TADHack-mini Chicago

3 – 4 October Chicago

TADHack-mini Chicago will run just before the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Real Time Communications (IIT RTC) Conference. The Hackathon will focus on IoT (Internet of Things), next generation emergency services (NG911), Telecom APIs, WebRTC, identity / federation, and speech / video processing.

The winners at TADHack-mini Chicago can also give a keynote pitch to the IIT RTC Conference during the week, to a mix of industry leaders, academics, service providers and vendors.

For more info check out the TADHack weblog and Chicago Meet-up group.

TADHack 2015 - IIT RTC Chicago
$8K
Prize pot

Thank you to everyone involved for making TADHack mini Chicago such a great event! Especially to Clarify, Dialogic, Flowroute, Matrix, Telestax, Truphone, Tropo, and IIT RTC Labs for making it possible. We had 50 people onsite, and two remote, with diverse backgrounds from IIT students to people in finance, manufacturing, and supply.

For many involved, TADHack was their first hackathon, it was their first pitch! From NG911 hacks, through dancing robots and heart attack applications, to innovative telecom enabled apps focused on making life better. You can see the summary of the winners in the weblog below.

Read about our winners See videos from the event See photos from the event
Idea Shop

Where?

The Idea Shop

University Technology Park
Illinois Institute of Technology
3440 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60616

Sponsors

IIT RTC Lab

Developer Resources

Clarify

Clarify is bringing technology from the lab to the real world to give people access to the power of data hidden in their audio and video.  All of the signal processing, language analysis, and complex math sits behind an easy to use API with helper libraries and Quickstart guides to help you get you started in minutes.  With Clarify’s API, developers can search audio and video archives easily and quickly.  The Clarify API translates the audio and video into text documents, which can then be searched using keywords. You can see it in action on our demo page.

Clarify developer resources can be found at:
Developer Portal
Specific Quickstarts
Github Repo

Dialogic

PowerMedia XMS is a software media server and video MCU for real time communications in SIP and/or WebRTC domains. Use PowerMedia XMS to add audio and video features such as:
– Conferencing
– Video mixing
– Recording
– Stream insertion/playback
– IVR/DTMF detection & response
– Transcoding
– WebRTC to standard SIP media plane interworking
– Video transizing and transrating

XMS’s standard media control interface support lets it plug into other TADHacks sponsors such as Telestax. PowerMedia XMS also offers a JavaScript API for WebRTC clients and RESTful API for media server control. Take a look at Vince’s winning myVirtualGolfLesson demo for some ideas on what PowerMedia XMS can do.

Getting Started
Go to Dialogic’s TADHack 2015 Landing Page for the most up-to-date developer resources.

Dialogic is offering a number of pre-configured Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances to help get you going in minutes. These instances include an optional Telestax integration. Contact Vince Puglia to get set up with an instance and a personalized quick-start.

Resources
Email Vince Puglia or find him on site to get jumpstarted
PowerMedia XMS product background
Examples on GitHub

Flowroute

Flowroute is the only carrier to empower developers, enterprises and service providers with full access to the telephone network, and real-time control of services and features, while aligning the cost of voice communication more closely with the low cost of data.

Resources:
API documentation
System Config Guides
How-to Guides

Use Cases:
FastCustomer
ReminderCall

GET STARTED:
Sign up for Flowroute (Free)
A PBX is required to integrate with our APIs:
FreeSWITCH API
FreeSWITCH Docs

Matrix

Matrix (matrix.org) is an open source distributed persistent messaging fabric with eventual consistency, open federation and strong cryptographic guarantees – used for securely exchanging messages and synchronising communication history between humans, devices and services with no single points of control or data ownership. It consists of an open standard defining RESTful HTTP APIs and open source, Apache-licensed reference server and client implementations for exchanging and persisting arbitrary JSON data. It can be to exchange group chat, voice or video calls, IoT data, or any information you could wish to publish/subscribe via an internet-wide open persistent messaging network.

The reference Matrix Web Client already supports WebRTC, so an idea for a hack would be to use or take inspiration from this code in your application. Please feel free to ask questions and chat to the matrix team in the official Matrix HQ chatroom!

Resources:
Spec
APIs
HOWTOs
Matrix at github

WebRTC specific resources:
VoIP spec
WebRTC in the AngularJS webclient:
WebRTC Service
Matrix Call
Room Controller

Telestax

The Telestax challenge will evaluate Restcomm apps targeting marketing automation. The winner and the runner up app will be offered commercialization terms through the Restcomm App Store to a target audience of over 100 million subscribers.

Call tracking technologies are popular because inbound calls are the most lucrative type of lead. They are the sales reps’ most favorite kind of lead, and therefore the marketers most valuable measure to generate and track.

A couple of ideas for apps:
– WordPress plugin shortcode that renders a unique phone number for the web page its used on. Calls to such phone numbers will be tracked and correlated to their corresponding web page in Google Analytics.
– HTML5 / JavaScript Call to Action widget, which renders a phone number and a Click To Call (WebRTC) button. Mobile or Web users can call-in to discuss the product or service offered on the page where the widget is located, without having to navigate generic IVR menus. The widget will be integrated with Restcomm and a Marketing Automation Platform (e.g. HubSpot, Act-On, Spokal) to help measure conversion rates from visitors to closed won deals.

Restcomm resources:
Restcomm github
Technical documentation

Community forums:
Stack Overflow forum
Google RestComm forum

Video resources:
How-to blog and video
Other product demos and how-to videos

Tropo

Cloud API for Voice and SMS. Tropo makes it simple to build phone and SMS applications. You use the web technologies you already know and Tropo’s powerful cloud API to bring real-time communications to your apps.

Tropo Sandbox: Sign up and get access to the free Tropo sandbox to play with the Tropo API.

Tropo Support: There are several methods to get help on Tropo, whether you need best practice suggestions, answers to general how to questions/code problems or help brainstorming a solution to a unique problem you’re trying to solve.

Truphone

IIT RTC Lab

IIT RTC Labs will provide access to their NG9-1-1 test bed at the event location.

They will give each developer who requests it:
– The URL of our test bed’s SBC;
– A SIP User Name that will register with the SBC; and
– A short description of the NG9-1-1 test bed and calls flows.

This will allow the developer to point emergency calls to a Public Service Answering Point via the ESInet (Emergency Services IP Network).

Schedule

Saturday October 3

10AM Start
Noon – 1PM Lunch
6 – 7PM Dinner
8 PM Wrap–up or go to the lab and carry on coding

Sunday October 4

10AM Start
Noon – 1PM Lunch
2 – 4PM Pitches
4:30PM Prizes and then a few beers
5 PM close

Partners

Appery.io
Application Developers Alliance
bloggeek.me
ClueCon
disruptive-analysis
FreeSWITCH
GeeCON
Google
GWOB
Hackathon Hero
Hot Telecom
ISDI - Instituto Superior para el Desarollo de Internet
MEF
mind-commerce
Opinno
Real Time Weekly
tonse-telecom
Trossen Robotics
vision-mobile2
VOIP Users Conference
W3C
Wayra
WebRTCHacks
WebRTC Stats
WIP