Schmidt won silver prize under the category of “Most Innovative EPD/ RFID Products” at Hong Kong RFID Awards 2010, organized by GS1 Hong Kong. Judges appraised the winning project “Smart Cellar” which allows RFID technology to be used in a wider context in wine trade at low cost. Smart Cellar is a RFID-enabled wine inventory management system co-developed by Schmidt and Siemens. The system features the purpose-designed high sensitivity passive tags and web-based application, which make remote and multi-site operations possible and easy. This year, the award presentation ceremony took place on two different occasions, Smart City + Forum and the GS1 Summit on 21 Oct in Shanghai and 5 November 2010 in Hong Kong respectively.