Sesames shortlist for CARTES 2013 announced

The winners of the prestigious SESAMES Awards will be announced at the CARTES Secure Connexions Event in November, revealing the 11 most innovative companies from the industry. The scheme has been rewarding the best technological innovations in smart cards, digital security, identification, secure transactions and contactless since 1995. Entries for the SESAMES rocketed this year with 319 submissions. The 42 jury members, all international experts in their field, chose the 34 finalists and will go on to c
October 31, 2013 Read time: 3 mins
The winners of the prestigious SESAMES Awards will be announced at the CARTES Secure Connexions Event in November, revealing the 11 most innovative companies from the industry. The scheme has been rewarding the best technological innovations in smart cards, digital security, identification, secure transactions and contactless since 1995.

Entries for the SESAMES rocketed this year with 319 submissions. The 42 jury members, all international experts in their field, chose the 34 finalists and will go on to choose the best projects in 10 categories plus the special DISCOVERY SESAMES Award, inaugurated last year, which rewards the best innovation presented by a start-up company. The prize winners will be announced during the SESAMES Awards Ceremony, on November 18 in Paris. Previous SESAMES Awards winners will also be showcased at the ceremony to highlight the positive effect of winning such a widely recognized Award. Many of these have gone on to have a big impact in the industry. For example, INSIDE Secure won a SESAME for its Open NFC software back in 2010. It is the first major player to make available its open source Open NFC software stack available to the general public.

“This decision has undoubtedly been a catalyst by enabling the industry to implement NFC features in Android, whatever the NFC material used,” said Remy de Tonnac, the firm’s CEO. "The SESAMES Award we received at the end of 2010 was a recognition of our innovative and visionary approach. We anticipated a need in the market and thus accelerated its deployment.”

By category, the 2013 finalists and their projects are:


Hardware
Gemalto M2M GmbH
M2M Technology to protect the Amazon Rainforest
Ingenico
Witeo : the hands-free solution for strong authentication in mobility
NXP semiconductors
Next generation NFC and high security eSE dedicated to mobile phones

Software
Airtag
Airshop Order
Giesecke & Devrient
TEE-TSM and Trusted Execution Environment end-to-end Ecosystem
Oberthur Technologies
Profile Manager for Subscription Manager

Identification / ID Cards / Health
ABnote Corp
Secure My Wallet
Escher Group
Riposte TrEx
Infineon Technologies AG
High Speed ePassport with Very High Bitrates and Secure, CC EAL6+h certified Flash
Oberthur Technologies
Id One PIV for eSE

IT Security
CipherCloud
CipherCloud Platform
IKI
SITO IPPOS
INSIDE Secure
QuickSec for the Mobile Enterprise
 
Transportation
Card4B Systems S.A.
WildCard Ticketing Kernel
Famoco SAS
Fx 100 Series --- Mobile POS
TransaXiom Ltd
Janus Card
 
Banking / Retail / Loyalty
Airtag
Airshop Order
Ferlo SA
Ferlo MoneaCash
Oberthur Technologies
Social Couponing Wallet

Trusted Internet / Authentication
Gemalto M2M GmbH
M2M Technology to protect Amazon Rainforest
Morpho
3DBioSecure
Oberthur Technologies-Agnitio
My voice is my password

Mobility
Mobeewave-Gemalto-STMicroelectronics
Fully integrated EMV NFC mPOS
Think&Go NFC

Dynamic NFC-Screen
Think&Go NFC
NFC-Shopping

e-Transactions

Cardtek Group
TV-Commerce Platform
Orik Payment Solutions
Divi Neguma social benefit Card
SCCP Group
Swiff mWallet

Manufacturing & tests
Samsung Electonics
45nm Embedded Flash Logic Process Development
Secure-IC S.A.S.
Smart-SIC Analyser (TM), the "radar" tool”
VTT Verschleissteiltechnik GmbH
VTT FlyEye Technology

Discovery
CipherCloud
CipherCloud Platform
Think&Go NFC
Dynamic NFC-Screen
UINT
The multiple applications chip card having biometric validation

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