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Winners of 2011
Meet the winning teams from the 2011 Ericsson Application Awards:
| Rank | App/Team | Descriptions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st |  |
First Place in the Student Category went to Team JustBit of Italy. Daniele Albanese, Simone Notargiacomo, Francesco Pace, and Lorenzo Tavernese are enrolled in a Master’s program in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome. |
| Their application, What’s In My Kitchen, is a system that allows remote control of every product found in a kitchen. Using this application, end-users can connect to the food in their kitchen so that they can avoid wasting food and to help them to buy only the items that are needed. JustBit demo video. | ||
| 1st |  |
First Place in the Company Category was awarded to Phil Woodward and Jos Shepherd of HipSnip. Before joining forces to form HipSnip, Phil Woodward was a strategy consultant at Mars&Co, where he did board level consulting with clients such as Sony, Sony Ericsson and Pepsi and Jos Shepherd was Head of IT at CoutureLab and co-founder/CTO of Lingo24.com. They know each other from Oxford University where Phil studied physics, and Jos engineering. |
| HipSnip is a personal shopping application to get product advice and recommendations. Share what you’re shopping for and use your phone to add products you’re interested in by scanning barcodes, taking photos, or snipping web pages. Then connect with friends for opinion, or get recommendations from an expert community. HipSnip demo video. | ||
| 2nd |  |
Second Place in the Student Category was Team HelloWorld from Tsinghua University in China. With a passion and strong background in technology and business, the team aims to improve people’s lives with innovative products and ideas. |
| The HelloWorld application creates a Social Network Service where the contents, generated by users, are virtual objects attached in the real world using Augmented Reality. Friends inside the network can communicate with each other in a more direct way with mutual connection to the augmented real world. HelloWorld demo video. | ||
| 2nd |  |
Second Place in the Company Category was granted to the Emergency Droid team which consists of four members whose expertise is widely varied. Two of the members are recent graduates of Luleå University of Technology who focused on software and mobile application development during their studies. The other two members are managers at Neava with a technical background from the telecom business sector. |
| The Emergency Droid application connects users to a helping hand when it's needed most. This application can be a true life saver by automatically sending information such as name and current position to a pre-defined receiver in case of an accident. EmergencyDroid demo video. | ||
| 3rd |  |
Third Place in the Student Category went to Team Maha_Rathi from India. They are 4 senior undergraduate students from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Kanav Goyal and Kushal Dudani are pursuing B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering and have considerable experience in developing applications for Android devices. Saurabh Gupta and Shikhar Gupta are pursuing B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering. |
| Their application, Traffikdroid is a social application that tells the average speeds of traffic on major roads in a city in real-time. The application finds the speed of a moving vehicle using GPS and updates it on a central server in the city which calculates the average speed of the roads. The user can see the average speed of the roads adjacent to his current location and decide the best path to reach the destination.Traffikdroid demo video. | ||
| 3rd |  |
Third Place in the Company Category was awarded to Team Pic-In who work at Mobile Life Centre in Sweden. Sebastian Büttner (software developer), Katja Grufberg (design engineer), and Markus Westerlund (interaction designer) conduct consumer-orientated research in mobile services and ubiquitous computing. |
| With Pic-In it is possible to share your location with friends just by taking a photo of a place. Pic-In can recognize places based on photos and location data and shows your friends where you are. Use Pic-In to share your whereabouts via foursquare, Facebook and Twitter. Pic-In demo video. |