United Rentals Earns 2026 Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award
United Rentals Inc. today announced that Wedge, its remote monitoring solution and a key component of the company's Worksite Performance Solutions portfolio, has been named a 2026 Industrial IoT Product of the Year by media company TMC.
The award recognizes technology solutions that deliver measurable value through connected operations and real-time data. For United Rentals, the recognition reflects the company's broader commitment to helping customers build safer, more productive and more connected jobsites.
Wedge enables customers to remotely monitor and control equipment, environmental conditions and critical jobsite parameters in real time. By delivering actionable insights from locations that may otherwise be difficult or costly to monitor, Wedge helps customers identify potential issues earlier, reduce risk and make more informed operational decisions.
As part of United Rentals' Worksite Performance Solutions portfolio, Wedge helps connect data across jobsites, equipment and operations, giving customers greater visibility into the factors that impact safety, productivity and uptime.
"We're honored that Wedge has been recognized with this award because it reflects the value connected technology can deliver to our customers every day," said Kristen Bauer, Advanced Solutions, United Rentals. "Wedge is more than a monitoring solution. It's part of our broader vision for a connected worksite where real-time data helps customers make faster decisions, reduce risk and keep projects moving forward."
From large construction projects and industrial facilities to critical infrastructure and temporary power applications, customers use Wedge to gain visibility into changing conditions and respond proactively before small issues become larger operational challenges.
The recognition reinforces United Rentals' continued investment in digital innovation and connected solutions that help customers improve jobsite performance. Through Worksite Performance Solutions, the company is bringing together equipment, technology and expertise to help customers work safer, operate more efficiently and maximize uptime.
The Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award honors the most innovative products and solutions driving digital transformation across industrial markets.
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Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.