2012 Product of the Year Winners

Consulting-Specifying Engineer Readers Have Cast Their Votes For The 2012 Product Of The Year; Read About The Winners.

By Emma Renee Dutton September 13, 2012

Consulting-Specifying Engineer‘s Product of the Year (POY) contest is the premier award for new products in the HVAC, fire/life safety, electrical, and plumbing systems engineering markets. The annual reader-choice program was created to provide Consulting-Specifying Engineer’s readers with information about the top new product in their fields.

Read about the winners in the September 2012 issue of Consulting-Specifying Engineer.

Download the official 2012 Product of the Year press release (PDF).

A total of 98 products qualified as finalists for the 2012 Product of the Year award. We left the final say to the readers. Here are the winners, starting with the overall winner and followed by the 32 individual winners for each of the nine sub-categories.

Most Valuable Product (MVP):

VYCON, Hybrid energy storage system

VYCON’s Hybrid VDC XEB is an energy storage system that combines flywheel technology with batteries to provide 300 kW of power and extended runtime. The flywheel handles power anomalies to reduce the frequency of battery cycles. Throughout its 20-year life, the flywheel charges and discharges at high rates without degradation or bearing damage, and up to five of these systems can be paralleled for higher power. The system includes an aerospace-grade steel flywheel hub, a high-speed permanent magnet motor generator, a contact-free magnetic levitation system, a touchscreen display, and a monitoring system that integrates with various three-phase UPS makes and models.