The Keysight Innovation Challenge is a design competition challenging graduate and undergraduate engineering students to conceptualize an IoT device or network of devices that will provide carbon neutrality monitoring at the community or corporate level. This year's contest supports Keysight's goal to achieve carbon neutrality within its Corporate Social Responsibility policies. It aims to inspire innovation to help the world reach net zero by 2050 and requires each team to be woman-led to encourage gender diversity in science, technology, engineering and math.

The winning team will be presented with a $30,000 USD cash prize and $10,000 USD in Keysight test equipment. 

The event will take place Saturday, October 29, 2022 at Keysight's Headquarters in Santa Rosa, Calif. 

Six teams of engineering students will demonstrate their ideas for IoT-based carbon neutrality monitoring before a panel of judges. Contest entries spanned smart vehicle pollution measurement systems, carbon capture platforms, air quality monitoring plans and vertical gardening. Keysight Innovation Challenge finalists:

• Warsaw University of Technology team develops a deep learning-based system for monitoring global CO₂ emissions.
• Vanderbilt University students get behind United Nations 2050 carbon neutrality goals with an IoT monitoring device for automobiles.
• Students at the State University of New York at Buffalo create a solution that detects all eight greenhouse gasses at one time.
• Illinois Institute of Technology students design an IoT device that identifies that best way to capture carbon based on its location.
• Students from Asia Pacific University in Malaysia develop an autonomous drone concept to improve the accuracy of CO₂ monitoring.
• Team from India’s KCG College of Technology creates an IA-powered platform to automatically track carbon emissions.

Panel of Judges:

• United Nations Youth Programme Coordinator Juan Pablo Celis Garcia manages the Young Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honor for young people working on innovative solutions to environmental issues.
• Mehdi Sadaghdar, electrical engineer and YouTube Star a.k.a. “ElectroBOOM,” teaches electronics with a comic spin to show how making mistakes can be lessons learned.
• Former Keysight Innovation Challenge Winner Anand Lalwani won the grand prize in the 2019 Innovation Challenge with his team for a solution for detecting water contamination faster and less expensively than current methods. Since his team’s success in the challenge, Lalwani has earned his doctorate from Stanford and co-founded a company that helps large enterprises adopt and manage fleets of robots.
• Former Keysight Innovation Challenge Winner Gabriella Garcia graduated from MIT with a focus on augmented reality and has held product development positions with Google, Apple and Facebook. She and her MIT team earned a 2019 Innovation Challenge win with a mesh network of sensors and an analytics dashboard that guides farmers on the optimal allocation of resources for their crops. Currently, she’s an investor at Two Sigma Ventures, an early-stage fund investing in companies using data science and advanced engineering to transform the future.
• Jeff Harris, vice president, Keysight corporate and portfolio marketing, has led product development of wireless communications, sensors, and advanced networked systems for commercial and government applications, and first-to-market product introductions across radar, optics and acoustic sensors; surveillance vehicles to drones; ultra-wideband to mobile ad hoc network communications.
• Mark Wallace, chief customer officer and senior vice president of Keysight Global Sales (KGS) is responsible for orders and customer satisfaction. Mark was named senior vice president of KGS in 2016, with his position expanding to include chief customer officer in 2022.
• Susan Morton, senior R&D director at Keysight, leads a global organization that develops common OS, software, FPGA and DevSecOps infrastructure used by Keysight solution teams to improve interoperability, quality and time-to-market.
• Chris Williams, director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Keysight has global responsibility for the development and implementation of Keysight’s diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. She also co-leads Keysight’s LGBTQA employee network group.