Awarding Industry Leaders in Eight Different Categories

Best Retail RFID/IoT Implementation: Awarded to the retailer demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve its store or supply chain operations.

Best Manufacturing RFID/IoT Implementation: Awarded to the manufacturer demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve its production or supply chain operations.

Best Logistics/Supply Chain RFID/IoT Implementation: Awarded to the organization demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve logistics or supply chain efficiencies, or deliver better services to customers.

Best Health-Care RFID/IoT Implementation: Awarded to the health care provider demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to cut costs or improve patient outcomes.

Best RFID/IoT Implementation (Other Industry): Awarded to the organization demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to cut costs, improve efficiencies or otherwise improve the way it does business. The winner will be from an industry other than retail, manufacturing, health care or logistics.

Best Use of RFID/IoT in a Product or Service: Awarded to the end-user company using RFID technology to enhance an existing product or service. The winner will be the company that demonstrates how it is using RFID to provide additional value to its customers.

Best New Product: Awarded to the RFID technology hardware, software or service provider chosen by a team of judges at RFID Journal LIVE! as the best new product or service at the event. To qualify, the product or service must have been introduced after the last RFID Journal LIVE! concluded on April 14, 2018.

Special Achievement Award: Awarded to the individual who has contributed to the RFID industry. It can be given to an end user, researcher, vendor, inventor, standards developer or anyone else who have contributed to the advancement of the entire RFID industry.

To learn more about the judging criteria for the 2020 awards, click here for more information.

The RFID Journal Awards recognize companies that have distinguished themselves by their successful use of radio frequency identification (RFID) or Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, or the introduction of a valuable new RFID/IoT product or services.

In this session the winners will be announced in the following categories:

Special Achievement Award

Awarded to the individual who has contributed to the RFID industry. It can be given to an end user, researcher, vendor, inventor, standards developer or anyone else who have contributed to the advancement of the entire RFID industry.

2020 recipient is: Dr. Tali Freed

Dr. Tali Freed, an associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, for her years of leadership at the PolyGAIT-RFID Research and Development Laboratory.

Best Retail RFID/IoT Implementation

Awarded to the retailer demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve its store or supply chain operations.

Finalists:

• Boticário Group

• Stadium AB

• Tommy Hilfiger Best Manufacturing

RFID/IoT Implementation

Awarded to the manufacturer demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve its production or supply chain operations.

Finalists:

• Grand Paris Express

• Stadler Winterthur

• Volkswagen do Brasil Best

Logistics/Supply Chain RFID/IoT Implementation

Awarded to the organization demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to improve logistics or supply chain efficiencies, or deliver better services to customers.

Finalists:

• Ca' del Bosco Winery

• Gerdau

• Lockheed Martin Best Health-Care

RFID/IoT Implementation

Awarded to the health care provider demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to cut costs or improve patient outcomes.

Finalists:

• Ankara City Hospital

• Jewish General Hospital

• Johnson & Johnson Best

RFID/IoT Implementation (Other Industry)

Awarded to the organization demonstrating the best use of RFID technology to cut costs, improve efficiencies or otherwise improve the way it does business. The winner will be from an industry other than retail, manufacturing, health care or logistics.

Finalists:

• Centre for Railway Information Systems

• The REME Charity

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Best Use of RFID/IoT in a Product or Service

Awarded to the end-user company using RFID technology to enhance an existing product or service. The winner will be the company that demonstrates how it is using RFID to provide additional value to its customers.

Finalists:

• CompX Security Products

• SportCor

• Stanley Black & Decker

Best New Product

Awarded to the RFID technology hardware, software or service provider chosen by a team of judges at RFID Journal LIVE! as the best new product or service at the event. To qualify, the product or service must have been introduced after the last RFID Journal LIVE! concluded on April 5, 2019.

Finalists:

• Avery Dennison/Smartrac Eagle Green Tag

• EMMicroelectronic's em|echo-V product-authentication solution

• Fujitsu's ultra-rugged WT-A543 washable UHF RFID tag

• Metrc's wearable RFID reader

• PervasID's Flow Ranger RFID reader

• Printronix Auto ID’s T6000e RFID printer

• RF Controls' CS-490 antenna

• RFRain's RFR-RAIN-4-SMART-ADV smart reader

• Identiv's Eco-Friendly RFID and NFC Tags

• SpotSee's ShockWatch RFID sensor

• Times-7's Packing Station antenna