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ESX announces winners of 2018 Innovation Awards

According to ESX, judges selected winners from a pool of applications from manufacturers and service providers, serving the industry with end-user offerings and tools that help dealers, integrators and monitoring professionals become more efficient and profitable.

The judges for the 2018 Innovation Awards were: Don Childers of Security Central; Michele Monheim of Eastern States Sentinel Alarms Services Inc.; Mike Moritz of RFI; Steve Paley of Rapid Security Solutions LLC; and Mark Sepulveda of USA Alarm Systems.

The winners include:

Electronic/mechanical locks: Yale Locks & Hardware — Nest x Yale Lock

Gate/door operators: Nortek Security & Control — Linear Smart Garage Door Operator

PERS: Essence — Care@Home Communicator

Controllers & control panels: Alula – Connect+ Two-Way Voice Platform

Residential app for security/life safety systems: Honeywell — Honeywell Lyric Controller and Apple Homekit

Enhanced/verified monitoring: NMC — Proactive Video Monitoring

Internet of Things (IoT) device: Interlogix — UltraSync Doorbell Camera

Drones: Nightingale Security — Robotic Aerial Security

For the full list of winners, click here.

Winners were featured on the show floor at the ESX Innovation Awards Showcase from June 20-21.

Additionally, the top ten category winners competed in the TechVision Challenge, a live competition judged by industry experts at ESX.