Developers show their skills

Developers show their skills

It's another step for Thailand to show the potential of local software development on the world stage.

Published on October 15, 2007

After several months of effort by contestants for the Thailand ICT Awards 2007, the country's annual software development contest, 13 local software development applications were selected as winners. They will also be representatives from Thailand to show their software-development capabilities in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards 2007, which will be held in Singapore next month.

Category: Application and Infrastructure Tools

Winner: Planet G

Project: 3D Face Making Engine

Creating your own three-dimension animated avatar is now an easy task. With a new 3D face-making engine, people can now easily and quickly build their own 3D animated face, which can turn through 360 degrees. Just by putting their photo into the program, they can adjust human face parameters to build up their own 3D-looking face as well as make a cartoon version of themselves. Users can also import and export the result to be used in various 2D and 3D file formats.

Category: Communications Application

Winner: Sun Systems Corporation

Project: CallStreamONE

Unifying all kinds of communication channels and allowing users to access all of them from any kind of device is what CallStreamONE does. The application is a unified-messaging platform, which can integrate together various kinds of communication channels including voice calls, fax or e-mail, and allow users to access any kind of message anywhere and any time from any communications device. The application is designed to simplify and speed up communications processes to make communication - especially in enterprises - more efficient.

Category: Education and Training

Winner: Cyberplanet Interactive

Project: World Traveller

A phrase book that was designed to serve the demands of business travellers. Users can use the program to find phrases in many languages including English, Thai, Japanese, French, Spanish German and Chinese. Coming with text-to-speech technology, the program can also read the phrases out loud, allowing uses to hear the phrases instead of just reading them. The software can be used with various kinds of mobile platforms including Symbian, Windows Mobile as well as Nintendo DS.

Category: E-Government and Services

Winner: Asia Info Solution

Project: Hangar-Soft

The sophisticated process of aeroplane maintenance can be simplified. Hangar-Soft allows the military and commercial aviation companies to have more systematic processes to repair and maintain their aircraft. The software allows the maintenance staff to know every step that the plane needs in repair operations and this will allow them to see the complete picture of the maintenance cycle and make better aircraft management.

Category: General Application

Winner: Arunsawad Dot Com

Project: @2claim (anywhere to claim)

This offers insurance companies better claim processes by providing a faster response to deal with customers in accident cases.

The system allows officials in the field to get customer details and the location of the accident on their personal assistant device and they can use the device to complete the online claim process immediately through the mobile-phone network.

Category: Industrial Application

Winner: Thailand Textile Institute & MSL

Software (Thailand)

Project: Textile ERP Suite

This software suite was developed based on open-source technology and it comes with 10 modules for four sub-industries in the textiles industry. The suite allows textile factories to store data in a single repository and share that information across the organisation, eliminating redundancy while offering more efficiency and accuracy of data.

Category: Logistics and Supply Chain

Winner: Embes Technology (Thailand)

Project: Real Time Logistics Monitoring System

This system was designed to track gas pressure at service stations and manage gas transport. It uses radio frequency identification system (RFID) technology to keep track of gas volume in the station and this is important information for better management of gas delivery to each station. Information from the RFID will be sent through the General Packet Radio Service network to the central office to update gas information in real time.

Category: Media and Entertainment

Winner: Cyberplanet Interactive and

True Corporation

Project: True Life

This is instant messaging software that combines seven main features of personal chat - group chat, television broadcasting online, radio broadcasting online, personalised content daily update, offline messaging and VoIP phones - with 3D avatars.

The service allows users to select or create their own 3D avatar in the chat program so they can express emotions and interact with friends through avatar expression.

Users of True Life can chat with friends across several platforms including MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk and ICQ.

Category: Research and Development

Winner: Larngear Technology

Project: AR Studio

Developing imaginary three-dimensional objects, which can appear in the real world under the augment-reality concept, is not too hard to do. With a development tool called AR studio, designers and artists can now build 3D objects in just 10 minutes, instead of taking months as before, and with no need to have computer or technical knowledge. The tool brings computer-generated objects to life, allowing users to interact with them as if an actual physical object there is there.

Category: Secondary Student Project

Winner: Natt Piyapramote

Project: Tanjai OCR - Input at the Speed of Thought

This is a kind of optical character recognition (OCR) program that can convert scanned documents into text files. Tanjai, instead of using scanned documents, allows users to input text documents captured from a digital camera and then the software will convert text in the image into a text file for further editing. Currently, the software can recognise printed Thai text with 90-per-cent accuracy.

Category: Security

Winner: Iconcepts

Project: Livescan4All

Livescan4All is a biometric fingerprint-capturing system for security purposes. It was designed to minimise human error when it comes to identification. Fingerprint information is captured by a scanner and can be sent through the Internet for fingerprint matching to identify each individual. The system is intended to replace the ordinary paper-based fingerprint cards used now.

Category: Tourism and Hospitality

Winner: AISoft

Project: +IBE

This software is built to serve travel business. +IBE is an Internet booking engine that allows those in the travel business to open new market channels and give them easy access to customers. +IBE can connect more than 700 airlines to check availability and fares directly through the central Amadeus system. All bookings created on the website will be sent cther processing.

Category: Tertiary Student Project

Winner: Waiyawuth Euachongprasit,

Chulalongkorn University

Project: Hum me a tune… Here comes

the song

Searching for a song is now easier. Just by humming, you can find the song you want. Hum me a tune… Here comes the song is a content-based retrieval system that allows users to search for a number of songs by humming only a particular part of the song. The system is also designed to support user variations such as pitch error and tempo error so even if the humming is not absolutely correct, the system can recognise the tune and make searching for the songs that are most similar to the humming-tune query in music database.

Pongpen Sutharoj

The Nation