Viewpoint Wins First Comcast Pennovation Challenge

Penn Engineering
Jul 26, 2017 · 1 min read

In January, Pennovation Center and the Penn Center for Innovation partnered with Comcast in a search for Internet-of-Things applications based on the telecom company’s machineQ platform. As part of the Comcast Pennovation Challenge, teams competed for start-up cash, plus memberships at the Pennovation Center and in PCI’s I-Corps program, which provides training on customer discovery and business plan creation.

The first winner of the Challenge has just been announced: Viewpoint.

The company, featuring students from the Integrated Product Design program and the School of Design’s Department of Historic Preservation, used machineQ to connect sensors that monitor structural stability of local bridges.

“We were impressed with the strength of the idea, the quality of the technology, the breadth of the team and most importantly, its potential societal impact,” said Vijay Kumar, the Nemirovsky Family Dean at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Read more at the Philadelphia Business Journal.

Penn Engineering

University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

Penn Engineering

Written by

Penn Engineering

University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science

Welcome to a place where words matter. On Medium, smart voices and original ideas take center stage - with no ads in sight. Watch
Follow all the topics you care about, and we’ll deliver the best stories for you to your homepage and inbox. Explore
Get unlimited access to the best stories on Medium — and support writers while you’re at it. Just $5/month. Upgrade