Established: in 2007
Description: To recognize the best paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII). 

Administration: Administered by The Industrial Electronics Society Awards and Honor Committee (IES A&H Committee). 
Eligibility: Author(s) of papers published in the TII during the year specified by the award. 
Prize: $2,000 and Certificate(s). Multiple authors will divide the prize. 
Funding: Funded by IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 
Award Committee: The Editorial Board of the TII chaired by the Editor-in-Chief of TII. 
Basis for Judging: The prize paper will be selected by the IE Transactions Editorial Board on the basis of the value of the contribution, subject matter, originality, and composition. 
Nominee Solicitation: Nomination can be made by Society’s members at large to the Award Committee. 
Judging & Selection: The prize paper will be selected by the Award Committee on the basis of the technical importance and presentation quality of the paper. 
Presentation of Award: At the Society's major international conference. 
Publicity:The award announcement is made in IES’ Industrial Electronics Magazine and the IES’ WEB site.

Award Recipients

2008 - Alvise Bonivento, Carlo Fischione, Luca Necchi, Fernando Pianegiani, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, System Level Design for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks, TII, vol. 3; no. 3; pp 202-214, 2007 2009 - Xue Liu, Qixin Wang, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, Wenbo He, Lui Sha, Hui Ding, and Kihwal Lee, ORTEGA:An Efficient and Flexible Online Fault Tolerance Architecture for Real-Time Control Systems,. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 4, No. 4, pp 213-224, November 2008.
2010 - Marco Bertogna, Nathan Fisher, Sanjoy Baruah, Citation: For thee paper titled, “Resource-sharing Servers for Open Environments, IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics, Vol.5, No.3, August 2009.”