Team Induction wins Mobility of the Future Hackaton

Team Induction has won the first prize of the Mobility of the Future Hackaton, held from the 22 to 24 February 2018 in Brussels around the theme “Co-creating the new world of mobility”. Participating teams could focus on the bicycle city, safety on the road, optimisation and efficiency or public transport and shared mobility.

Team Induction, that’s freelance software developers Ankit Mittal and Mrityunjay Pandey. They developed an intelligent cognitive emergency platform that lets cars detect accidents automatically. If the artificial intelligence system detects an accident, it can send a notification to the emergency services and save precious time. Once the first responders arrive, a video call link can help them determine what course of action to take. Recordings of the video call can be used by insurance companies to combat up to 80 or 90% of vehicle-related insurance fraud.

Runners-up

The first runner-up was Connected Cycling who created an app that collects data from bike trips, including locations of accidents and incidents. Authorities can use this data to improve bike infrastructure and determine priorities.

The second runner-up was Behavioural Driving Account. Their app wants to enable a major tax shift. Instead of the current ownership-based taxation model for cars, a pay-as-you-drive scheme would be implemented, fed by data from this app. Not only distance and time travelled would be accounted for, but also congestion, driving style and other parameters. Users would also form a community so they can compare their driving behaviour with their friends.

The third runner-up was Autoflow. Their product uses reinforcement learning to improve traffic flows at traffic lights. Priority vehicles and changing traffic loads would automatically be accounted for.

There were also money and drone prizes for three student teams.

Professional day

On the second day of the hackaton, 500 participants were welcomed to attend the professional day and listen to 24 keynote speakers from across Europe who gave their views on the future of mobility.

Organisers Jasper Goyvaerts and Askim Kintziger were very pleased with the turnout and with the results of their first mobility hackaton. A second edition in 2019 is very likely.

Photo: Ankit Mittal and Mrityunjay Pandey, Team Induction