Tata Communications, IBasis, Pod Group and 1NCE are among the winners in this year’s Juniper Research Future Digital Awards for Smart Cities & IoT Innovation.

These awards recognise the most innovative and disruptive vendors and products in the smart cities and IoT industries.

Tata Communications won three awards, for its CloudSIM, Move private network and Ijura.

CloudSIM was the gold winner in the eSIM innovation of the year category with the IBasis Global Access for Things taking platinum.

“We have worked on the CloudSIM concept over a number of years to refine it and bring it to market,” said Olivier Leroux, CEO at Tata subsidiary Oasis Smart SIM. “It is indeed gratifying to have been selected for this honour, and it is a reflection of a lot of hard work that our team has put into making the solution a success. Along with our recent customer wins, this is a testament to our belief in this revolutionary new concept.”

Tata Communications’ Move private network was the platinum winner in the private cellular network innovation category with Commscope taking gold.

“We are delighted to have been recognised by Juniper Research for our work in private LTE and private 5G,” said Vishy Ramaswamy from Tata Communications. “This is yet another milestone, following on from the launch of our private 5G innovation centre in September and the growing number of customers, PoCs and trials we are engaging with. We are very excited by the potential in this market, and look forward to engaging with customers across multiple regions in the coming months.”

Ijura took the platinum award for best IoT security platform with Pod Group taking the gold award for its eSIM enabled smart label for transportation and logistics.

“Security is a fundamental component of the IoT ecosystem, and we are honoured to have been recognised by Juniper Research in our efforts to deliver the most secure solutions for our customers,” said Ankur Jindal from Tata Communications. “Ijura is designed for the mobile secure access service edge, and this recognition is testament to a lot of hard work over the last 12 months to ensure that we have a solution in place to meet our customers’ security needs.”

The platinum award for best IoT device management platform went to the dynamic ecosystem of connected devices from HCL Tech with the 1NCE OS taking gold.

The urban smart grid innovation platinum winner was Siemens and gold went to active energy saving and carbon reduction technology from Taiwan’s Institute for Information Industry. Winners in the carbon reduction innovation of the year were Atrius Sustainability taking platinum and active energy saving technology from the Institute for Information Industry taking gold.

“As an important think tank driving the development of information technology in Taiwan, the Institute for Information Industry is proud to play a crucial role in innovating residential energy saving and digital transformation of net zero carbon emissions by pioneering active energy saving technology, which combines a single power meter with non-intrusive load monitoring technology to identify individual appliances, enabling low-cost and high-precision home energy management,” said CH Cho, president of the Institute for Information Industry. “This AIoT technique makes significant innovations and contributions to energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives in urban environments.”

Siemens was also a winner through its smart infrastructure CEO Matthias Rebellius, who took the award for urban technology leadership in one of two judge’s choice awards. The other went to SkedGo, which landed the pathway to net zero award. SkedGo was also platinum winner for the best MaaS platform; gold went to Cubic Transportation.

Platinum winner in the most innovative edge computing award was Mango OS from Radix IoT, with PlantPro from CLP Smart Energy Connect taking gold.

The platinum winner of the smart agriculture innovation award was TerraPrima with PrecisionHawk taking gold.

Cleverciti won platinum in the best smart parking award and Smart Parking took gold. Miovision was the platinum winner for the best smart traffic management and Iteris won gold. The platinum award for best urban EV charging went to Parkopedia and gold went to Charging-as-a-Service from CLP Smart Energy Connect.

Signify won platinum in the innovation in smart urban lighting award and Engie took gold. And the most innovative urban sustainability project award saw Aquawize from Lacroix taking platinum and Atrius taking gold.