Iranian Teams Lead IoT Cybersecurity Challenge Competitions in Technology Olympics

The IoT Technology Olympics is a national event aimed at promoting, educating, and identifying innovative talents in the field of IoT. Supported by Pardis Science and Technology Park near Tehran, this event provides a unique opportunity for students, alumni, and professionals to improve their skills in three leagues, solve real industry challenges, and compete in a professional environment.

Shiva Mohammadi, the executive secretary of the IoT competition, referred to the first day of the competitions, and said, “On the first day, 7 challenges were presented to the participating teams through the online competition platform.”

“ Of the seven challenges presented to the teams, four were in the field of Internet of Things cybersecurity and the other three were related to the ‘thinks’ section, or hardware challenges. At the end of the first day, the two teams, Nobz from Tehran and Hadaf from Isfahan, were able to perform better than other competitors and top the scoreboard,” she added.

According to Mohammadi, these two teams managed to successfully solve three of the seven challenges presented and even gain significant points in the difficult challenges.

Iranian specialists have managed to make good progress in the IoT field.

An Iranian technological company had in February used LoraWAN technology in the field of digital economy which can reduce costs, increase productivity, create new businesses based on the Internet of Things, improve the quality of life, and provide better services to citizens.

“So far, we have worked on LoRaWAN technology and we have implemented different projects from smart cities to LoRaWAN-related fields,” Rassoul Sadeqi, the managing-director of the company, told ANA on the sidelines of Asr-e Omid event in Isfahan city.

“We use LoRaWAN technology in places where we need very brief information from a data, and the energy level required to send this data is also very low in a way that we can install the battery in a remote area and use it to measure parameters and replace the battery after 10 years; therefore, its energy consumption is very low,” he added.

Sadeqi explained that LoRaWAN technology is used in smart city management, smart lighting management, smart parking lot management, smart waste collection, agricultural monitoring (soil moisture, temperature and ambient light), livestock tracking, industrial equipment monitoring, management of various facilities, including warehouses and tracking medical equipment or specific diseases in the health sector, etc.

“In the field of digital economy, LoRaWAN technology can reduce costs, increase productivity, create new IoT-based businesses, improve the quality of life and provide better services to citizens,” he underlined.

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