On 11th & 12th November 2025 we had our yearly public Cumulocity AIoT Hackathon. This time in the Cumulocity HQ in DĂĽsseldorf.
If you don’t know what a Hackathon is, here is a short summary:
In a Hackathon, tech people and developers come together to network, form teams and work on specific challenges & ideas for a limited time. In the end, each team will pitch their solution to the audience and a jury. Best teams are awarded with a prize.
A Hackathon is especially efficient to try out new things, learn from others and rapidly develop/prototype something.
Here are the key numbers:
36 hackers formed 10 teams and developed & pitched 11 great solutions across 3 challenges.
We had a great mixture of people with different backgrounds like students, (senior) devs, architects and product managers from great companies like SAP, Wika, TURCK, KUNBUS, August Storm, Modern Drive, WeidmĂĽller, CMBlu and many more.
Before the event we recognized a very high interest in it. In total we received 72 applications with only 40 seats available in our current selected location. 38 seats were confirmed and in the end 36 participants attended the event.
The Challenges
This year we prepared 3 challenges the teams needed to select and pitch for:
AI - Challenge Owner @Rahul_Talreja / @Nikolaus_Neuerburg
Device Management & Connectivity - Challenge Owner @Aaron_Raab
SAP Asset Performance Management - Challenge Owner Marcus Behrens from SAP
Each challenge was rated separately and the best solution & team of each challenge were awarded as “Winner” in the end.
Welcome & Introduction
The Hackathon opened the doors at 11 AM on 11th Nov. 2025 and started with a Come-Together Lunch where the participants could get familiar with the location, network with other participants, have a first read of the available ideas and of course have lunch.
At 1 PM the Hackathon was kicked off with giving an overview about the overall agenda, available challenges and infrastructure.
Ideation
After the introduction the ideation started where the participants checked out the existing ideas and discussed with others if this could be something they want to work on for the next 1.5 days. Of course, also a lot of new ideas were added.
After ideas have been selected and teams were formed, they registered themselves and started hacking.
Teams & Solutions
Here are the teams and solutions of the Hackathon
Team Bangers! - AI Dashboard Generator
Team Bangers took the idea of implementing an AI-enabled Dashboard Generator in the AI challenge.
In the end they pitched a prototype that adds a “AI Dashboard” button in the Cockpit and leverages AI Agent Manager to generate a full Dashboard including pre-configured widgets to a selected device. For that they have implemented a MCP Tool Server for the Widgets that generated the widgets + configuration.
Team David & Goliath - QR-Code based Device Registration
Team David & Goliath selected one idea of the Device Management & Connectivity Challenge:
The team pitched a Cumulocity ready-to-use mobile app with the enhanced feature of scanning a QR-code attached to a device and starting the registration process within Cumulocity.
Team Ask AI - Vision AI + Digital Foosball Table
The Team selected not just one but two ideas they worked on in parallel. One idea was the generic Vision AI idea which they specified to a use case to use Vision AI for food quality control.
The second use case they selected was to connect the available Foosball Table, counting the goals and even came up with a digital foosball league.
The team brought and used a lot of equipment including cameras, an automated process to collect & train a model to detect faulty Hanutas and multiple sensors attached to the Foosball Table.
Team Parker Guys - Smart Parking by leveraging Vision AI
The team Parker Guys also took the idea around Vision AI (see above) and detailed it out for a smart parking use case. Their goal was to use AI Cameras to detect & count the amount of cars in parking areas and visualize/use the results in Cumulocity.
So they did train a model (not for cars, because cars wouldn’t fit in the office 
, but) for humans in a room. They pitched and demonstrated how you can use smart cameras with a trained model in combination with Cumulocity.
Team asnima - Unified Alarm Management
Team asnima selected a Condition Monitoring idea in the SAP APM challenge.
Their main goals was to enable a condition monitoring use case where alarms of Cumulocity are synced to SAP Asset Performance Management. For that they implemented a microservice to sync alarms in both systems. In the pitch they demonstrated a condition monitoring use case, raised an alarm by using the Cumulocity mobile app and demonstrated how this alarm is synced to SAP APM.
