INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AWARDS
In a world with increasingly complex challenges, the demand for revolutionary solutions continues to rise. Save the date for May 22nd, and join us from 5:30 p.m. at the Auditorium for the Industry Solutions Awards Ceremony! As a co-located event with the IOT Solutions World Congress, Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress gives you the opportunity to enjoy a delightful evening dedicated to acknowledging solutions that are reshaping the global landscape.
Celebrate Innovation! Awards Ceremony & Networking Cocktail
INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AWARDS
Celebrating Innovation and Impact
Be a Part of the Future:
Join the Industry Solutions Awards 2025
WHAT ARE THE INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AWARDS?
The Industry Solutions Awards celebrate groundbreaking innovations in the cybersecurity sector. Our goal is to honor transformative technologies that are advancing the fight against cyber threats and safeguarding the digital future.
Participating in these awards places your project at the forefront of the global cybersecurity landscape, alongside the leaders shaping the future of digital protection. Winning a Cybersecurity Award highlights your dedication to excellence and your role as a pioneer in securing the digital world.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
The Industry Solutions Awards are more than just recognition; they are a testament to your impact on the world. Here’s why you should join:
Global Platform
Elevate your brand and solution to an international audience.
Inspire Innovation
Encourage technological advancements and inspire future generations.
Network with Leaders
Connect with other innovators and thought leaders in the technology industry.
Gain Credibility
Showcase your success to stakeholders, partners, and customers.
AWARD CATEGORIES
We offer a range of categories that reflect the most critical areas in today’s tech landscape:
Cyber-Security Innovation Award
Acknowledging the most effective solutions in protecting digital environments from cyber threats.
Sustainability Initiative Award
Honoring technological solutions that promote environmental sustainability, from carbon reduction to resource efficiency.
Industry 4.0 Excellence Award
Celebrating advanced solutions like automation, IoT, and smart factories that revolutionize manufacturing and production processes.
AI Innovator of the Year Award
Highlighting innovations that leverage AI for smarter decision-making, customer experiences, and operational efficiency.
Startup Award
Recognizing outstanding startups showcased within the Startup Pavilion that demonstrate innovative solutions and significant potential for growth in the technology sector.
Space & Connectivity Breakthrough Award
Recognizing technologies driving progress in space exploration and global connectivity through satellite communications or broadband advancements.
Key Dates and Timelines
DON’T MISS YOUR CHANCE
Mark these important deadlines for your submission:
Submission Deadline
- March 1st, 2025
Nominee Announcement
- March 31st, 2025
Awards Ceremony
- May 14th, 2025 at the Industry Solutions Awards Ceremony
- Fira Barcelona Gran Via
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submitting your proposal is easy! Simply fill out our online form and upload your details. Ensure that all materials are in English, and remember to include high-resolution images if you are selected as a nominee.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
We’re looking for companies that have disrupted their sectors by solving real-world challenges through cutting-edge tech solutions. If that’s you, join us today!
Have any questions? Our team is here to help you
Contact us at:
iots.technicaloffice@firabarcelona.com
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
These awards shine a spotlight on the most preeminent digital transformation projects across vertical industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, buildings & infrastructures or connected transport.
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
These awards shine a spotlight on the most preeminent digital transformation projects across vertical industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, buildings & infrastructures or connected transport.
NEW AWARDS
The awards distinguish the exceptional work of IOT and digital transformation in specific fields and highlight the results that are transforming industries by creating greater efficiency, sustainability and connection to the people served.
NEW CHALLENGES
“The Industry Solutions Awards” celebrate companies that are transforming the way the world works by solving technical or business challenges using technology.
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
These awards shine a spotlight on the most preeminent digital transformation projects across vertical industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, buildings & infrastructures or connected transport.
INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
These awards shine a spotlight on the most preeminent digital transformation projects across vertical industries such as manufacturing, energy, healthcare, buildings & infrastructures or connected transport.
NEW AWARDS
The awards distinguish the exceptional work of IOT and digital transformation in specific fields and highlight the results that are transforming industries by creating greater efficiency, sustainability and connection to the people served.
NEW CHALLENGES
“The Industry Solutions Awards” celebrate companies that are transforming the way the world works by solving technical or business challenges using technology.
2024 WINNERS
GAME CHANGER OF THE YEAR 2024
Alicia Asín winner of “The game changer of the year 2024”
Co-founder and CEO of Libelium.
