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Zaharia Dragos wins Galileo Masters 2007
29 October 2007
| | French inventor Zaharia Dragos won the Galileo Masters 2007 prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition for his novel scheme to secure financial data transmissions against fraud. It combines the very precise time signal of the European satellite navigation system Galileo, with conventional encryption algorithms, to make the coding of financial transactions more difficult to break. For this idea Zaharia Dragos received the Galileo Masters 2007 award and a cash prize of €10 000. In addition, he will be given the opportunity to further develop his idea into a viable business with support from experts at the Sophia Antipolis incubation centre close to Nice in France. | |  |  | |
| | | | | | Galileo Masters 2007 Zaharia Dragos submitted his winning idea to the participating region Sophia Antipolis / Nice in France. In addition to the cash prize of €10 000, he will be given the opportunity to further develop his innovation into a viable business with support from experts at the region’s incubation centre in Sophia Antipolis | | | | |
| | | | European Satellite Navigation Competition
| Emilia Müller, Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, opened the European Satellite Navigation Competition’s Galileo Masters 2007 award ceremony at the Residenz in Munich, 23 October 2007.
Credits: Alex Schelbert | | | | |
| | | | | | European Satellite Navigation Competition is organised by the Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen and the Munich ITC trade fair SYSTEMS. The competition is run under the patronage of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, and supported by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and ESA through its Technology Transfer Programme. At SYSTEMS trade fair the Galileo Masters overall winner, the special prize winners and the regional winners are presented. All 2007 winners present their innovations at SYSTEMS 2007 trade show, in the Navigation World Area in Hall B1 from 23 to 26 October. | | | | |
| | | | | | Thierry Fargas from the region Sophia Antipolis, Nice in France, won the T-Systems special topic prize with his NodboxSafeRoad in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. NodboxSafeRoad is a system to improve road safety by analyzing the immediate potential risks for drivers. | | | | |
| | | | | | Colin Wilson and Lee Masey from the region Sophia Antipolis, Nice in France, won the DLR/Gate special topic prize with their proposal for a landmine archive and retrieval system (LARS), in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. . LARS integrates radar imaging and GPS/Galileo coordinates with conventional map data to locate, identify and map hidden landmines. | | | | |
| | | | | | Ernst Pechtl (picture) and Hans Geiger, superWise Technologies AG, won the regional competition for Bavaria, Germany, with their eye-Phone, in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. Eye-Phone is an advanced object recognition and knowledge tool which can identify any object in an image, whether architectural, landscape, art, animal or plant, and then combine this information with GPS/Galileo positioning data to provide information from Internet databases about the selected object. | | | | |
| | | | | | Selene Kolman, bliin BV, won the regional competition for South Holland, the Netherlands, with her ‘bliin YourLIVE’, in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. Bliin YourLIVE is a GPS-enhanced mobile and online social network. It enables users to track, locate and follow friends and colleagues on a map in real-time. | | | | |
| | | | | | Andreas Zachariah (left) and Nick Burch (centre) won the regional competition for Prague, Czech Republic, with their Carbon Hero, in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. Carbon Hero is a mobile-based application to give users their personal environmental carbon dioxide ‘footprint’ when travelling. | | | | |
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| | More information European Satellite Navigation CompetitionThe Results 2007Related articles Great ideas for satellite navigationCall for ideas in satellite navigation - Galileo Masters 2007Related links ESA's Technology Transfer ProgrammeESA Business Incubation
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