Today is the last day RFID Journal Awards 2025 is accepting nominations for its annual new products award that are handed out at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025.
The awards, in their 19th year, recognize outstanding achievements in RFID and related technologies. The RFID Journal Awards honors companies that have distinguished themselves by their successful use of RFID, Internet of Things (IoT) technologies or the introduction of a valuable new RFID or IoT product or service.
“Every year, the projects nominated have exhibited the growth and the global impact that RFID products have across so many industries,” said James Hickey, RFID Journal’s managing editor. “This year, we are giving awards across seven categories that showcase the reach of RFID products as well as IoT, NFC, AI and other related technologies.”
New Product Award
These prestigious awards honor organizations and innovators who have successfully leveraged RFID and IoT technologies to transform operations, enhance efficiency, and achieve remarkable results. The awards cover seven categories this year:
The Best New Product Award will be given to the company that exhibits the best new RFID, IoT, NFC, or related technology product or service. To qualify for the award, the product must have been introduced after April 11, 2024. Our expert judging panel, led by Mark Roberti, founder and retired editor of RFID Journal, will evaluate entries based on innovation, impact, and execution.
For this award, judges will select up to 10 new hardware, software and services using RFID or other IoT technology. To be eligible, the vendor submitting must be an exhibitor at RFID Journal LIVE!, and the product must have been introduced after last year’s LIVE!. To select the finalist, the judges will use the following criteria:
- Does the new product or service deliver business value to those for whom it is designed?
- Will it solve a business problem?
- Will it reduce costs, improve efficiencies or increase sales?
- Will it simplify RFID/IoT deployments or make it more cost-effective to deploy RFID/IoT systems?
- Will it enable companies to comply with regulations more cost-effectively?
- Is the product/service original, or does it simply do what existing products do?
- Does the product/service break new ground?
- Does it offer a significant improvement over existing products in the same category?
- Is the product/service likely to deliver a significant return on investment?
- Does the product/service solve a business problem common in a particular industry?
The deadline for Best New Product entries is at midnight on March 21, 2025.
Award Categories
These prestigious awards honor organizations and innovators who have successfully leveraged RFID and IoT technologies to transform operations, enhance efficiency, and achieve remarkable results. Beside Best RFID/IoT/AI Implementation, the other categories this year are:
- Best Manufacturing or IIoT Implementation: Recognizing the manufacturer with the most effective use of RFID, IIoT, NFC, or related technology.
- Best Retail Implementation: Honoring the retailer or brand owner with the best deployment of RFID, IoT, NFC, or related technology.
- Best Supply Chain/Logistics Implementation: This award will be given to the end-user company that has demonstrated the best use of RFID, IoT, NFC, or related technology to improve its logistics or supply chain operations, including warehouse and distribution center operations.
- Best Healthcare Implementation: Awarded to the end-user company (e.g., hospital, clinic, or pharmaceutical firm) with the most transformative use of RFID, IoT, or NFC.
- Best RFID Implementation (Other Industry): Open to end-user companies in any industry showcasing exceptional applications of RFID, IoT, NFC, or similar technologies.
- Best RFID/IoT/AI Implementation: Award recognizes organizations that have successfully integrated RFID, IoT or AI technologies to achieve transformative results.
Eligible Projects
Any deployment of radio frequency identification or IoT technology is eligible for consideration for an RFID Journal Award. Projects entered in the previous year that did not win may be resubmitted. There is no fee to submit an entry. Only entries submitted electronically at rfidjournallive.com/conference/2025-awards will be accepted.
Products submitted for the Best New Product Award must have been introduced or significantly enhanced since the previous year’s RFID Journal LIVE.
Systems integrators, hardware, and software companies may enter on behalf of their customers, but customers must sign the release form indicating they have approved the submission and the use of the information in the submission for an article should they win.
The same entry may be submitted in only one category. Entries may include additional materials, including online case studies, electronic photographs, online videos, or links to such materials.
Entries will be judged after the entry deadline has passed by a panel of RFID, AIDC, and IoT experts. At least five judges will judge the entries in each category.
Definition of RFID and IoT
For the purposes of this award, RFID technology will be defined as any system that uses radio waves to remotely identify an object or person. These systems include but are not limited to, low-frequency (HF) systems, high-frequency (HF) systems, Near-Field Communication (NFC), ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) systems, active RFID systems, Wi-Fi-based systems, Bluetooth beacons, real-time locating systems (RTLS), and sensor or RF mesh networks.
They can be based on air-interface protocol standards established by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) or other standards bodies, such as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).
There are no monetary prizes. The winners will be announced during the awards ceremony at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025 and featured on the RFID Journal website. If you have a question, please send an email to [email protected]
