EDNA designed and supported the SEAD Connected Efficiency Award, which recognised energy efficient communications protocols and their authors. Final results were announced on 7 November 2017 and the winners were:

• IEEE Std 1905.1a™-2014 – Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous Technologies
• Zigbee Protocols: PRO, Green Power, 3.0
• MoCA MAC/PHY Specification 2.0
• Energy Efficient Ethernet
• ECMA-393 “proxZzzy™ for sleeping hosts