Mozilla High Speed ​​Future Apps

    In June, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation announced the Mozilla Ignite contest. During the first stage of the contest with a budget of $ 500,000, two organizations invited everyone to share ideas on applications that could be used in ultrafast new generation networks. These ideas should have been connected with education, healthcare, public safety, clean energy, transport, human resources development and advanced technologies. Mozilla and the National Science Foundation today announced eight winners and launched the second phase of the program, which aims to bring these ideas to life.

    Here are the winning ideas :



    • Real-time monitoring and control system for emergency response services. Jeremy Cooperstock, Shared Reality Lab, McGill University. This application saves lives. Purpose: to provide firefighters, rescuers and quick response teams with powerful means of communication and real-time data. By combining high-resolution video from various sources and sensory data (such as temperature, smoke level), it can significantly improve coordination and decision making.
    • 3D telepresence in real time. Andor Salga, Seneca College, author of XBPointStream. A big step in the field of video conferencing. This application offers the use of 3D Kinekt sensors for two-way three-dimensional "telepresence", allowing doctors to examine their patients in real time or conduct remote classes with students in 3D.
    • Remote process control using a reliable real-time protocol. George Adams, Purdue University. Reliable, super fast remote control. Processes can be controlled from afar, using gigabit networks, which will allow engineers, artists and experimenters to control advanced production processes, such as three-dimensional printing - regardless of how far they are from the means of production.
    • Long-term monitoring and crisis management system. Amir Ali, biomedical engineer and Dmitry Bulanov, software engineer, University of Boston. Sensors and high-speed networks can revolutionize healthcare. This application will allow you and your doctor to accumulate and process data about your health in real time, to detect and prevent diseases in advance.
    • High quality open source web conferencing. Fred Dixon, BigBlueButton. The combination of high-speed networks with new web standards such as HTML5 and WebRTC. Result: high-quality education for any student with a web browser, regardless of its location.
    • Kinect Health 3D. Bob Summers, a graduate of Virginia Tech and MIT. Helps users stay fit with like-minded people; monitor the progress of training and share the results without leaving your room with the help of three-dimensional scanning in real time and ultrafast cloud computing.
    • Smart streets for smart cars. Eric Endlich and Julian Valencia, Endlich Studios. Cars are getting smarter, so why don't the streets do the same? Traffic lights that dynamically respond to changes in traffic. Street lights that go out to save energy. Roads that provide drivers with traffic density and emergency reports.
    • Rashomon Project : “Multipurpose Technology.” Camille Crittenden, Data and Democracy Initiative at CITRIS, UC Berkeley. Improve your understanding of complex events with social video. Rashomon will allow visitors to explore events from different angles, focusing on specific points to see the sequence in detail.


    At the moment, developers can still come up with new ideas, but Mozilla and NSF are looking for developers who can build prototypes of the winning projects. Developers can win part of the remaining $ 485,000 for their projects and prototypes. Winners will also receive additional funding and access to the test site of the Global Development Environment for Network Innovations of the National Science Foundation. Applications for the second stage of the competition can be submitted before October 25 , after which two additional stages will be held for developers.

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