The winners of this year’s Future Digital Awards for Technology & Innovation have been announced.

This category recognises some of the most innovative and promising products across the consumer technology sectors of Digital Healthcare, Automotive, Smart Homes and Wearables. Juniper identified the cutting-edge applications, technologies and vendors that it believes will galvanise the industry in the years to come.

The complete list of award winners and ‘highly commended’ can be found at juniperresearch.com. The winning vendors and products were as follows:

1. Smart Wearables

Best Consumer Product: Winner - Vuzix AR-3000

Best Platform/Technology: Winner - idOO born identity and NXP

Vuzix is a leading company of specialist video eyewear. Its AR-3000 smart glasses use innovative waveguide optical technology to deliver AR (augmented reality) smart glasses for both enterprise and consumer use.

idOO born identity is the result of a partnership between NXP, a leading global semiconductor manufacturer, and identity management company idOO, which offers a unique blend of anti-counterfeit measures and brand engagement tools for high value fashion, active wear and luxury goods.

2. Smart Homes

Best Consumer Product: Winner - DigitalSTROM AG DigitalSTROM

Best Platform/Service Offering: Winner - Amazon Alexa

DigitalSTROM AG is a German-Swiss company developing smart home technologies, enabling home automation using low cost components with no additional infrastructure.

Offering a natural language voice interface to the smart home, Alexa is a clear leader in smart home control. The service is platform agnostic offering wide reach, while the $100m Alexa developer fund set up by Amazon will ensure continued interest from the builders of the smart home ecosystem.

3. Digital Health

Best Consumer Product: Winner – Neurometrix Quell

Best Platform/Technology: Winner - CirrusMD CirrusMD

NeuroMetrix is a spinoff from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, developing wearable medical technology. Quell is the first FDA-approved mobile treatment wearable for pain relief.

CirrusMD is an American company developing telehealth solutions. Its virtual care platform offers HIPAA-compliant messaging and video chats between patients and doctors, while integrating with EHR records.

4. Automotive & Telematics

Best Consumer Product: Winner - Tesla Tesla Autopilot

Best Technology/Service Offering: Winner – NVIDIA NVIDIA Drive PX

Tesla Autopilot offers one of the world’s first level 3 autonomous driving solutions, leveraging a multitude of sensors. Pushed as an OTA firmware update, its commercialisation has brought the industry one step closer to fully autonomous vehicles.

The NVIDIA Drive PX platform combines cloud-based machine learning with on-board multi-core GPU processing for ADAS applications. Offering a form-factor vastly scaled down from existing implementations, integration into vehicles via 21 OEM partners is likely to increase road safety.

5. Emerging & Disruptive

Best Consumer Product: Winner - Blue Frog Robotics BUDDY

Best Technology/Platform: Winner - Giesecke & Devrient Secure Industrial Visibility

Blue Frog Robotics’ BUDDY is a mobile home companion robot. With few competitors focussed as holistically on home management, its potential is further increased via an open platform for third-party developer input.

G&D’s Secure Industrial Visibility is an IoT unit management and security platform. The ability to obscure connected IP addresses alongside intrusion detection offers best-in-class security solutions, while feasibly any connected unit can be integrated, making for a huge addressable market.