A month ago, the ceremony for the fourth edition of the ‘Navegantes de Hoy’ awards was held. This awards organized by the ‘Hoy’ newspaper online edition born with the purpose of recognizing companies and individuals that with their works, projects and activities have done more for the spread and development of Extremadura through the use of new technologies and the internet.

During this event, participante should shortly explain their business idea to the jury. Our projecto was finalist in the ‘Best mobile development’ category along with the ‘Utopia’ zafrense company for its project ‘Geociudad.com’ and also with ‘Red EberSalud’ with its ‘Calculation of Cardiovascular Risk’. After deliberation, the jury named us winners for our biometric security solution for smartphones. To end the night, we received a small statue exclusively designed by sculptor Miguel Sansón for ‘Navegantes de Hoy’. Although everything didn’t end there, the prize was also an iPhone 4S for each team member through the sponsorship of Telefónica Movistar.

Last Wednesday, February 22th , Mr. Miguel Ángel Perez Polo, Extremadura Telefónica CEO, came to our offices in the corporate area of the ‘Centro de Cirujía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón’ of Caceres, to perform the act of delivery of our new phones.

From Mobbeel, we’d want to thank ‘Hoy.es’ digital newspaper and Telefónica for their work promoting entrepreneurship in Extremadura and for their commitment to innovation and development. We also congratulate the other finalists for their hard work and effort, because they deserved the award so much as we did. And finally, thanks also to everyone that encourage us to follow day by day with their support, because they are our greatest prize.

Mobbeel is proud of participating along with Caceres City Council on the Garage 2.0 Biometric security project. Moreover, we apreciate the City Council’s firm commitment to innovation and development as the way forward.

The project consists of adding a biometric access control system to six rooms of the Garage 2.0 Innovation Factory.

That access control is based on the use of smartphones and biometric recognition technology developed by Mobbeel that allows to identify people from unique features, such as iris or handwritten signature. The system verifies the identity of the Garage 2.0 users, and in case of being authorized, it allows the access to the rooms that are part of the project.

How does it work?
Once the project is over, The Garage 2.0 users can access to the rooms that they have been authorized to, using their smartphone as if it were a key. They only need to get closer to the room they want to access. Once there and using the application specially designed for smartphones, the user verifies its identity. Furthermore, If the system checks that the user have access to that room, the smartphone will securely and wirelessly communicate with the door and allow access.

There are several advantages:

No more keys, now you are the key.
The need of physical distribution of keys is removed. If the Garage 2.0 user has an smartphone supported by the system, he can use it to access to the rooms in which has been authorized.In case of not having a supported device, Garage 2.0 will make available several supported terminals to the users.

Even if the smartphone is stolen or lost, no one without authorization can access to that rooms thanks to the biometric recognition technology.

Three levels of security
- Something you only know: the specific access code of the room you want to access.
- Something you only own: the mobile device with the access application installed.
- Something you only are: You only have access to the room through your iris or your handwritten signature.

Related news:
‘Hoy’ newspaper
‘El periódico de Extremadura’ newspaper

The number of the ONCE draw have finished in 903. the higher closer number is 923, so the winner (without confirmation) of the draw is María Fernanda Jaramillo Polo. Congratulations! Thanks to everybody for participating and we hope to hearing from you soon. See you!

In Mobbeel we know that you love everything related to smartphones, that’s why we want to give you the opportunity to see the cutting edge advances of the mobile world. We have one ‘Exhibition Visitor Pass’ ticket to give away valued in 699€ for the Mobile World Congress 2012 which takes place in Barcelona from February 27th to March 1st. Barcelona will be the capital of the mobile world during the event, the world`s largest mobile manufacters will all be exhibiting their latest developments. Travel and accommodation are not included.

What do I have to do to participate?

To get your hands on the ticket, you only have to follow one of these options, but if you complete both of them you will have more possibilities to win.

Don`t worry if you were already following us in both social networks, because for being our lawfully follower, using the hashtag #MobbeelWMC o leaving a comment on the Facebook plugin you will enter into the draw.

– Click ‘Like’ button on our Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/mobbeel) and leave a comment on the following Facebook plugin

– Follow us on Twitter (@mobbeel) and use the Hashtag #MobbeelMWC

Follow @Mobbeel

Tweet #MobbeelMWC

When is the deadline to participate?

The deadline to participate is February 10th 2012 at 23:59 (GMT+1). On February 11th the draw will be conducted and the winner of the ticket for the MWC 2012 will be announced.

Prize Draw Rules

– On February 11th at 10.00 (GMT +1), Mobbeel will publish on this blog a list with all participants and the number assigned to them.
– The draw will use the last three digits of the ONCE coupon from February 11th which may be consulted from here. The participant whose number matches those last three digits will be the winner, provided it meets the other requirements and conditions of the draw.
– If the digits of the ONCE coupon don’t match any participant’s number, the winner will be chosen as the participant with the higher number closer to the coupon digits.
– Once selected the winner, it will be checked that he/she complies the conditions of the draw, ie if the Facebook fan page ‘Like’ button has been clicked and a comment in the Facebook plugin has been made, or if he/she is a Mobbeel follower on Twitter (@mobbeel) and has used the hashtag #MobbeelMWC. In case of not meeting these requirements or if the winner declines the prize, we will continue with the next consecutive number in ascending order until finding a winner.
– The prize is an “Exhibition Visitor Pass” ticket valued at 699€ for the Mobile World Congress 2012 valid during the entire week of the event, see prices.
– Mobbeel reserves the right to remove of the draw for those players using fake accounts to try increasing their chances of winning.
– Mobbeel reserves the right to cancel, suspend or amend these rules as well as the organization and / or administration of this promotion, under cause.