By David Okwii, TechPost.

San-Trac emerged as the clear winner of the Sanitation App Challenge People’s Choice Award. San-Trac is a sensor-driven system that provides audio hand washing reminders, collects hand washing data and transmits it via SMS to a remote server. From there data can be aggregated and viewed for insight about hand washing trends. The sensor system is solar powered, and provides a cell phone charging station for restroom users.

The San-Trac team members were among over 1,000 mobile app developers who gathered in 40 cities around the globe on December 1 and 2, 2012, for the two-day Sanitation Hackathon event. Read more...