Mozilla's 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, the two organizations invited everyone to share ideas for applications that could be used in superfast networks of the new generation. These ideas were to be associated with education, health, public safety, clean energy, transport, development of labor resources and promising technologies. Today, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation announced eight winners and launched the second phase of the program, which aims to bring these ideas to life.

Here are the winning ideas :


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• Real-time monitoring and control system for emergency response services. Jeremy Cooperstock, Shared Reality Lab, McGill University. This application saves lives. Objective: to provide firefighters, rescue teams and rapid response teams with powerful communications 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 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 sessions 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, with the help of gigabit networks, which will allow engineers, artists and experimenters to control advanced production processes, such as three-dimensional printing - no matter how far they are from the means of production.
• Long-term monitoring and crisis management system. Amir Ali, a biomedical engineer and Dmitry Bulanov, a software engineer, Boston University. 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 Dickson, BigBlueButton. Combining high-speed networks with new web standards such as HTML5 and WebRTC. Result: high-quality training for any student with a web browser, regardless of its location.
• Kinect Health 3D. Bob Summers, a graduate of Virginia Tech and MIT. Will help users keep fit with like-minded people; Follow your workout progress and share results without leaving your room with real-time 3D scanning and ultra-fast cloud computing.
• Smart streets for smart cars. Eric Endlich and Julian Valencia, EndlichStudios. Cars are getting smarter, so why shouldn’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 transmit traffic density and emergency reports to drivers.
• Project Rashomon : "Multi-Perspective Technology". Camil Crittenden, Data and Democracy Initiative at CITRIS, UC Berkeley. Improve your understanding of complex events with a social video. Rashomon will allow visitors to explore events from different perspectives, focusing on specific points to view the sequence in detail.

At the moment, developers can still offer new ideas, but Mozilla and NSF are looking for developers who could build prototypes for winning projects. Developers can win a portion of the remaining $ 485,000 for their projects and prototypes. The winners will also receive additional funding and access to the test area of ​​the Global Development Environment for Network Innovations of the National Science Foundation. Applications for the second stage of the competition can be submitted until October 25 , after which there will be two additional stages for developers.