Wiliot Earns First VIP Award for ‘Best Distribution Innovation’ at NRF 2023

Wiliot announced that its Wiliot IoT Platform has been recognized as a 2023 VIP Award Winner in the “Best Distribution Innovation” category. Winners representing the year’s most transformative and breakthrough solutions were announced at the VIP Award Ceremony on Jan. 13.
 
The award win comes on the heels of a year that has seen dramatic revenue growth driven by platform adoption from some of the world’s largest retailers, which are turning to new ambient IoT technologies to revolutionize omnichannel retailing.
 
“Retailers are being challenged like never before, by constrained supply chains; new consumer shopping paradigms like BOPIS and same-day home delivery; and societal pressure to better manage one’s carbon footprint,” said Wiliot CMO Steve Statler. “This VIP Award recognizes both the ambient IoT and Wiliot’s role in meeting these new demands by providing brands with real-time visibility in their supply chains and equipping them with the location and temperature data to compete in this new, more complex omnichannel environment.” 
 
Wiliot, in partnership with the world’s largest technology and retail companies, are creating an ambient IoT that connects all products and packaging to the internet to address some of the retail industry’s biggest problems across supply chain efficiency and inventory management.  
 
Wiliot’s contribution to the ambient IoT is its IoT Platform. The platform features the company’s IoT Pixels, stamp-sized computers that cost pennies and feature a fundamental breakthrough in ambient computing technology – or computing that’s self-powered, harvesting radio waves that are all around us. 
 
These battery-free IoT Pixels can attach to any product or packaging to connect it to the internet; not just expensive things like cars, appliances, and shipping containers, but the things inside them: fruits, veggies, vaccine vials, clothes, crates, and just about everything else. 
 
“With real-time tracking, instant traceability, and embedded intelligence, food is safer and fresher, medicine is more secure, and pallets and cases don’t get lost,” said Statler. “The ambient IoT is illuminating what was once in the dark by providing retailers with real-time visibility into their supply chains – and the status of every product at every moment – and the implications for profits and the planet are profound.”