The IoT Evolution Expo East, which took place from January 25 to 28 in Fort Lauderdale, was full of the leading-edge technology that’s driving the IoT industry, from semiconductors and intelligent code platforms all the way up to full-stack Smart City management strategies.
For the first time, at this event, the editorial staff of IoT Evolution World, which hosts the event, presented the IoT Evolution Expo Awards for the best and most forward-leaning technology in the IoT industry today.
A winner was chosen in each of eight categories, across several critical IoT verticals, and from those category winners, a top technology vendor was chosen as the Best IoT Technology Provider of the year.
This will be an annual awards program, with winners chosen by the editorial staff of IoTEvolutionWorld.com, IoT Evolution magazine and TMC.
And, without further ado, the inaugural class of IoT Evolution Award Winners:
Best Consumer or Industrial Drone Innovation
Flymotion Media – This award was chosen for the technological innovation that fundamentally improved or changed how drones operate within the IoT, or increased functionality of an existing capability.
Best Smart Home Product
Droplit – This award was for the product or underlying technology that helped move Smart Home from a gadgety/novelty industry to a mainstream quality of life enhancement for consumers.
Best Consumer Smart Transportation Innovation
ThingWorx – Awarded for forward-looking research, development or engineering that improved operation, security, user experience or safety for connected, automated and smart consumer vehicles.
Best Commercial or Supply Chain Smart Transportation Innovation
KORE – Given for forward-looking research, development or engineering that improved operation, security, safety and directly improved business operations for commercial shippers and supply chain operators.
Best Fog/Edge Computing Solution
Eurotech – This award was given for the fog or edge computing solution or underlying technology that was best able to bring the technology from simple analytics to actionable intelligence and automated services.
Best Consumer M2M Implementation
Exosite – This award was for best showing how machine-to-machine communications or underlying technology improved the quality of life and experience for consumers and end-users.
Best IIoT M2M Implementation
Iridium – This award was for a case study that shows how machine-to-machine communications or its underlying technology improved business operations, cost-efficiencies and moved the IIoT forward as an industry.
Best Platform of 2015 -- Battle of the Platforms Winner
Systech – This was for the winner of the Battle of the Platforms competition.
And finally, the
Best IoT Use Case/Full Stack Implementation of the Year was chosen from among the winners of all the other categories. The winner was the one company that best exemplified the IoT industry and moved the industry as a whole forward in terms of technology, media attention, scope and societal improvement.
Congratulations to Eurotech for winning the first-ever IoT Evolution Expo Award for Best Solution of 2015.