L'Equipe de l'Epita développe une technologie domotique intelligente
Presse Economique / High-Tech
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004--Quatre étudiants de l'EPITA de Paris ont remporté l'Imagine Cup grâce à une technologie domotique intelligente qui permet de contrôler les appareils électroniques même quand on n'est pas à la maison et donc augmente de manière significative la sécurité de la maison ou du bureau.
Business Editors/High-Tech Writers
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2004--Four students of EPITA
University in Paris have designed an award-winning smart-house
technology that would have appliances respond to your commands, even
when you are away, and dramatically increase the security of your home
or office.
EPITA, a college specializing in IT studies, is part of IONIS,
France's largest private university group.
EPITA students Aymeric Gaurat Apelli, Francois Beaussier,
Guillaume Belmas and Vincent Vergonjeanne won Microsoft's Imagine Cup
2004 technology award for software design on July 6 in Sao Paulo,
Brazil. The year-long competition involved more than 10,000 students
from 90 countries. Other awards were for short film, rendering and
algorithm.
The French winning team leveraged Microsoft .NET Framework and Web
services technology to create a system that responds to your commands
via your smart-phone or PDA. The Web-based concept uses the X10
protocol that allows consumers and businesses to transmit information
via the home's or the office's electric wiring. Specific modules
allocated to the various appliances are remotely activated via web
access.
For instance, if you feel you are catching a cold, you can
instruct your heater to turn up the temperature before you get back
home with a simple call. If someone enters your office after hours,
the system will notify you via cellular phone or wireless e-mail of
the intrusion. The range of possibilities is as broad and diversified
as the number of home or office appliances. This includes activating
cameras on demand for a quick glimpse of what is going on at home or
in your business while you are away.
"I am proud that our students won Microsoft's prestigious Imagine
Cup award in a competition with so many bright contenders from around
the world," said EPITA managing director Fabrice Bardeche.
"Being able to leverage the potential of the Net will change the
world in many ways. That's what we are preparing our students for.
They will help develop applications that will change the way we live
and work," Bardeche also said.
Beaussier and his teammates have already joined EPITA's Institute
of IT Innovation for Enterprise (3IE), a consultancy that provides IT
solutions for the enterprise. The winning team will help develop new
applications to help answer specific business challenges.
EPITA and Epitech are colleges specializing in IT and are part of
the IONIS Group. The private university group also includes ISEG
business school, ISG institute for international studies and IPSA
school for air and space technology. More than 1,200 companies
representing a range of sectors are employing EPITA graduates in
France and abroad today.
CONTACT:
EPITA 3IE
Yannick Lejeune, Phone: +33 (0)144080187
Yannick@3ie.org
Visit our site at http://www.3ie.org
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