2009 Finalists
The competition recieved over 50 submissions from around the globe. At least three reviewers evaluated each entry and selected these 20 finalists (in alphabetical order by track).
Commercial Track Finalists
Collis B.V. (Netherlands), ING NFC Mobile Payment Product
This groundbreaking NFC product allows customers to store an electronic balance in the Maestro PayPass payment application loaded in the handset and to use that balance to make offline-approved purchases from their NFC-enabled handsets at Maestro PayPass acceptance points. The solution also supports over-the-air, top-up, transaction history and smart coupons to support discounts and promotions at participating merchants.
HORATIO GmbH and Audiantes GmbH (Germany), NFC Mobile Live Help
Audiantis and Horatio are developing a new interactive spoken help support platform for mobile devices. With help of NFC recognition, every compatible mobile device will interactively deliver audio information.
NEXPERTS (Austria), NFC based Gift Voucher System
NEXPERTS' solution uses NFC-enabled mobile phones to manage gift vouchers. The issuance and remittance process is eased significantly by just tapping the NFC-enabled gift voucher on the NFC mobile phone. All transactions will be managed by a backend service to allow instant reporting. The system has been successfully launched in the City of Wels, Austria, for around 150 merchants.
Precise Biometrics (Sweden), BioXpress
Precise BioXpress enables electronic ticketing for the aviation industry in mobile phone SIM cards using NFC and SCWS technologies. The solution is based on Match-on-SIM(TM), the concept of matching and storing fingerprints in a SIM card, and enables services such as remote, web-based registration of the user's fingerprints, as well as ticket purchase.
Reslink Solutions Ltd (Finland), Reslink mobile NFC client builder, the “NFC Enabler”
By using the Reslink NFC product, IT departments, software companies, IT consultants and Mobile Network Operators can rapidly create totally customizable NFC solutions for targeted end users - be they cleaners, security guards, homecare workers or the general public.
Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund GmbH (Germany), RMVmobil
RMVmobil, RMV’s localized and personalized mobile portal, links the physical field infrastructure of passive NFC tags (ConTags) with a mobile Internet portal to provide public transport information, tickets, and tourist information on the customer’s mobile phone. RMVmobil provides relevant information to customers, based on the particular station they are at. Thus, RMV adds new functionalities beside the RMV-HandyTicket for NFC mobile phones. Customers just have to touch an NFC tag to enter to world of RMVmobil.
Sabre Technologies (Pvt) Ltd. (Sri Lanka), Customer intimacy with NFC
A case study showed how NFC features could be integrated with retail CRM solutions to increase efficiency of collecting consumer behavioral data, improve service levels, and increase sales. Operating on an SaaS model integrated with retailers' POS systems, this solution provides retailers a low investment path to introduce a mobile-based loyalty program that gives them the ultimate connectivity to their consumers.
Research Track Finalists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Eclectyk
Eclectyk is a system designed to manage, store, and expand an NFC-based mobile wallet by replacing credit and customer loyalty cards, automatically selecting the right customer loyalty card information for your purchase, depending on which store you happen to be in.
Technische Universität München (Germany), NFaCebook
NFaCebook is a profile-matching application that integrates a number of functions from the Facebook platform into a mobile, NFC-enabled device. It allows the users to enrich their social interaction in real life with their respective Facebook profile data, e.g. through a profile-matching function.
Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Polytech'grenoble (France), EasyRide
EasyRide is a new, dynamic ride-sharing system based on NFC technologies. It provides software infrastructure to implement the system on a metropolitan level. It uses rich RFID content, is favorable to social networking and privacy-friendly.
University of Oulu (Finland), Touch & Learn
In Touch & Learn, a language-learning application is controlled with RFID tags in a classroom and NFC mobile phones. Tags are placed on objects. Touching a tag triggers an exercise for practicing words and sentences related to the object. Students are persuaded to use the new language actively from the very beginning.
University of Oulu (Finland), Touch & Collect
In Touch & Collect, RFID tags distributed around a museum act as containers for multimedia content. Visitors can pick content by touching the containers with their NFC mobile phones. The visitors can play the content either on their mobile phones, on home computers, or on large wall displays at the museum.
University of Oulu (Finland), Touch & Control
In Touch & Control, a local service controlling a public display (e.g. a video player service) is commanded with an NFC mobile phone by touching RFID icons that are attached in the local environment. The phone reads commands from the RFID tags that are placed under the icons and sends the commands to the service.
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Finland), Ubitems
Ubitems is a new concept for ubiquitous temperature measurements with NFC-enabled mobile phones. The concept consists of batteryless (full-passive) NFC compatible temperature sensor tags, NFC enabled mobile phones, and optional application-specific web servers.
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