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NFC Forum Innovation Award Winners Deliver Personalized Experiences that Enrich Consumers' Connected Lives
The NFC
Forum announced today the winners in its NFC
Forum Innovation Award Program. The winning entries were named at an
awards ceremony held tonight at the NFC Forum (News - Alert) all-member meeting in Las
Vegas. Nine
semi-finalists were selected from over 90 entries and one
first-place winner was chosen from each of three categories by a jury
composed of global
leaders and industry experts. Entries were judged on their
innovation, commercial potential, and usability, as well as on the
quality of design and implementation.
"Each of these award-winning entries is a reminder that there is no
limit to innovating with NFC technology," said Koichi Tagawa, chairman
of the NFC Forum. "In today's increasingly connected world, NFC offers a
tap-based experience that simplifies, enriches, and improves our daily
lives. Since it is easy to implement, developers and product designers
are turning to NFC to enable the Internet of Things and deliver
compelling, personalized user experiences."
NFC Forum Innovation Award Program and Winners: The
NFC Forum Innovation Award Program promotes the development and
deployment of innovative and exemplary Near Field Communication (NFC)
products, services and applications by product developers from around
the world. Submissions ranged across a broad set of industries from
connected home, smart health, smart consumer, and automotive to "NFC for
Good," Internet of Things, gaming, connected retail and transportation.
One winner was named in each of the three award categories: Most
Innovative NFC Product, Service, or Implementation; Best Mobile App; and
Best NFC Startup.
Most Innovative NFC Product, Service, or
Implementation
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The first-place winner in the "Most Innovative NFC Product, Service,
or Implementation" category was Speech
Code GmbH (Austria) for its NFC talking labels, which
enable up o 30 minutes of recorded speech in over 40 languages from
stickers adhered to signage, food and beverage packaging and retail
products. Using NFC tags to enable speech output, the talking labels
make it easy for people with disabilities, retail shoppers or tourists
to use their NFC-enabled phones to get important product information
such as food allergy and nutrition facts, as well as identification
information for the visually impaired.
Best Mobile App:
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The first-place winner in the "Best Mobile App" category was Khushi
Baby Inc. (United States) - for its NFC wearable health
mobile application, which uses NFC mobile technology to enable
health workers in India to interface with infant medical data through
an NFC tag (News - Alert)-enabled digital necklace. Unlike paper immunization records
which are difficult to maintain and access, clinicians can use
NFC-enabled mobile devices and the Khushi Baby or "happy baby" mobile
app to read the infant's wearable necklace, identify which
vaccinations are needed, upload the vaccine data into the cloud and
monitor the infant in real-time. Modeled after amulet necklaces
frequently worn by babies in this region, the waterproof,
battery-free, digital necklace is ideal for use in rural communities,
using low-power wireless technology for its operation.
Best NFC Startup:
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The first-place winner in the "Best NFC Startup" category was Dimple
Inc. (Latvia) for its NFC tag-based programmable buttons
that personalize and streamline a user's daily tasks. The highly
customizable NFC sticker comes with two or four shortcut buttons that
can be adhered to the back of an NFC-enabled device. From speed
dialing, launching a flashlight or other most-used apps to creating an
extra play button or controlling smart home controls, Dimple offers
endless personalized options using the phone's own energy.
The NFC Forum Innovation Award first-place winners received NFC
Innovation Award trophies and will be featured on the NFC Forum website.
Semi-finalists received a complimentary two-night stay at a Las Vegas
hotel, an award certificate, global recognition and networking
opportunities at the NFC Forum members meeting in Las Vegas.
The NFC Forum would like to give special thanks to the NFC Innovation
Award Program sponsor, NXP Semiconductors; media partner Contactless
Intelligence; and the award
judges: ABI Senior Analyst Phil Sealy; APSCA Chairman Greg Pote;
Frog Vice President and Head of Venture Design Ethan Imboden; GSMA (News - Alert)
Terminals Director Paul Gosden; IEEE Council on RFID Professor Dr.
Katina Michael; IHS Principal Analyst Don Tait; SapientNitro Vice
President Prashant Mehta; Strategy Analytics (News - Alert) Director of Wireless Media
Strategies Nitesh Patel, and The Smart Card Alliance Executive Director
Randy Vanderhoof.
About the NFC Forum The NFC Forum's (www.nfc-forum.org)
mission is to advance the use of Near Field Communication technology by
developing specifications, ensuring interoperability among devices and
services, and educating the market about NFC technology. The Forum's
global member companies are currently developing specifications for a
modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for interoperable data
exchange and device-independent service delivery, device discovery, and
device capability. The NFC Forum's Sponsor members include Apple Inc.,
Broadcom Corporation, Dai Nippon Printing Co. Ltd., Google, Inc., Intel,
MasterCard Worldwide, NXP Semiconductors, Qualcomm, Samsung (News - Alert), Sony
Corporation, STMicroelectronics, and Visa Inc.
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