WINNERS BERLIN 2012

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Awards

In summary, the winners for each category are as follows:

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1	Best Application of WSN: Libelium

2	Best Application of Energy Harvesting: Precision Motors Deutsche Minebea (PMDM)

3	Best Technical Development of Energy Harvesting: G24 Innovations

4	Best Exhibitor in Show: Algra AE

5	Best Poster: Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology at the Erasmus University College in Brussels

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	Best Application of WSN: Libelium

Winning heaps of praise by the judges for the scale and complexity of its deployment, the winning company was Libelium, a WSN developer in Spain, which managed to develop and deploy a wireless sensor network with up to 1000 sensor nodes, (sensing a variety of gaseous agents as well as parking availability in city streets) which could operate effectively with a lot of different communication protocols.

Best Application of Wireless Sensor Networks - Alicia Asin Perez, Libelium with Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx

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	Best Application of Energy Harvesting: Precision Motors Deutsche Minebea (PMDM)

The winner in this category was the company Precision Motors Deutsche Minebea (PMDM) in Germany, who, according to Henrik Zessin, "... managed to develop a prototype of a real world application which can benefit greatly from energy harvesting as the changing of batteries can be avoided".

Best Application of Energy Harvesting - Stefan Schwamberger, PMDM

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	Best Technical Development of Energy Harvesting: G24 Innovations

The winner was the company G24 Innovations in Wales, UK. After developing its technology for approximately 6 years, the company have now managed to commercialize its proprietary technology and integrate their Dye Sensitized Cells into applications such as wireless keyboards (in collaboration with Logitech) and autonomously powered rolling blinds, which have been successfully demonstrated in a large deployment in a hotel in Las Vegas.

Best Technical Development of Energy Harvesting - Dr Mark Spratt, G24 Innovations

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	Best Exhibitor in Show: Algra AE

Attendees at the conference also had the opportunity to vote for the best exhibition booth and the winner was the company Algra AE in Switzerland, a technology developer of piezoelectric energy harvesters with plenty of interesting demonstrators such as piezoelectric wireless switches and piezo keyboards on display at the conference that captured attendees' attention.

Best Exhibitor in Show - Venkatesh Sivasubramaniam and Dieter Matter, Algra

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	Best Poster: Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology at the Erasmus University College in Brussels

Finally, in the poster session of the conference, which had more posters than any previous year (16 in total), the winners were Yannick Verbelen and Serge Kubera, representing the Department of Industrial Sciences and Technology at the Erasmus University College in Brussels. Their poster was on the topic of "Ambient Energy Powered Smart Meters."

Best Poster - Yannick Verbelen (right), Erasmus University College, Brussels, seen here with judge Henrik Zessin from Fraunhofer IIS

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The next IDTechEx awards ceremony will take place at the upcoming Energy Harvesting & Storage and WSN & RTLS USA conference in Washington DC, on the 7th and 8th of November. For more information, visit www.IDTechEx.com/ehUSA.

Award Categories 2012

The award ceremony will be held at the gala awards dinner. The awards are hosted by IDTechEx, a leader in providing independent global research and analysis on the development and application of energy harvesting and storage, Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS.

Any company operating within the energy harvesting and storage and Wireless Sensor Networks and RTLS fields is welcome to apply.

Best Technical Development of an Energy Harvesting Device   This award will be given to a company which has launched a new product based on energy harvesting (in the last 24 months, Q2 2010 - Q2 2012) and is in the process of bringing it to market. The category will be assessed on the technical development of the product, its potential market, and benefits it brings over alternatives.		Best Application of WSN   This award is given to the best implementation of WSN. In particular, judges are looking to see the payback from the system, how problems were overcome (if any), and benefits to the user.
Best Application of Energy Harvesting   This is the award given to an actual commercial success with an end-product using energy harvesting (in the last 24 months, Q2 2010 - Q2 2012). Judges will look for success in terms of products sold and revenues generated.		Best in Show   This award will be voted for by attendees for who they think is the most impressive company exhibiting at the Energy Harvesting and WSN tradeshow. The award will be presented at the award dinner.
For more information please contact: Corinne Jennings Event Manager +44 (0)1223 810277 c.jennings@IDTechEx.com		Best Poster Session   This award will be given to the company and/or academic organisation for the most promising advances in the area of Energy Harvesting or Wireless Sensing Technologies (in the last 24 months, Q2 2010 - Q2 2012). The category will be assessed on the technical development of the work, its potential for market entry, and benefits it brings to the body of work in the given area. All organisations displaying a poster session in the exhibition will be entered for this award.