For that very good pitch and solution they have been awarded as Winner for the SAP APM challenge!
Team Akkan - QR-Code based Device Registration
The team Akkan was a special one because they are students which hadn’t any touch point with Cumulocity so far. They selected an idea which was also picked by the David & Goliath team: QR-Code based Device Registration in the Device Management & Connectivity Challenge.
Their main challenge was to understand the core concepts of Cumulocity. They reviewed documentation and API Spec and built a prototype that is able to scan QR-codes out of a newly generated Web UI and start the registration process in Cumulocity.
Team connectedge - New thin-edge.io CANBUS plugin
Team connectedge was a mixed team of 3 individuals who met for the first time at the hackathon. They adapted the idea of creating a Modbus plugin for thin-edge to CANBUS. So they took the existing Modbus plugin as a template and replaced the Modbus part with Canbus and demonstrated the whole connectivity chain from a ship engine via CAN to thin-edge.io running on a Revolution Pi to the cloud and Cumulocity.
Not only that, they also built a local Small Language Model (SLM) so you can send a prompt locally on the gateway about that data and get responses in a human-readable way.
For that impressive result & pitch they have been awarded as Winner in the Device Management & Connectivity Challenge!
Team Wikachu - AI Powered Widget Configuration
The team Wikachu selected an own idea in the AI challenge. Their main goal was to use AI to support and simplify how widgets can be configured in Cumulocity by replacing the whole configuration UI with just a prompt.
So they implemented and pitched a solution that leverages AI Agent Manager to suggest templates of potential configuration of widgets. It even let you fine-tune the configuration by re-prompting.
Team Banana Management System - Intelligent Battery Management System (iBMS)
The Team Banana Management System selected an own idea in the AI challenge. Their idea is to build a SLM-based and MCP-controlled BMS. In short, let a SLM decide how batteries should be ideally charged with a given input power.
They even brought a NVIDIA Jetson Nano to run the SLM on it.
The team was from the beginning in the “let’s get it done” tunnel. They split up work, assigned tasks to team members and integrated everything in the end.
They integrated the Jetson Nano to Cumulocity using thin-edge.io, wrote a battery and power simulator, integrated a PowerPilot & C8Y MCP Server to their AI-agent, tweaked the system prompt and finally visualized the outcome of it in a Cumulocity Dashboard.
For that very impressive outcome & pitch they have been awarded as Winner in the AI challenge!
Team Big Brother - Cloud Remote Access Recorder (Out of competition)
This team of Cumulocity experts took the idea of implementing a recorder for Cloud Remote Access (CRA) in the device management & connectivity challenge.
CRA is a powerful feature of Cumulocity and it logs who and when establishes a remote session but not what happened within that session. For that gap the team developed a solution to record…
- remote sessions on the device
- remote sessions in the cloud
Both create events on the device in Cumulocity and attach either a log file of the session or even an animated GIF of the session:
Summary
Once again the Cumulocity AIoT Hackathon 2025 demonstrated what happens if you bring technical people/developers to a location and let them solve challenges! It was a very inspiring and open-minded event where the participants not only solved challenges in a competitive way but also shared their knowledge. It was inspiring to see how the teams interacted with each other, shared what they were currently working on and the determination to make their solutions work!
A very important success factor were the Mentors and Experts of Cumulocity who were sometimes part of the teams or open to share their knowledge and give advice on how the teams can do specific things!
So in the end 3 teams were awarded:
Team asnima - Winner in the SAP APM challenge
Team connectedge - Winner in the Device Management & Connectivity challenge
Team Banana Management System - Winner in the AI challenge
It was a tough vote for the jury with even a runoff to find the winner for each challenge with so many great solutions in the end. It is fair to say that in the end no one left with the feeling they lost, but all of them won something: A great experience, with great people!
So a big Thank You to the community, high interest and participants for making this Hackathon so special this year!
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