Technology Report - Students Win $100,000 for Traffic Management System

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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in English. More than 700 business leaders, government officials and gathered in Mountain View, California. They were attending the annual Social Innovation Summit. Landmark Ventures, a financial advisory , organized the event in December. It was a conference at finding new ways to deal with some old , like traffic. Vehicle traffic is an issue that student Christian Bruggemann hopes to solve. His Team Graphmasters received Microsoft Imagine Cup Grant of $100,000. The German team the prize for its Nunav traffic management system. Here how it works. Drivers using the system send their position and destination to the system's computer servers every seconds. With that information, the central system can reroute of the cars in a way that everyone gets individual best possible route. Christian Bruggemann says tests suggest using such a system could save up to 20 on fuel consumption. And up to 50 percent on spent in traffic. A team from Uganda was also to the Social Innovation Summit. Team Cypher256 has developed mobile app to improve health care for pregnant women Africa, where maternal and infant mortality rates are extremely . The mobile app is called WinSenga. It measures fetal sounds to help establish the heart rate, age and of the fetus in the mother. Cypher 256 team , Aaron Tushabe says the device is similar to medical that are costly. Team Cypher256 also received a Microsoft Cup Grant to help continue their project. For VOA English, I'm Carolyn Presutti.

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