To bring a bit of friendly competition to proceedings, every year Fikalab ISEC hosts the Fikalab ISEC Challenge, inviting students to develop the most innovative ideas and prototypes for the chance to win fantastic prizes. 

This year, the finalists got to see their prototypes exhibited yesterday at ISEC before the ceremony’s big finale when the winners were announced. 

And the winners are… CASH – Controlo Automático de Sistemas Hidropónicos (Automatic Control of Hydroponic Systems). This project, developed by André Leitão, Miguel Costa, Pedro Soares and Gonçalo Teixeira makes it possible to independently control various parameters of hydroponic cultivation systems. 

The winning project was awarded 3000€ for the chance to take their prototype one step further. 

Here are the other finalists: 

WaterThings - an integrated water flow measurement solution with long-range communication (André Rodrigues, Carlos Estevão, Gheorghii Casian) 

LoRa Based Real-time Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality Monitoring Device (Francisco Gois, Pedro Catarrinho, Bruno Martins, Ricardo Marques)