🚨 CHENNAI, YOU BUILT. 🚨 

30 hours. 128 participants. 10+ mentors & jury members. Big ideas. Non-stop building. And Chennai brought its A-game to the iQOO Hackathon 2026 City Battle!

Developers, engineers, AI enthusiasts and young tech minds came together at The Hive OMR (Pre-toll) for an intense phone-first, hybrid development challenge powered by the iQOO 15. 📱🔥

Teams pushed the limits of performance, optimisation, cooling and battery — turning ideas into working builds through hours of coding, testing and refining.

And now, meet the 6 winning teams from Chennai! 🏆

👨‍💻 Working Professionals

🏆 Winner — Team Just Us

Nila is an on-device baby monitoring assistant that uses AI to detect cries, monitor movement and identify potential safety risks — with zero cloud dependency.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team One Man

Nazar is an on-device scam protection system that detects suspicious messages and calls, warning users before a potentially risky payment while keeping data private.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team DHANESHVAR's SQUAD

Assemblix uses on-device AI and the smartphone camera to identify hardware components and guide users through assembly and repair with 3D visualisation and voice assistance.

🎓 Students

🏆 Winner — Team Atreides

Consent-Cam is a privacy-first camera that detects nearby consent signals and automatically protects faces from being captured — with processing happening entirely on-device.

🥈 1st Runner Up — Team Apple

Jugaad Agent turns an Android phone into a portable predictive-maintenance tool, using its sensors to detect machine faults across 13 machine types and 58 faults.

🥉 2nd Runner Up — Team LeadMillers

Saathi is an offline AI health companion that helps women track PCOS symptoms and progress, while enabling secure local data sharing between patients, families and doctors.

🔥 What's next?

All 6 winning teams have earned a direct Wild Card entry to the Grand Finale in Bengaluru, October 9–11.

And the City Battles aren't done yet!

🚨 Next up: Hyderabad

📅 26–27 September 2026

Haven’t registered yet? Get ready to build, compete and battle it out! ⚡

Chennai, you brought the ideas. You brought the innovation.

#iQOOHackathon2026

Until then, Happy Questing,

Team iQOO Connect

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