competition Organizing Committee is located in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology. The contact persons and their contact information are as follows:

Contact Person: Wei Xing (Main Campus) - 18919669640, QQ: 641753185

Yang Fan (Main Campus) - 17756588090, QQ: 648956755

Ma Xuesen (Main Campus) - 13955198206, QQ: 17058770

Zhou Bo (Xuancheng Campus) - 18119927703, QQ: 286130833

Exclusive Competition QQ Group Number: 797647533

Email for electronic submission of competition materials (please indicate campus): 1922534681@qq.com, 2412093649@qq.com

For related attachment documents, please visit: http://ci.hfut.edu.cn/info/1063/15483.htm