Sensing the Earth

If you are a winner, we will contact you directly via email to arrange the shipment of your prize.

MATERIALS

Your submission must use Sigfox technology and be linked to Earth preservation topic.

You can use any Sigfox compatible development kit or module from our partner network.

Submissions should include:

• All valid entries must meet each of the following requirements:

• Each entry must be the contestants’ own original work.

• Entries cannot have been selected as a winner in any other contest.

• Contestants must have obtained any and all consents, approvals or licenses required for you to submit your entry.

• Entries may not include any third-party trademarks (logos, names) or copyrighted materials (music, images, video, recognizable people) unless you have obtained permission to use the materials.

• Each project must be fully documented on Hackster in accordance with the “project” template.

• Each final project must be submitted within the projects template.

• Projects must be submitted in English.

Each final project must include of the following materials:

• A detailed description: What are you building? What does it do? How does it work?

• Story and quality images

• Video demonstrations, if applicable

• Clear instructions

• BOM and schematics

• Source code

• CAD files of any 3D models or 2D drawings (if applicable)

• Internship at one of the Sigfox Hacking Houses (in USA, Europe or Asia) *full description in brief **provided VISA conditions are met for participants

• An all expenses paid trip to attend Sigfox Connect in Berlin from Oct 24-25 to pitch your project in front of a jury of IoT specialists (including Sigfox's founders, industrial partners and operators) *full description in brief **provided VISA condit...

• The Top Ten Projects will be chosen to interview for a chance to pitch their project during Sigfox's annual event in Berlin + A Development Kit of Your Choice! (11 are available)

Contest winners will be announced on September 17, 2018. The list of winners will be visible on the main page (Contest brief).

You are eligible to enter if you meet the following requirements at the time of entry:

You are a student (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students qualify).

Eligibility for Hacking House internships will be dependent on the participant meeting the required VISA conditions of the country where the internship will take place.

If you are considered a minor in your place of residence, then you should ask your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission prior to submitting an entry into this challenge.

Directors, officers, employees, interns, and contractors (“Personnel”) of Sigfox or Hackster, Inc. (“Hackster”), and each of their parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective advertising, promotion and public relations agencies, representatives, and agents (collectively, “Challenge Entities”), immediate families members of such Personnel (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each) and members of the households of such Personnel (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate in this Challenge.

No, visa processing and fees for potential winners must be done by participants.

The easiest way to access connectivity to develop projects on Sigfox is to use either:

- a devkit (for example this Arduino one https://yadom.fr/arduino-mkrfox1200.html) 
- a breakout (e.g. https://yadom.fr/kit-carte-breakout-sigfox-brkws20-antennes.html or https://yadom.fr/carte-breakout-sfm10r1.html )
They all come with connectivity (either 1 or 2 years' connectivity)

You can find information about Sigfox coverage here:
https://www.sigfox.com/en/coverage

You can find information about Sigfox coverage here:
https://www.sigfox.com/en/coverage

Projects must be submitted in English.

If you do not find the right answers in our Makers (https://build.sigfox.com/steps/sigfox) or Build (https://build.sigfox.com/steps/sigfox) websites, for any technical questions, you can go to our community slack

https://sigfoxbuilders.slack.com/

If you are considered a minor in your place of residence, then you should ask your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission prior to submitting an entry into this challenge.

In this case, if you become one of the finalists, you'll have to be accompanied by a parent or tutor during your trip to Berlin (expenses for the accompanying parent or tutor are not payed for).

Regarding the internship prize, if the winning is a minor, he/she'll be entitled to a different prize (tbd).

In order to make your Arduino-based project Sigfox compatible, you can either
- use the MKRFOX1200 Arduino board
- adapt the board you are using, by adding a Sigfox compatible daughter board like for example
https://yadom.fr/carte-de-communication-sigfox-arduino.html, or
https://partners.sigfox.com/products/shield-sigfox-for-raspberry-y-arduino-m2comm

You can find all information regarding how to develop your Sigfox IoT project in our Makers page
https://makers.sigfox.com/

You can find all information regarding how to develop your Sigfox IoT project in:

- our Build oage https://build.sigfox.com/steps/sigfox

- Makers page  https://makers.sigfox.com/

To see which development kit modules are compatible with us, check out our partner network.