The team of second-year student Satoki Ogiso (advisor: Prof. Koichi Mizutani, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems) wins Philips Prize in the First Wireless Power Idea Contest.
Team “aclab team a,” whose membership included two students from the Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering and three members of the Ph.D. Program in Empowerment Informatics (EMP) (Takuji Kawagishi, Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies/Master’s Program in Service Engineering; Takuya Aoki, Department of Intelligent Interaction Technologies; and Satoki Ogiso, Ph.D. Program in Empowerment Informatics) entered the ideas and production category of the First Wireless Power Idea Contest, a development contest that sought entries over the period May 20-August 31, 2015. Their entry, “Hotting Plates,” was developed by embedding electronic circuitry into plates to enable temperature control, wireless charging, and wireless monitoring.
At the awards ceremony held September 12 in CEATEC Japan, “aclab team a” was chosen from approximately 100 entrants as winner of the Philips Prize.
