CIC 2010
The GT-RNOC is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 Convergence Innovation Competition. Congratulations to all of the winners! Their hard work throughout the year was evident in the results.
We would like to thank our partners who made this year's competition possible including AT&T, Verizon Wireless, the Georgia Tech GVU, and the Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology. The judges this year came from over 20 different companies who broadly represented the industry including carriers, vendors and service providers.
Further details of the competition itself and how to become involved in next year's competition are available here.
Campus Community Widgets
Sponsored by the GT Office of Information Technology
1st Place - CarPooler
Team: Anirudh Venkataramanan, Kaushik Ravichandran, Madhumitha Ravichandran, Shruthi Adappa, Venkatasubramaniam Ramanathan
2nd Place - viaCycle
Team: Kyle Azevedo, Siddharth Doshi, Koji Intlekofer, Zach Zacharia, Michael Culler, Yuriy Romaniw
Interactive Television
Sponsored by the GVU Center
1st Place - ViviVieW
Team: Vedrana Novosel, Preethi Mali Mahalingam, Hersh S Tyer, Abinash Barik, Supraja Narasimhan, Leslie Dillon Parker, Amay Singhal
2nd Place - OmniContact
Team: Tarun Yadav, Neha Gautam
SIP & Web 2.0 Converged Applications
Sponsored by AT&T
1st Place - Buzz-a-Ride
Team: Dev Priya, Neha Karajgikar, Pooja Rajanna
2nd Place - Phurnish
Team: Carlos Nieto, Akash Shah, Priyal Mehta, Parth Parekh
Wireless Solutions for the Utility Industry
Sponsored by Verizon Wireless
1st Place - SPrime
Team: Chris McClanahan, Jeffery Starker, Tim Upthegrove
2nd Place - Smart Grid Optimizer
Team: Ashish Deshpande, Arunabh Verma, Matthew Reno, Satyajit Deshmukh, Unmesh Deolekar
Categories
Campus Community Widgets
Creating new applications that enhance campus life for Georgia Tech and beyond
This category is sponsored by the Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology (OIT)
Application attributes include:
- Solve everyday problems for students, faculty, staff and visitors
- Leverage the MyGatech Zimbra platform and data
- Integrate with other campus and non-campus services
Some goals for applications in this category might be:
- creating a greater sense of community
- improved campus security
- reducing costs - both to faculty/staff and to students
- increased efficiency and effectiveness of communication
- make campus services more accessible (Transportation, Dining, Library, Residence Halls, Student Center, etc)
Interactive Television
Enhancing the television user experience with interactive technologies and human convergence
This category is sponsored by the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.
Application attributes include:
- Innovate new social and personal TV experiences
- Integrate live and stored video with a broad set of services and user interfaces
- Design toward IPTV platform capabilities from Motorola and other RNOC resources
Some goals for applications in this category might be:
- Develop a prototype system that provides an ability for a user to easily access internet content related in some meaningful way to video content the user either is currently watching or has watched in the past.
- Internet content may be viewed on the same screen used to display the video content or on a separate screen/device.
The solution may include any part of the processes of:- annotating the primary video content to support the identification and delivery of related internet content
- authoring related internet content for particular video content sources
- creating & publishing associations between video and internet content
- aggregating, filtering or classifying related content
- presenting secondary content or links to that content to the user.
- Involve the delivery of internet content/communications (which may or may not involve video) to a user’s device (may or may not be the same device) in a way that leverages or adds value to the video content streamed from the CDVH.
- Secondary content delivered to the same device as the one that displays the primary video content may be superimposed over primary content or displayed in a separate window.
- May involve services that are delivered exclusively through the video content provider’s network (i.e. a walled garden) or that exploit an open ecosystem of secondary content providers.
SIP and Web 2.0 Converged Applications
Integrating telephony features and services with web applications and services
This category is sponsored by ATT.
Application attributes include:
- Innovate in the convergence of Voice, Web, IPTV and more
- Leverage IMS as the service delivery platform including presence, location, click-to-dial and more
- Design toward the Alcatel Lucent IMS core at the ATT Architecture Verification Facility
Some goals for applications in this category might be:
- Integrated call log and caller info while watching TV.
- Unified multi-media messaging (voicemail, fax, text, etc) across phone, computer and TV.
- Network PVR enhanced calling including call recording and media sharing.
- Enhanced reality video sharing.
