App Mode Gets $ 175,000 prize at the ceremony BIG Cisco

  Snap mode, analyze an application, the images of fashion items and find out where to buy, won first prize at the first annual British bridge Innovation Award from Cisco Wednesday organized.

The winners were announced after the live Dragon Den style. Grilled inevitable six judges, including CTOs, CEOs and CEO, Cisco UK and Ireland Phil Smith

Six finalists presented their ideas for a fight over $ 250,000 prize pot and TechWeekEurope was there anything about the most promising this year to learn in the UK start-ups.
Cream of the Crop

Competition start upthe target Cisco BIG Awards to discover and reward the best examples of British companies innovative digital. More than 300 entries were received this year, before competitors to 13 semi-finalists and then the six finalists were reduced. So who are the best dogs?

Shopitize buyer wants to take control of their own purchasing organization data, by analyzing their buying habits. Users need only to take pictures of their receipts with a smartphone, and the application converts it into useful tools, such as automatically generated "smart" shopping lists, and expense reports. The platform also offers and rewards brands whose users employed in the past, while protecting their privacy.

ParkAtMyHouse belongs to the new wave of collaborative consumption, sometimes under the "sharing economy" concept together. It offers homeowners a chance to win money with zero effort, praised her driveway or parking lot. Founded by one of the creators of Parkopedia ParkAtMyHouse already offers its customers more than £ 5,000,000.

The parking market in the UK is around £ 1250000000, but suffers from a lack of innovation. ParkAtMyHouse strives to "eBay car park," providing a service, the safer, more flexible and much cheaper than traditional public parking. Later this year, the application minister and BMW will be integrated. The company is also working on a sister project ChargeAtMyHouse, for owners of electric vehicles.

Nerve Centre is the only company in the six finalists will work primarily in the public sector. It develops collaboration and management software for hospitals reduce costs and "removed communication delays." After an external report, after the introduction of the Hospital of the University of Nottingham, the number of clinical events by 70 percent, and the average length of stay - 12 percent.

Nerve Center products integrate with existing software to health care, to monitor the situation, the skills and the workload of each employee of the hospital and have been on tablets and smartphones. The company has announced 400 percent growth year on year, but not to convince judges BIG money.
And the winner is ...

Thumbs Up is ApprovalSix3 a video messaging service, limited to 63 seconds of video. It was designed to. Producing "native video", people that appeal to cope with digital cameras According to CEO Tim Grimsditch, video messaging "emotional" as text, fast and easy to make, and more than capable of competing with SMS.

Limit of 63 seconds, even at the limit of 140 characters on Twitter, it was decided to research on attention span, and as a way to help people "drool" to prevent. The software itself is free, but the founders hope to make a good profit by selling Instagram-like visual filters, packages and add-ons. The mobile application is currently only available on iOS.

SIX3 managed to convince the jury with their business plan and well-designed application, and received the third prize - a check for $ 10,000.

Shadow is a digital service which "continuously monitors the online exhibition" prevent a person or a company to violations of cyber security. 'S start-up developed a machine that constantly scans websites, social media conversations, and even prevented "darknet" and that customers, if they information that could harm the company's reputation or be used by hackers to prepare for an attack recognizes.

Example: an employee talking to the software that will work on Facebook. He has not only against company policy, but also provides useful tips for pirates. Can detect digital shadows suggest this behavior and ways to reduce the risk.

Shadow digital project was by far the hardest competition, and managed to win the second prize - a check for $ 25,000.

Snap mode provides the winners of the user photographed fashion and buy online instantly. It's a simple idea, by sophisticated algorithms that support by Jennifer Griffiths 25 years old developed. After Griffiths, who came with snap during his stay at the University, today's consumers "suffer too many choices." Alignment solves this problem by purchasing visually immediate response of "I do not like / I like / want." Based

The application brings the social aspects of online shopping by sharing functions, lists, and history. In the future, the developers plan to teach the engine to give fashion advice. Align mode mobile application was launched on Monday, but not feminine elements. Designed a version of the application for men should be released in January.

Enthusiastic presentation by Griffiths, supported by solid facts and unique technology, snap fashion bag the first prize - a check for $ 100,000, $ 30,000 worth of marketing support, PR support of $ 30,000 and $ 15,000 to support legal.

"The competition was incredible," said Griffiths TechWeekEurope. "It's really good that the judges feel that we go far. Money will help us to support the PR what we needed for a long time and are used to other key employees."

"The good thing about image analysis is to get rid of language barriers, we believe that it is quite easy to develop in Europe. Then it is in the United States."

"The only thing I regret most is that I have not the courage to make this project a few years ago. My advice is just go for it while you're young because you're not much to lose. See what happens, and if that does not work, you can always try "to do something else, she added.