2025 IoT Smart City Solution Award Winner

Quectel logoSmart cities are powered by precision: knowing where people, vehicles, and assets are in real time is essential to managing infrastructure, mobility, and safety. The 2025 IoT Smart City Solution Award honors innovations that deliver that accuracy and reliability—helping communities function more efficiently while laying the groundwork for future autonomous systems. This year’s honoree set a new standard for bringing high-precision positioning into mainstream urban IoT applications. 

Winner: Quectel — LG290P (03)

Quectel is recognized for its LG290P (03) high-precision GNSS module, which is democratizing access to centimeter-level positioning accuracy across smart city applications. Supporting simultaneous reception from GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BDS, QZSS, and NavIC constellations—alongside SBAS augmentation services like WAAS, EGNOS, and BDSBAS—the LG290P ensures robust coverage even in challenging environments such as dense urban canyons.

The module distinguishes itself with multi-constellation, quad-band RTK algorithms and an RTKHOLD function, enabling positioning stability for up to ten minutes during service interruptions. Combined with professional-grade interference detection, protection-level integrity functions, and secure boot firmware safeguards, the LG290P delivers both reliability and resilience for mission-critical deployments.

lgp290pJudges highlighted the LG290P’s ability to bring what was once niche, specialized functionality into a form factor accessible to IoT developers at scale. Its low-power design and flexible peripheral interfaces (UART, I²C) make it adaptable for transportation, ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles, surveying, and other data-intensive urban applications. By opening up centimeter-level accuracy to a broader ecosystem, Quectel is helping cities unlock the next generation of intelligent mobility and infrastructure solutions.

The LG290P embodies the promise of smart cities: precise, resilient, and secure IoT technologies that drive safer, more efficient, and more sustainable communities. Congratulations to Quectel for earning the 2025 IoT Smart City Solution Award.

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