Drones have made it possible for us gravity-bound humans to see the world from a new perspective. We've seen how drones can be used to clean up our beaches, rapidly install communication networks to track the spread of viruses and even monitor migration patterns of endangered species. NXP HoverGames challenges bring the positive impact of drones to the forefront.

Join the NXP HoverGames Challenge: Help Drones, Help Others During Pandemics

For the second NXP HoverGames challenges in June 2020, use your coding skills and build a drone system to help first responders save lives in a pandemic.

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NXP HoverGames Challenge 1: Fight Fires with Flyers

Drones, Edge Compute and IoT: Winners Shine at NXP HoverGames "Fight Fires with Flyers"

NXP HoverGames Fight Fires with Flyers was the first in a series of interactive coding competitions allowing talented developers across the globe to address some of the biggest challenges facing society.

In challenge 1, we asked you to come up with creative ways firefighters could use drones to protect and save lives. We have been impressed by your innovative and unique ideas. But see for yourself in our highlight video.

Meet the Winners

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1st Place

Dobrea Dan Marius’s Autonomous Human Detector Drone

Our winner took this starting point and added an additional sensor to his drone with an aim to aid firefighters in locating people in need in the fire zone.

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2nd Place

AK’s Machine Learning Fire-Class Analyser

AK’s entry helps firefighters identify the chemical cause of a fire, then recommends the most appropriate means of putting it out and the size of crew required.

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3rd Place

Tatsuya Iwai’s Lightning Detection System

Tatsuya’s drone helps authorities keep their fingers on the pulse by sensing lightning at distances of up to 40 km.

Meet Our Four Additional Award Winners

In addition to the three main winners, we’re very excited to announce four additional prizes of $1,000 each that we are awarding with our key partners: Arm, Auterion, Dronecode and Twain Harte Fire Department.

Twain Harte First Responders Award

Twain Harte selected the winner based on a thorough analysis of each of the entries and their ability to immediately integrate with incident management resources.

ARM Unicorn Award

This project successfully uses the NXP HoverGames drone development kit and integrates open source Arm powered hardware and open source software (PX4) to improve the response time in emergencies.

Auterion PX4 Award

The project showcases how the PX4 ecosystem modular architecture allows creating, in quick time, solid proof of concepts for business-critical drone applications.

Dronecode Award

Physicsman’s project shows the innovation of using a rough sensor to generate accurate results. It exposes the value of this specific kind of sensing and resulted in an outstanding solution.

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