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Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2011 Kicks Off
04 | 05 | 2011 | Category: Navispace
Navispace AG is once again organizing this international innovation contest, through which the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking for ideas and prototypes in the areas of health care, sports and fitness, automotive, entertainment, and more, that use Bluetooth technology version 4.0.
Now in its third year, the competition calls on developers, entrepreneurs and students to submit concepts for applications making use of the low energy feature of Bluetooth v4.0.
Entries for the 2011 Bluetooth Innovation World Cup (IWC) are being accepted May 1 through September 15 at www.InnovationWorldCup.com. Finalists’ ideas and prototypes will be presented at MEDICA in Dusseldorf in November 2011 and at CES in Las Vegas in January 2012, where international audiences will have the chance to rank the finalists.
The Innovator of the Year will be announced and presented at ispo in Munich, also in January 2012. The Innovator of the Year will receive prize money of USD 5,000 and a Bluetooth Qualification Program voucher worth up to USD 10,000, as well as an Ellisys Bluetooth protocol analyzer.
Navispace is proud to have even more high profile sponsors on board in this year’s edition of the IWC and is looking forward to promoting the benefits of Bluetooth low energy technology together with these industry leaders. Texas Instruments (TI) is the title sponsor of this year’s competition. TI will be awarding free Bluetooth v4.0 development kits to the first 20 developers who submit prototypes to the competition. Furthermore, the IWC will be sponsored by Ellisys and Freescale Semiconductor as preferred technology partners, and Bluegiga, Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and VARTA Microbattery. Freescale will give out free sensor toolboxes to interested participants, and Bluegiga will award starter kits to the nine finalists. In addition, the contest is supported by an international network of partners including the Continua Health Alliance, ispo, Team Côte d’Azur, Wearable Technologies and the WFSGI.
More information available at InnovationWorldCup.com.
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