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 application τους που επιτρέπει την πληρωμή μέσω της αναγνώρισης προσώπου.
- The Vasiliss Koulis, Konstantinos Zacharakis, NikolaoDimos 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 host hosted a NodeJS server, taking the Point of Sales location and managing face recognition of digital photos by users through an OpenCV library. He was linked to the Ruby on Rails application by a Python back-end system.
Both the application itself and the Python backend were supported by the Heroku platform. The Braintree v.zero SDK service was used for payments while SendGrid provided transaction confirmation emails.
The jury consisted of a high-level panel. Its members were John Lunn, Senior; Global enviroment Director, PayPal & Braintree, Giorgos Psistakis, Founder of Blendo and Apirise, Giorgos Kasselakis, Partner of Openfund, 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.
Team QuizJob won second place, also from a console XBOX One 500GB for their hack which aims, through a quiz, to match user profiles with potential employers.
In third place was the IoC Team, which won an ADAFRUIT ARDX V1.3 kit, for the application that brought together smart devices that interface with the Internet of Things (IoT / Internet of Things), which need to upgrade the payment infrastructure in order to allow customers to pay with 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.
The winners of past years presented pioneering ideas that attracted tremendous interest from both the private and public sectors. The Gearbox team that won the Sydney BattleHack 2014 created a storage cabinet that allows users to borrow sports equipment using a mobile application that is now in a trial phase from Sydney city to some of the largest parks in the area .
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.
