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Innovations that could help save lives won praise at the 2010 Indonesian Information and Communications Technology Award finals last week.

A team from Jakarta’s Bina Nusantara University won the higher education category for a camera application that could help authorities spot security risks, including terrorists.

The application, called “Jabbing,” alerts camera operators when objects or people stay idle for a pre-determined amount of time, said Fredy Purnomo, the team’s project adviser.

He said “Jabbing” was designed for closed-circuit TV networks monitoring crowded public areas like lobbies or airports that were vulnerable to attack.

Meanwhile, developers from Bandung were honored for hospital management software called MetaCare, which won the open source category at the awards, also known as Inaicta.

The program keep track of the goings-on at hospitals “from accounting, logistics, and human resources, all the way to supply chain management,” designer Aries Setiabudi told the Jakarta Globe on Friday.

The software has already been adopted by 19 health care facilities operated by state energy company PT Pertamina.

The development team also included Hendrik Saragih, Syafikli Musyafako, Nurdiansyah Ehsan and Mohammad Reza Kamarullah.

Other innovations honored at Inaicta included a maze-solving robot, a collaborative e-business system and an automatic resume and meeting minutes system.

Inaicta, held annually by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology since 2007, aims to bridge the gap between the research community and businesses or end-users.