2nd Annual Wireless Design Contest Winners
Congratulations to this Year’s Winners of
Lantronix
WiPort Wireless Design Contest
This year’s contest brought more prize money and three new categories. And again, we had a large number of truly innovative design ideas, which made it even more difficult for our judges. We would like to thank our editorial judges at Penton Media – Lee Teschler, Machine Design; Mark David and Bill Wong, Electronic Design – for their help in selecting the winners!
- Check out a live taping (EngineeringTV) from this year’s Wireless Design Contest ceremony at ESC Silicon Valley.
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First Place $6,000
SAND System Damien Hubaux and his engineering team at CETIC The SAND (Smart Adaptable Network Device) System is a small, autonomous and flexible communicating embedded system based on a ‘soft processor’ implemented in FPGA logic. The SAND solution is currently being used by Key Driving Competences, a Belgian truck company, to acquire objective data about its driver’s behavior in order to train workers and decrease fuel consumption. |
| Second Place $4,000
WiFi Clock Kevin Hubbard, Washington The WiFi Clock is a fully functional alarm clock with Internet access. User’s customized weather, news and email can be automatically downloaded from the Internet to a WiFi-enabled room using Lantronix WiPort. The alarm buzzer may be configured to beep on incoming emails and sound an alarm on a specified emergency. The snooze bar rapidly toggles between display pages making it an innovative design for end users to retrieve real-time information. |
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Third Place $2,000
Wi-Aquarium Mohamad Abou El-Nasr, Wi-Aquarium allows users to remotely control and monitor their aquarium anytime from anywhere in the world. Users can monitor the fish via a camera, feed the fish, adjust the heater, turns the lights on and off and control the filter. The device can even send an email to the user with updated status ensuring an optimum aquarium environment and healthy fish. |
| Best Student Entry $4,000
Home Dashboard Michael Schuchardt, Michigan Technological University The Home Dashboard system retrieves user-specified information from an Internet server and displays it in a customized, user-defined format. Examples of such information include weather forecasts, stock information, etc. |
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Best 802.11 b/g and Ethernet-Swappable Combination $2,000
802.11-Ethernet to Zigbee Bridging Device
Christian Herzog, Software Technologies Group
The WiFi / Zigbee Gateway enables a direct connection to 802.15.4 and Zigbee networks in a totally wireless environment - all without the need to wire gateways to each other. What used to be done through an Ethernet connection can now be done wirelessly, which reduces costs by eliminating expensive cable runs.
Lowest Power Usage $1,000
Geophone Array System
Shahar Seifer, PhD
The Geophone Array System wirelessly acquires information from several buried geophones to form a complete underground picture in order to detect underground structures. This is ideal for applications such as land security and archeological sites. Siefer’s design uses the Lantronix WiPort to make it easier to install geophones without connecting wires to the processing computer or to an additional power supply.
