Living Standards Award
A community of excellence - our awarded organizations
Every year, the Living Standards Award shines the spotlight on national and international hidden champions. It shows how standards contribute to success in business, to advancing innovations and to turning ideas into exports. To this effect, Austrian Standards is looking for innovative enterprises, organizations, research institutions and start-ups.
Award winners 2020
Clean ground water for climate protection
Living Standards Award 2020, Category "Enabling Solutions"
A joint project of the Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT), the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Department of Water, Atmosphere and Environment) and Mall GmbH.
Fight against electric waste
Living Standards Award 2020, Category "Reaching International Markets"
Technicians of R.U.S.Z have contributed their technical know-how and decades of experience to the development of specifications for durable and repair-friendly appliances.
Charging technology for smart living
Living Standards Award 2020, Category "Developing Future Technologies"
Easelink, a company based in Graz, developed Matrix Charging®, an innovative charging station for electric cars. The safety standard ISO 26262 formed the basis of the development process.
Home of the future at the Smart Living Lab
Living Standards Award 2020, Category "IEEE Standards"
The University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien has focused on smart homes and assistive technologies ensuring a high level of autonomy in everyday life for ten years.
How codes contribute to keeping a clear overview
Living Standards Award 2020, Category "GS1 Standards"
LOGICDATA Electronic & Software Entwicklungs GmbH relies on GS1 standards in logistics. On exterior packaging, the GS1 DataMatrix is used to encode important information.
Presentation of the Living Standards Awards 2019
Success stories around the application and development of standards
The Living Standards Award was already presented for the fifth time on 24 January. Around 150 businesspeople, scientists and policy-makers attended the Award ceremony.
BDI-BioEnergy International
High-quality algae biomass for industry
The Styrian plant engineering company BDI-BioEnergy International contributes to the standards ensuring quality control for algal oil for customers at the European level.
Blue Danube Robotics
Safe collision sensor for industria robotics
To permit collaboration of humans and robots in confined spaces in the same work area Blue Danube Robotics developed AIRSKIN, an artificial skin for machinery.
S.Spitz GmbH
Barcodes ensuring product traceability
The food producer S.Spitz GmbH contributed to the development of a new GS1 standard for a clearly structured supplier manual to set up a logistics process without system discontinuities.
J.M. Voith and Trützschler Nonwovens
Safety for hybrid machines in paper and textile industries
To reconcile different safety requirements applying to a hybrid machine for incontinence products in the two industries, a common international standard was developed.
MAM Babyartikel GmbH
Safety for babies and infants
The MAM's founder, Peter Röhrig, significantly contributed to the development of the European soother standard that is now recognized world-wide and won over the jury by his long-standing commitment.
UV-Team Austria
Water quality guaranteed by Austrian standard
The interdisciplinary research partnership "UV-Team Austria" received the Living Standards Award 2018 for the development of a testing standard for UV disinfection plants for drinking water (ÖNORM M 5873).
NXP Semiconductors Austria GmbH
Austrian know-how used world-wide
This developer of chips for secure, contactless identification and access systems sees standardization as a core element for reaching global markets (e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 for NFC).
Österreichische Staatsdruckerei
Standards for technologies crossing borders
By creating the "My Identity App" (MIA), Österreichische Staatsdruckerei developed an innovative solution that provides secure access to digital documents and electronic IDs (eIDs) via mobile phones world-wide.
Austrian Institute of Technology
Standards for the secure transmission of health data
The Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) received the Living Standards Award 2018 for an app for measuring and transmitting health data, such as weight, blood glucose and blood pressure.
GrünStattGrau Forschungs- und Innovations GmbH
Standards for green roofs
The objective of the first innovation lab for the green city of the future is to green entire urban quarters by targeted measures for greening buildings (e.g. based on ÖNORM L 1131).
Kapsch TrafficCom AG: Toll and traffic management
Standards at all levels
As a provider of intelligent transportation systems, Kapsch TrafficCom covers the entire value creation chain of its customers. This has been significantly supported the enterprise’s standardization strategy.
Philips
Kitchens without cable spaghetti
Austria is an important high-tech site for Philips. In Klagenfurt, product innovations are developed, e.g. for wireless kitchen appliances in a working group of the Wireless Power Consortium.
MobilePass – AIT
Border controls - mobile, secure & fast
The MobilePass project is implemented by a consortium of 11 companies, institutes, universities and public authorities. Its objective is to develop new technologies for traveller identification at border controls.
REFlex
From assembly lines to customized mass production
REFlex, a project of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, supports innovation and development in the IT field. For a patented process, a proposal for an ISO/IEC standard was submitted.
Bitmovin
Uninterrupted videos world-wide
The start-up Bitmovin is active in the field of adaptive video streaming. Its founders contributed to the development of ISO/IEC 23009 - also known as the MPEG DASH standard among experts.
Office of the Upper Austrian Government
The Province of Upper Austria considers digital building documentation to be important. For this purpose, a common language called Building Information Modelling (BIM) was introduced in recent years. The Province of Upper Austria plays a leading role in further developing the related series of standards.
OTIS Gesellschaft mbH
OTIS is represented in all European and international standardization committees that are of relevance for the company. More than 1,000 engineers are responsible for ensuring that the products comply with all the applicable standards and are certified in line with them. And these activities are co-ordinated and strategically aligned in Austria.
Polymer Competence Center Leoben GmbH
The Polymer Competence Center Leoben PCCL carried out several research projects in co-operation with leading plastic pipe manufacturers. In that context, a new test method was developed that reduces the duration of tests and provides more information. This method was also input into the International Standard ISO 18489.
TGM – higher secondary technical school and testing centre
At TGM, tomorrow's engineers learn about the significance of standards. This is achieved, for example, with the help of the standards management system effects 2.0 and the Lesesaal (Reading Room for standards). Moreover, TGM employees are active in around 75 committees of Austrian Standards.
Standards management by the City of Vienna
More than 20,000 standards are relevant for the City of Vienna. The aim of strategic standards management is to interlink all spheres of life.
Standards management in Lower Austria
From building to playground design, European Standards are applied and ensure safety and comparability in Lower Austria. In 2014, a new system was introduced for managing standards. Thereby, public interests were optimally brought in line with technical and scientific progress.
Standards management at Teufelberger Holding AG
Being a leading developer and manufacturer of steel ropes and synthetic fibres, Teufelberger uses standardized test methods. Thanks to effects 2.0, employees can access a single platform for managing standards in twelve fields from various locations throughout the enterprise.