The 2017 Hongshan World IoT Application Contest officially kicked off in Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province on May 24. With a theme of "IoT town, Touching Future", the contest aims to help Hongshan, the first Internet of Things (IoT) town in Jiangsu province, attract resources and accelerate its effort in building a demonstration zone for IoT application.

The contest, which will last about three months, will bring together IoT elites and up-to-date solutions, as well as help draw the world's attention to this year's World Internet of Things Expo. The Wuxi High-Tech Zone (Xinwu district), China Mobile Wuxi Branch, and Beijing Jinhe Tiancheng Technology Co have signed a strategic cooperation agreement on jointly facilitating the contest and turning it into a world-renowned annual event under the World Internet of Things Expo.

The contest will cover technological solutions and applications, with the aim of giving better support to IoT companies and makers in displaying their latest technologies and outstanding products and pushing for the incubation of IoT technologies and applications in Hongshan.

The technological solutions contest will take an open-ended form, and present leading and innovative solutions that are able to help relevant industries and fields resolve practical problems. Solutions will cover IoT technologies and applications in various industries, such as smart solutions in agriculture, tourism, transport, medical care, home furnishing, and industrial parks/communities, alongside green energy, Industry 4.2, logistics and warehousing, tracing, safety and security, including intelligent robots and drones. They will compete for the awards for the "Best Innovative IoT Solutions" and the "Most Valuable Applied IoT Solutions".

The technological application contest will focus on "smart agriculture" or "smart tourism". Accomplishments in agricultural IoT application-related facilities and management are especially welcome to compete for the "Best Annual Agricultural IoT Application" award. As for smart agriculture, 1.33 hectares of high-quality farmland will be designated as an experiment base, where IoT technologies will be applied to various scenarios to showcase the intelligent and accurate management of the agricultural industry. In smart tourism, solutions covering positioning, navigation, smart guide and naked-eye VR solutions will be applied to the Rare Stone Museum, Wu Culture Museum, and the National Wetland Park to show the cutting-edge technologies for the touch tourism in the age of active perception.

An executive with China Mobile Wuxi Branch said Wuxi's IoT public clouding platform, OneNET, will serve as the exclusive official platform for the contest, and give all-round support for the fast development and efficient deployment of various applications. It will also push for the materialization of outstanding applications in Hongshan and promote their use, as part of the effort to facilitate Hongshan's ambition to build itself into a world-renowned IoT town.

Companies or individuals should log onto the official website to sign up for the contest before July 10.