Software firms to represent Thailand in regional contest
The winners of the 2010 Thailand ICT Awards (Ticta 2010) were announced on Monday.
Out of 17 award categories, only 16 awards were made. The judges were unable to name a winner in the "e-Inclusion and e-Community" category.
Among the winners, local search-engine specialist ThaiQuest took two awards. The company, regularly appearing in Ticta line-ups in recent years, took away this year's awards in categories for e-government and service applications and research and development applications.
The 15 winners named on Monday will represent Thailand in the Asia-Pacific ICT Awards 2010, to be held in Malaysia in October.
Ticta is a national software competition jointly organised by the Information and Communications Technology Ministry and the Association of Thai ICT Industry.
The competition aims to inspire Thai software firms to improve their product quality. The winning software products are promoted in the Asia-Pacific region through their participation in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (Apicta) Awards contest.
The winners announced this week will receive prize money, support for their participation in the Apicta Awards competition and a place in the marketing activities of the Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA).
The following are the champions of Ticta 2010.
Application and Infrastructure Tools
Winner: Sensor Service Grid (SSG)
Company: Geomove
Sensor Service Grid (SSG) is field-sensor middleware that operates as infrastructure for real-time field-sensor applications. To adopt the service, users need to subscribe to SSG under a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, and then feed their sensor data to SSG before visualising it automatically on Web-based applications. It also allows users to construct added-on applications by using SSG's application programming interface.
Communication Applications
Winner: InfoCentrix Multi-Touchpoint 4.0
Company: Computer Telephony Asia (CT Asia)
InfoCentrix Multi-Touchpoint 4.0 is contact-centre software developed under service-oriented architecture. It can provide centralised management and intelligence can easily be added to customers' exiting touch-point systems, ranging from PABX to voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), fax, e-mail, short message (SMS), Web contact and mobile-phone applications.
E-Learning Applications
Winner: Mixed Reality Learning Media
Company: LarnGear Technology
Mixed Reality Learning Media offers a 3D learning experience that is aimed at helping to reduce the teaching-quality gap between metropolitan and rural areas. This technology allows actual and digital objects to coexist and interact in real time, showing users 3D pop-up objects placed in a real environment. It simplifies complex content, such as molecular structures, cell metabolism and other scientific models, making them easier to understand.
E-Government and Service Applications
Winner: iQNewsClip
Company: ThaiQuest
iQNewsClip is an online newspaper-clipping service sourced from more than 30 English and Thai-language newspapers in Thailand, in both colour and black and white, in text mode. iQNewsClip's production system supports PDF files from any newspapers. These are processed into high quality clippings. News content in the files is extracted and saved to plain text format for further news clipping formatting. The newspaper-clipping service can be updated every morning at 6am.
Financial Industry Applications
Winner: Active Hire-Purchase System
Company: KP Soft
The Active Hire Purchase System is a hire purchase and leasing system developed six years ago by Thai staff with years of experience in finance. It has already been deployed by many financial institutions such as the Government Savings Bank, the Islamic Bank of Thailand, Siam Kubota Leasing and Rajathani Leasing.
E-Health Applications
Winner: iPP
Company: Phuket Software Factory
iPP is health-information software used as a clinical tool to generate information ranging from personal health data to medical data displayed in graphic results that are an integral part of modern statistical analysis. Basic categories of information available on iPP include patient demographics, physical examination details, vital-sign monitoring, clinical problems and conditions, medication information and financial information.
E-Logistics and Supply-Chain Applications
Winner: Intelligent Sales-Force Automation (iSFA)
Company: ICE Solution
Intelligent Sales-Force Automation was developed for businesses that concentrate on marketing and sales, to efficiently reduce data-processing time. Its features cover systems ranging from ordering to promotion, stock, and sales trips. It can also support complicated logistics and is designed to cater to both modern- and traditional-trade.
Industrial Applications
Winner: Active Dealer Management System
Company: KP Soft
Active Dealer Management System is designed under Web-based technology for automotive dealer networks and service centres. ADMS software has been installed in The Siam Kubota Industry's dealer system for two years, supporting more than 100 dealers. KP Soft plans to expand its market presence to the wider Asia region in the near future.
Media and Entertainment Applications
Winner: Neytsync 3D Projection Display
Company: Xtreme Plus
Neytsync 3D Projection Display is a digital multi-screen display technology that combines the quality of traditional multi-image systems with the digital imagery, video and graphics power of contemporary computer technology. It can be used with projectors for large, seamless images or hooked up to monitors, LCD or plasma screens for creative arrangements in any shape, with a limit of 200 screens.
Research and Development Applications
Winner: ThaiQuest eEdition
Company: ThaiQuest
ThaiQuest eEdition is an innovative digital newspaper available on the Internet. It provides clear resolution with zoom-in and zoom-out capacity as well as providing a powerful search facility allowing readers to jump to topics of interest. It provides an inventive Web-based publishing solution that instantaneously converts dull everyday documents into professional electronic publications with opt-in interactive tools.
Security Applications
Winners: Network Monitoring and Alarm System
Company: Bluebox Technology
The Network Monitoring and Alarm System is designed to perform with centralised operation consoles, networks, databases, service-monitoring and performance-management systems, with automatic alarms sent by SMS. The system improves IT services, increases service availability, reduces IT-staff workload, prevents service-level breaches and enables system administrators to respond to problems rapidly.
Start-up Company
Winner: Shoppening
Company: 2 3 Perspective
Shoppening is a combination of shopping guide and mobile coupon and friend finder. It is an application allowing users to find coupons and deals from shopping complexes, restaurants, care services, spas, fashion stores, shows, concerts, airlines and hotels. Users can download the program once to install it in their mobile phones, and can then keep in touch with all current shopping promotions in Thailand and instantly share the information with friends via social networks.
Tourism and Hospitality
Winner: SmartMango
Company: Fire One One
SmartMango is a set-top box platform that integrates entertainment, in-room services and guest management for hotels and resorts, providing a one-stop service for customers. It allows hotels and resorts to customise their services and put them on television in guest rooms. The platform allows guests to access concierge services, food orders, travel information, weather reports and express check-out service.
Agriculture Applications
Winner: NEOtrace
Company: NEO Invention
NEOtrace is a food traceability and temperature-tracking solution and platform that provides instant access to farms of origin, processors and distribution channels. It can also provide a comprehensive suite of bulk-level traceability solutions. It also allows buyers to check the temperature of goods, and generates automatic temperature alerts that can be sent directly to authorised people by SMS and e-mail.
Secondary Student Project
Winner: Destine Strategy
Company: Rayong Wittayakom School
Destine Strategy is a role-playing game requiring three players. The purpose is to encourage students to participate in the game together, when each is able to control the abilities of his or her character.
Tertiary Student Project
Winner: Subtitle Mate
Company: Chulalongkorn University
Subtitle Mate is open-source software for creating subtitles. It features advanced use of artificial intelligence to automate routine work while helping to proof subtitle context. Its main features include auto timing, spell checking and suggestions, a friendly user interface and an advanced video player. It supports the subtitle file .ass, which is supported by most media players.