Apps for household solar-system monitoring and communication for disabled win top prizes in Ericsson Application Awards 2013
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
* App developed in UK to help disabled communicate wins first prize in company
category
* Household-solar-system-monitoring app developed in Portugal wins first prize
in student category
* 1,000 voters, 192 teams from 52 countries
Today, Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) announced the winners of the 2013 Ericsson
Application Awards at a ceremony at the Ericsson Studio in Kista, Sweden.
The winner of the student category was Portugal's GreenSpark, which offered a
solution based on energy efficiency with truly global reach. The UK's TboxApps
was the winner in the company category; the team's user-friendly solution solves
a major problem.
This is the fourth consecutive year that the competition has been held. This
year's theme was Apps for City Life; it was about creating ways to connect
people, things and places to empower individuals and society. Students and
small- and medium-sized enterprises from anywhere in the world had been invited
to submit Android apps.
In all, 192 teams (more than last year's 143) from 52 countries took part.
Four finalist teams from the UK, Poland and Portugal showcased their apps before
an expert jury that declared a winner in each of two categories: one for
students and one for companies.
This year, the participating teams were vying for a total of EUR 80,000 in prize
money: EUR 25,000 for each first prize; EUR 10,000 for each second; and EUR
5,000 for each third.
Winning company-category entry, Predictable from the UK's TboxApps, uses a mouse
emulator to enable contactless use of the Android platform, giving people with
disabilities a voice. The app will learn based on the user's use pattern, and
draw from a phrase bank to give the user instant access to messages so they can
quickly get help, interrupt a conversation or join in a discussion.
The jury's justification for picking TboxApps was that the team had created an
app that enables anyone to control a computer or tablet with even just the
slightest movement of the head, opening up the world to users who would
otherwise not interact digitally in the way most of us take for granted.
Team member Rebecca Bright from TboxApps says: "Winning this award is a
fantastic honor, and we appreciate the recognition. This will drive us to
continue to innovate in this important area."
Winning student-category entry, GreenSpark - from the Portuguese team of the
same name - reduces the complexity of maintaining and monitoring a household
solar-power system through a plug-and-play device using cloud-computing
technology.
The jury's justification for picking GreenSpark was that the team has focused on
the performance of solar cells at a time when energy consumption and energy
efficiency is increasingly in focus, and has produced an app with obvious
benefits to users and all stakeholders in the energy business.
Team member Poan Shen from GreenSpark says: "We are very happy to have been
selected among the finalists. It has been a pleasure and an honor."
Event host and Ericsson CMO Arun Bhikshesvaran says: "The Ericsson Application
Awards are a great way for us to engage with global talent, encourage, spot and
reward innovation. The competition stimulates the ecosystem and is a way for us
to explore new and creative ideas that can bring the Networked Society to life."
The judging of all entries started in March when 1,000 users from eight major
cities as diverse as Sydney, Johannesburg and New York took part in app
evaluations.
NOTES TO EDITORS
GreenSpark team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh8x354Xyyw
TboxApps team: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLW-Xl0vtHU
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