Best Cybersecurity Solution
"Infrafon Smart Badge makes ZeroTrust comfortable "
Infrafon
Best Connected Transport & Smart Vehicles solution
"Cafler"
Cafler
Best Healthcare solution
"SkinGuard, a mobile phone application for early detection of malignant skin lesions"
Topazium
Best Energy & Utilities solution
"Dynamic fine-tuning of predictive water chemistry models in 69 desalination plants distributed around the world through IoT devices"
Barbara Tech
Best Smart Manufacturing/ Industry 4.0 solution
"Revolutionising Industrial Maintenance Through LOCTITE®Pulse IIoT Solutions - Henkel AG & Co. KGaA"
Henkel - Loctite
Best Smart Buildings & Smart cities solution
"Discover how the MClimate Vicki Smart Radiator Thermostat reduces average energy costs by 35% and rapidly retrofit any type of buildings"
MClimate
Meet the Nominees
Best Cybersecurity Solutions
This award recognizes the organization that is taking measures and implementing tools to maintain security.
RIoT Secure: Advanced Secure Lifecycle Management for IoT
Description
RIoT Secure delivers an innovative IoT security solution emphasizing lifecycle management for resource-constrained devices. Our approach leverages separation of concerns, providing a hardware sandbox environment and custom security protocols to ensure robust, scalable protection while maintaining operational efficiency in constrained environments.
Results
RIoT Secure’s implementation has led to remarkable business outcomes. We’ve seen a significant increase in revenue, driven by demand for robust IoT security. Concurrently, there’s been a notable reduction in operational expenses, attributed to the efficient management and extended lifespan of IoT devices facilitated by our solution.
Infrafon Smart Badge makes ZeroTrust comfortable
Description
Infrafon invented an e-paper based Smart Badge combining SmartCard and SmartPhone features. In today´s ZeroTrust networks secure ID management is key. Our Smart badge offers MultiFactor Authentication by biometric fingerprint reader and PIN entry. Sensor data sent to any ZTNA system for trust level scoring. The device allows FIDO certified PC Access like modern car keys over UWB, BLE, NFC ..
Results
Infrafon has encountered international interest for our solution and look forward to grow quicker than expected.
Muscope|Risk
Description
Muscope|Risk is a cybersecurity rating platform that conducts a comprehensive risk assessment of any company and its supply chain, from the perspective of a cybercriminal. It identifies, maps and analyses all external facing assets exposed publicly. It analyses the company financial and industry standing. And then combines both sets of data to derive a risk rating, also an economic standpoint.
Results
Muscope|Risk offers a 70% reduction in cost as you don’t have to purchase individual tools to carry out the assessment. Same savings apply to man days as the platform performs everything automatically while you do something else. And, of course, if the remediation suggested, following the analysis has been implemented, you also reduce drastically the cost associated to a potential cyber attack.
Best Smart Manufacturing/ Industry 4.0 solution
This category recognizes companies that have made a transformation of their processes incorporating digitization and 4.0 technologies (IOT, digital twin, cybersecurity, AI, cloud, data analytics,) into their operations and management areas.
Next-Gen Manufacturing: Integrating IoT and 3D Modeling for Enhanced Operational Insight
Description
The implementation involved deploying advanced IoT sensors across the manufacturing facility, seamlessly integrating real-time operational data into a centralized 3D model in order to enhance visibility and control of the production process. This model provides a holistic view of the infrastructure and its assets, facilitating data extraction and exploitation throughout the entire process.
Results
The implementation was a game changer for the company at the business level, leading to a dynamic shift in decision-making and strategic planning. The 3D model also enabled process optimization through risk mitigation and improvement opportunities. Beyond the business impact, this solution improved sustainability and revolutionized energy efficiency, promoting a greener approach to manufacturing.
Revolutionising Industrial Maintenance Through LOCTITE® Pulse IIoT Solutions
Description
The LOCTITE®s LOCTITE Pulse (LP) is a smart solution for radically improving an MRO plant’s reliability and sustainability. Via sensors and an app, it monitors critical equipment and sends instant notifications when irregularities are detected. Manual inspections, downtime, energy costs, labour costs, repair efforts are reduced. Plant safety, productivity, sustainability are increased.
Results
Further to the value-add example above, we are building capacity and extending the LP portfolio from 2 solutions to a full set of static and rotating LP solutions, while further developing the app. The outlook is highly promising due to increasing demand and market growth in IIoT.
Tata Chemicals Limited leverages TCS Digital Twin to drive Carbonation Process Optimization at its Mithapur (India) plant.
