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2010 Design Contest Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our 2010 XPort Pro design contest!

First Place Team

Team Name: Trustworthy Embedded Systems (www.ertos.nicta.com.au)
Graduate student team from University of New South Wales
Team Members: Etienne Le Sueur, Bernard Blackham, Martin Pflauminger
and Aaron Carroll.

The team is also part of a larger group (ERTOS, led by Gernot Heiser), working on trustworthy embedded systems at NICTA.
Submission Details: e4Meter – An Intelligent Power Distribution Unit
The design is an “intelligent power distribution unit (PDU)” capable of independently measuring and controlling the power consumed by appliances connected to its outlets.
Design video: YouTube Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08y23qll9HA
Whiteboard discussionMeter photo
Meter screenshot

 

Second Place Team

Team Name/Contact: Georg Ottinger
About the Winner: Mr. Ottinger is a software and hardware engineer, with expertise in microcontrollers and applications / embedded designs leveraging Linux. He personally created the OggStreamer through an investment and association with OTELO (the Open Technology Laboratory) at www.otelo.or.at.
Submission Details: OggStreamer - A unique audio-streaming device based on XPort Pro.
The design captures audio signals from a mixing board, encodes the analog audio into a compressed format, and using XPort Pro, transmits the audio-data over the Internet in a format that can be received by any conventional FM radio.
Design images:  
Hardware Prototype photo
OggStreamer Functional Diagram

  

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