IoT Climate Award
presented by Swisscom
The Swisscom IoT Climate Award honours outstanding achievements of organisations and their contributions towards climate protection. It also helps to inspire the industry to make positive changes and ensure a sustainable future.
"IoT Climate Award" - presented by Swisscom
The Swisscom IoT Climate Award honours outstanding achievements of organisations and their contributions towards climate protection. It also helps to inspire the industry to make positive changes and ensure a sustainable future.
Principles of the Swisscom IoT Climate Award
- Swisscom is awarding the "IoT Climate Award" for the contributions made by IoT companies to reduce CO2 in Switzerland in 2020.
- The award is based on four criteria, which are evaluated by a jury: Intensity and quantity (quantitative criteria), as well as innovation and customer experience (qualitative criteria)
- The data reported on CO2 reductions for the year 2020 (01.01.2020 to 31.12.2020) will be evaluated.
- Compact documentation and proof of the CO2 reductions are required. The IoT Climate Award will be awarded based on these documents.
- The IoT companies agree to provide the data required in relation to the IoT Climate Award. The data will be available within the scope and also for the duration of the award. The data will be saved on a secure platform.
- There will be no correspondence with Swisscom; the only exception here is in relation to the clarification of any questions.
- All IoT partners of Swisscom are eligible to participate; without restrictions any regarding region, company size or sales with Swisscom.
- Swisscom will not publish any information without the permission of the participant and/or the winner of the Swisscom IoT Climate Award.
Important dates
October 1st 2020:
Registration start for the IoT Climate Award 2021
December 15th, 2020:
Registration deadline for participation in the Swisscom IoT Climate Award
January 10th, 2021:
Deadline for submission of the documentation, including reported CO2 reduction data
February 25th, 2021:
Decision by the jury and communication to the three winners
via e-Mail
May 6th 2021:
Award ceremony on the occasion of the Swisscom IoT Day 2021
(postponed from January to May due to Covid-19 restrictions)
Criteria for the award
Quantity
Overall reduction of CO2 emissions in 2020 in tons.
Intensity
Reduction of CO2 emissions per unit, i.e. CO2 reduction in grams per sensor or per customer.
Innovation
Swisscom will award the innovative character of the solution: Have new hardware or software solutions been developed? Have new measuring techniques been developed? Were efforts made to research or identify new applications?
Customer experience
As a company, how do you rate your project in terms of customer experience? What advantage does your solution provide for the customer? How easy is the solution to use? Is the solution self-explanatory?
Your application form
Two-page short description with the recorded data and quantities, which will allow the jury to understand the calculations.
- Quantitative (1 page): Explanation of the calculation model; identification of the parameters used and the emission factors; the parameters used and the emission factors are clearly identified; the emission factors come from well-founded sources (e.g. from established databases such as Mobitool, EcoInvent).
- Qualitative (1 page): Explanation of the innovation and the customer experience with links to websites, apps, etc.
The following application form is sufficient for the application for the Swisscom IoT for climate award 2021.
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Application form
(DOC file, English)
Jury and Prize
From all of the projects entered, three will be awarded the IoT Climate Award. They will each receive an IoT Award, designed on a wooden board. They will also win a cash amount, which will be funded from the Swisscom Energy Efficiency Fund. The winner will receive CHF 20,000, second and third place will receive CHF 10,000 and 5,000 respectively.
IoT Climate Award 2020: These are the winners
As part of IoT Day 2020, the IoT Climate Award was presented to three innovative companies for the first time on 23 January 2020.
The first prize was awarded to Cadec with its "TeleButler" solution. This innovative solution, which allows remote control of heating in holiday homes, significantly reduces CO2 emissions. The appealing design and user-friendly interface were additional factors that convinced the jury.
Sensile, the second ranked company, is considered a pioneer in IoT. The remote monitoring of gas and oil tanks has been ensuring more ecological logistics for over 20 years. Only when the tanks nearly are empty they are refilled. This significantly minimizes trips to the tanks.
Avelon achieved the third place with their system for monitoring and optimisation of heating, ventilation and cooling installations. The solution contributes to an essential reduction of CO2 and electricity in the main building of the Migros Cooperative Association in Zurich.