Category Archives: All the awards

20 June 2013 | Connecthings named Best Product for « Intelligent Transport for the City and its people”

This prize was presented as part of the SmartGrids France 2013 competition during the Innovative City Convention which took place on the 18th and 19th of June in Nice. 

The jury was made up of nine French competitive clusters specialised in the fields of energy and ICT.

On that occasion, Arnaud Chevailler, Sales Director at Connecthings, said: “The whole team of Connecthings is glad to receive this prestigious awards, that recognizes our NFC-based innovative solution of real-time information, which was first launched in Nice in 2010 and continues to achieve great success among passengers everywhere it is implemented, as for instance in Strasbourg, Caen or Madrid where it is part of a global approach on smart cities”.

2 May 2013 | *Connecthings, winner of 2013 Contactless & Mobile Awards

For the second year in a row, *Connecthings was awarded yesterday at the 2013 Mobile & Contactless Awards ceremony, in the Public Domain category, for the StrasPlus mobile service implemented in Strasbourg in partnership with the Urban Community of Strasbourg. This implementation consists in the deployment all around Strasbourg and its suburbs of 1,400 NFC tags on street furniture delivering real-time and context-based mobile services in the areas of transport, tourism and local news & events.

This year again, *Connecthings is very proud and honoured to be selected among an increasing number of international and cross-functional projects and experimentations using contactless technologies. Like every project led by *Connecthings, StrasPlus contributes to raise awareness of the NFC technology by offering visible, relevant and useful services and information to everyone in the city through contactless tags. This award is a wonderful encouragement for the next deployment of *Connecthings’ solutions in a few weeks time in another city in the UK!

To read the press release about the ceremony, please click here.

14 May 2012 | Barcelona, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro and Londonderry will deploy NFC services within their territory

Livings Labs Global Awards, May 2012, Rio de Janeiro: 4 metropolitan cities have selected Connecthings to deploy mobile contactless services within their territory.

Barcelona, World Mobile Capital 2012-2018, will deploy contactless services for improving citizens and worldwide visitors’ global digital experience within the city.
Hamburg, 2nd largest port in Europe, will offer NFC services for encouraging the 270,000 cruise passengers to spend more time in exploring the city.
Rio de Janeiro will set up a service in favour of disadvantaged local communities, in parallel with the implementation of the “Knowledge Square”, where urban, technological and social reforms become one for enhancing digital inclusion.
Last but not least, Derry-Londonderry, City of Culture 2013, will offer NFC services for improving and varying the global experience within the city, and promoting the cultural and touristic heritage to visitors and locals.

21 cities over the 5 continents make up the Living Labs Global Awards, counting more than 110 million citizens and seeking innovative solutions to their current issues, in areas as diverse as healthcare, mobility, security, education, tourism, urban management and the reduction of CO2 emissions. More than 700 innovative worldwide companies had in the first place submitted a solution, but in the end, each city has selected only one project.

Laetitia Gazel Anthoine, CEO of Connecthings, is very pleased about “these prestigious rewards: this demonstrates that the innovative solutions set up by Connecthings provide relevant responses to the cities’ specific challenges, and I’m glad to put our expertise at the service of 4 countries, as it goes in line with our ambitions for international development.”


Damaris Homo of Connecthings receives 4 Living Labs Global Awards in Rio (Photo by Gunnar Knechtel)

3 May 2012 | Living Labs Global Awards: *Connecthings awarded in 4 of the 20 cities involved in the challenge !

*Connecthings’ team is proud to announce that *Connecthings won 4 awards during the International Summit on Service Innovation in Cities in Rio de Janeiro.

The Living Labs Awards 2012  reward the companies who meet the challenges raised by 20 worldwide cities of providing innovative solutions in areas as diverse as transport, culture and tourism. Before the summit in Rio, during a first phase each city has selected 5 companies, out of 700 proposals, that are likely to fulfill its expectations accurately. During a second phase, these 5 pre-selected companies had to handle some specifications about the solution provided.

And finally, *Connecthings’ project had been chosen  in Barcelona (SP), Londonderry (UK), Rio de Janeiro (BR) and Hamburg (GE) and these projects will now have to be set up within one year.

See all the awarded companies here.

27 April 2012 | Connecthings winner of a 2012 Contactless & Mobile Award

Connecthings implementation of smart mailboxes (“mobulles Paris”) won the “Public Domain” Award yesterday at the 2012 Mobile & Contactless Awards ceremony, following the Contactless Intelligence Spring Conference. This experimentation, has been expanded to 750 additional mailboxes in 2 major French cities

, has been a concrete example of how contactless usages can go far beyond payment.

Connecthings is proud and honoured to have been selected among a range of international and cross-functional projects and experimentations using contactless technologies, and to be considered as a firm who “really makes a difference in getting contactless devices into the hands of users and encouraging consumers to use them”.

To read the press release about the ceremony, please click here