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IoT Innovation Grand Challenge

Cisco hosted a crowdsourced community for its IoT Innovation Grand Challenge and received more than 800 entries from 71 countries for a chance to win $250,000 in prizes. Six finalists were invited to participate in a live judging event at the IoT World Forum this week in Chicago and the following three teams were selected as winners, with first place going to Relayr, second place going to Waygum.io; and third place going to Toymail:
1st place - $150,000
- Relayr (Berlin, Germany) is providing simple and inexpensive tools that will accelerate developers' ability to take advantage of IoT and start programming for the physical world around us.
2nd place - $75,000
- Waygum.io (Dublin, California) is connecting mobile devices to machinery and enabling developers to create mobile-enabled industrial applications.
3rd place - $25,000
- Toymail (Gross Points, Michigan) is changing how the world plays by bringing IoT to toys and fostering communication between children and their families.

Cisco IoT Security Grand Challenge

We're now experiencing a new wave of technology that's being defined by connected devices everywhere. It's all a part of the Internet of Things. These connected devices are impacting our lives on a daily basis, changing everything from the way we provide healthcare to heating our homes to running our manufacturing facilities and other critical infrastructure. Today, there are 10 billion connected devices, but that number is expected to grow exponentially -- exceeding 50 billion sensors, objects, and other connected "things" by the year 2020.
In today's IoT world, security needs to be top of mind as the number and type of attacks will continue to increase, as will the amount of data, creating a daunting challenge for companies and those responsible to defend the infrastructure. Cybersecurity models need to radically change to provide the right level of protection for this new, connected world as the very foundation of many of our cybersecurity assumptions is being challenged.
The Cisco IoT Security Grand Challenge fielded more than 100 online submissions from 33 countries, ultimately awarding $300,000 to four winners (each team received $75,000 in addition to exhibition space at IoT World Forum):
- Excalibur is an award winning startup focusing on redefining authentication, from creating the first authentication product that is compatible with the current password-based systems and yet seamless & secure at the same time. The Poprad, Slovakia based company's solution is focused on enabling future authentication infrastructure for the IoT era where authentication will be omnipresent and passwords will no longer exist.
- The Ithaca, New York and Houston, Texas-based team of Cornell Tech and Rice University are working together to create physical proof-of-presence protocols for transient connections in the IoT and operating in backwards-compatible mode with legacy standards.
- The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based Carnegie Mellon University team is creating a solution to control IoT privacy risks and trade-offs with Fog Mediation.
- Aircloak and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, is developing a technology and service that provides highly accurate aggregate analytics over use data while strongly protecting user privacy.