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Translated version about the press release below:

Vincit's Team Is The Winner of Demola Projects With The First Commercial Smart Glass Application in Finland

Published: 20.01.2015 klo 09:01
Publisher: Vincit Oy

 

Vincit's five-membered team has won the Demola Autumn Season 2014. In this competition, Vincit's student team created a smart glass application for traffic wardens in Tampere. With this application the traffic warden is able to see right away if the parking ticket has been paid or not. The city of Tampere is piloting this in early spring time 2015. 

 

”Vincit's team started this project with the open-minded attitude. They worked hard and the roles in the multicultural team were clear – everyone had his/her own job, which was done excellent, praises the Facilitator and Head of Demola Tampere Ville Korpiluoto. ”Also the work of Vincit in a role for project partner was great. The offered help and support, but they didn't control the progression of project too much.”

In Vincit's student team, there were Hanna Remula and Essi Pihlajamäki from Finland, Ali Waris from Pakistan, Philipp Weitz from Germany and as a project manager Tugberk Duman from Turkey. ”Tugberk's role as a project manager deserves a special commendation. He was inspriring and pushing forward at the same time, towards the team members and Vincit also. In this kind of project the role of ”locomotive” is important and Tugberk did this job excellent.”, Korpiluoto tells.

The City of Tampere joined the project open-minded

In this project the student group developed the first commercial smart glass application in Finland. With this application the traffic warden is able to see right away if the parking ticket has been paid or not. The application is also getting the information from the Trafi's database and sends the information of parking ticket to the traffic wardens database. The application is developed with Google Glass and it is easily transferred to other smart glasses. 

In this project the City of Tampere has proved that also the public services can easily take part of new innovations and get benefits of that as fast as possible. ”There is used much time, money and energy in the process of designing new projects in public services sector – instead of just doing and trying, like in start-up business.”, notes the Customer Relationship Manager Petri Suhonen from Vincit. ”We didn't wait for the City of Tampere to do the proposal – instead we let the students start the developing process and offered it to the city for trying and developed further. In that way we saw right away the benefits of this new service”, continues Suhonen.

The experiment in Tampere was succesful and the feedback positive. The parking department is piloting this application this spring.

Winner of Demola Autumn 2014

The winner of Demola Autumn 2014 is... Google Glass for Traffic Warden!

The Last Few Weeks: Awesome things going on!

The year has changed and there has been happening a lot!

Firstable - because of the hard work, and the successful cooperation between the team, City of Tampere and Vincit, the piloting deal of Google Glass for Traffic Warden has been made between Vincit and City of Tampere. There has also been really serious conversations with other cities, even internationally. So stay tuned - something really awesome is going on here!

During the last weeks we have also prepared our final pitch for Demola. Like always - our team is planning to do something different, something interesting and big. Tomorrow is the final pitching day, and we are really waiting for to see also what other teams have created.

Planning the pitch

And last but not least... Because of the succesful cooperation, we have decided to establish a joint venture with Vincit. About that we hope we can tell more in just few weeks. The whole team is really excited about that and waiting for the opportunities that this can bring to us!