🏆 Datalogic Joya Smart Family Redefines Self-Shopping Experience with Red Dot Award!

[Cengiz Özemli]

🛍️ Design Shaping the Future of Retail​

Datalogic, a global leader in automatic data capture and industrial automation, announced that its Joya™ Smart family of AI-powered self-shopping devices has won the 2026 Red Dot Design Award. Judged by an international panel of design and industry experts in the Product Design category, this award is considered one of the most sought-after seals of excellence in product design and innovation.

✨ Acknowledgment of Excellent Design​

This award crowns the comprehensive design excellence of the Joya Smart family solution, which includes the Joya Smart, Joya Smart+, advanced wireless charging cradles, and dedicated accessories. For Datalogic, this recognition reinforces its core strategic belief that technological innovation must balance operational and functional excellence with human-centered design. The recently launched Joya Smart family perfectly combines advanced features with a beautiful, intuitive, and truly shopper-friendly experience.

🤝 User-Centric Development​

Datalogic's vision was to design a device that consumers would actively want to hold and interact with throughout their shopping journey. Developed in close collaboration with the University of Bologna, the Joya Smart family was created with great emphasis on ergonomics and usability.

Rosario Casillo, Vice President of Product and Solutions for Datalogic's Data Capture Division, said, "This award is a significant recognition of our team's work, innovation, and passion." He added, "With the Joya Smart family, we have succeeded in creating a product that shoppers love to hold and interact with, and that retailers can offer with absolute confidence."

🚀 AI Meets Retail Needs​

The Joya Smart family offers key technical innovations designed to simultaneously elevate the shopping experience and address retailers' loss prevention concerns:

• Smart Loss Prevention: Embedded AI-based technology helps reduce scanning errors during self-shopping, significantly minimizing checkout rescan times.
  
• Revolutionary User Experience: The Joya Smart+ model aligns its rear camera with the scanning engine, offering a natural, smartphone-like user interaction with lightning-fast barcode reading speed.
  
• Contactless Wireless Charging: The elimination of physical pins prevents wear and corrosion. This results in lower maintenance, less downtime, and easier cleaning.
  

Professor Dr. Peter Zec, Founder and CEO of Red Dot, stated, "In a strong field of participants with numerous companies and design studios from all over the world, the Datalogic Joya Smart family convinced the jury with its outstanding design and quality." The international Red Dot Jury honored this great achievement with a special recognition.

Established in 1955, the Red Dot Design Award is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading design competitions, honoring products that demonstrate outstanding innovation and quality across global industries.