- Remote home security monitoring and control
Wireless Solutions for the Utility Industry
Creating new applications that leverage wireless and mobility to enhance the delivery and support of electric service for the utilities and their customers
This category is sponsored by Verizon Wireless
Application attributes include:
- Innovate for the “Smart Grid” - both sides of the meter
- Provide Enhanced Outage Notification
- Monitor Power Consumption
- utility owned - e.g. streetlights
- consumer owned - e.g. appliances, lighting
- Develop data analytics and visualization
Some goals of applications in this space might be:
- to improve communication between customers and utility providers
- to improve communication between providers and field crews
- increase consumer awareness of power usage patterns and their impact on pricing
- increase efficiency and responsiveness of the power generation and transport infrastructure
What is a Smart Grid?
There is a great deal of debate about the definition of the Smart Grid. While there are many different options, the important thing to recognize for the purpose of this competition is that it is a very broad space with innumerable relevant project areas.
Some commonly discussed attributes of the Smart Grid are:
- Smart Use - Smart meters, real time pricing, demand side management, EV charging, net metering, energy efficiency, LED lighting, transaction management, energy appliances, smart homes, data centers
- Smart Asset - Adding intelligence & control to the T&D network and components, power flow control, wind and solar integration, system protection, dynamic voltage control, improved asset utilization, energy storage, Dynamic OPF, enabling bidirectional power flows, system protection, enabling market functions
- Proactive Response - Improved situational awareness, wide area coordination, massive data streams into actionable information, load/source forecasting and optimization, coordinated operation, operating under electrical and communications contingencies.
- Key Technologies - Transmission & Distribution, Solar PV, Wind, DG, Energy Storage, Power Electronics, Sensors, Cyber-Security, Transaction Management, IT Infrastructure, Energy Efficiency, Smart Appliances, EV/PHEV
- Controllable Grid - Including all of the above to make the interconnected grid controllable. This requires legislation and large scale coordination.
A great resource for more information is the Smart Grid Technologies workshop that was recently held at Georgia Tech. The presentations are available here.
You should also read this Wired Magazine article "7 Ways to Fix the Grid".
Teams
Campus Community Widgets
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
The DealTracker web service and mobile application shops all day every day in numerous places, for things you want, at the price you need. It reports price changes, trends, and enables the user to buy when the moment is right without leaving the application.
Let this application deliver an optimized itinerary and plan of action that matches your tasks with your preferences, and location. Get real-time notification of nearby locations, routes, deals, and reminders ... all while minimizing your costs and time invested.
This application allows you to multi-task and stay up to date by reading RSS news feeds to you using Text-To-Speech - giving you your own personal news station!
An information management and retrieval system using barcodes. Share information with a barcode that is retrievable by smartphone users just by taking a photo. Museums, art galleries, restaurants, buildings, places, or individuals can now make detailed content about an artifact or location available to consumers or visitors.
myBuzzGuide is an interactive campus assistant for students who are new to campus. myBuzzGuide provides new students and campus visitors with navigation tools, information about campus landmarks, and connections to campus organizations and fellow students.
Would you rather follow in the footsteps of strangers or friends? Find the experiences and recommendations of those you know in networks you already use and in order of your personal trust and interest! "Footprints" manages both user generated or sponsored content associated with locations and businesses, specifically among people who know each other. "Footprints" adds the value of trust to the power of geo-social networking.
The Tech 411 application leverages a suite of voice and data services making possible IVR access to enterprise data (directories, transportation, events, schedules…) and push notification services for a wide range of use cases. Tech-411 is a platform for delivering critical services to people lacking a smartphone, a data connection, or both, by employing the lowest common denominator in mobile communications: voice!
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.
Buzz-a-Ride
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
CarPooler
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
DealTracker
The DealTracker web service and mobile application shops all day every day in numerous places, for things you want, at the price you need. It reports price changes, trends, and enables the user to buy when the moment is right without leaving the application.
EasyPlanner
Let this application deliver an optimized itinerary and plan of action that matches your tasks with your preferences, and location. Get real-time notification of nearby locations, routes, deals, and reminders ... all while minimizing your costs and time invested.
FeedSpeak
This application allows you to multi-task and stay up to date by reading RSS news feeds to you using Text-To-Speech - giving you your own personal news station!
Geosites
An information management and retrieval system using barcodes. Share information with a barcode that is retrievable by smartphone users just by taking a photo. Museums, art galleries, restaurants, buildings, places, or individuals can now make detailed content about an artifact or location available to consumers or visitors.
