LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. —May 24, 2021--Zebra Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the front line of business with solutions and partners that deliver a performance edge, today announced that Compass Intelligence recognized its SmartPack Trailer™ solution with an Innovation Leadership Award in Transportation & Logistics. This category includes solutions that demonstrate innovation, leadership, disruption, and excellence in the transportation and logistics space. 

“The transportation sector continues to seek solutions that provide visibility and real-time intelligence throughout the supply chain,” states Stephanie Atkinson, CEO of CompassIntel.com. “Zebra Technologies’ SmartPack Trailer brings together the right equipment and right dashboard to provide efficient trailer insights that improve efficiencies and lower overall costs. We are proud to recognize Zebra’s innovation and leadership with this award.”

SmartPack Trailer transforms operations by capturing data to help maximize load and unload performance and profitability. The solution is part of Zebra’s portfolio of vertically oriented intelligent edge solutions that utilize computer vision hardware and software to improve front-line workflows.

“We are honored that SmartPack Trailer has been recognized with a 2021 Compass Intelligence Innovation Award,” said David Silk, Global Solutions Manager of SmartPack™, Zebra Technologies. “Our SmartPack solution has been empowering transportation and logistics companies to monitor multiple loading and unloading stations from a single dashboard, maximize cargo space to cut fuel consumption, and minimize bottlenecks to speed up work. We are passionate about improving transportation and logistics performance to enhance job satisfaction and safety, and this recognition is another validation of our Enterprise Asset Intelligence vision and the impact it is having on the supply chain.”

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ABOUT COMPASS SPRING AWARDS
The 9th CompassIntel Spring Awards in mobile, IoT, and emerging technologies is an annual awards program honoring leading companies, products, solutions, and services in the tech sector. Companies are nominated each year at no cost and a voting process is completed by anonymous analysts, editors, journalists, and thought leaders. Along with the three primary award category groups in mobile, IoT, and emerging tech, each year the CompassIntel team will also honor up to 6 additional companies or organizations based on ongoing research, industry events, analyst meetings, and industry observations. Companies share case studies, marketing materials, client examples, and other information alongside an online based nomination system on the compassintel.com website. Criteria for voting is based on innovation, leadership, go-to-market strategy, and overall growth of the company or product/solution.
Learn more: https://www.compassintelligence.com/awards--honors.html
 
ABOUT ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES  
Zebra (NASDAQ: ZBRA) empowers the front line in retail/ecommerce, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, healthcare, public sector and other industries to achieve a performance edge. With more than 10,000 partners across 100 countries, Zebra delivers industry-tailored, end-to-end solutions to enable every asset and worker to be visible, connected and fully optimized. The company’s market-leading solutions elevate the shopping experience, track and manage inventory as well as improve supply chain efficiency and patient care. In 2020, Zebra made Forbes Global 2000 list for the second consecutive year and was listed among Fast Company’s Best Companies for Innovators. For more information, visit www.zebra.com or sign up for news alerts. Participate in Zebra’s Your Edge blog, follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, and check out our Story Hub: Zebra Perspectives. 
 
Media Contact: 
Emily Alfano 
Zebra Technologies  
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ealfano@zebra.com 
 
Industry Analyst Contact: 
Kasia Fahmy 
Zebra Technologies 
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k.fahmy@zebra.com 
 
ZEBRA and the stylized Zebra head are trademarks of Zebra Technologies Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ©2021 Zebra Technologies Corp. and/or its affiliates.
 
 

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ClearBlade, a leading provider of secure intelligent asset solutions for the enterprise and industrial sectors, wins the Edge Computing Company of the Year award for the second year in a row. The foundation of ClearBlade’s IoT innovation is the ability to take physical objects or assets and turn them into “intelligent” machines or objects that sense, communicate, predict, prescript, and digest data for actionable outcomes. Today’s businesses and organizations continue to seek out solutions that are secure, flexible, simple, provide business value, and do not break the bank. ClearBlade delivers on these needs and is driving enterprise digital transformation through their “Intelligent Assets” solution, which is a secure “no-code” IoT Application built on their secure edge platform. Some of the industries ClearBlade serves include rail, manufacturing, aerospace, and facilities or building management.

“ClearBlade is honored to receive another Compass Intelligence award this time for Edge Computing Company of the Year. With Intelligent Assets businesspeople are able to utilize the power of Edge Computing to visualize and control their physical assets without needing a degree in computer science. Customers around the world are realizing this power across verticals and I am extremely happy to see the industry take notice.” Eric Simone, CEO at ClearBlade, Inc.

“As a basic need to transform operations, businesses need to take an assessment of their assets, infrastructure, people, and systems before getting started on their transformation journey,” states Stephanie Atkinson, CEO of Compass Intelligence. “A knowledge base of these objects is at the core of making these machines and assets more intelligent and ClearBlade gets that and continues to deliver business value across many industries that are scalable and affordable.”
ClearBlade is proud to be among the other companies and organizations recognized this year in IoT including Landis+Gyr, Signify, UIB, Spireon, Pedigree Technologies, Telecommunications Industry Association, Zebra Technologies, TwinThread, Verizon Connect, bitsensing, Elevāt, SAS, ZEDEDA, MediaTek, CommScope, Losant, Very, tinyML, Camgian, and HPE.

Watch Episode 50 on Intelligent Assets at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ1kc6CNlrI&t=559s
Learn more: https://www.compassintelligence.com/awards--honors.html

About ClearBlade
ClearBlade is the industry-leading Edge Computing software company that enables enterprises to rapidly engineer and run secure, real-time, scalable IoT applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, ClearBlade is an award-winning, fully scalable, secure, flexible and autonomous IoT edge platform that enables companies to ingest, analyze, adapt and act on any data in real-time and at extreme scale. ClearBlade provides a consistent platform across edge, cloud and on-premise environments. For more information, please visit https://www.clearblade.com.

About Compass Intelligence
Compass Intelligence is a market research and advisory firm specializing in metrics-driven market intelligence and insights for the mobile, IoT, and high-tech industries serving tech clients for more than 15 years. Compass Intelligence provides executive insights, market sizing/forecasting and modeling, competitive analysis, strategic consulting, advisory services, trending analysis, and survey research services. Compass Intelligence helps guide strategic business decisions and supports in the success of our clients through delivering content engagement, go to market planning, competitive positioning, and strategic advisory. For more information, please visit https://www.compassintel.com.
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