NUS Overseas Colleges’ BitCam Team Bags Top Prize at Hitachi Vantara CodeSG

NUS Overseas Colleges’ BitCam Team
Bags Top Prize at Hitachi Vantara CodeSG

SINGAPORE, December 13 2017 – Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of
Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), announced the winner of its first ever FinTech
code-a-thon, CodeSG. BitCam, the team from NUS Overseas College comprised of
Jerry Tan, Ho Ren Sen, John Goh and Choo Yan Sheng, took home the winning prize
of S$3,000 following an intense weekend of competition. 

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Their winning solution, “Smart
Accident Reporting With Blockchain,” demonstrated how insurers can utilize data
from traffic and road technology to manage a road accident emergency and
facilitate claims processing. BitCam is a dashboard camera add-on for vehicle
drivers that sources accident data
from cars near the accident site and processes it into Hyperledger, Pentaho
Data Integration and Business Analytics, and Hitachi Content Platform. This
allows insurers to have a multi-angle view of the incident with automatic
accident reporting. 

“We were really happy with the
results of our inaugural CodeSG,” said Russell Skingsley, chief technology
officer, Hitachi Vantara Asia Pacific. “The winning team. BitCam, had
great energy and presented many fresh ideas that incorporated Hitachi Vantara’s
solutions such as big data analytics (Pentaho) and object based storage solution
HCP (Hitachi
Content Platform). Their solution also responded to important social
issues which aligned to Hitachi Vantara’s global citizenship where we
constantly seeking the integration of cutting-edge technology to create social
benefits. We will definitely be looking at
hosting another edition of CodeSG in 2018.’’ 

A total of five teams participated in CodeSG.. Hitachi Vantara
CodeSG was held from November 3-5, 2017 at The Hangar at NUS Enterprise.