In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the FIWARE Excellence Challenge awarded its prizes in the week of 13-17 October 2014. Most of the participants have already participated in different FIWARE Challenges, such as the Campus Party in Brazil. All of them were good enough to be awarded and met the requirements of the challenges, the first and most important one, using FIWARE technologies to develop their prototypes.
It has been a week of excitement and hard work. Working hand in hand with FIWARE architects, the teams assured very high quality presentations.
The winners:
Shared First Prize: FI-Guardian (Brazil)
Adverse circumstances such as natural disasters are more and more common worldwide. With proper warning, people in Smart Cities can be well informed of these risky events, providing a safer environment for them. The objective of the application is to help intelligent cities become more resistant, aiding in communication, orientation and warning of natural disasters. The solution consolidates tracking system data, centralising information from different sources, and carrying out customisable and intelligent remote sensor analysis, communicating risk events to citizens before they occur.
Shared First Prize: FoneSense (Ireland)
FoneSense is a new mobile marketing platform that agencies can use to attract customers to the growing mobile advertising market. It uses the audio on smartphones and pays end users – smartphone owners – a reward every time the phone rings and the jingle is used. As a result, it provides advertising agencies a new channel for very targeted advertising as well as a solution to one of their biggest headaches: how to attract new consumers by moving away from traditional channels and increasingly using mobile media to entertain. Advertisers can reach their target audience through a mobile-telephone device that meets all their needs and will also provide them with detailed statistics regarding the use of their campaign
Shared Excellence in IoT: Small Signals (Spain)
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mallSignals is an Internet of Things platform for environmental control. Using this technology, they are developing their own range of products. These products include: a pH or a water temperature meter, a water flow sensor, a light-temperature-humidity module, a soil humidity sensor, a remote operated relay switch and an Ethernet gateway. A mobile app allows the user to monitor the measurements, recover the historical data and perform actions over the actuators and relays. Also data from different origins can be mashed up into the mobile or the cloud application to use it on the control logic.
Shared Excellence in IoT: Wadjet (Spain)
Wadjet is presented as an enterprise solution for systematic monitoring of field operations within a company, offering SMEs a cost-effective solution to acquire better control and visibility of their field operations. The application is particularly suitable for fleets of vehicles and workforce management. For example: users will be able to monitor location, driving behaviour, speed, etc.
Shared Excellence in User Interfaces: Spring (Spain)
What happens if we gather people, machines and cities in a global network? We have Spring: a platform where geeks, developers and users collaborate together to improve their quality of life.
