- Best Retail RFID/IoT Implementation
- Best Manufacturing RFID/IoT Implementation
- Best Healthcare RFID/IoT Implementation
- Best Logistics/Supply Chain RFID/IoT Implementation
- Best RFID/IoT Implementation (Other Industry)
- Best Use of RFID/IoT to Enhance a Product or Service
- Best New Product
- RFID Special Achievement
At last week’s RFID Journal LIVE! 2022 conference and exhibition, RFID Journal—the leading source of news and in-depth information regarding radio frequency identification (RFID) and other Internet of Things (IoT) technologies—announced the winners of its 16th annual RFID Journal Awards. The event was held in Las Vegas, Nev., and the winners were selected in six end-user categories.
Best Retail RFID/IoT Implementation
This year’s award went to Carter’s, for its use of RFID to improve inventory accuracy and drive omnichannel sales growth.
Best Manufacturing RFID/IoT Implementation
This year’s award went to Emerson, for its use of RFID-enabled asset-management tags to reduce manual data gathering and improve safety (see Emerson Uses RFID for Efficiency Improvements in the Process Control Industries).
Best Healthcare RFID/IoT Implementation
This year’s award went to University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, for its use of RFID to monitor medical devices and sterile service equipment (see RFID to Track More Than 40,000 Assets at U.K. Hospital Trust).
Best Logistics/Supply Chain RFID/IoT Implementation
This year’s award went to BAE Systems, for its use of RFID to create a low-cost, rapid and user-friendly way to track assets moving from one facility to another (see BAE Systems Added to RFID Journal LIVE! Keynote Lineup).
Best RFID/IoT Implementation (Other Industry)
This year’s award went to KazMunayGas, for its of RFID to track and inventory 27,000 assets across three large facilities.
Best Use of RFID/IoT to Enhance a Product or Service
This year’s award went to Blockstore, for its use of RFID in an automated grocery store solution that provides customer convenience and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by up to 87 percent (see Self-Service Grocery Stores Improve Consumer Experience and Reduce Operating Costs).
Best New Product
Mark Roberti, RFID Journal’s founder and editor, presented the Best New Product award to Avery Dennison Smartrac. The company’s ultra-small AD Dot UHF inlay enables the identification of small, high-value items for authentication and returns management (see Winner of the Best New Product Award: Avery Dennison Smartrac).
RFID Special Achievement
Finally, Roberti presented this year’s RFID Special Achievement Award to Dr. James Shuler of the U.S. Department of Energy, and to Dr. Yung Liu of Argonne National Laboratory. Together, they developed an innovative RFID system for tracking nuclear waste (see Enhancing Safety, Security and Safeguards of Hazardous Materials). They have also given their time to educate organizations around the world about the value of RFID for such applications.
“We congratulate all of this year’s winners and finalists for terrific RFID projects and products,” Roberti says. “They demonstrate that RFID technology is delivering real business benefits to companies in a wide variety of industries around the world. We hope that highlighting these successful deployments will give more companies the confidence to deploy RFID and gain the benefits such solutions can deliver.”