Tech-411
The Tech 411 application leverages a suite of voice and data services making possible IVR access to enterprise data (directories, transportation, events, schedules…) and push notification services for a wide range of use cases. Tech-411 is a platform for delivering critical services to people lacking a smartphone, a data connection, or both, by employing the lowest common denominator in mobile communications: voice!
myBuzzGuide
myBuzzGuide is an interactive campus assistant for students who are new to campus. myBuzzGuide provides new students and campus visitors with navigation tools, information about campus landmarks, and connections to campus organizations and fellow students.
myFootprints
Would you rather follow in the footsteps of strangers or friends? Find the experiences and recommendations of those you know in networks you already use and in order of your personal trust and interest! "Footprints" manages both user generated or sponsored content associated with locations and businesses, specifically among people who know each other. "Footprints" adds the value of trust to the power of geo-social networking.
viaCycle
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.
Interactive Television
Flicksell is a community based e-commerce service brought about by leveraging a user's social network. The service provides end-end support from classified postings, suggestions, to item shipping.
This application allows deaf TV viewers to request the American Sign Language sign for any text that appears in the close captioning system.
This application brings the myriad means of communication and presence information together in a single service to make sure that the right information is available and up to date.
ViViView brings a whole new level of viewer interaction to television that lets the TV viewer identify exactly what they are interested in, not just from the commercials but from all of the content. ViviVieW does this by allowing all tangible items in any video to be associated with related content and seamlessly accessed by the viewer whenever desired.
FlickSell
Flicksell is a community based e-commerce service brought about by leveraging a user's social network. The service provides end-end support from classified postings, suggestions, to item shipping.
MySignLink
This application allows deaf TV viewers to request the American Sign Language sign for any text that appears in the close captioning system.
OmniContact
This application brings the myriad means of communication and presence information together in a single service to make sure that the right information is available and up to date.
ViviVieW
ViViView brings a whole new level of viewer interaction to television that lets the TV viewer identify exactly what they are interested in, not just from the commercials but from all of the content. ViviVieW does this by allowing all tangible items in any video to be associated with related content and seamlessly accessed by the viewer whenever desired.
SIP and Web 2.0 Converged Applications
Whether you are traveling a foreign country or trying to read an ancient text, this universal translator service allows mobile phone users to get instant language translations of any text they can capture with their camera.
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
Using the information that people exchange over the telephone, Conversation Profiling builds a profile of users without requiring additional interaction from the user. This profile is then used to provide advertisers and applications with a service to personalize user experience as well as market research tools for trending of interest levels and opinions about products and services.
Let this application deliver an optimized itinerary and plan of action that matches your tasks with your preferences, and location. Get real-time notification of nearby locations, routes, deals, and reminders ... all while minimizing your costs and time invested.
An information management and retrieval system using barcodes. Share information with a barcode that is retrievable by smartphone users just by taking a photo. Museums, art galleries, restaurants, buildings, places, or individuals can now make detailed content about an artifact or location available to consumers or visitors.
From 2D maps or Augmented Reality overlays on the viewfinder, use your mobile device to easily locate the nearest public transportation, click for schedules, get directions with street views, plot your own routes, and select for minimal travel time or minimal expense.
Would you rather follow in the footsteps of strangers or friends? Find the experiences and recommendations of those you know in networks you already use and in order of your personal trust and interest! "Footprints" manages both user generated or sponsored content associated with locations and businesses, specifically among people who know each other. "Footprints" adds the value of trust to the power of geo-social networking.
This application brings the myriad means of communication and presence information together in a single service to make sure that the right information is available and up to date.
Pick and place new furnishings in your room before you take them home! Phurnish helps you to locate the right products and to verify their look in the furnished area by acquiring 3D models of the products and experimenting with their placement over an image of the intended space - all on your mobile phone.
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.
Babble
Whether you are traveling a foreign country or trying to read an ancient text, this universal translator service allows mobile phone users to get instant language translations of any text they can capture with their camera.
Buzz-a-Ride
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
CarPooler
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
Conversation Profiling
Using the information that people exchange over the telephone, Conversation Profiling builds a profile of users without requiring additional interaction from the user. This profile is then used to provide advertisers and applications with a service to personalize user experience as well as market research tools for trending of interest levels and opinions about products and services.
