Microsoft Azure Champions League-Hack 3

Security & surveillance not only play a key role in ensuring the prosperity of citizens, but is also one of the prime concerns of any human being. A city’s development is dependent on the well-being of its inhabitants and it’s various sub-areas include (but not limited to) home security, medical emergency, city transport, security of women & children, tourist support, SOS alert system, environmental stress warning system, mobile pollution monitors, structural alerts, disaster management, and accidental alerts systems.

Leverage the power of Microsoft Azure services to accelerate your ideas and make them go live to the security market worldwide and launch impactful and new generation security products that are secure and user-friendly. We are interested in hearing about your next disruptive idea that not only focuses on safe and secure experiences but also brings together an ecosystem of enablers to make it a reality.

Resources:

• App services
• Azure Maps
• Notification Hub
• API Management
• IoT

Build a strategic platform for industries, technologies, and use cases worldwide to understand and leverage the latest technical innovations and bring back the power of human kindness. Make use of the flexible, scalable, and full-featured cloud platform provided by Microsoft Azure to create innovative technology solutions and initiatives that will contribute to the social good and address the needs and challenges facing humanity.

Examples:

• Autonomous Drones - with an AI-powered camera, for object tracking data from sensors that can handle medical emergencies, rescue operations etc.
• A mobile based crop monitoring system that enables farmers to increase profitability, productivity and efficiency.
• SMS mobile app that empowers citizens with access to information and grievance redressal of local government services.
• A unique way to use mobiles to share vehicles and reduce traffic jams.
• mobile giving app to conveniently give donations, tithes and offerings to any charity, non-profit organization, via an innovative charity or donation app.
• Application that reveals whether a product is safe, healthy, green and socially responsible.

Resources

• Web App
• Azure Functions
• Cognitive Services
• CosmosDB
• DevOps

Designing a new and innovative product can be a challenging process filled with uncertainties. From a business perspective, you need to explore and keep at the forefront of what is happening in the market, search for unique opportunities and listen to customer’s needs until you discover a meaningful solution.

Microsoft Azure is a flexible, scalable, and full-featured cloud platform. If you can imagine it, you can build it on Azure, using the tools, languages and frameworks you’re already familiar with. Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET - you can run them all on Azure! You are expected to build innovative solutions and products for the hackathon using the services provided by Azure.

Explore some of the most popular services on Microsoft Azure Docs

• AI + Machine Learning - Create the next generation of applications using artificial intelligence capabilities for any developer and any scenario
• Serverless - Build apps faster without managing infrastructure
• Kubernetes - For deploying your application
• Compute – [Azure App Service] - Access cloud compute capacity and scale on demand—and only pay for the resources you use
• Containers: AKS (Java) - Highly available, secure, and fully managed Kubernetes service