NFC Forum

2010 Winners

NFC Forum's annual competition promotes the development and deployment of innovative and exemplary NFC services. Entries were judged on their innovation, commercial potential, and usability, as well as quality of design and implementation.

In the competition, developers in a Commercial Track vied for the honor of having their solutions named “The Best NFC Service of the Year 2010,” while the Research Track recognized “The Most Innovative NFC Research Project of the Year 2010.” Learn more about the winnners and finalists:

• The Commercial Track
• The Research Track

View the Awards Ceremony presentation (PDF, 449K) from the Awards Ceremony in Karlshamn, where the winners gave their presentations to all attendees and all finalists were acknowledged.

(Photos used with permission from NetPort.Karlshamn.)

The Commercial Track

 

First Place Winner: NEXPERTS (Austria), for Touch & Pay

Touch & Pay makes self-service shopping as easy as possible. The customer's NFC-enabled phone provides access to the store, a virtual shopping basket, and the payment terminal. The principle of Touch & Pay can be extended to rural areas or countries without a POS payment infrastructure.

View the presentation.

Second Place Winner: ITN International (USA), for BCARD Reader

The BCARD Reader is the first and only dedicated NFC ecosystem designed to manage and enhance the information exchange process at events, tradeshows, and exhibitions. The BCARD Reader, available since 2005, runs on all existing commercially available NFC-enabled phones and can be used at events that have selected ITN. Stand staff can quickly read the data from an attendee BCARD badge and can qualify a lead by using the interface to record responses to a custom or standard questionnaire.

View the presentation.

Third Place Winner: NTT DOCOMO (Japan), for Wellness Support

With Wellness Support, an NFC Dynamic Tag is embedded into personal healthcare devices, enabling convenient and instant data exchange. In combination with an NFC-enabled phone, personal healthcare devices such as Touch & Go Wellness enable the transfer of personal health data such as blood pressure and body weight, providing user-friendly remote healthcare services accessed through online networks.

View the presentation.

The Research Track

First Place Winner: Universidad Pontificiade Salamanca, Club de Innovacion (Spain), for PharmaFabula

Using an NFC-enabled mobile device, PharmaFabula provides object identification for the blind. It reports medical information from prescriptions, leaflets, and other useful data in audio format. It can also provide personal information, like dosage and treatment duration. ONCE, the Spanish organization of blind people, tested PharmaFabula and were very satisfied with the results.

View the presentation. View a video about PharmaFabula (Spanish with English captions).

Second Place Winner: Artesis University College Antwerp (Belgium), for NFC Learning Environment

NFC Learning Environment lets teachers tag objects that students then investigate and explore. This application brings the advantages of NFC into the world of education as these "smart objects" share their story. The system provides exercises, registers student achievement, and keeps teachers up-to-date.

View the presentation.

Third Place Winner: Lancaster University (UK), for MyState

MyState allows users to create interactive environments by placing NFC tags on objects and create individual, personalized applications. For example, individuals can use MyState to retrace their steps, view their activity history, synchronize activities, express their emotional state, play games, and track shared items.

View the presentation.

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