The 4th edition of the I-Nov Games showcased the talent of 6 of our ISMIN students.
Hussein Sayed Ahmed, Dennis Viter, Ericka Assengue, Mariem Boussarsar, Gabriel Barbé, and Abdelouahed Jebari participated in this hackathon dedicated to developing the professional training sector in microelectronics in the Southern region.
They took part in extensive brainstorming and developed their concept PillEasy, a smart pill dispenser designed to assist patients in their daily lives.
Our students grew from this experience, not only designing a technical solution but also gaining an understanding of the market, needs, and regulatory constraints within the healthcare sector. Connected to a mobile application, PillEasy aims to improve the monitoring of patients aged 20 to 45 suffering from chronic illnesses. The pill dispenser prototype was created using components supplied by STMicroelectronics and Eyco, two major industrial players in the Marseille area, which grounded the PillEasy team in practical reality.
This competition highlighted the diversity of our engineers’ training: ISMIN students combined technological innovation, economic vision, and the improvement of patients’ lives.
In this article, they share their experience.
Participating in an event like the I-Nov Games is the perfect complement to our ISMIN training. Beyond the technical aspect, which allows us to confront our theoretical knowledge with real-world problems under significant time constraints, it is a tremendous human adventure. Indeed, this hackathon offered us the chance to meet excellent people from very diverse fields and different universities. These multidisciplinary exchanges are extremely enriching for us. They teach us to communicate with other professions and perfectly complement our learning of how to design tangible solutions as a team.
I am extremely proud of the work my team and I accomplished. Winning this first prize is a great satisfaction, but my greatest pride lies in the ultimate purpose of our project. This event was particularly exciting for me because it involved applying engineering to improve health. In my opinion, the ultimate goal of our studies and the sciences we learn at the School is the concrete and real improvement of human life. This victory has therefore completely reinforced my career choice. It proves to me that we are acquiring the necessary skills to have a real positive impact on society, which tenfold increases my motivation for the rest of my engineering career.Hussein Sayed Ahmed
Events like the I-Nov Games allow us to apply what we learn in class, deepen certain aspects, and discover new fields. From my perspective, these events are complementary to our training and truly enable us to develop both our soft skills and hard skills. During this event, we also had the opportunity to discover the world of healthcare, its needs, and its constraints.
I am personally satisfied with the work we delivered, especially given the workload constraints imposed by our studies. This event made me realize that by continuing the ISMIN program, we would acquire the knowledge to accomplish any IoT project.Gabriel Barbé
The I-Nov Games allowed us to step outside the academic framework and dive directly into the engineering profession. Here, we didn’t just have a prompt to follow, but a real solution to imagine, design, and implement from scratch. This type of event also sparks curiosity and confronts us with concrete issues that we don’t always encounter in class.
I am proud of what we achieved, even if we initially expected to develop a much more advanced solution. In the end, it’s a good reminder that even with solid theoretical knowledge, practice remains more complex. Personally, it encouraged me to delve deeper into subjects that aren’t necessarily covered in class.Dennis Viter
Events like the I-Nov Games contribute immensely to our ISMIN training. They allow us to move beyond the theoretical framework of courses and apply our knowledge in concrete, real-world situations. It is also a valuable opportunity to develop projects with real added value for society.
I am extremely proud of the work accomplished, as well as of my team, without whom none of this would have been possible. This experience has strengthened my desire to pursue this path, particularly in embedded systems and, more broadly, in social impact tech, in order to design useful and concrete solutions to improve users’ daily lives.Ericka Asengue
