Irewind wins Grand Prix of the 42nd International Exhibition of Inventions

The 42^nd edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva closed its doors on general satisfaction for exhibitors and organizers. A record number of inventors and a stable level of visitors marked this edition as an excellent year for the exhibition, the most important of its kind in the world. 60’212 people went through the doors into Palexpo to discover around a thousand inventions. Exhibitors are also smiling because of the contacts they established and the business they negotiated.

The team of the Swiss start-up irewind has a special reason to smile. The company has won the Grand Prix of the exhibition.

IREWIND is a Swiss Tech start-up from EPFL, Lausanne backed up by a development team in Romania and several strategic partnerships with global hardware manufacturers.

The IREWIND system streams video from multiple cameras simultaneously, providing users personal cool movies, fully edited via cloud. The latest innovation, called IREWIND”OnAirCamera”, can now stream personal movies directly to a smartphone, without previous transfer into the cloud.

IREWIND has now technically and commercially validated the technology on ski, running and cycling events, with partners such as Orange Telecom, Red Bull, Skoda and Axis Communications, serving sport events individual movies to thousands of participants, generating tens of thousands of downloads and social network shares. Now, IREWIND has started expansion phase through strategic partnerships with major operators in the sport industry, across a wide spectrum of sport disciplines, looking for a rapid market deployment.

IREWIND automatically records, edits and distributes personalized sports movies, providing instant gratification by delivering LIVE edited videos to the mobile phone, ready for private viewing or sharing on social networks. The solution works with almost any sport, like for example ski, snowboard, tennis, karting, soccer, running, cycling golf, mini-football, skating.

IREWIND combines a network of smart cameras with individual user tracking technology (based on GPS, RFID or Bluetooth Beacon) and delivers cool edited low-res or HD movies on any mobile or other screen. Cameras can be mounted everywhere, on poles, fences or even drones.  The user footage is streamed automatically via a wireless or fixed connection to the IREWIND server where editing is done. But that’s not all, optional video & sound effects are available to get you a very cool movie. You can enjoy it, share it or edit further using the IREWIND app.

OnAirCamera
The new “OnAirCamera” innovates by bringing the power of a video processing server locally and directly on the user's phone.  “OnAirCamera” allows people to use their smartphone to harvest their own video footage directly from a wide network of existing cameras, without any need for a server or mobile data connection.