A team of UC Berkeley students won the University Mobile Challenge for creating an app that will allow water providers to remotely control water supplies in the developing world.
The UC Berkeley-based group Flowbit beat out 11 teams from universities around the world—including the University of Oxford and Harvard University—and won first place, marking the second time a team from UC Berkeley has won the competition.
Flowbit CEO Nick Lee (CE MS '12) said he hopes the company can move forward and have a marketable product in the next two to five years.
The creators of Flowbit came together to compete in the challenge while taking a mobile entrepreneurship course at UC Berkeley.
See UC Berkeley student group takes first place in mobile tech competition (The Daily Californian)