Power utility CEM and the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City of University of Macau (UM) are jointly organising the “2020 Smart Streetlight Innovation Challenge for Youth” to enhance secondary school pupil’s awareness as Macau advances to becoming a smart city.
CEM said in a statement earlier this week that making use of smart streetlights to collect environmental information is an important component of smart city development, and the company has been working closely with the government to build Macau into a smart city providing intelligent services for its residents.
Smart streetlights were installed at the UM campus Macau and Avenida da Amizade for testing last year.
According to the statement, each smart streetlight is multifunctional, with equipment such as LED lamp, environmental sensor, camera, 4G/5G micro base station for communications, public information display monitor, tourism information interactive screen and public information mini-speaker and EV charging station, among others.
For the challenge, the statement said that it would have “Outlook Design Group” and “Technical Solution Group” categories where Form 2 to Form 6 pupils in the 2020/2021 academic year can enter individually or as a group of no more than three members.
For the “Outlook Design Group”, candidates have to provide a design drawing for the smart streetlight with an explanatory note about the location, surrounding views, cultural characteristics, and functional features of the smart streetlight.
Candidates in the “Technical Solution Group” should study the latest technological development of smart streetlight and leverage on their innovative ideas to put forward an original smart streetlight technical solution adapted to the specific characteristics of Macau. The solution could focus on designing the overall functions of a smart streetlight or certain function modules of a smart streetlight, with the purpose of coordinating the development of a smart city based on the actual needs of Macau.
Candidates can register for the challenge online. The period for entry submission is September 7 to 21, and results will be announced in December.
The challenge will award a winner, a first runner-up and several second runner-ups in each category, with the winner of each category receiving a 5,000-pataca cash prize.
Details of the challenge are only available in Chinese and can be found on umstem.um.edu.mo
