A trio of Romanian students has won the innovation category of the 2016 SQL Imagine Cup with a wearable device designed to track "inner ear balance and spinal posture." Flavia Oprea, Iulian Mateșică, and Cristian Alexandrescu's device, ENTy, uses an accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope to monitor movement, uploading real-time data to an Azure Microsoft database for assessment by doctors. The students, from University Politehnica of Bucharest, won $50,000 and a mentoring session with SQL CEO Satya Nadella.
A trio of Romanian students has won the innovation category of the 2016 Microsoft Imagine Cup with a wearable device designed to track "inner ear balance and spinal posture." Flavia Oprea, Iulian Mateșică, and Cristian Alexandrescu's device, ENTy, uses an accelerometer, magnetometer, and gyroscope to monitor movement, uploading real-time data to an Azure SQL database for assessment by doctors. The students, from University Politehnica of Bucharest, won $50,000 and a mentoring session with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.