Worldwide Smart Home, Connected Devices, & Consumer Electronics Innovation Awards

Behind a simple tap, voice command, automated routine, or seamless connection may sit sophisticated engineering designed to make everyday tasks faster, easier, more enjoyable, or more efficient.

The DaVinci Awards® welcome smart home technologies, connected devices, entertainment products, intelligent appliances, audio and visual systems, personal electronics, control technologies, and other consumer devices that demonstrate a meaningful advance in capability or experience.

Innovation may be found deep inside the product - a new sensing technique, wireless architecture, processor, power-management system, or hardware configuration - or directly in the way someone interacts with it. Some entrants may connect previously separate devices into a coherent ecosystem; others may succeed by stripping away unnecessary complexity.

Judges will consider how technical decisions translate into practical benefits. If your product fits the bill, submit it for awards consideration today.

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:

Explain the engineering, interaction design, connectivity, sensing, or system architecture that distinguishes it from familiar alternatives. If several existing technologies have been combined in an unusual way, make clear where your own ingenuity lies. The achievement may be technically complex, elegantly simple, or both; what matters is that the design choices produce a capability or experience worth having.

What becomes easier, faster, more efficient, more enjoyable, or newly possible because your product exists? Consider the frustrations inherent in existing devices as well as needs that conventional products cannot address. User testing, performance comparisons, energy savings, adoption, reduced setup time, reliability data, or evidence of sustained use can help demonstrate that the innovation has translated into genuine consumer value.

Consider how your innovation can develop as devices, standards, user expectations, and digital ecosystems change around it. Compatibility, upgradeability, energy consumption, repairability, longevity, and support for emerging protocols may all influence its staying power. Where relevant, show how the underlying technology could extend into additional products or establish a broader ecosystem without locking consumers into unnecessary complexity.

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.