2009 SIMagine Award Winners
Gold Award
BioXpress - Precise Biometrics AB (Sweden)
BioXpress enables the implementation of an electronic ticket in a
mobile phone SIM card, leveraging notably NFC and SCWS technologies. The
solution enables remote, web-based registration of the user's fingerprints, as
well as ticket purchase. It features the Match-On-Card technology for identity
verification at border crossings based on fingerprint check.
Silver Award
TaggyNet - Polytech Marseille (France)
TaggyNet proposes an additional value to on-line communities
like MySpace.com, facebook.com or hi5.com. This application provides new
ways to exchange information and to be in touch for community members.
Many public sites, stores, restaurant, hotels having a tag waiting to be
"tagged" represent a potential source of information for customers. This
network of tags is intended to grow up because each community member
will be able to share his feelings about a specific place. As a result,
an indirect publicity will be generated for the whole community.
Bronze Award
SIMail - FH Hagenberg (Austria)
SIMail is a device independent application to administrate business
tasks, like mails and calendar events. As it runs directly on the SIM card the
Communicator is always on. The "Push-mail" or "Exchange" functionality thus does
not depend on the mobile device, but on the SIM card.
Telefonica Award
SSA (SIM Single Authenticator) - University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain)
The SSA application allows introducing user's credentials (e.g. username and
password) associated to web services in a secure way. The data is stored on the
SIM so that in subsequent occasions, the application can automatically provide
the credentials on behalf of the user to the web sites and will present a web
application with the relevant information about these sites.
TIM Award
iCanSee - Rhodes University (South Africa)
iCanSee is a Smart Card Web Server (SCWS) based application, developed
particularly for the visually impaired community and provides a web-based front
end to the four most frequently used text-based communication tools on a mobile
phone: the phone book, SMS, MMS and email. iCanSee allows users to create their
own profiles, supporting changes to: background and foreground color (for
contrast), font size and font color.
Orange Award
KONNEXSIM - Scientific Engineering Services Ltd (Greece)
KONNEXSIM is an application that uses the KNX open-standard, the
standard for home automation, to create a link between a SIM card and any KNX
connected device. This can be a heater, air-conditioning, lights, alarms, or
shutters. KONNEXSIM turns the mobile phone into the remote control of the
system, both locally through Bluetooth and from a distance, through SMS or the
Internet, leveraging the strong security level of the SIM card.
Inside Contactless Award
APiCARDIO - APIILINX (France)
The goal of the application APiCARDIO itself is to monitor patients
anytime, anywhere with regards to physiological parameters needed to prevent
cardiac heart failures, diabetes side effects and obesity. Data is transferred
to the SIM card from an external on-body sensor and results are formatted and
displayed using the SCWS. This application is useful for self monitoring using
the mobile phone.
Innovation Award
Web gate
- Moscow State University (Russia)
Web gate provides mobile web developers with a powerful tool for
designing web pages using the SIM card functionalities through Smart Card Web
Server (SCWS). The tool defines web components that can be embedded into a web
page, each invoking a specific functionality in the SIM card. As an example,
users can develop a web page that allows sending a certified SMS from the SIM
using a digital signature.