Description
IoT-based, AI-driven Digital Twin deployed for carbonation process in Soda Ash manufacturing to reduce process variation & improve conversion efficiency. Solution predicts the conversion efficiency in real time & provides ‘advisories’ on impacting parameters to achieve Golden batch efficiency levels, disciplined adoption to recommended actions resulted in increase in conversion efficiency by 1%.
Results
With 97% adoption levels from team, the change management effected with rigorous Adoption Support from TCS, we achieved more than 1% of efficiency improvement, against the target of 0.5%, resulting in benefit of 1M USD. Efficiency increase leading to 0.5% moisture reduction at Filtration unit; this resulted in significant energy saving of 5 Gcal at dryer section, equaling to 0.15M USD pa.
Best Energy & Utilities solution
This category celebrates innovation and imagination, best practice and business excellence, customer service and collaboration in the energy and or utilities industry.
Dynamic fine-tuning of predictive water chemistry models in 89 desalination plants distributed around the world through IoT devices
Description
ACCIONA success story: “Dynamic fine-tuning of predictive models in 89 desalination plants distributed around the world” with which ACCIONA expects to save more than 70 M$‚ in the next 3 years through the retraining of chemical prediction models distributed on the Edge. The project, in addition to being a success for ACCIONA, represents an exponential leap in its race toward the digital transformation.
Results
ACCIONA expects to save more than $70 million in the first 3 years across its 89 desalination plants.
Autonomous Seismic Acquisition Device (ASAD) and Saudi Aramco Geophysical Robot (SAGR)
Description
Aramco has developed innovative solutions to support sustainable exploration for energy. ASAD is an innovative robotics solution that support seismic data exploration as well as shallow geohazard imaging. While SAGR leverages AI to enable efficient seismic exploration, supporting ASAD, and developing applications that will contribute in mining and hydrogen exploration.
Results
Aramco has successfully trialed SAGR and achieved unprecedented accuracy in aerial imagery. They are currently planning our first commercial field trial with 20 ASAD units. This trial is conducted as an internal product with Saudi Aramco to support the development of the technology. Aramco estimates the improvement of the field operations performance of 20%.
ElIoT + Centro Integrado de Movilidad (CIM) (Integrated Mobility Centre)
Description
Repsol has deployed over its +3.200 oil stations an IoT system (ElIoT), creating the first fully connected and smart network, that provides real time information from the assets, improving operations and reducing the carbon footprint. CIM combines this information from ElIoT with other sources, to grant full assets availability, an excel customer experience, optimization of costs and efficiency.
Results
One of the results of the ELIOT+CIM is the reduction of maintenance costs by 10% by reducing travel and remote operation, anticipating breakdowns and predictive maintenance, along with the electricity costs reduction.
Best Smart Buildings & Smart Cities solution
This award recognizes the most innovative smart cities or smart buildings projects that can potentially make an impact on citizens’ or tenants’ lives and turn our buildings or cities into more sustainable and inclusive places to live or work.
Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat rapidly retrofits any building type
Description
Vicki Smart Radiator is tailored specifically to improve energy efficiency, achieve substantial cost savings, and reduce the CO2 footprint within all types of buildings through its remote temperature control capabilities and innovative data analytics.
Results
The Vicki LoRaWAN® Smart Radiator Thermostat is saving on average 35% of the energy consumption, reducing heating costs and simplifying sustainability reporting
GrydSense OMNOS - Industry-First Truly Integrated Solution for Spatial Intelligence, Decarbonisation and Well-being
Description
Our groundbreaking solution integrates key aspects of modern commercial property management, addressing space utilization, lighting, ambience, occupant experience, and energy management within a single, cohesive package.
Results
GrydSense delivers a 48% annual RoI, reflecting significant cost savings. It plays a pivotal role in reducing operating expenses, enhancing efficiency for sustainable operations.
The Allorado Gateway transforms 16.000 m² of office buildings into a smarter campus
Description
A private LoRa network is rolled out using the Allorado Gateway. Various LoRa sensors gather electricity meter readings. Water meters are connected over M-Bus and a connection was made to the PV installation over Modbus. All data is integrated locally into the building management system via BACnet and sent to a dashboard for easy overview. The Allorado Gateway powers this multi-protocol deployment.
Results
Benefits for the investors:
– Anomaly detection, significantly reducing inefficiencies and their cost
– Reduced risks and insurance premiums
– More frequent billing to all parties, enabled by fast, accurate measurements across the site
– Investors can maximize the building’s return-on-investment through data-driven insights
Best Healthcare solution
This category rewards an organization that successfully integrates technology into their mission to improve healthcare quality by providing better care, better outcomes, and lower costs.
