Semtech was the technology sponsor of Startup Weekend Ventura County
at Rancho Campana High School on March 11-13
Semtech
Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC),
a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, is pleased
to announce the integration of its LoRa™
wireless RF technology in many of the projects created during Startup
Weekend Ventura County on March 11-13 at Rancho Campana High School
in Camarillo, Calif.
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Startup Weekend Ventura County Participants Presented LoRa™-based Internet of Things Solutions to Help Solve the County's Agricultural & Medical Challenges (Graphic: Business Wire)
Qualified teams were picked out of dozens of applicants to participate
in the hackathon-style event organized by Dignity
Health’s St. John’s Hospital and Camarillo
Chamber of Commerce and were given 54 hours to come up with their
best solutions to address the needs of agricultural and medical
challenges in the Ventura County area.
Winning projects were chosen for three different categories: Healthcare,
Agriculture and People’s Choice. The overall winning startup was awarded
$10,000 of seed funding.
The top IoT healthcare award winner went to RepWatch, a product designed
to monitor patients’ workout routines to make it easier for physical
therapists to make adjustments. This injury prevention tool would
potentially reduce a patient’s recovery time and the cost of therapy.
RepWatch was also the overall winner of the $10,000 award.
The other award winners were Bye Bye Birdie, which won best IoT
Agriculture solution for its ingenious use of sensor technology and
robotic vehicles to deter birds from tampering with crops, and Veggie
Bot, which won the People’s Choice award for a sensor-enabled robot that
could be packaged with every shipment of fresh produce to monitor its
condition.
Semtech’s Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Alberto
Guerra was one of the competition judges who reviewed the startups’
models presented to the public on Sunday evening.
“It was great working with Dignity Health’s St. John’s Hospital and the
Camarillo Chamber of Commerce to support an event that promotes
technology and the use of local expertise to solve the community’s
problems,” said Guerra. “It was exciting seeing some great ideas come to
fruition over the weekend, especially those that used our LoRa wireless
RF technology.”
Semtech was the official technology sponsor of the weekend and provided
a full-day training on a working LoRa-based starter kit for all
interested participants on March 5. Attendees were given access to a
local low power wide area network deployed by Senet using LoRa-enabled
starter kits.
Semtech’s LoRa team has participated in several other IoT workshops and
hackathons worldwide to introduce and disseminate its LoRaWAN™ solution.
Beyond healthcare and agriculture, LoRa technology is being used
worldwide in key applications such as detecting gas leaks in Korea,
monitoring volcano and earthquakes in Japan, and a variety of Smart city
applications that help cities control street lights, traffic signals,
and natural resources such as water, gas and electricity. For more
information about LoRa wireless RF technology and the LoRaWAN protocol,
visit www.semtech.com/wireless-rf/lora.
About Semtech
Semtech Corporation is a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal
semiconductors for high-end consumer, enterprise computing,
communications and industrial equipment. Products are designed to
benefit the engineering community as well as the global community. The
company is dedicated to reducing the impact it, and its products, have
on the environment. Internal green programs seek to reduce waste through
material and manufacturing control, use of green technology and
designing for resource reduction. Publicly traded since 1967, Semtech is
listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol SMTC. For
more information, visit www.semtech.com.
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