The GSMA has today announced IDENT Technologies and Electro Power Systems as the winners of the EMEA leg of the 2010 Mobile Innovation Grand Prix competition. The two firms were chosen as winners from a field of 10 at the GSMA’s Mobile Innovation EMEA Event, which was held as part of the HiT Barcelona World Innovation Summit that took place in Barcelona this week.

Germany’s IDENT was nominated as part of the Embedded Mobile or Device-centric Technology category for its ULPP Technology (Ultra Low Power Proximity) initiative, a patented technology that claims to extend the lifetime of a device by up to five times. While Electro Power Systems, an Italian designer and manufacturer of fuel cell systems for power backup, was nominated as part of the Product Enabling a Greener World category, for its Electro3 solution, a technology platform targeted specifically at the mobile sector.

The two winners have won the right to compete against other regional Mobile Innovation Global Finalists for the 2010 GSMA Mobile Innovation Grand Prix, the overall winner of which will be named at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next February.