SkinGuard, a mobile phone application for early detection of malignant skin lesions
Description
SkinGuard is a computer-vision smartphone-based application utilizing cutting-edge machine learning technologies to identify malignant skin lesions with an accuracy above 96%. It was fully developed and implemented by Topazium and it is intended for easy diagnosis of diseases like melanoma to help practitioners (especially GPs) identifying the disease in its early stage.
Results
SkinGuard App performance has attracted a top-5 dermatology corporation and we are negotiating a long-term partnership with them. It has also attracted different institutions asking us to develop similar solutions customized to their medical field: we have reached agreements with a multinational pharma as well as with a diagnostics laboratory in the USA for a total value of nearly 500K eur.
Maxsens (Musculoskeletal Activities Sensing System)
Description
The solution integrates advanced wearable technology with biomedical sensors and online real-time health monitoring. Maxsens monitors and analyzes dynamic biometric data in real-time using hardware and software. With AI machine learning and Image Processing, it swiftly identifies incorrect postures and neurological damages, providing personalized recommendations.
Results
MAXSENS has yielded significant results by enhancing operational efficiency, reducing costs associated with frequent replacements, and contributing to increased revenue through innovative solutionsGrydSense delivers a 48% annual RoI, reflecting significant cost savings. It plays a pivotal role in reducing operating expenses, enhancing efficiency for sustainable operations.
Transforming Care: The Power of Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS)
Description
CenTrak’s real-time location system (RTLS) is more than a hospital tracking system — it’s a catalyst for change. Providing healthcare leaders with actionable data, it improves efficiency, fosters a safer environment for patients and staff, and empowers caregivers. 2,000+ facilities have implemented CenTrak for asset management, clinical workflow, staff duress, infection prevention, and more.
Results
Customers have experienced staggering results. One hospital accounted for more than $10 million in benefits, achieving $970K in annual savings by automating temperature monitoring processes, $2M in equipment purchases with asset management, and $3.5M by eliminating redundant purchases and avoiding unnecessary costs. The facility also increased staff productivity valued at more than $2M annually.
Best Connected Transport & Smart Vehicles solution
The award will go to a company that has applied technology to solve transportation problems in an innovative way.
Cafler
Description
Cafler is the leading all-in marketplace platform for anything that a vehicle user needs (at-home services, insurance, parking, buy&sell, renting…), just one-click away. Working with both individualand enterprises (fleets, dealerships, OEMs).
Results
∼€15 in GMV. >€100k in MRR. Live in 3 geographies. >1.000 Enterprise Clients. 10 weeks CAC payback. 40% Margins. 96% Retention YoY.
Hello Auto Connect: Connected and Intelligent Driving
Description
Innovative intelligent telemetry solution, offered free of charge to customers. The HAC connects to the vehicle’s electronic system, collecting real-time data. Features include geolocation, DashCam to record driving, eCall system and accident detection, maintenance control, route logging, unauthorised movement detection, alerts…
Results
It has driven a significant increase in revenues, thanks to the introduction of additional services, policy customisation and improved customer retention. It has also reduced operating costs by streamlining claims and maintenance processes. This has strengthened Hello Auto’s financial position and improved its profitability.
Green Connection: IoT in Forest Management
Description
Effortech has developed ICON satellite communication devices and chose Iridium as partners for their high availability, global coverage, and low communication latency facilitated by their use of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Our devices optimize 4G cellular network connections, providing customers with more efficient global connectivity.
Results
The implementation of ICON terminals drove Effortech’s revenue growth in devices, platform, and connectivity. We enable a new recurring revenue model, like Equipment-as-a-Service, making the value delivery more tangible for our clients.
CALL FOR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AWARDS
Terms and Conditions 2024
TIMELINE
November'23
SUBMISSION
Proposal submissions will be accepted up until March 1, 2024.
March'24
REVIEW
MARCH - APRIL'24
NOMINEES' PUBLICATION
All the 3 nominees per category will be published on the official website.
MAY'24
AWARD WINNERS
The winners will be announced during the Industry Solutions Awards Ceremony May 22nd, 2024.
2024 INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS AWARDS JURY
Pere Tuset
Coordinator of the IOT and Industry 4.0 Working Group
Paulo José Spaccaquerche
President
Guillermo Canal
General Director
Joan Figueras Tugas
President
