{"id":21289,"date":"2025-03-13T11:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T03:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?post_type=nus-news&p=21289"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T05:00:15","slug":"nus-ceg-students-won-1st-place-in-the-sondra-challenge-2025","status":"publish","type":"nus-news","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/nus-ceg-students-won-1st-place-in-the-sondra-challenge-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"NUS CEG Students Won 1st place in the SONDRA Challenge 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A team consisting of NUS Computer Engineering students (Lee Xian Hui and Chan Sheng Bin), NUS Chemical Engineering student (Jonas Low),\u00a0alongside members from SIT and NTU, won 1st place in the SONDRA Challenge 2025 with their project, DroneGuard\u2014a real-time drone detection system using Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Edge AI.<\/div>\n
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The team\u2019s winning project, DroneGuard, presents a cutting-edge, real-time drone detection system that combines RF-based machine learning detection and computer vision to identify unauthorized drones in restricted areas. By leveraging SDR to analyze drone radio signals using a CNN model and using a YOLOv8 model for live video detection, DroneGuard offers a low-cost, scalable, and highly accurate solution for drone surveillance. Their system, powered by a Hailo AI accelerator and Raspberry Pi 5, achieves more than 95% accuracy and provides real-time alerts via a web dashboard and Telegram notifications. This innovative approach to autonomous drone detection highlights the potential of AI-driven security solutions in urban environments.<\/div>\n
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The winning team will earn themselves a one-week sponsored trip to attend the 6th SONDRA’s workshop in La Grande Motte, France, where they will have the opportunity to network with academics, researchers, engineers and PhD students from French and European research institutes.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team consisting of NUS Computer Engineering students (Lee Xian Hui and Chan Sheng Bin), NUS Chemical Engineering student (Jonas Low),\u00a0alongside members from SIT and NTU, won 1st place in the SONDRA Challenge 2025 with their project, DroneGuard\u2014a real-time drone detection system using Software-Defined Radio (SDR) and Edge AI. The team\u2019s winning project, DroneGuard, presents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21274,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"news_category":[37,47],"class_list":["post-21289","nus-news","type-nus-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_category-ece","news_category-awards-achievements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nus-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21290,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21289\/revisions\/21290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=21289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}