IoT AgTech Advancement Award

About this award

The IoT AgTech Advancement Award honors innovation that transforms how we grow, manage, and sustain agricultural systems through connected technology. In a time when growers face unpredictable weather, rising input costs, labor constraints, and pressure to produce more with fewer resources, this award recognizes solutions that bring greater clarity, efficiency, and intelligence to the field.

AgTech innovation can take many forms, from connected sensors and imagery platforms to equipment intelligence, irrigation optimization, livestock monitoring, field analytics, autonomous systems, and AI-powered agronomic decision support. The strongest entries demonstrate how IoT helps agricultural teams detect issues earlier, optimize inputs, protect yield, improve sustainability, and make better decisions across acres, crops, seasons, and operating environments.

This award highlights practical technologies that are built for real-world agricultural conditions. Whether deployed by growers, agronomists, advisors, cooperatives, equipment teams, or research organizations, winning solutions show how connected data can turn complex field conditions into actionable insight and measurable agricultural impact.

Why IoT matters for agriculture

Agriculture runs on timing, conditions, and decisions that often have to be made before problems are visible. IoT helps close that gap by delivering real-time visibility across soil, weather, equipment, irrigation, crop health, and field performance. With better data and faster feedback loops, teams can reduce waste, optimize inputs, protect yield, and improve sustainability across the entire growing cycle.

Connected technologies also make it possible to understand field variability at a more precise level. Instead of relying only on broad averages or delayed observations, growers and advisors can identify patterns, prioritize interventions, and make decisions based on current conditions, historical performance, and measurable outcomes.

Who should enter

Entries are welcome from organizations developing or deploying IoT solutions that improve productivity, efficiency, sustainability, and decision making across agricultural environments.

Judging criteria

• Impact: measurable improvements in yield, efficiency, sustainability, cost reduction, risk management, or operational performance
• Innovation: technical advancement, unique approach, differentiated capability, or new model for agricultural intelligence
• Real-world deployment: validated pilots, commercial adoption, field performance, or proven use in agricultural environments
• Scalability: ability to expand across farms, crops, regions, seasons, advisors, or grower networks
• Usability: clear workflows, actionable insights, practical adoption, and value for agricultural decision makers
• Data and insight quality: accuracy, relevance, timeliness, and decision support value

Benefits

• Recognition across IoThinkTank digital channels
• Dedicated winners page and newsroom coverage
• Winners badge and digital assets for promotion
• Visibility within the broader IoT and AgTech community