The project is based on the creation of an inteligent system, built to help "smart cities". The idea was created on top of the most recent autonomous car technology, which finds one of its biggest problems in stop lights.
Keeping this challenge in mind, we have projected a system that is capable of monitoring every stop light in the city, making it easy to develop softwares which depends on detailed traffic information. To simplify actions like timing and programming, we have thought of a database that stores all information about every single stop light of the city, and allows for an easy integration with collaborating systems and open source projects.
The stop-lights will be connected via LAN in order to integrate all the systems into a server, using TCP/IP protocols. Also, this data will be avaliable to every autonomous car, to help on it's navigation throught the city.
After all, we should develop this technology not only focusing in just one application, but also aiming a whole future, where everything will be integrated on databases and inteligent algorithms, every time closer to a new world, a world of Artificial Inteligence.
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.