Two WUT teams on the podium at the EDTH hackathon

The Hardcounter team, consisting of Piotr Czechowski, Aleksander Jeżowski, Denis Lisovitskiy, and Rafał Lasota, won first place. All team members are students of the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science at WUT.

HardCounter team – winners of the first place in the EDTH hackathon

“Our winning project, VoiceOps Map, is a tactical support system that converts human speech directly into an interactive live map. This allows field operators to avoid manually entering coordinates,” explains Piotr Czechowski from the WUT Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science. “For example, when someone says via radio ‘enemy near Rondo ONZ,’ the AI instantly places the corresponding marker on a shared team map. To ensure maximum communication security, the entire audio processing system runs locally on a wearable mini-computer based on a Raspberry Pi.”

HardCounter team – winners of the first place in the EDTH hackathon

Second place was also awarded to WUT students. The team consisted of Krzysztof Dąbrowski and Maksymilian Paczyński from the Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science, Aiman Ghanim from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, and Kacper Lisik from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

Winners of the second place in the EDTH hackathon

“We worked on a military challenge called Voice-to-Map, which was one of the problems proposed by the company Lysk. We developed a situational awareness tool that transforms a soldier’s spoken report into an object automatically placed on a 3D battlefield map, combining speech recognition, AI-based interpretation, coordinate validation rules, and 3D visualisation,” says Maksymilian Paczyński from the WUT Faculty of Mathematics and Information Science. “The system can also determine whether reports from different soldiers refer to the same object, track its movement over time, and request clarification in cases of ambiguity. This provides commanders with a unified situational picture without manual mapping.”

The European Defense Tech Hackathon aims to connect representatives from the technology sector, public institutions, investors, and experts in dual-use and defence technologies. It provides a platform for developing innovative solutions addressing real-world challenges and supports participants in further developing and implementing their projects.