Keysight Technologies Announces Winners of the IoT Innovation Challenge

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced the winners of the Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge. All six finalist teams – three in the Smart Water category and three in the Smart Land category, were flown to New York City to present their IoT innovations to a panel of esteemed judges on September 21, 2019.

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Daniel Bogdanoff (far left), Keysight Master of Ceremonies, and Marie Hattar, Keysight CMO (second left), present Max Holiday and Anand Lalwani (far right) of Stanford with the Grand Prize in the Keysight IoT Innovation Challenge. (Photo: Business Wire)

“We were extremely impressed by the enthusiasm, engineering knowledge, and ability to make difficult technical design trade-offs from each of the teams,” said Jeff Harris and Chris Cain, competition judges and Keysight co-sponsors of the IoT Innovation Challenge. “They each chose diverse IoT problems and wasted no time building their prototypes, collecting data in real environments, and analyzing their results. It was exciting to witness.”

“We are thrilled to have inspired student innovation worldwide and were humbled by their passion to improve the planet,” said Cheryl Ajluni, Director of the Innovation Challenge Program. “The student response we received was overwhelming and we hope we played a small part in inspiring a next-generation of student innovators, cultivating long-term relationships with their universities and enriching the worldwide engineering community.”

After an impressive set of student presentations, the judge’s scores were compiled and the IoT Innovation awards were presented to:

Grand Prize Winner -- $50,000 USD in cash to the design team and $50,000 USD of Keysight test equipment to their university:

• Stanford University in the U.S. students Anand Lalwani, Max Holiday and Valmik Lakhlani for their entry, Immersible Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sensors for Cloud-based Water Quality Monitoring

Anand Lalwani of the Stanford team commented, "Keysight and this competition helped shape my graduate research work and pushed us extensively in the world of IoT. Keysight has been incredibly supportive of cutting-edge research and promoting innovation across countries."