The IOT game changers 2018 of the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® announced!

This edition of the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® was extraordinary with more than 900 contestants worldwide, registering to the competition and submitting their pioneering solutions. Convinced by their innovativeness, technological feasibility, market readiness and strategic approaches, our panel of judges had the difficult task of selecting the top IoT finalists of the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2017/18 in six categories (city, healthcare, home & lifestyle, industrial, retail and transportation).

And now you can connect with the best 32 out of 94 0 in Barcelona. The pitch and award ceremony will be hosted by ACCIO, the official Innovation World Cup® Series partner in Spain and will take place at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 27th at 5.15 PM. The Innovation World Cup® finalists will present their solutions live to an audience of industry experts, media and representatives from the Innovation World Cup® partners: STMicroelectronics, LoRa Alliance™, Gemalto, EBV Elektronik, Telefonica Next, AIQ Smart Clothing, VARTA Microbattery and Cicor Group.

Listed in alphabetical order, here are the 32 finalists of IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®, the LoRaWAN™ Challenge and the Gemalto Security Award:

City:

• • CTSuite by CityTaps (France)
• • Hawa Dawa by Hawa Dawa (Germany)
• • Loriot by LORIOT (Switzerland)
• • Shaft monitor by digimondo GmbH (Germany)

Healthcare:

• • Aladin – the magic connected lamp by DOMALYS (France)
• • Smart-Cot by Nachshon (United Kingdom)

• • StethoMe™ – home stethoscope by Mywhizzy.com Sp. z o. o. (Poland)
• • We save by Adan Medical Innovation (Spain)

Home & lifestyle:

• • Al Bicchiere by beexlab srl (Italy)
• • Smart Lamp by Luke Roberts GmbH (Austria)
• • TipCrop Oasis by IoT Stars (United Kingdom)
• • World first smart personal air conditioner by Evapolar Ltd (Cyprus)

Industrial:

• • Heap Leach Mining by Scanimetrics Inc. (Canada)
• • IDIAG Battery by INTESENS (France)
• • Show water consumption and trigger events on alarms by G. BERNHARDT’s Söhne Ges.m.b.H. (Austria)
• • SteamIQ, Advanced Steam Trap Monitoring by SteamIQ (United States)

Retail:

• • Dor: Operations driven by foot traffic analytics by Dor (United States)
• • Post Home Button by Post CH AG (Switzerland)
• • Sensor Smart Kitchens by CM Systems LLC (United States)
• • Toposens 3D ultrasound sensor for smart buildings by Toposens GmbH (Germany)

Transportation:

• • FAME Transponders for Small Aircraft and Small Maritime Vessels BY Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise, Inc. (Philippines)
• • miaLinkup by Sigma Smart Technologies, LLC (United States)
• • MyClose, the first motorbike lock that calls you on your smartphone! By MYCLOSE (Italy)
• • NB IOT Bike Sharing by Ontel Bike (Germany)

The LoRaWAN™ Challenge finalists:

• • FAME Transponders for Small Aircraft and Small Maritime Vessels BY Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise, Inc. (Philippines)
• • Global Environmental Monitoring Network by Myriad group AG (Switzerland)
• • Insulclock by Insulcloud S.L. (Spain)
• • LoRa real-time tracking solution for outdoor sport events by Tech4Race (France)
• • SteamIQ, Advanced Steam Trap Monitoring by SteamIQ (United States)
• • TABS by TrackNet (United States)

The Gemalto’s Security Award finalists:

• • COLIBRI: making flight a safer experience with IoT by iotech swiss (Switzerland)
• • Global Particle Matter Pollution Live Tracking by appropos GmbH (Germany)
• • Pagita by Pagita Srl (Italy)
• • Smart-Cot by Nachshon (United Kingdom)
• • WeavAir by WeavAir (Canada)

Be sure to join us on February 27th at the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2017/18 pitch and award ceremony at the Mobile World Congress 2018 in Barcelona and connect with these exciting companies, leading tech players, investors and IoT experts.

For more information about the Pitch & Award Ceremony, please visit: http://www.innovationworldcup.com/…

About the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®

The IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® is part of the Innovation World Cup® Series, the largest open innovation platform worldwide that supports breakthrough innovations to become reality. The Series is the world leading IoT competition that welcomes contestants from all over the world to submit their innovative solutions in the Home, City, Retail, Transport, Lifestyle, Industrial and Healthcare categories. A panel of industry experts selects the most potential solutions based on criteria such as level of innovation, marketability, and usability. Participation is free of charge.

The IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® was initiated by Navispace AG in 2003. Current partners include STMicroelectronics, LoRa Alliance™, EBV Elektronik, Geeny by Telefónica NEXT, Gemalto, AiQ Smart Clothing Inc., VARTA Microbattery, and Cicor Group.

Further partners include WT | Wearable Technologies, Kickstarter, CSEM, AlpICT, ACCIO, Business OULU, G2 Startups, infoShare, Gate Garching, Wolves Summit, Medical Valley, German Tech Entrepreneurship Center GTEC, UnternehmerTUM, Team Côte D’Azur, French Côte D’Azur, Innovative City, Innovability, InnMind, Polar Bear Pitching, MIT Entreprise Foum Poland, Technoport, THINGS Stockholm, ICT Cluster Bern, Takomo, IT2Industry, Paris Region Entreprises, Disruptive Week Milan, CapDigital, TAITRA, MIT Entreprise Forum Poland, Hong Kong Science, Technology Park, Government of Canada, MEDICA, Cluster Digital, IOT Business News, and many more.

Further information about the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup®, visit: http://www.innovationworldcup.com/…

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