EasyPlanner
Let this application deliver an optimized itinerary and plan of action that matches your tasks with your preferences, and location. Get real-time notification of nearby locations, routes, deals, and reminders ... all while minimizing your costs and time invested.
Geosites
An information management and retrieval system using barcodes. Share information with a barcode that is retrievable by smartphone users just by taking a photo. Museums, art galleries, restaurants, buildings, places, or individuals can now make detailed content about an artifact or location available to consumers or visitors.
Go-Find
From 2D maps or Augmented Reality overlays on the viewfinder, use your mobile device to easily locate the nearest public transportation, click for schedules, get directions with street views, plot your own routes, and select for minimal travel time or minimal expense.
OmniContact
This application brings the myriad means of communication and presence information together in a single service to make sure that the right information is available and up to date.
Phurnish
Pick and place new furnishings in your room before you take them home! Phurnish helps you to locate the right products and to verify their look in the furnished area by acquiring 3D models of the products and experimenting with their placement over an image of the intended space - all on your mobile phone.
myFootprints
Would you rather follow in the footsteps of strangers or friends? Find the experiences and recommendations of those you know in networks you already use and in order of your personal trust and interest! "Footprints" manages both user generated or sponsored content associated with locations and businesses, specifically among people who know each other. "Footprints" adds the value of trust to the power of geo-social networking.
viaCycle
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.
Wireless Solutions for the Utility Industry
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
A mobile/web platform for enhanced customer serviceability and increase consumer awareness of power usage patterns and their impact on pricing. Green Home provides a common mobile and web platform for both utility providers as well as other infrastructure management service providers like Device Manufacturers, Maintenance providing companies etc.
This application combines body area sensors with mobile and web services that monitor health and vital statistics for emergency medical situations and for improving health awareness.
Powertrac is a web-based energy tracking and management tool for the home that focuses on interpreting and presenting data in meaningful ways to empower customers to make better usage decisions.
This intelligent appliance-scheduling tool that helps you save energy and money. Based on your personal appliance-usage patterns, and other parameters that govern the overall cost (like appliances' actual energy consumption, electricity rates etc.); Smart Grid Optimizer creates the most optimal and acceptable appliance-usage schedule for you.
Get control of every device on your home power infrastructure. SPRIME monitors power usage for each device, and lets the user check that usage as well as control which devices receive power. SPRIME is web based, and can be viewed on any device with an internet connection and a web browser.
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.
Buzz-a-Ride
Buzz-a-Ride is a user-friendly and hassle-free tool that allows users to connect and carpool even for small distances and with no advance planning. Users simply enter their route and look for people traveling on the same route. Besides relational benefits of meeting people with plausibly similar interests in life, Buzz-a-ride addresses security, privacy, flexibility, and employs micro-payments for a compelling new model in a personal, mobile phone assisted transportation tool.
CarPooler
Sharing a ride is now as simple as the click of a button. Convert your car ride into an economical and enjoyable experience without sacrificing your safety or privacy. Riders who hitch a ride share in the expenses and allowing the driver to reduce his/her fuel and operating costs. CarPooler provides a real-time, location aware, and social-network based service for matching drivers with passengers.
Green Home
A mobile/web platform for enhanced customer serviceability and increase consumer awareness of power usage patterns and their impact on pricing. Green Home provides a common mobile and web platform for both utility providers as well as other infrastructure management service providers like Device Manufacturers, Maintenance providing companies etc.
LifeSaver
This application combines body area sensors with mobile and web services that monitor health and vital statistics for emergency medical situations and for improving health awareness.
PowerTrac
Powertrac is a web-based energy tracking and management tool for the home that focuses on interpreting and presenting data in meaningful ways to empower customers to make better usage decisions.
SPRIME
Get control of every device on your home power infrastructure. SPRIME monitors power usage for each device, and lets the user check that usage as well as control which devices receive power. SPRIME is web based, and can be viewed on any device with an internet connection and a web browser.
Smart Grid Optimizer
This intelligent appliance-scheduling tool that helps you save energy and money. Based on your personal appliance-usage patterns, and other parameters that govern the overall cost (like appliances' actual energy consumption, electricity rates etc.); Smart Grid Optimizer creates the most optimal and acceptable appliance-usage schedule for you.
viaCycle
viaCycle is a unique transit solution that creates a smart, distributed bike share infrastructure using cellular devices to monitor and control bicycle access.