The Swisscom StartUp Challenge 2020 is looking to the future. 5G is the next generation of mobile telecommunications and offers a wealth of new opportunities for our smart digital society. With ultra-fast, robust broadband connections and low latency, 5G will transform our lives, our business activities and our society. Let’s join together to shape the future!
If you are a start-up or a research team keen to harness the potential of 5G, then apply with your product or prototype for the Exploration Week in Swisscom’s 5G Lab and take your products to the next level alongside our 5G experts.
What the winners can expect during the Exploration Week
Working with the latest 5G architectures (from the access to the core, including a Faraday cage) in which E2E testing can take place
Access to the live Swisscom 5G network at a range of different locations (indoor, hotspots, on trains, rural environments)
Access to 5G smartphones, hotspots, tablets, laptops, existing Swisscom services and testing tools
Support/mentoring by 5G experts from Swisscom and the partner firms/programme partners
Opportunities to interact with potential customers, partner firms or investors
An unforgettable week in Switzerland including a visit to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and Swiss innovators of business/technology
Until October 11th, 2020
Apply with your 5G Case on swisscom.ch/challenge.
December 17th, 2020
The 10 finalists pitch to the jury (Remote Option)
October 12th to November 26th, 2020
Swisscom and Venturelab select the 10 most interesting cases from all applications.
December 17th, 2020
November 26th, 2020
December 22th, 2020 and January 14th, 2021
The preparations are now running (Remote Option)
November 26th to December 17th, 2020
The public votes online for their favourite. Great prizes to win.
March 22th to 26th, 2021
December 3rd, 2020
Preparation for the final with Venturelab. (Remote Option)
The jury includes members of the Swisscom Group Executive Board and representatives from Swisscom Ventures and programme partners Venturelab, Ericsson and Qualcomm. During the Exploration Week, experts from Swisscom and the programme partners will provide support and guidance to the winners.
qiio provides plug and play, edge-to-cloud secure cellular IoT solutions optimized for bidirectional connectivity through the cloud. We provide customers with everything theyneed to securely connect, monitor, and control their industrial assets. qiio’s technology is ideal for high-security IoT applications requiring remote management, monitoring and predictive maintenance in hard-to-reach places.
We bring cutting-edge technology in teleoperation and automation for heavy machinery to a product level - and provide a solution to work in places which are too dangerous or too remote for humans to operate. Our unmanned solution enables safe clean-up of the ammunition, tree harvesting in remote forests, removal of rockfalls and mudslides on roads and allows continued work during Pandemies.
ZaiNar provides real time location for any 5G device to within a meter in 3D. ZaiNar location is powered by patented advancements in signal processing for tracking phones, cars, drones and IoT without hardware changes and without additional battery drain. ZaiNar uses an order or magnitude less spectrum than other positioning techniques and is flexible across frequencies and protocols.
HEGIAS VR is world’s first browser-/cloud-based and automated solution for visualization and communication using virtual reality for the construction and real estate sector. It enables architects’ 3D plans to be viewed and altered in a virtual world by one or more people from any location at the touch of a button, at any stage of planning or construction.
Fotokite provides Public Safety teams with live on-site and remotely streamed situational awareness solutions to help them stay safe, save lives, and preserve property. Fotokite systems are mounted on top of Public Safety vehicles and operate with the single push of a button, streaming aerial thermal and RGB video to help them size-up emergency response scenes. Fotokite is a 50-person ETH-Zurich spin-off with offices in Zurich, Syracuse, and Boulder.