About The CompassIntel IoT Innovator Awards

Founded in 2005, CompassIntel.com is a market analytics and consulting firm specializing in metrics-driven market intelligence and insights for the mobile, IoT, and high-tech industries. Compass Intelligence provides executive insights, market sizing/forecasting and modeling, competitive analysis, strategic consulting, advisory services, trending analysis, and survey research services. Compass Intelligence helps guide strategic business decisions, and support in the success of our clients through delivering content engagement, go to market planning, competitive positioning, and strategic advisory.

The Compass Intelligence Annual awards program recognizes and honors companies who have made significant contributions, introduced innovative technologies, launched creative products, and overall impressed or impacted the overall market and of course our voters, the analyst and press community.

​Categories run across three primary areas including IoT & M2M, Mobile, and Emerging Technologies. In addition to the 3 main award areas, Compass Intelligence also recognizes up to 6 products or companies that have made outstanding contributions in innovation, technology advancement, and have contributed a positive impact to the overall technology industry.

After nominations come in from companies, PR and corporate communications firms, and others colleagues, the awards are then voted on by 40+ industry-leading press, editors, journalists, thought leaders, and analysts. The program includes three primary award categories: Mobile & Wireless, IoT (Internet of Things), and Emerging Tech, along with CompassIntel.com selected "of the Year" awards. The 39 nominated awards and 5 Compass-selected awards identify the best in mobile devices and software, wireless technology, mobile applications, platforms, Internet of Things, wearables, robotics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, connected products, and emerging solutions.
"In the past 12 months, I have witnessed an explosion of cool startups, new business models, disruptive technologies and innovative approaches to enterprise activities," states Stephanie Atkinson, CEO & founder of Compass Intelligence. "This year’s award winners represent world-class solutions that advance the industry and provide innovation in a rapidly growing tech market."

The award recipients of the 7th Annual Compass Intelligence Tech Awards are as follows:

IoT Awards
Connected Building: Smart Lighting - Current by GE
Connected Building: Smart Development and Design - Site 1001
Connected Building: Commercial Product Innovation - Siemens/Siemens Smart Infrastructure
Connected Solution Leadership: Fleet Management Tracking - Momentum IoT
Connected Solution Leadership: Asset Tracking - Roambee
Top IoT Standards Body of the Year - oneM2M
IoT Data: Edge Computing Company of the Year - FogHorn
IoT Data: Data Analytics and Software Company of the Year - AWS (Greengrass, Lambda)
IoT Vehicle Telematics Company of the Year - Spireon
IoT App Dev / Platform of the Year for the Enterprise Market - Rapidsoft Technologies
IoT Emerging Company of the Year for the Consumer Market - Generac Power Systems
IoT Emerging Company of the Year for the Enterprise Market - Fathym
IoT Enablement Company of the Year for the Enterprise Market - Sprint
IoT Security Platform of the Year - Subex
IoT Semiconductor Company of the Year - Qualcomm
IoT Sensor Company of the Year - NXP
Industrial IoT Company of the Year - PTC

Mobile & Wireless Awards
Top B2B Smartphone Device - Apple/iPhone XS
Top B2B Wearable Device - Wearsafe
Top B2B Workplace Device - Vuzix Blade Commercial Edge
B2B Application: Internal Operations - OpenText Enterprise Information Management
B2B Application: Client Facing - Square for Retail
B2B Application: Enterprise Chat/Messaging - Slack
B2B Application: Team Collaboration and Team Building - Zoom
B2B Application: Augmented Reality - Augmentir
B2B Mobile Application: Workplace Productivity - Workday Prism Analytics
Mobile Device Management (MDM, EMM) - MobileIron
Top B2B Cable Operator - Comcast
Top B2B VoIP Service Provider - 8x8
Top B2B Wireless Provider - Verizon Wireless
Top B2B Wireline Provider - CenturyLink

Emerging Tech Awards
Machine Vision Technology - LMI Technologies
Artificial Intelligence: Chipset - MediaTek
Artificial Intelligence: Enterprise Solution - Clari
Robotics Process Automation - NICE
Retail Customer Experience - RADAR
Autonomous Vehicles - Embark
Autonomous Technology - Nuro
Enterprise Software Innovation - Itential

Compass Intelligence Nominated Awards
Data Center Innovation - Kaloom
Connected Driver Innovation - CloudCar
Location Data Platform Product Innovation - Mapbox Atlas
Vehicle Telematics Innovation - The Floow
IoT Solution Deployment Leadership - RUMBLE
*Note: These awards were selected by the Compass Intelligence team.