IoT Use Case of the Year

About this award

The IoT Use Case of the Year Award recognizes the most compelling demonstrations of IoT technology in action. This category highlights projects, deployments, and solutions that clearly show how connected systems solve problems, create measurable outcomes, and deliver value in practice.

Strong use cases illustrate more than technical capability. They demonstrate how IoT transforms industries, businesses, communities, or operations. Whether improving efficiency, enhancing safety, reducing costs, strengthening sustainability, or enabling better decision-making, these projects provide concrete evidence of IoT’s potential realized.

This award spotlights implementations that bridge the gap between vision and execution. Winning entries prove not only that IoT works, but that it delivers real-world results that can inspire adoption across the broader connected technology ecosystem.

What this award recognizes

• Successful IoT deployments with documented outcomes
• Projects, pilots, or at-scale implementations that solve meaningful operational, business, or societal challenges
• Clear evidence of scalability, replicability, or broader industry relevance
• Use cases that translate connected technology into measurable value for customers, users, communities, or stakeholders

Who should enter

Entries are welcome from organizations that have deployed IoT solutions with measurable benefits, including solution providers, integrators, enterprises, municipalities, public-sector groups, and customer-partner teams.

Judging criteria

• Impact: Documented benefits, ROI, efficiency gains, safety improvements, sustainability outcomes, or user value
• Innovation: Use of IoT to solve challenges in a novel or differentiated way
• Execution: Deployment quality, adoption, reliability, and operational results
• Scalability: Potential for wider application across industries, environments, geographies, or user groups
• Evidence quality: Strength of supporting metrics, case details, customer validation, or implementation results

Eligibility

• Open worldwide to companies, organizations, teams, and individuals operating in the Internet of Things
• The use case must be implemented, validated, expanded, or significantly advanced within the applicable award year
• Entries should include measurable outcomes and customer references where possible
• Confidential details may be summarized or redacted for judging, with verification requested when needed

What to submit

• Summary describing the use case, the problem addressed, and the outcomes achieved
• Evidence of impact, such as KPIs, case studies, testimonials, benchmarks, deployment data, or operational results
• Supporting materials, including screenshots, diagrams, product links, media coverage, or customer references
• Optional customer reference, short demo video, project overview, or implementation summary

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