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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
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.
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