How to Apply for Gujarat Police Innovation Challenge 2026 — ₹51L CCTV & AI Hackathon

Phase 1 — Sandbox Round. Teams integrate their solution with the simulated live test feeds and compete within their own category. On the hackathon day, each team is handed a vehicle number and has to track that vehicle as it moves between camera locations, producing its complete route as a timestamped, location-wise movement history.

Submissions are assessed across seven areas:

• The test case run on the government feed.
• The solution presentation.
• Solution architecture and the quality of the high-level design.
• How mature the working platform is.
• The quality of the video analytics output.
• Scalability and proof-of-concept readiness for roughly 80,000 cameras.
• Overall completeness of the submission.

Extras such as hybrid architectures, cross-camera tracking, edge processing or automated alerts may attract bonus consideration, but they cannot make up for a missing mandatory requirement. Demonstrations must show working software — mock-ups and concept videos are not accepted.

Phase 2 — Grand Finale. The top three teams from each category, six in total, advance. They integrate with real CCTV feeds at scale and are evaluated by Gujarat Police leadership and a technical jury, with support from knowledge partners NFSU and DA-IICT.