Make Zurich Vol II / Results

Explore challenges and projects

City Forest Visitors

All year round, the forests of the city of Zurich receive thousands of visitors. How can we assess and quantify them easily and efficiently?

Conquering The Last Mile

Optimizing last-mile logistics is a fundamental topic for a smarter city. How can we measure and visualize deliveries within the boundaries of the city?

Distribution Grid Power Failure

How can we improve the detection of power failures in the low voltage network for a more efficient city?

Meta projects

Meta projects that support MakeZurich itself

No Bike Left Behind

How can we track and recover abandoned bikes from the stationary sharing system of Züri Velo?

Open Challenge

If none of the challenges fits you, you are free to combine all available elements and develop your own challenge and ideas!

Real-time Occupancy Rate

Discover ways to use technology to measure and understand occupancy rate of the public transport vehicles in real time.

Teacher's Calling

Explore ways to increase safety in our schools in case of emergency or evacuation with the use of technology.

makezurich.ch Getting started Kick-off slides

Join Slack as soon as possible to start chatting and forming teams. You will find channels starting with #mz- for each challenge. The following project ideas are being submitted live via GitHub:

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Live Projects

We are bringing together the local hacker/maker community and the city administration to explore new ways of solving the problems of our city with the help of open networks and civic tech.

Join the conversation at #MakeZurich and on The Things Network Switzerland Slack.

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