The common task of all student teams was to develop an overall solution for the ongoing and long-term monitoring of various environmental parameters in small indoor greenhouses. An application scenario was specified in which empty spaces in company and public buildings were to be used to grow plants in indoor greenhouses and thus contribute to both food production and the greening of indoor areas in order to improve the working environment.
Each student team received equipment consisting of a Raspberry Pi minicomputer, an Arduino microcontroller and sensors for measuring temperature, humidity, air quality, light intensity and soil moisture, as well as a mini-greenhouse. The parameters had to be measured inside the greenhouse using the microcontroller and sensors, transmitted via a low-energy protocol (Bluetooth Low Energy - BLE) to the minicomputer located in the same room, and the measured values transmitted to a web application that visualises the measured values. In addition, checking the measured values for exceeding limit values and the reliability of the overall application was a basic component of the requirements for the application.
Proseminar Software Engineering Prize 2023
The seven best student teams were given the opportunity to present their solutions to an expert jury. Not only the project result was assessed, but also the entire project implementation. The overall assessment of the teams was made up of five individual categories: Software architecture, user interface, reliability of the IoT solution, software quality assurance and project management.
On Friday, 23 June 2023, the time had come. Dr Andreas Doblander (Dynatrace Austria GmbH), DI Hansjörg Haller (Infpro IT Solutions GmbH), Alexander Wolf, Dr Philipp Kalb (World-Direct eBusiness solutions GmbH), Dr Thomas Trojer (Txture GmbH) and Christoph Fröschl (INNIO Jenbacher GmbH) assessed and evaluated the projects at a final event and awarded places in the gold, silver and bronze categories. Of the seven competing teams, two teams were awarded gold, two teams silver and three teams bronze. The jury emphasised that the gold teams were particularly distinguished by their solid performance in all five evaluation categories.
