Participants from Tomsk became the winners of the all-Russian Skonnect-2014 contest

Tomsk “Rosinnovatsiya” company took the first place in the Skonnect-2014 contest with its project “Transport TV”. The results have been drawn recently in Skolkovo. This project of a Tomsk enterprise was considered the best project of informational and communicational technologies among 65 participants from 19 regions.   

Along with the highest prize, the team have made it possible to get 40 million rubles investment for project execution. The project describes a complete telecasting system adapted to the needs of passengers in public transport. The “Transport TV” includes broadcasting targeted according to location, the time of day and predominant passenger audience. The functions of arrival time reporting, traffic situation, sightseeing attraction and commercial facilities are available. The system is completed with a function of interactive communication with passengers via smartphones, emergency public notification and Internet access for passengers.     

While drawing the conclusions of the contest the vice-president of “Skolkovo” foundation and executive director of space technologies and telecommunications cluster Aleksey Belyakov noticed that all finalists presented worthy projects and many of them have been offered to file applications for “Skolkovo” school.

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Skonnect is the first telecommunication contest organized by the space technologies and telecommunications cluster of Skolkovo in cooperation with the largest Russian investment funds – “VEB (Vneshekonombank) Innovations”, “VTB Kapital”, Foundation for Facilitation of small scientific and technological enterprises development, company group “Antares”, management company “Leader” and Waarde Capital Foundation.

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