The Lagos State Government has announced frontrunners that will participate in the final Hackathon design event slated for 16th through 18th September, 2020 when the governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu will announce the overall winner from each competing entries in hardware and software categories.
Five contenders each emerged from both categories of the competition, and the two winners will share the prize money of N7m.
Finalists were shortlisted after a transparent, rigorous and competitive process. Hackathon received two hundred and seventy four (274) registrations or entries; one hundred and twenty seven (127) of which bid in hardware category, while one hundred and forty seven (147) competed in software group.
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However, only sixty five (65) hardware and software prototypes were submitted by applicants. The shortlisted five finalists from hardware category are: Cosmo Automation, Smart Energy, Techwizard, Power Bit Cruchers and Gadozz Electricals, while the five software finalists are: Vectorians, Zeena Platform, Magnitronics, Chosen Soft Tech and Gideon.
This Initiative of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources is aimed at providing affordable electricity meters to the populace by facilitating the design and production of meters that will accelerate efforts towards achieving improvement in energy distribution, monitoring and prevention of revenue leakage.
Speaking on the Hackathon judging process, Mrs Doja Ekeruche, Advisory Board Member, Eko Innovation Centre, curators of the Hackathon, noted that 19 judges with expertise in the power and tech ecosystem participated in the short-listing process that produced the finalists.
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“We asked companies in the Energy and Tech ecosystem to nominate representatives to serve on the selection panel, tasked with short-listing the top five finalists from both hardware and software tracks to proceed to the final hackathon events,” she explained.
She added: “At the end of the short-listing phase, a session was held with the judges to discuss the reviewing process, and an analytics team ranked the submissions by all judges to arrive at the top finalists.”
It should be noted that during the launch of the programme on July 30th, 2020by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, he noted that the Smart Meter Hackathon Initiative marked a significant milestone in the implementation of the State Government’s plan towards improving access to electricity as it aligned with the Sustainable Development Goal 7 of the United Nations targeted at achieving universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030.
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