The 2013 Global Connected Car Contest Winners were announced in February and are sponsored by SAP Winners are invited to Silicon Valley in August to meet with experts from SAP and General Motors to work on their ideas.
University of Texas Naveen Jindal School of Management students’ Hermes Road Warrior System won for Hermes Road Warrior System in the other category.
Other Winners Are:
Artificial Intelligence in a Traffic Collision Avoidance, Clearance, and Management System
Category: Traffic
Team Name: Team Ideology
Institution: G.M. Institute of Technology and University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering, Bangalore, India
Description: A traffic app guides drivers, and also reports their trip plans to a central server that can issue targeted notifications to preempt emerging traffic bottlenecks
The ‘Cost per Ride’ App to Improve the Awareness of Costs for each Drive (And Ways to Reduce Them)
Category: Fueling
Team Name: Cost Per Ride App
Institution: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Description: Real-time feedback for drivers on how to lower costs by changing driving habits
GroupCar
Category: Urban Mobility
Team Name: Car Geeks
Institution: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Description: Gamified fractional car ownership management app, coordinating multiple owners’ calendars
ParkingGain
Category: Parking
Team Name: CUICAR-ParkingGain
Institution: Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, South Carolina, United States
Description: Parking advice based on detailed user characteristics, integrated with parking management systems that offer dynamic pricing
Ready2Pick: On-the-Go Food Shopping Application
Category: Food
Team Name: CUICAR-Ready2Pick
Institution: Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research, South Carolina, United States
Description: Order carry out food or groceries, with real time estimates of waiting time at nearby stores
Hermes App Background
The Hermes app is accessible through a car’s display panel and syncs GPS and fuel data for planning gas stops on long trips. It is also designed to scout the best restaurants and hotels along the way.
The team includes information technology and management graduate students Prachi Sahoo, Chao Li and Atul Nagar; Dwight Fraencis Dy, a management and administrative sciences grad student; and Xi Jiang.
Team leader Dy noted the group came up with the idea based on their own driving experiences. He predicts that drivers will especially like the app’s feature that diagnoses problems and helps to solve them instead of a vague check-engine warning.
The team’s proposal included financial projections that include a profit within the second month of the second year of production.
The team members are part of the Jindal School’s SAP Users Group. The students, spent their Thanksgiving break working on the project.