A joint team from NordHero and JAMK University of Applied Sciences earned second place in the Drone Innovation Hackathon 2, held at Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland from June 9–11, 2026. The team competed in the Autonomous Surveillance and Rescue Challenge, which required fully autonomous drone operation without radio signal or human control. Their solution combined autonomous flight programming on a Crazyflie 2.1 Brushless drone with real-time cloud-based video analysis streamed to AWS, enabling sophisticated object detection beyond what onboard hardware could achieve alone. Despite discovering a motor fault after the competition, the team’s strong software solution secured their impressive result. The team consisted of Ville Heikkinen, Otto Hakuli, Roope Kärkkäinen, and Henri Carp, coached by NordHero cloud architect Ville Kärkkäinen. CrazyTown Jyväskylä provided workspace, and NordHero sponsored the team with Kiro licenses throughout development.