Simplicity prevailed when it came to crowning the great champions of technology and innovation at Expo Prado. The winning team of the HackathonAGRO developed a device - which uses technology similar to that of the readings of the traceability caravans - that notifies producers in real time when an animal stops eating and for how long it feeds.
While there were five groups attacking the same challenge and focusing on the same technology, the difference is that those who succeeded were based on a viable, simple, cost-effective, low-cost and easy-to-understand project.
That's why they opted for the notification to be via text message, since those who will use it may not have a Smartphone.
The HackathonAGRO is a competition -it has been held for four years in the framework of Expo Prado- open to researchers, entrepreneurs and experts in information technology, agriculture and business, co-organized by the British Embassy, the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technology (CUTI), the Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU) and the National Development Agency (ANDE).
This year the challenge was to present a business model and a minimum viable product or prototype, in order to solve agricultural problems in Uruguay through the use of technology.
The winners were: Inés Da Rosa, Juan Ignacio Sartori, Erika Poses and Ignacio Figueredo Patrón. None of them knew each other; they did so on Friday the 13th at the residence of British Ambassador Ian Duddy, when they were given the challenges to solve.
This team had the particularity that each member was internalized in some aspect of the competition: the two women came from the technological area, Sartori from agriculture and Figueredo from business.
"The good thing was that we worked as a team from the first minute and it was a plus that was noticeable at the end. We all wanted to do things and to carry out a solution," Poses told El Observador.
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