SIG invites developers for Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards

WASHINGTON, US: The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the judging panel for the 2014 Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards, the SIG's official technology innovation recognition program.

Now in its eighth year, the Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards celebrate the best Bluetooth enabled products and applications available on the market today, and recognize innovative prototypes coming soon. Submissions for the awards are open till December 7, 2013.

The panel of expert judges will select winners in four categories - Breakthrough Products, Breakthrough Applications, Breakthrough Prototypes, and Breakthrough Students - as well as select an overall award winner, to be announced at Pepcom MobileFocus Global on 23 February 2014, during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

"Bluetooth Smart technology is enabling inventive products that are making the Internet of Things a reality. The products, applications, prototypes, and for the first time this year, student-led projects being submitted are the future of the consumer electronics market. Our judges get to see these products first, and then, have the enviable task of selecting our winners," said Suke Jawanda, CMO, Bluetooth SIG.

Bluetooth Breakthrough Award finalist and winners will be featured at media events throughout the winter and spring of 2014 in addition to receiving development and sensor kits from award sponsors CSR, Nordic Semiconductor and Texas Instruments.