Student teams who developed Internet of Things projects to tackle postpartum mortality in new mothers, advance exoskeletons, and better collect sea level data have been named the winners of the Student IoT Innovation Capacity Building Challenge hosted by Georgia Tech’s Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT).

Students from the College of Engineering, College of Computing, College of Design, and the College of Sciences participated in the third annual competition, which seeks to broadly advance IoT research on the Georgia Tech campus. The awards are presented with generous support of the School of Public Policy, Georgia Tech’s VentureLab, and Verizon.

Each of the Challenge category winners will receive scholarship awards totaling $12,000 to be divided among team members.

“These awards celebrate the hard work, ingenuity, and interdisciplinary approach that is vital in today’s technological landscape,” said Paul M.A. Baker, CDAIT’s chief operating officer. “This kind of innovative student research collaboration pushes us forward and keeps Georgia Tech at the forefront of innovation.”

The winner of the Policy/Civic Engagement category went to a team of two engineering students. They created Physioconnect, a wearable device that can track a new mom’s heart health. This device could let doctors catch and treat problems early and hopefully help reduce postpartum deaths.

The IoT Innovation category award went to a team of engineering and computing students who built an exoskeleton that uses stretchable skin sensors and deep-learning algorithms to help people lift heavy objects.

A team in Georgia Tech’s Smart Sea Level Sensors program won the Verizon Connectivity award for the redesign of water-level sensors to integrate with low-cost swarm satellites, making data collection much easier.

Honorable mentions went to a team who used virtual reality to teach people how to use industrial laser scanners and another team who used thermal displays as a new way to share information and emotions.

To see details of the projects and learn more about the IoT Challenge, CDAIT, and its host center, the Center for Advanced Communications Policy (CACP), visit the challenge website.

CDAIT and CACP are units of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.