The Best of Sensors Awards recognizes the most innovative products, technologies, teams and people in the sensors ecosystem—and in every category this year’s winners were exceptional.
For over two decades, The Best of Sensors Awards has shone a spotlight on the best and most innovative products, technologies, teams, and people in the sensors industry. Sponsored by the Sensors Expo and FierceElectronics, the goal of the awards program is to honor and promote wide recognition of the industry’s most transformative technologies and teams.
We are proud to announce this year’s lineup of winners and hope to see all of these exciting technologies make their way into products of the future. Click through on the links below to read an article on each winning entry, including the judges’ comments.
AI/Machine Learning
Maxim Integrated – MAX78000 Neural Network Accelerator Chip
Automotive/Autonomous
Wells Vehicle Electronics – Rotary Position Sensor
COVID-19 Technologies
TDK InvenSense – Ultrasonic Social Distancing Reference Design Dev Kit
Data Acquisition & Analytics
IFOS Inc. – I*Sense distributed fiber-optic sensing interrogators
Industrial IoT
Applied Physics Systems – ACCEL Model 40 Nanoacc accelerometer
Industrial
Texas Instruments – TMCS1100 and TMCS1101 zero-drift Hall-effect current sensors
IoT
TDK InvenSense – TDK ICS‐40800 directional MEMS microphone
Medical
Fujitsu Components America – 24GHz Doppler Radar sensor module
MEMS
Menlo Micro – The Ideal Switch
Mobile Devices
SWIR Vision Systems Inc. – Acuros CQD SWIR (short wave IR) sensor
Wearables
Shimmer Research Ltd – Verisense wearable sensing platform
Woman of the Year in Sensors and Electronics
Jennifer Zhao, Executive VP and GM, ams AG
Startup of the Year