Mitsidi holds its first Hackathon!

Changing the world seems like a complicated task, doesn't it? After all, there are more than 7 billion of us with completely different ideas and visions. But what if we all come together, how far can we go?

This is exactly what the Hackathon preaches, a relatively new concept in Brazil, but in vogue in the main innovation centers around the world. Initially, several programmers came together in search of understanding how a certain software or system works, in a type of “interdisciplinary collective”. Nowadays, many corporate giants such as Google itself have developed similar initiatives to improve internal processes or even to let employees' creativity flow and come up with great ideas.

Based on this concept of innovation and empowerment, on the 21st of last month the Mitsidi team got together and developed, in a single day, the 3 most voted ideas among the 45 suggested by our team throughout the month of October. The creators of the suggestions were project leaders, and after an initial meeting, time was divided in order to develop each one.

The first idea put into practice was the Battle of Buildings. Based on an American initiative of the same name, the aim is to create a tool that encourages healthy competition between buildings to see how they can implement the greatest number of energy efficiency measures and, in doing so, reduce energy consumption within a period of 90 days. In addition to the obvious savings obtained from adopting these measures, the winner would also receive a prize that would help continue energy management in an even more efficient manner.

The second suggestion we studied to get off the ground was the Eco Makeovers, a one-day (or one-night) renovation in small and medium-sized negotiations to change lighting, faucets, controls, sensors and install monitoring and photovoltaic systems. With this, these locations could reduce energy consumption with little investment and, in addition, modernize their points of sale quickly and efficiently.

Finally, the last idea was to create a platform that, through an algorithm, can read and interpret the energy bills of buildings and industries and understand changes in the tariff contract in order to better meet the needs of the customer, something that also reduced energy costs.

In the groups, the results of the development were very positive. In addition to testing our market's interest in new projects, Mitsidi's Hackaton, called Mit-a-Day, was also able to show us how the innovation process can occur quickly, even in a single day.