DeepHack: Sustainable Supply Chain

A series of three Transatlantic AI Hackathons, organized by EIT Digital and the German American Business Association (GABA), is bringing together creative minds and thought leaders from both sides of the Atlantic.

The first hackathon, the Health and Safety Monitoring DeepHack, took place in September 2021 and engaged 67 participants from 16 countries.

This second edition is on Sustainable Supply Chain DeepHack and will focus on using Edge A, the technique of processing AI algorithms on a hardware device locally, to re-think supply chains, make them more resilient against crises and reduce their impact on greenhouse gases.

As an example, think of intelligent cameras and sensors watching weather, traffic, street conditions and other patterns, robots used for parcel delivery and for faster package sorting and smart stacking of boxes to fully utilize the limited space of a container. AI on the edge would allow optimization, recommend certain actions and routes, and adjust on the fly according to changes or sudden events.

Your challenge for this DeepHack is to develop Edge AI-powered sensors and computer vision solutions that can help eliminate greenhouse gases from supply chains.

Potential solution domains include optimizing delivery routes, reducing the return or discard quota, improving the detection of goods to allow for most efficient container loading, and other supply chain problems that can be addressed by utilizing Edge AI for IoT.