ESX announces 2016 Innovation Award winners

The Electronic Security Expo (ESX) has announced the 2016 Innovation Award winners, recognizing companies that bring the most impactful and groundbreaking technologies to the electronic security and life safety industry. 

The winners will be featured at ESX 2016 in the ESX Innovation Awards Showcase on the expo floor. Attendees will have the opportunity to review the award-­‐winning products and services that benefit the end users’ experience, as well as those that benefit top line revenues and bottom line results. In addition, 10 of the winners will compete in the TechVision challenge, an interactive "Shark Tank" style competition, before a panel of top industry experts who will determine the "Best of Show" product or service.  

"The ESX Innovation Awards are the perfect opportunity to recognize excellence and innovation in product and service offerings for the industry, and to reward those companies who are propelling us into the future," said George De Marco, ESX Chairman.  

The winners are:

• Access Control – Cards & Credentials: Bristol ID Technologies' Dual technology student ID card with Prox and MIRARE 1K short range RFID and low energy mag strip
• Access  Control – Controllers: DMP's 96 Doors of Access Control
• Access  Control – Electronic/Mechanical  Locks: Yale Locks & Hardware's Yale nexTouch
• Access  Control – Telephone Entry Control/Intercom: Viking Electronics' K-1775-IP
• Dealer  Services – Compliance Software/Service: CSR Professional Services' Readiness
• Dealer  Services – Fleet Tracking: SkyBitz Local Fleets' SA3000 Fleet Management Solution
• Dealer  Services – Marketing Support Services: Customer Connections from Alarm.com
• Digital  Health/Well-Being Systems – Mobile Tracking/mPERS: Cornell Communications Inc.'s Inform
• Digital  Health/Well-Being Systems – PERS: Essence's Voice Panic Detector (VPD)
• Intrusion Systems – Notification Appliances: Interlogix Flood/Freeze Sensor
• Mobile Apps For Consumers – Residential  App: Interlogix UltraSync
• Monitoring  (Central Station) – Dealer  App: Web Dealer from MKS
• Monitoring  (Central Station) – Enhanced/Verified Monitoring: Secure Global Solutions' nextStage
• Monitoring (Central Station) Software: Bold Technologies' Manitou Cloud Services
• Smart Home – Home Automation/Home Control Systems: ipDatatel BAT-ZKI (ZigBee Keypad Interface)
• Video Surveillance – Monitors: EIZO's DuraVision FDF2304W-IP
• Dealer  Services – Business Operations: Honeywell's AlarmNet 360
• Dealer Services – Financial Software: Perennial Software's AlarmBiller
• Fire Life Safety – Detection Appliances: Honeywell Security and Fire's SWIFT Wireless Fire Alarm Solution
• Installation/Service Tools – Productivity Mobile Applications: Appostle Concepts LLC's LowVo
• Intrusion Systems – Cellular/Radio Communicators: M2M Services' MiNi01-4G Interactive Cellular Alarm Communicator
• Intrusion Systems – Controllers & Control Panels: Qolsys IQ Panel 2
• Intrusion Systems – DIY Security: Honeywell's DragonFly
• Monitoring (Central Station) – Interactive Services for End-User: DICE Corp.'s Matrix CRM Communications Gateway
• Monitoring (Central Station) – Managed Video: I‐View Now's Advanced Video Management & Device Health Monitoring Platform
• Video Surveillance: Arlo Wire‐Free Video System supported by Telguard