A student team from the Department of Information and Mechanical Systems Engineering at Toba National College of Technology passed the preliminary round of the National College of Technology Wireless Tech Contest 2024 (WiCON2024), which included document screening and progress reports, and has earned the right to compete in the final round to be held in Tokyo on Thursday, March 7, 3.

The National College of Technology Wireless Tech Contest (WiCON) is a contest for students of National College of Technology nationwide, sponsored by the Communications and Information Network Association of Japan (CIAJ). The purpose of the contest is to utilize the technical skills and creative ideas of students of National College of Technology to develop human resources, solve local issues, and create new businesses and services through technical demonstrations of "new ideas" for wireless technologies and systems, and "things," "apps," and "services" that use wireless devices and systems. The theme of this contest is technical demonstration proposals for ideas that utilize the characteristics of wireless to solve local issues.

The team that qualified to compete in the finals was Shiraishi-lab, a student team of six second- to fifth-year students from the Department of Information and Mechanical Systems Engineering. They proposed using LPWA communications to reduce labor in mandarin orange cultivation and promote digital transformation. Shiraishi-lab focuses on the local issues of Mihama-cho, Minamimuro-gun, Mie Prefecture, and aims to support the improvement of sustainability and productivity of mandarin orange cultivation, the main industry in the area. This time, they worked on five main developments and announced their results in the preliminary round: 2) Establishment of a communications network in Mihama-cho, 5) Local weather observation and centralized data management in mandarin orange orchards, 6) Measures to scare away birds and animals using robots, 5) Quality assurance in the distribution process, and XNUMX) Improving the efficiency of inventory management at unmanned sales outlets.

The demonstration experiment will be conducted until around the end of February 7, and the results will be announced at the final competition on Thursday, March 2, 7.

<Overview>
National College of Technology Wireless Tech Contest 2024 | Finals
Date: February 2025, 3 (Thursday)
Venue: Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, University of Tokyo (7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
Finalist team members:
5th year student Seiya Fukushima, 4th year student Kazuta Yamada, 3rd year student Ryuuki Hamaguchi, 2nd year students Sota Ishii, Sota Shimada, and Mizuki Takahashi (total of 6 students) from the Department of Information and Machine Systems Engineering
Introducing the teams competing in the finals:https://wicon.jp/2024/teams/shiraishilab
Supervisor: Professor Kazuaki Shiraishi

 
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<Reference>
National College of Technology WiCON2024 Official Website:https://wicon.jp/
Qualifying Round Results:https://wicon.jp/2024/qualifying_results