Checkpoint is a finalist for the Best New Product Award that will be rewarded at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025.
This award is given to the company that exhibits the best new RFID/IoT product or service at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025. To qualify for the award, the product must have been introduced after April 11, 2024.
Checkpoint is being nominated for Smart Sleeve, an inlay that enables RFID directly into item-level product packaging.
Best New Product Nominees
The other finalists for 2025’s RFID Journal Awards in the Best New Product category are as follows:
- Chainway, for the MC51 Built-in RFID Reader, a 5G high-performance, large-screen handheld terminal featuring a powerful processor, a 6-inch high-definition display, and cutting-edge5G and Wi-Fi 6E connectivity, providing frontline workers with a high-performance mobile office solution.
- Powercast, for wirelessly powered, battery-free RAIN RFID Sensor Tags for data centers.
- Pragmatic, for NFC Connect PR1301 a unique and highly innovative non-silicon-based integrated circuit (IC) with the compact size of 3x2mm for use in NFC RFID tags.
- Tageos, for Liqr Stiq, a semi-rigid, disposable HF/NFC capacitance liquid measurement tag used for detecting the measure of liquid inside a container (liquid level), such as premium spirits in a bottle.
- Zebra, for the EM45 RFID, an all-in-one, integrated RFID reader designed to simplify tasks and boost on-the-go operations, while delivering enterprise-grade manageability, security, and asset longevity.
A three-person team of judges will evaluate the finalists onsite, at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025. Judges will contact the finalists and schedule a demonstration and/or presentation at the conference, on Tuesday May 6 and Wednesday May 7. The winners will be announced at 1:00 PM PDT on Thursday May 8 at RFID Journal LIVE!2025, the company’s annual conference and exhibition, which will be held on May 6-8 at the Paris Hotel and Conference Center in Las Vegas, NV.
In addition to a crystal award, the winner of Best New Product will be given a one-hour webinar held on the date of their choice in 2025. They will also receive a 40-minute conference session during the 2026 edition of RFID Journal LIVE!
2025 Award Nominees
The Best New Product Award is one of seven awards that will be handed out next month in Vegas. The finalists hail from all around the world, including Italy, Brazil, Costa Rica, Germany, Turkey, Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Many of the finalists will be speaking at LIVE! 2025, where they will share their experience with attendees. The finalists for each category are listed below:
Best Retail Implementation
- Arctic Spa is using an automated, real-time RFID solution at 14 corporate retail stores and the central distribution center. The solution has enabled them to improve inventory tracking by 95 percent, experience a 40 percent reduction in manual labor costs, optimize store operations and enhance customer service.
- Carter’s (Canada stores) implemented their successful RFID solution across 187 Canadian retail stores, helping their associates to locate items faster, drive sales, and increase overall efficiency across various processes.
- C&A implemented RFID across all 1,220+ C&A stores in 17 countries in Europe, as well as in C&A’s Distribution Centers. The implementation has enabled the firm to optimize and align customer experience, standardize and simplify processes, provide customer benefits due to increased stock-data accuracy, and ensure merchandise availability and visibility.
Best Healthcare or Food Implementation
- Brigham Young University, is using RFID in their Chem Stores to track chemical across campus, dramatically improving the rate of performing a lab inventory audit.
- Nutriza AgroIndustrial de Alimentos S/A (Friato), is using RFID to control the working time and breaks of its employees autonomously, without relying on manual records.
- Sentara Health is using RFID at Norfolk General Hospital to track hazardous compounded medications in their hazardous sterile compounding rooms as well as tracking compounded medications essential for cardiac procedures.
Best Manufacturing or IoT Implementation
- Cepheid, a leader in PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test kit manufacturing, has successfully implemented RFID technology to enhance supply chain velocity, drive operational efficiency, and maintain its leadership in PCR test development and manufacturing.
- Cummins has reduced the total amount of packaging waste resulting from manufacturing operations by employing RFID-based Returnable Transport Items for components and products.
- Kannegiesser is using RFID technology to sort by customer or item type and provide accurate sorting ability using real-time reading as well as automatically separating articles with no or malfunctioning tags.
Best Supply Chain/Logistics Implementation
- Brooks is using RFID enabled tags at one of their distribution centers during the pick-pack process in real time, to ensure they match the customer orders before they are shipped from the distribution center.
- Maersk is using an RFID-based drone solution in one of their high-volume, fast-paced warehouses to ensure accurate inventory capabilities, allowing the operational teams to focus on more strategic initiatives, resulting in greater efficiency and service excellence.
- Shifflet Brothers Enterprises is using RFID technology to facilitate real-time asset tracking, streamline yard management, and improve inventory management from receipt to final delivery.
Best RFID/IoT/AI Implementation
- ESAN (Eczacıbaşı Industrial Raw Materials Company) has implemented a centralized, AI-driven traffic management system that optimizes underground traffic flow by predicting congestion and dynamically adjusting signals. Additionally, the system enhances operational efficiency by reducing delays and increasing safety.
- SniperAction Photo, LTD is using RFID to automatically capture photos and video of guests as they ride a waterslide that weaves through the Costa Rica jungle.
- United Parcel Service (UPS) continues to deploy tomorrow’s technology today by enabling UPS Internet Of Things and expanding their use of cutting-edge technologies like digital twins, data analytics, IOT/RFID and Generative AI to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and customer satisfaction.
Best RFID or IoT Implementation (Other Industry)
- Idaho National Lab is using RFID for tracking mixed and hazardous waste containers and for providing inventories of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) waste storage areas.
- Selmark achieved 30 percent gains in picking, shipping, and receiving efficiency by tagging products at the source by installing RFID printers and tracking them through the supply chain with RFID readers.
- United States Marine Corps developed the Marine Corps Platform Integration Center (MCPIC), a system that provides asset visibility by enabling equipment inventory tracking through tagging of mission-critical equipment, enabling them to shorten inventory times from weeks to hours and resulting in gaining greater inventory accuracy.
RFID Special Achievement Award
Dr. Antonio Rizzi, full professor of logistics and supply chain management in the University of Parma’s Industrial Engineering Department, will receive the 2025 RFID Special Achievement Award. Dr. Rizzi is the founder of the university’s RFID Lab, a world leading research center promoting research, training and services to stakeholders, such as technology providers and end users. Under his leadership, the lab pioneered research in the Italian RFID arena and has been widely recognized as a worldwide center of excellence.
Dr. Rizzi is a world-renowned advocate of auto id technologies and data sharing technologies (such as RFID and IoT) for supply chain management and retail industries. He has generously given his time and has spoken at numerous conferences, including at RFID Journal LIVE! for nearly two decades.
“It’s Antonio’s turn to be honored”, says Debbie Hughes, RFID Journal’s former Editorial Director of Events and current RFID Journal LIVE! 2025 consultant. “I know that I speak on behalf of the entire RFID industry in congratulating him for his extraordinary contributions and his unstoppable enthusiasm for the technology.”