Source: School of Mobile Information Engineering
Written by: School of Mobile Information Engineering
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

Recently, the 2014 TIIC-National Undergraduate IoT Design Contest, hosted by Higher Education Committee in Computer Major of the Ministry of Education, co-organized by Texas Instruments (TI), was held in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The team, made up of three undergraduates from School of Mobile Information Engineering (SMIE) at Sun Yat-sen University, who are Huang Jialin, Huang Chuchuan and Huang Chuangtao, won the first prize of the contest with their project “Remote control platform design based on WeChat”. 

The team, whose members are all undergraduates enrolled in 2012 and also the first group of undergraduates of SMIE, cruised into the national final as the outstanding team of southern China sub-contest area. It is known that the project achieved remote control for hardware on the platform of WeChat. Users can realize such unified management of a wide range of hardware through this platform as to improve the current situation that smart device can only control hardware by its own applications and a wide range of hardware don’t have a unified control platform. 

TIIC is a national contest for university students in China, where over 500 teams from more than 200 universities took part in this contest. With the policy of “Serving for education, collaborating with industries” and the purpose of encouraging creativity, the contest emphasizes originality and engineering ability so that it provides strong support for exploring the education method of IoT engineers and implementing the "Outstanding Engineers Plan".