The awards ceremony was held in conjunction with Skydd 2012 in Stockholm, where a total of twelve products were awarded from the categories of Access Control, Alarm & Detection and CCTV.

The Innovative Achievement Award in the Access Control category went to Suprema for their facial recognition access control terminal, Facestation. Facestation is an IP based biometric access control terminal featuring facial recognition technology which identifies individuals from their facial image features. Conventional face recognition technology contains inherent weak points brought by lighting intensity and pose variation. Facestation's face recognition technology overcomes such weak points with advanced algorithms and its patented adaptive IR illumination technology. This breakthrough technology in Facestation enables a face image extraction process robust to various lighting conditions while achieving incredible matching speed (1:1,000<1second) which far outpaces all other face recognition devices in the market.

Young S. Moon, vice president at Suprema said, "We are very proud that the Facestation has received such prestigious award, which recognises both technological and practical innovations in the Facestation. Suprema has refined biometric technology to the edge while introducing innovative features ahead of competitors. Facestation will open up a whole new generation of face recognition, defying preconceived limitations in face authentication while delivering innovative features to meet growing expectations from markets."

"Suprema will stay committed in developing technologies and products that go far beyond current expectations of value, quality and innovation, and we are excited to be a pioneer of new technologies," Young concluded.