More than 300 projects were submitted to the sixth edition of the SIMagine 2005 Worldwide GSM and Java Card Developer Contest. At a gala dinner at the 3GSM World Congress at Cannes in February, an international jury awarded prizes to the eight finalists who presented their projects during the show.

Gold Award

Inria Rocquencourt , France – MobiDiQ
MobiDiQ is an XML-based tamper-resistant rights management engine for mobile phones. It enforces access-control rules depending both on the digital content accessed on the mobile phone (e.g., music, video, photos, games, etc.) and on personal data (e.g., history, user profile, etc.) stored securely on the SIM card. Access-control rules based on personal data pave the way for new and attractive business models (e.g., sliding fees reflecting the exact requirement/behavior of each user). The MobiDiQ access rights engine is embedded in the SIM card to prevent any tampering from occurring, thereby providing dependable anti-piracy guarantees to the content provider. In the same way, embedding personal data
in the SIM card offers reliable guarantees for protection of user privacy. Additionally, embedding a versatile access control manager in a SIM card creates an opportunity to develop fairer business models. For instance, parental control rules can be set up to shield children from offensive content, but also to prevent prohibited use of legal commercial content. Special commercial conditions can also be negotiated – then enforced by MobiDiQ – between institutions and content providers to enable certain segments to gain access to content otherwise out of their reach (e.g., students). As a side benefit, fairness support can be a strong marketing argument for telecommunication operators to differentiate their offer.

Silver Award

MBharti Telesoft International Pvt Ltd, India – Pre TUPS (PrePaid Top UP System)
The first system of its kind deployed in India, PreTUPS enables electronic allocation of prepaid talk
time to all entities in the distribution chain: Distributors, retailers and street sellers. An STK Java card
application was developed for all entities in the distribution chain. When a customer approaches a
dealer to recharge his/her card, the dealer can do so using the STK application, which in turn sends
recharge instructions to the server application.
A common STK application has been developed to eliminate redundancy in the development of
separate SIM cards for each element. Upon registration, the STK application is configured and
relevant menu options are activated. The STK application is Unicode-compliant, enabling use of the
local language (i.e. HINDI for menu display as well as server responses). In an effort to reduce chances of human error, double entry of inputs was included in the Menu options. The user-friendly
menu also allows query options where channel members can get their latest updates on sales and
inventory position.
SMS messages emitted by STK applications are encrypted using the 3-DES algorithm, then
decrypted by server application. This is done to prevent internal operator frauds. SMS messaging
carries very low validity to avoid delayed recharges.

Bronze Award

Trusted Peer Technologies, USA – Collectible Object Game System
Our project will create a Collectible Object Game (COG) system for mobile phones based on the
successful model found in existing Trading Card Games (TCGs) such as Pokemon and Magic: The
Gathering. TCGs are two-player games that use themed playing cards as game objects. Game
objects are purchased in packs and are collected and traded between players. In our COG system,
players compete with each other using virtual game objects that are stored on the players’ SIM card.
The SIM card stores the game objects, enforces the rules for peer-to-peer play and secures the
purchase and trade of the game objects.

China Unicom award

Calance Corporation , India - Dynamic Cardiogram Analysis Solution
Our Heart Monitoring System is a Dynamic Cardiogram Analysis Solution (DCAS) that sounds an alarm for preventive and emergency medical attention. DCAS is a Smart Card-based system that is worn as an implant. The system continuously observes the patient’s cardiac patterns by recording the ECG. It examines the pattern and, if any discrepancy is found, it sends an alert message to the attending physician using GSM technology. In a way, DCAS enables the patient’s heart to communicate with the patient’s doctor directly, which is particularly useful when the patient himself is unaware of imminent risk.

Cingular Award

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China - Short Message Helper
With the development of technology in the mobile communications field, SIM cards are becoming more and more powerful. Specifically, they now have a much greater capacity to receive and store short messages than ever before. Efficiently handling widely varying types of messages is therefore a highly relevant matter today.
Short Message Helper will provide an easy way to manage short messages. It will automatically
eliminate spam and store messages based upon the user’s customized preferences. Additionally, it will provide a powerful search engine to locate specific messages using a key words or a telephone number.

Telcel Award

Nanyang technological University , Singapore - SIMRemote
Remote PC access is a long-standing and well-established concept that has helped improve
businesses’ productivity and freedom to remain on the move. But the concept of Remote PC
Access to Mobile Phones has never been penetrated. SIMRemote is a Java card applet that allows users to seamlessly access selected parts of the existing application programming interface of a SIM card using a Web interface. There are a number of SIM services local to the mobile handset that would be much easier to handle using Web interfaces. For example, the SIM-internal phone book, which can be very conveniently updated and managed using a Web Browser. It avoids the inconvenience of using the mobile phone keypad to enter large amounts of data. Another very crucial reason to have remote PC access to your mobile phone is in situations, such as when you have forgotten you phone at home or in the office and urgently need to access your contacts or any other information stored on it. You can use SIMRemote to access the information from a standard Web browser. It is also possible to divert all calls from your mobile phone to your office phone or any other phone to which you have access.

Telefonica Award

Alberto Gasparini, Italy – Wireless Ticket Restaurant System (WTRS)
Wireless Ticket Restaurant System (WTRS) is designed to replace the now completely paper-based meal ticket system with a completely paperless Web-based system. It enables meal-ticket firms to emit electronic meal tickets, avoiding the unnecessary costs of printing billions of paper tickets. It also enables firms using meal-ticket services to deliver meal tickets directly to employees’ mobile phone handsets, automating management of the overall meal ticket service. Employees can spend their meal tickets in any participating restaurant simply by entering the restaurant ID into their mobile handset and pushing a button to confirm the transaction. Lastly, it enables restaurants to instantly register and invoice meal-ticket firms for the meal tickets tendered in their facilities.
WTRS is completely “Web and wireless”-based: it will reinvent the entire concept of meal ticket services by rewarding every player involved with benefits and savings.

TIM Award

France Telecom R&D and SoNear, France - Liberty Mobile Experimentation – SIMLib
The scope of our project spans implementation of a personal profile service in a mobile phone and its SIM card. The role of the personal profile service provider is played by an application plugged into the mobile phone in conjunction with a SIM card applet managing the personal profile attributes. The generic applet is capable of accommodating various mobile environments.
Our solution implements Liberty ID-WSF Reverse HTTP Binding for SOAP and Liberty ID-SIS
Personal Profile specifications, enabling any Liberty-compatible service provider to personalize its service offer based upon user profile attributes revealed by the mobile telephony device. The mobile phone used in this project is the Orange SPV SmartPhone. The service provider is a France Telecom R&D pilot server.