WINNING TEAMS

SIMAGINE 2004


Gold Award

Beihang University 2, China - My Card
My Card provides a comprehensive solution for personal information exchange by setting up an efficient environment to ensure information is quickly and effectively exchanged, stored, organized, update and easily located when needed.

Silver Award

MobilTek, Poland - Voice Messaging System
Enables a user to send and receive voice messages as easily as text ones. The applet menu allows user to browse received messages list (inbox), select the one to listen to, delete, forward or answer. The applet can be used together with dedicated IVR system or act as front-end for existing network voice mail system.

Bronze Award

WLAB, Italy - Key Tone
An identification/authentication method based on the automatic recognition of a unique sequence of tones (ie ringtone) played by a mobile phone. Key Tone can 'off-line' identify users/devices, services and products not only by Bluetooth or IR, but also by simply using tones.

China Unicom award

Beihang University, China - Mobile i-home system
A remote control software system for cell phones enabling users to control their internet & intelligent home (i-home) appliances via their phone anywhere without the need to remember multiple remote control devices to manage their applications.

Orange UK award

ESIM, France - NOEMIE (Now&Me)
A personalized automatic response enabling the subscriber to decide the profile of response s/he gives to an incoming caller in order to let them decide whether to leave a message, send an SMS, MMS or simple call back another time.

Telefonica Moviles award

SoNear, France - SmartLock
SmartLock is a unique, universal and innovative digital right management tool to control the distribution of game applications to handsets, as well as content like news, sports, information, ringtones and logos. Leveraging the security capabilities of the SIM card, it registers a combined identity of the mobile, application and user identity into a signature that is required at each use.

TIM award

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - SIMBlog
SIMBlog brings the convergence of internet blogging and camera phones, giving mobile phone users the ability to create a personalized, interesting and unique website from a mobile phone - including text, pictures and sounds. SIMBlog also enables location based blogging - recording the user's location along with his/her content.

Mobile Community award

Neighbour, Thailand
Neighbour is a virtual community forum enabling mobile users to create, send and respond to messages in specific topics/areas. The operator controls topics and posted messages from users.

Innovation award

S-Tecno, Portugal - SIM Call Center
SIM Call Center enables a user to send a service provider a problem report using intuitive menus that will trigger a customer care response and add categorized information to this request (context, priority etc) enabling the service provider to understand and resolve the problem more quickly.

Jury award

Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA - ISeek
Exploits location-aware cell phone technologies to revolutionize how peoplee meet and interact by creating a novel mobile social infrastructure that allows end users to discover people with similar hobbies, interests etc around them. It uses pattern-matching algorithms and machine-learning heuristics to match subscriber profiles - digital representations of their personalities.



E-GATE OPEN 2004


Gold Award

Trusted Peer-to-Peer Multiplayer On-Line Game System
Trusted Peer technologies, USA
"We have created a smart card applet and peer-to-peer client that demonstrate the feasibility and performance characteristics of a massively multiplayer online game system using e-gate smart cards instead of a central server to mediate game state changes. In our system, the smart card encrypts messages about game state changes and sends them to other players in a peer-to-peer fashion. Our approach is the first to use player smart cards to securely mediate and distribute new game states with minimal central server involvement. A peer-to-peer network of smart card equipped players can assume over 90% of the game processing and communications traditionally performed by a central MMOG server. The addition of a graphical user interface would make our test system a playable game."

Silver Award

Chip-Secured XML Access (C-SXA)
University of Versailles and INRIA Rocquencourt, France
Applied to a SIM card-embedded collaborative organizer application, our C-SXA access rights management technology enables users to comply with static and/or dynamic authorization policies managed by multiple partners, and to regulate access to their own organizer, as well as its modification. Chip-Secured XML Access (C-SXA) offers XML-based access rights management neatly embedded in a smart card. As the de facto standard for describing and exchanging data, XML endows C-SXA with versatile, agnostic data protection capabilities. C-SXA evaluates user privileges through a queried or streaming XML input document, then delivers an authorized subset of this same document. User-acccessible data can be downloaded from an encryption-protected server or stored on a tamper-resistant smart card. Potential applications of this technology span secure portable folders, Digital Rights Management (DRM), parental control and exchange of confidential information among a community of users.

Bronze Award

Music Daemon
University of Beihang, China
Pirated music continues to proliferate over the Internet today, striking a tremendous blow to the music industry's net profits. According to reports by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), over 30% of music products purchased in 2002 were pirated versions. Digital music accounted for 72% of these pirated versions, equating to about 1.1 billion units, with a 14% increase compared to 2001. Music Daemon, our digital music copyright protection solution, uses Axalto's smart card technology to encode & decode encrypted digital music. The player plug-in coder/decoder we use renders our protection solution transparent for legitimate consumers, while smart card technology's random encryption algorithm and strong security capability make piracy a very difficult task for crackers.

Innovation Award

Eupki , the libre software Public Key Infrastructure
Axetel, Romania
Eupki is designed to specify, implement and test an operational open-source libre software version of PKI with smart card support. Eupki's modular design and Java-J2EE implementation ensure easy deployment of the main PKI components: RA, CA, Key Generation System and Key Ceremony. Eupki uses hardware support to enable advanced signature. Data are formatted in a human-readable format using XML Encoding Rules (CXER). For signing requests, we have used the RFC3369-specified format as the SignedData content type. The SignedData content-type is also defined as an ASN.1 structure and therefore can be XER-encoded. The two are stored separately to prevent alteration of the original message format in instances where a different signing mechanism is chosen. Eupki is funded by the European Union's FP5 program.

Special Jury Award

ESmartLock
Ioannis Hatzopoulos, Greece
eSmartLock demonstrates the use of USB CardJava smart card dongles as integrated anti-piracy modules; secure e-Commerce tokens in SSL transactions, authenticated Timestamp receptors; digital e-Signature validators and Digital Rights Management (DRM) system crossbreeds over commercial software products all in one: The eSmartLock model supports diverse billing options like leasing, renting, TimeCrediting, pay-as-you-use ValueCrediting, remote feature unlock and full-feature demo use. It provides controlled crypto Web access; secure CD/DVD content access and ERP/CRM connectivity. It supports local file Save/Load operations with internal self-generated key sets, uniquely binding saved data to a specific eSmartLock card. Finally, it can be used in a Server-Client configuration (Trusted Third Party/Key Distribution Center mode), over a LAN or WAN (extranet) to authenticate, establish VPNs and assist the verification of signed content.

Creativity Award

UUPPS
From University of Malaga, Spain
Despite the importance of vehicles in day-to-day living, the personalization of these remains very limited. From the manufacturer's point of view, post-sales support is generally provided only through authorized dealers. This project addresses both of these issues. The UUPPS system is designed to allow vehicle owners to remain in contact with the manufacturer in the aim of improving post-sales support and facilitate delivery of online services. These services could include remote diagnostics and online appointment setting for tune-ups. UUPPS additionally enables vehicle personalization through content downloading and the creation of user profiles. To achieve these objectives, the secure information access and exchange system is supported by smart card technology. In keeping with the philosophy behind prevailing computing systems, the fully secured system is designed to be flexible, user-friendly and robust.