"Silk Road IoT Hackathon 2026" hackathon dedicated to "Year of Urban Planning and Architecture" and WUF13 took place at NSU

          Innovation-oriented competition "Silk Road IoT Hackathon 2026" was successfully concluded at Nakhchivan State University. The hackathon organized within the framework of the Silk Road concept was remembered as a 2-day intensive program focused on the development of innovative technological solutions in the fields of transport, logistics and urban infrastructure.

​​          During the event, the participating teams worked on projects in various directions: intelligent transport systems, traffic management, logistics and cargo tracking technologies, energy & environment IoT solutions, as well as smart developed functional IoT prototypes in the fields of city and infrastructure technologies.

​​          The prepared projects were presented in the form of real working prototypes and demonstrated in front of the judges with a live demo. This showed the ability of the participants to come up with not only ideas, but also applicable technological products.

​​          According to the results of the hackathon with the participation of 9 teams and more than 40 students, SolutionSquad placed in the first place with a project designed to prevent congestion and traffic jams in the city by changing the traffic rules through traffic lights during peak hours. The Stevee team with a machine prototype that implements the process of plowing, irrigating and planting the soil in an agricultural area in a more efficient way was awarded the 2nd place, and the Redemy team, which came up with a project that measures passenger data for the metropolitan system and directs the movement of trains according to those data, was awarded the 3rd place.

​​         "Silk Road IoT Hackathon 2026" is important in terms of developing students' innovative thinking skills, strengthening teamwork and forming technological approaches to real problems.