InterDigital-Sponsored IfU’s HotSprings Smart Cities Challenge Winners Selected
April 07 2016 - 3:30AM
InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq:IDCC), a mobile technology research and
development company, today announced the completion of the
company-sponsored Smart@AC application challenge. The application
challenge was part of its smart cities focused-project HotSprings
(hotsprings.io), spearheaded by InterDigital’s Innovation Partners
Group and the Institute for Management Cybernetics e.V. (IfU) in
Aachen, Germany.
“We are very pleased with the results of the challenge.
Over 100 individuals and 25 teams developed smart city applications
using the HotSprings innovation platform,” said Jeffrey Metzger, of
InterDigital’s Innovations Partners Group. “The challenge
allowed us to explore methods to reduce the barriers to innovation
that are inherent in existing IoT-related platforms for both
application developers and data publishers.”
The final judging and award ceremony was held on
the RWTH Aachen University campus with an audience made up of the
challenge participants, partners, judges, and honored guests. The
initial 25 teams were narrowed down to the top-rated six. The six
finalists presented their applications and related business models
in the final round to the judging committee, which was made up of
representatives from the IfU, Innovation Partners, the City of
Aachen, partners, and local entrepreneurs.
After significant deliberation the top placed teams were
determined to be:
- First place - Team “SoNah”. Team SoNah designed a novel
sensor and image recognition-based parking space search
application. The application allows parking seekers to find
available parking spaces via their smart devices. The team,
in partnership with local businesses, will go live with their
application in Aachen with the longer term goal of a geographically
broader deployment given the portable nature of their system.
- Second place - Team R.A.L.P.H. Team R.A.L.P.H. developed
a practical life organization application which consolidates IoT
data from many disparate sources and applications, such as the city
bus schedule, into one application specifically targeted to
university student users in the near term, with a future goal of
targeting the broader population.
- Third place - Team Study Spots. Team Study Spots created
a space occupancy detection application using devices registered on
Wi-Fi Access Points.
The other finalist teams, CocoaHeads, Aix, and Synaix, were also
highlighted for their outstanding contributions, making the jury’s
final selection very challenging.
The organizers were also happy to thank challenge partners the
City of Aachen, Aachener Verkehrsverbund GmbH, AWA GmbH, Cambio,
Freifunk, RWTH Aachen University, Velocity, APAG, The Catholic
Diocese of Aachen, tom’tom Design, and Interactive Pioneers.
All of the challenge partners shared both live and static data
related to their operations as well as insight and support to the
teams and organizers of this smart city challenge. “We are grateful
to our partners who worked closely with us over the last 6 months.
As a community, we all benefited from the collaboration and
developed an awareness of what is possible when making our city
smarter in this way,” said Dr. Max Haberstroh, HotSprings IfU
Project Manager.
For further information on the challenge and ongoing
developments please visit www.hotsprings.io.
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