Stuttgart/Munich, July 31, 2014: The Internet of Things (IoT) has put its stamp on this year’s CODE_n Contest, an international initiative for digital pioneers and startups.
The IoT is this year’s contest theme. CODE_n was initiated in 2011 by the German, GFT Group. CODE_n stands for “Code of the New“, the DNA of innovation.
A press release by the company said the 50 finalists will exhibit their leading-edge business cases in the 5,000 square meter space of Hall 16 during the CeBIT fair in Hanover, Germany. The winner will receive the CODE_n Award and a prize of €30,000.
The IoT describes the ever-increasing networking capabilities of machines of all scales – from quotidian objects and wearable devices to vehicles, entire factories and cityscapes.
Organised around the respective sub-themes, Digital Life,Smart City, Future Mobility and Industry 4.0, both the CODE_n competition and subsequent exhibition at the CeBIT Fair will address the widespread digitalisation of the physical world.
While recent data suggests that 17 percent of the world’s software developers are working on IoT projects, the competition is set to showcase the most exciting and important proposals for maximizing it’s potential.
“We pick up where Big Data left off: with a globally relevant theme that is massively shifting the fields of economics and science,” proclaims Ulrich Dietz, initiator of CODE_n and Chief Executive Officer of the GFT Group. “The Internet of Things is pushing companies to fundamentally rethink the way they do business. Groundbreaking ideas from the highly energetic startup scene are essential to take this vast, interconnected network to the next level and unlock possibilities yet unseen in the Internet of Things.”
Incidentally, internationally renowned designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have been commissioned to design the CODE_n exhibition. For the Hall’s design, the Internet of Things will be materialised as a series of interconnected objects and booths suspended in a web of scaffolding. Visitors will be able to traverse floating hallways and platforms populated with the latest and most innovative developments in the IoT.
The exhibition space will be anchored with an interactive robotic media installation entitled, ‘ROBOCHOP’, which invites Internet users from across the world as well as fair attendees to design and fabricate a piece of furniture in real time. Weisshaar and Kram will develop an app that allows the global community to engage with the giant robotic arms sculpt material in-situ.
According to Oliver Frese, Head of CeBIT at Deutsche Messe AG, “The home of CODE_n, Hall 16, will once again be the center of fresh, exciting business cases at CeBIT.”
Call for Entries for the Innovation contest starts in September 2014.
Startups that want to participate in the CODE_n Contest can register via www.code-n.org as of early September 2014. Eligibility standards include: companies founded in 2010 or later and whose business model leverages the IoT. The deadline is November 30, 2014.
Image Credit: CODE_n/GFT
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