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Creating Future Proof Concepts.

Solar Monkey offers software to installers of solar panels that allows them to design a solar PV (photovoltaic) system and exactly calculate the energy output. The software utilises LiDAR 3D data to calculate local shading effects to ensure optimal accuracy of the results. In cooperation with partner installers a guaranteed output is offered to the end consumer. Through this guarantee Solar Monkey brings a great level of security for end consumers.

The aim is to fully automate the whole process of designing and optimising solar PV systems. Eventually this would allow Solar Monkey to design solar systems for whole cities or even countries.

In this hackathon we use the LiDAR 3D data, consumers data and open data sources to see if there are any new product possibilities that suit Solar Monkeys aim and give new insights.

YES!Delft is a community of tech entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading firms. They launched already 200+ companies with a total funding over 300 million euro. Solar Monkey is one of the tech start-ups in their program.

ING & Young Colfield have a joint program for young top engineers. These engineers work for ING and have access to a broad program of soft- and hard skill training at Young Colfield. Their engineers join this hackathon.

Crowd Consulting is the Young Colfield innovation lab, bringing together diverse crowds that innovate companies.

Interested as participant or visitor? Please apply below.

Are you a tech-student and interested to join? Feel free to apply. We offer you a lot: a full day of hacking with real data on a real issue, co-working with top engineers and possibilities to learn more about a career in software development within Young Colfield & ING. Only 10 positions available. We are looking forward to meet you!

On the 10th of August, Young Colfield facilitates a hackathon in association with YES!Delft, ING and Solar Monkey. The goal is to find and create new product possibilities based on Solar Monkey's data.

CONTEXT & CHALLENGES

Solar Monkey's mission is enabling solar to become the world's leading power supply. Therefore it has to be affordable, accepted and available 24/7. With that in mind, they ask the teams to look at these 3 challenges, with the goal to present a pitch, demo and/or proof of concept at the end of the day.

CHALLENGE 1

Service or dashboard to present data to customer

Tags: Front-end, design, customer service

CHALLENGE 2

Innovative ways to store solar energy and implement it into smart grids

Tags: Concept design, data science

CHALLENGE 3

Finding innovative possibilities with the existing monitoring data

Tags: Full stack, conceptual, data science

Solar Monkey biggest clients are the businesses that place and replace the solar panels - it's a B2B business. But obviously those companies have customers that want to have insight in the performance data. Solar Monkey is thinking of a service that shows the data in a user friendly and clear way.

The challenge for this team is to create a platform, service, dashboard, application - it can be anything - to show this data to customers. ING is already a potential buyer, if this is something they can use for loyalty programs: for instance the ING Rentepunten department. With x rentepunten clients get access to the service that shows them anyplace, anytime, anywhere the performance data.

In order for solar energy to become a leading power supply that is available 24/7, the variability in its supply has to be dealt with. During the day the energy supply may well exceed the demand, and obviously at tnight the demand has to be covered with other (stored) energy supplies.

Solar Monkey has data available for the solar energy generation. But how does this relate to an average household demand curve? And how can this be used to ensure an optimal fit of solar power into the electricity grid? What role can batteries play, and what if electric cars come into the equation? These are all challenges that can be addressed to increase the value and impact of solar energy.

This team gets a set of data of the daily performance of solar panels throughout the year and has to create a pitch, a demo or proof of concepts that show innovative concepts to use this daily performance curve for storage or smart grid purposes.

Solar Monkey has a lot of monitoring data from all the users of their solar panels. Their most conceptual but as well fundamental challenge is: what can we do with it?

This team gets a set of the monitoring data of Solar Monkey. Can you find interesting patterns or trends? And what could Solar Monkey do with that? Is it possible to optimise the performance of their model? Can it detect malfunctions in systems in an early stage? We don't know where to start, we don't know where you'll end - but at 4:30PM you have to present a pitch, demo or proof of concept that is convincing!

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