Digital Champion Competition 2016

The School of Sciences warmly congratulates the BSc in Computer Engineering students Andrea Pitzioli, Yianni Hadjiargyrou and George Neokleous, as well as their mentor Dr. Konstantino Katzi, for achieving the 2nd place in the Digital Champion 2016 competition. The event took place on Thursday, the 16th of June 2016 at the Ministry of Finance. The students worked hard on this project for the entire academic year. Their invention is effectively a smart device that can be installed in a car and it is capable of detecting movement, measuring temperature and, depending on the conditions, it opens or closes the windows of the car and notifies the user via SMS of the status of the car. This device can be particularly useful in preventing incidents where children are forgotten in the car on a hot day. This is not an unusual scenario since more than 35 child deaths due to heatstroke are recorded every year just in the USA. This device can also be useful for people who leave / forget their pets in the car.