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ESX Innovation Awards winners announced

The winning products and services of the 2019 Innovation Awards were revealed at ESX 2019 on June 4 in Indianapolis.

Each year, the ESX Innovation Awards program recognizes products and services that drive the electronic security and life safety industry forward.

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

The winners for each category were as follows:

ACCESS CONTROL

• pdqSMART+, Grade 1 Cylindrical Lock by PDQ Industries
• Enterprise Access Control by Alarm.com
• OmniAssure Touch by Honeywell

COMMERCIAL AUTOMATION / CONTROL SYSTEMS / NETWORKING

• TruProtect Integrated Security Solution by Interlogix

DEALER SERVICES

• QuoteAnywhere G2.0 – Mobile Sales Quote & Sign Platform by WeSuite
• CSR Readiness PRO by CSR Privacy Solutions, Inc.

DIGITAL HEALTH / WELL-BEING SYSTEMS

• Essence 3D Sense Fall Detector by Essence Smart Care

FIRE / LIFE SAFETY

• DynamixSmoke by Advanced
• Honeywell Home SiXCOMBO Two-Way Wireless Smoke/Heat and Carbon Monoxide Detector by Resideo

INSTALLATION / SERVICE TOOLS

• fireNspec by PnewSoft, LLC.
• System Surveyor by System Surveyor

INTRUSION SYSTEMS

• BX Shield Outdoor Boundary PIR Series by Optex, Inc.
• IQ Panel 2 Plus by Qolsys
• 1122 Wireless (PIR) Motion Detector by DMP – Digital Monitoring Products
• BAT-Connect Communicator by Alula

MOBILE APPS FOR CONSUMERS

• Honeywell Total Connect VISTA Partitions by Resideo
• Video Verification App by DICE Corporation
• Smart Signal by Alarm.com

MONITORING STATION

• CHeKT Visual Verification Bridge by CHeKT

SPECIALTY PRODUCTS & SERVICES

• WattBox 150 IP Power Outlets with OvrC (1 controlled bank, 2 outlets) by SnapAV

VIDEO SURVEILLANCE

• SecureCom Video NVR™ by DMP – Digital Monitoring Products
• Thermal-Optical DeepinView Turret Camera DS-2TD1217-3/V1 by Hikvision USA
• Umbo AICamera by Umbo Computer Vision
• DuraVisionDX0211 by EIZO Inc.
• Umbo Light by Umbo Computer Vision

This year’s judges were: Rodger Reiswig, Johnson Controls (Florida); Grady Medcalf, Spectrum (Colorado); Michele Monheim, Amherst Alarm (Upstate New York); Steven E. Paley, Rapid Security Solutions (Florida) and Adam Thompson, Wired-Up Systems (Arizona).