Worldwide Home Safety & Security Product Innovation Awards

Thorough protection depends upon a chain of decisions: recognizing a hazard, anticipating how people will behave, designing an appropriate response, and ensuring the product performs reliably when circumstances become unpredictable.

The DaVinci Awards® welcome products that prevent accidents, identify hazards, protect against physical threats, secure possessions, or improve emergency response. They may rely on sophisticated sensors and intelligent detection, ingenious mechanical engineering, stronger materials, better ergonomics, or a simple redesign of something people already use.

An effective safety product must also account for human behavior. Warnings need to be understood. Emergency equipment must work under pressure. Security products should be convenient enough to use consistently. Protective equipment cannot perform its purpose if discomfort discourages people from wearing it.

Entries could include fire and gas detection, personal alarms, home security products, protective equipment, emergency devices, child safety innovations, intelligent locks, environmental hazard detection, or new approaches to accident prevention.

The DaVinci Awards recognizes outstanding feats of human ingenuity, and product innovation. Entries are welcomed from individuals, teams, startups, or established enterprises based anywhere in the world. Areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Effective protection begins with understanding how a dangerous situation actually develops. Explain how that understanding influenced your product and where your solution improves upon conventional safeguards. Innovation could lie in earlier detection, a novel protective mechanism, materials engineering, sensor design, ergonomics, or an inventive way of reducing human error. Judges should be able to trace a clear line from the risk you identified to the design decisions you made.

Quantify the risk wherever possible. How frequently does the problem occur, who is exposed to it, and where do existing products fall short? Then provide evidence that your solution offers better protection. Relevant measures might include detection speed, false-alarm rates, impact resistance, response times, prevention rates, reliability testing, certification results, or successful real-world use. For safety-critical claims in particular, credible validation will carry considerably more weight than hypothetical benefits.

The value of a safety innovation increases when effective protection can reach more people without becoming prohibitively expensive or difficult to use. Explain how your product could accommodate different homes, users, environments, or risk profiles, and whether its principles have applications elsewhere. Consider maintenance, durability, standards, installation, and long-term reliability alongside commercial growth. The most consequential innovations may ultimately help raise expectations of what adequate protection should look like.

Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.

All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.