The largest prize challenge in NIST's history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize competition birthed by NIST's Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) with partners the First Responder Network Authority and FirstNet by AT&T, earned nearly $500K in funding for exhibiting progress toward commercialization after gaining initial funding during the May Demonstration Round contest.
For the Final Seed and Progress round, which was judged in late November, nine competitors won awards ranging from $49K-70K. Two competitors earned the highest possible $70K award: Next-Gen MCPTT for their innovative methods of device-to-device (D2D) communication; and Bio1 Systems' PhysioCap for their mass casualty incident clinical data capture and transfer system. Read more about the top two competitors below:
Next-Gen MCPTT
Next-Gen MCPTT aims to improve the efficiency of delivering mission critical communications by enabling D2D correspondence, floor management, and playback capabilities. By creating a system that stores, pauses, and replays messages both online and offline, this app could save precious time for first responders by eliminating the need to repeatedly ask for information. Additionally, while traditional push-to-talk (PTT) platforms require the speaker to wait for the floor to become clear before sending a message, Next-Gen MCPTT aims to automatically deliver messages when the floor becomes available, and also stores them so the user can s ..
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