The TEKCIT Team will represent Athens at the BattleHack World Final, claiming their prize 100.000 dollars and together the ultimate glory.
Last weekend (30.31.5), teams from all over Greece gathered for a bright XNUM hour hackathon on The Hub Events, in order to create innovative applications with social sensitivity.
- Η Ομάδα TEKCIT κέρδισε στο BattleHack Athens 2015 με την εφαρμογή τους που επιτρέπει την payment μέσω της αναγνώρισης προσώπου.
- Vasilis Koulis, Konstantinos Zacharakis, NikolasoDimos and Nikos Kostoulas were awarded with trophy trophies, and of course with a place in the World Final BattleHack in Silicon Valley to compete in the grand final event as 'The Ultimate Hacker Forever'.
"Our application was designed to offer users a real solution to a problem faced by residents of Athens every day. The ability to pre-purchase metro tickets is excellent, but being able to validate them through a face recognition system ensures a simple but so advanced customer experience", - stated Nikolaos Dimos from Team TEKCIT.
The winning team created an application based on a personalized customer facing application, with AngularJS and Ruby on Rails technology, providing an interface for both mobile and web, with the support of various servers.
A Raspberry Pi computer hosted a NodeJS server, taking the place of a Point of Sales (point of sale) and managing the face recognition of users' digital photos, through an OpenCV library. This was interfaced with the Ruby on Rails application, from a backend Python.
Τόσο η ίδια η εφαρμογή όσο και το backend Python υποστηρίχθηκαν από την πλατφόρμα Heroku. Η υπηρεσία v.zero SDK της Braintree χρησιμοποιήθηκε για τις payments, while the SendGrid service provided the transaction confirmation emails.
The jury consisted of a high level panel. Its members were John Lunn, Senior Global Director, PayPal & Braintree, George Psistakis, Founder of Blendo and Apirise, George Kaselakis, Openfund Partner, and Olga Paraskevopoulou, Co-Founder of Stone Soup.
"We are pleased to provide local developers with the opportunity to help their community, showcase their skills and share their ideas, challenging the best hackers in South and Eastern Europe. Among the many improbable ideas and suggestions, the Team TECKIT stood out with the application he presented not only because of the impressive embodiments he used but also because he is an original and authentic product that can help the city of Athens, he said John Lunn.
Unlike many other hackathons, BattleHack creates a truly free environment for developers, where no one intends to discriminate in favor of the companies involved, nor to influence the developers' work in any way.
Η Team TEKCIT he will go to Silicon Valley for the 14-15 2015 World Cup final, where all teams will compete for the big prize of 100.000 dollars.
The QuizJob team won second place, as well as an XBOX One 500GB console for their hack, which aims, through a quiz, to match user profiles with prospective employers.
The third place was the IoC Team, which also won the ADAFRUIT ARDX V1.3 kit, for the application that gathered smart devices that are interconnected with Internet of Things (IoT), which need upgrading the payment infrastructure in order to allow customers to pay by every possible method.
Πmore details of that particular organization and its rationale BattleHack, you can find pthe website 2015.battlehack.org.
The BattleHack is a series of international hackathon competitions organized by PayPal and Braintree. Contestants undertake to solve a local coding problem. The winners of the first prize of each contest win a trophy as a trophy, as well as participation in the World Finals, where participants compete for the 100.000 grand prize of thousands of dollars. Competitors retain the ownership of the applications they created during these competitions. The previous two events accounted for more than 5.000 entries.
Past years' winners have presented ground-breaking ideas that have attracted huge interest from both the private and public sectors. The Gearbox team that won Sydney's BattleHack in 2014 created a storage locker that allows users to borrow sports gear using a mobile app, which is now on test φάση από την πόλη του Σίδνεϊ σε μερικά από τα μεγαλύτερα πάρκα της regions.
CleanAgents, which won first place at BattleHack Berlin in 2013, is an on-demand cleaning service. The company was acquired by Helpling in April 2015. After only 11 months, the Clean Agents business has expanded its activity to over 200 cities worldwide and is already considered a leader in the German market.
