RTP Holdings
Local Startup Brings Digital Dream Team to Win UPenn App Challenge
Philadelphia, June 30, 2015 — RTP Holdings, a Philadelphia area early-stage technology company, was named first
place winner at the PACT Wayfinding App Challenge judging event here last night. The local startup won first place
by assembling a top-notch mobile app development team to create a new beta app, now available in the Apple
iTunes App Store, called The @UPenn Xperience. The new app helps students and visitors to Penn’s campus
navigate and discover the art filled campus and surrounding city. The app helps people explore the campus and all
of the great attractions the city of Philadelphia has to offer with detailed information populated by Philadelphia’s
Open APIs and geo-tagged photos about the featured art and points-of-interest all around the region.
The PACT App Challenge program was funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic
Development, and sponsored by Independence Blue Cross and the University of Pennsylvania. Two competition
tracks were geared to Campus Wayfinding at the University of Pennsylvania, and Healthcare Management for
Diabetes Patients. The first place winners received $30,000, out of the total $90,000 prize pool. The finalist event
featured an intense live judging round at the Independence Blue Cross Innovation Center. The submission process
ran for two months, including one week of public voting and judging. The judging criteria were based on a variety
of categories: quality of idea, implementation of idea, potential impact, and sustainability. 100s of registrants
were narrowed down to 8 finalists for the final judging event and awards ceremony.
This was the first public demonstration of RTP Holdings’ Lokita SolutionTM for indoor micro-location mobile apps.
The demo system was powered by SemperCon, and beautified by Organic Grid. "Our ‘Team Lokita’, including
SemperCon for backend integration, and Organic Grid for front-end design, created a phenomenal demo, and
virtually had the public opinion vote locked up with over 500 views on our Lokita Solutions YouTube Channel. We
were able to put together the ‘Digital Dream Team’ for this competition," exclaimed Chet Dagit, Managing
Director of RTP Holdings. SemperCon’s extensive experience with geo-location technologies, mobile app
development, and geo-fencing solutions, made for an ideal agile-scrum team model, and collaborative approach,
on this very fast paced demo system development effort.
The greater Philadelphia Region is emerging as an epicenter for Indoor GPS, and Micro-Location technologies. In
the raw number of the building facilities that have embraced indoor mapping via the Google Maps API,
Philadelphia is second only to Las Vegas. There are several large and small enterprises pursing indoor mobile
positioning technologies and techniques in the region, both for indoor survey and cloud-based digital mapping,
and for end-user applications of indoor mapping’s big data and analytics.
About RTP Holdings: RTP Holdings LLC is the DBA for Remote TelePointer LLC, a PA company founded in 2012. The
company specializes in Indoor GPS, and helps enterprises position-enable their mobile apps, wireless
infrastructure, and mobility solutions. The company’s Indoor GPS techniques amplify augmented-reality in indoor
environments to enhance discovery, exploration, and visual navigation. The company’s Lokita Solution SDK
provides other enterprises a toolset to quickly and easily embrace micro-location solutions.
Company Contact: Fred Getz @ 267-994-5826, Twitter: @RTPholdings
Beta Test Inquiries (iTunes @UPennEXP): www.RTPholdings.com
Press Contact: Peter Breslow at peter@peterbreslow.com