IoT Sustainability Solution of the Year

About this award

The IoT Sustainability Solution of the Year Award recognizes connected solutions that meaningfully reduce environmental impact while improving operational performance. This category highlights technologies that cut energy use and emissions, optimize resources, reduce waste, and help organizations meet sustainability goals with measurable results.

Effective sustainability solutions translate data into action by automating controls, improving asset efficiency, reducing resource waste, and enabling proactive maintenance. Whether deployed in buildings, factories, cities, agriculture, transportation, utilities, or infrastructure, the most compelling entries show clear outcomes such as reduced kWh, water savings, waste diversion, lower emissions, or verified carbon reductions.

This award celebrates practical innovation: interoperable systems that scale, integrate with existing infrastructure, and deliver quantifiable value for businesses, communities, and the environment. Winning entries demonstrate that sustainability and economic performance can advance together through IoT.

What this award recognizes

• IoT solutions that reduce energy use, emissions, water consumption, material waste, or environmental impact
• Deployments with transparent, verifiable sustainability metrics and measurable operational outcomes
• Interoperable designs that scale across sites, fleets, facilities, assets, regions, or partner ecosystems
• Solutions that connect environmental performance with business value, efficiency, resilience, or compliance

Who should enter

Entries are welcome from vendors, integrators, enterprises, municipalities, utilities, and deployment teams using IoT to improve sustainability, reduce resource use, lower emissions, or strengthen environmental performance.

Judging criteria

• Impact: Quantified reductions in energy, carbon, water, waste, emissions, resource use, or operating costs
• Innovation: Novel methods, automation, analytics, monitoring, or system design that drives sustainability outcomes
• Execution: Deployment quality, reliability, security, management, and ability to integrate with existing infrastructure
• Scalability: Repeatability across assets, sites, facilities, fleets, regions, customers, or partners
• Transparency: Measurement methodology, data credibility, reporting quality, and evidence of results
• Operational value: Ability to connect environmental impact with business performance, resilience, compliance, or cost savings

Eligibility

• Open worldwide to companies, organizations, teams, and individuals operating in the Internet of Things
• The solution must be launched, updated, deployed, validated, or materially advanced within the applicable award year
• Entries should include evidence of outcomes, such as KPIs, audits, certifications, case studies, customer results, or third-party validation
• Confidential data may be summarized or redacted for judging, with references included where possible

What to submit

• Summary describing the sustainability objective, connected solution, deployment context, and results
• Evidence of impact, such as before-and-after KPIs, methodology, dashboards, audits, customer quotes, case studies, or third-party validation
• Supporting materials, including product pages, screenshots, architecture diagrams, reports, deployment examples, or customer references
• Optional dashboard screenshots, demo video, sustainability report, technical brief, or validation document

Best of 2026 schedule

• Entries Open: Tuesday, December 1, 2026
• Early Bird Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2027
• Final Entry Deadline: Friday, February 12, 2027
• Winners Announced: Tuesday, March 9, 2027