Sunset Hackathon - Pitch Team #5

72h non-stop hackathon by Hardware City Portugal.
http://hardwarecity.org/
http://sunsethackathon.pt/

Transcript

1. @HARDWARECITY 2017 Equipa #5 - ioters Thermotechnology Product Recommendation System http://sunsethackathon.com
2. Concept • Thermotechnology Product recommendation system ◦ Inspired on e-commerce platforms • Capable of: ◦ Recommend solutions for a new home; ◦ Consider Energy Efficiency, Cheapest Solution, Balance, Long-term cost, ... http://sunsethackathon.com
3. What we’ve done • A Web platform for customers ◦ UX/UI • Decision-tree based product recommendation system: ◦ AC ◦ Sanitary Water • Genetic algorithm approach for combinations: ◦ Working for less complex products. http://sunsethackathon.com
4. What we’ve done - Technical http://sunsethackathon.com
5. Problems • Lack of a proper machine-readable product catalog; • Curse of dimensionality; • Complexity of the product characterization: ◦ Details, configurations, combinations, etc. • Difficulty of finding/testing different algorithms (AI based and others) http://sunsethackathon.com
6. Next steps • Upload a fully-completed catalog in a machine-readable format. • Implement and experiment other recommendation systems and algorithms (AI-based): ◦ e.g.: Random Forest, Neural Nets, ... • Improvements on UI/UX of the web interface with integration with the Vulcano website and direct sales system. http://sunsethackathon.com
7. <foto da equipa> http://sunsethackathon.com
8. Filipa Barros @ up201305683@fe.up.pt Gonçalo Pereira @ goncalo_pereira@outlook.pt João Pedro Dias @ jpmdias@fe.up.pt José Pedro Pinto @ jose.cv.pinto@gmail.com Luís Sousa @ lm.sousa@fe.up.pt