Grid Smarter Cities Scoops Prestigious IoT Global Award!
Grid Smarter Cities are extremely proud to be winners of the IoT Global Awards 2019 for Smart Cities, Government and Utilities. The IoT Global Awards has quickly established itself as the benchmark for excellence in IoT, recognising those that form part of the thriving international IoT and Technology sectors.
Other category winners of this year’s awards included household names such as Amazon Web Services, Thales, Ericsson and Telstra. The full list of winners can be found here.
Grid has developed Kerb, an Intelligent Kerbside Management solution looks to reduce congestion, improve operational efficiency and in turn improve air quality by better managing our city kerb space.
Kerb allows commercial vehicle operators to book and park/unload on previously unavailable kerb space in high density, urban areas or to extend loading periods in time restricted locations with particular focus on construction and delivery.
On winning the award, Grid’s Founder and CEO explained, “It’s been incredibly humbling to win the IoT Global Award, and is a real recognition of the brilliant and innovative work that the team are doing, and the way they are doing it. We measure our success on the effectiveness and potential impact of the solutions we develop, but winning this award definitely helps validate that we are doing the right things on a global stage!”
The Editorial Director of IoT Now stated “If anyone doubts the benefits that are being felt daily by businesses deploying applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) they need only look at the winners of the IoT Global Awards 2019. Even our independent judges, themselves internationally acknowledged IoT experts, have been expressing their admiration for these new IoT-enabled solutions.”
The submissions were reportedly as competitive as ever, with over 150 entries. Judges included Alain Louchez (Managing Director, CDAIT), Usman Javaid (Head of IoT and Emerging Technologies, Amazon Web Services), Svetlana Grant (Programme Director, Internet of Things, GSMA), Jeremy Cowan (Editorial Director, IoTNow and IoT Global Network), Fahad Aijaz (Global Head of IoT Digital Serices Product Management at Vodafone), William Webb (CEO, Weightless SIG), Sonja Sulzmaier (Managing Partner, Navispace AG).
The award add to a fantastic 12 Months for Grid Smarter Cities, being winners of numerous regional and national awards including a Computing Rising Star Award, a British Parking Award for Intelligent Parking and winning the North East Times Impact Awards for Innovation. Grid now has live deployments of their Kerb Intelligent Kerbside Management solution Internationally as part of Smart Dublin and Enterprise Ireland’s Innovation Programme, as well as working with various other local authorities across the UK to develop and trial their solutions.
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Contact
Please contact Dom Hyams — dom.hyams@gridsmartercities.com or 07843261475 for more information. Images to accompany the press release can be found here.
Grid Smarter Cities
Grid’s mission is to enable the smarter management of kerbside by using technology to connect communities and people with transport, parking, goods and services.
In 2018 Grid was ranked 7th on the Metis Partners and Clydesdale Bank IP100 Intellectual Property League Table for their patented solutions that offer them the unique ability to carve out new space in the Smart City Landscape, proactively solving the problems that others can’t. Their 16+ registered patents underpinning their technologies cover the UK, USA and other International territories.
IoT Global Awards
Launched in 2017, and brought to market by the hugely influential IoT Now and IoT Global Network, the IoT Global Awards offer organisations the opportunity to showcase the most innovative IoT applications, or the apps that are most valuable or beneficial (to both user & provider) and which advance the cause of the Internet of Things (IoT).
The mission is to discover the very best company, product and individual talents in the IoT industry. The awards bring together a panel of judges from across the value chain and some of the best known corporations in the sector to help achieve this, looking to unearth some great stories of innovation and tenacity out there and we want to find them.
iotglobalawards.com
