1st Austrian NFC Developer Competition
The University Of Applied Sciences Of Upper Austria in Hagenberg invited teams to participate for the 1st Austrian NFC Developer Competition.
Scope:
The competition focused on new NFC applications and services, commercial market-oriented solutions and innovative applications. Companies, academic staff and students were invited to take part in the competition.
The competition has run in cooperation with A1, Nokia, SCM and NXP.
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The Jury
The jury consisted of 8 highly decorated members:
- Janne Jalkanen (Nokia)
- Felix Marx (SCM)
- Gregor Ponert (Skidata)
- Peter Preuß (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund)
- Kurt Schmid (Nexperts)
- Christiane Schweighofer (mobilkom austria)
- Steffen Steinmeier (NXP)
- Tuomo Tuikka (VTT)
Because of a head-to-head race in the first ranks, the jury decided to award two third places.
And the winners are...
- 1st place (2.500 EUR): Theft-deterrent system for skis (Florian Lettner, Markus Eder, Carina Madlmayr)
- 2nd place (1.500 EUR): Secure eSigning Device (Michael Schwaiger, Norbert Groissböck, Hermann Lizelfelner)
- 3rd place (1.000 EUR): Mobile Coupons (Manfred Aigner, Oliver Gössler, Michael Hutter)
- 3rd place (1.000 EUR): Smart Doorbell (Bernhard Groiss)
