Ericsson award in EED 2007

It's not dream... Ericsson company at Egypt had chosen IDRISIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEM (my graduation project) as best project in EED 2007(Egyptian Engineer Day).

The story began when my team decided to Presents IDRISIAN NAVIGATION SYSTEM in EED 2007 conference .The conference was attended by Minister of Communications and Information Technology 'Tarek Kamel' who Peaces the award to us.

Erricson Egypt gave us this award based on the new idea of solving GPS problem which is prohibited in the country, we make mobile application which takes the place of the user and his request for nearing service place(eg. hospital,library,etc..) , then the application sends sms to server which has helper application to read and interpret the message, then by using shortest path algorithm the server calculates the way to the nearest requested place.

The server sends sms again to the user where the mobile application listens for specific port number. This sms contains the (x,y) coordinates for the intermediate points where the application redraw these points in the map.

by using this way the cost of to the implemented company will be low . it will cost one sms message and will charge the user by mms message. The charge of mms message will exists because it showed to the user that graphical message sent for him.

After one year of this award, we were surprised to see that this idea is implemented by many mobile companies in the Egyptian market.