This last week we announced the 22 final round winners of the Mozilla Ignite Challenge in Chicago. Here’s a few of the winning projects we wanted to share:
Check out Mozilla Ignite Winner Remote Process Control
Ultra-reliable remote control
“The Internet lacks facilities for reliable, assured, real-time communication. This communication is needed for tasks like remote medical procedures, controling robots used to clean up after a chemical or nuclear accident, and controlling manufacturing processes.
Our work will provide ultra-high reliability for critical applications. Rather than incorporating reliability into a single application, we are building a fundamentally new communication technology that can be used by any application.”
Connecting universities, gigabit communities and partners
“The Mozilla Ignite challenge was the catalyst that caused us to act. We were stimulated by the challenge to form a team. We engaged students to help develop the underlying technology. More important, the challenge connected universities, a gigabit city, and industrial partners to build construct a practical and effective demonstration that spans the country.”
Routing around bottlenecks
“Our work started in the lab, and we were very pleased the first time we saw packets traveling along multiple paths. Then we used the National Science Foundation GENI platform for network experimentation to create multiple paths spanning the US. It was satisfying to see communication continue when one of the paths through the Internet became congested.
The real excitement started when we could disable one of the paths and see our software select an alternative route, and when we controlled a 3D printer remotely and monitored the correctness of its behavior in detail with HD video.”