Solutions to accelerate industry 4.0 receive awards

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08.01.2021

This time, the i4Challenge organised by Basel Area Business & Innovation included a New Ideas category which attracted projects from 40 students, intrapreneurs, entrepreneurs and technology teams. The jury nominated six most outstanding projects with different levels of maturity. In another news, Scientific Visual, providing quality control workstations for crystals, won the Swiss-Russian award.

The most advanced project in the "New Ideas" category of i4Challenge is BeWear, founded by Verena Ziegler and Frauke Link. BeWear offers the first AI-based B2B software solution that creates sewing patterns. The B2B white label solution allows online retailers to customise fashion collections on-demand using 3D body scan via smartphone – this helps reduce production costs hence promoting a sustainable and eco-friendly fashion industry. The company is already active, and in 2021, the team plans to publish a proof of concept in collaboration with a sustainable fashion online store.

Gossik by Diego Gladig and Benno Staub is also active with a beta prototype of its mobile application that uses AI to support users in organising their life by merging their diary and to-do lists with their routine tasks. The app also learns from the experience and intelligence of the community to provide personalised suggestions. The team has already secured CHF 20’000 and has begun the Beta testing phase.

Four projects are still in the early phase; however, at varying stages. These are:

SwissCapCharger is an energy management system that aims to replace chemical batteries and combustion engines to preserve natural resources and ecosystems. It offers an alternative for charging supercapacitors in one minute. MicroLean Lab by Florian Serex from Haute École Arc Ingénierie is developing an autonomous, connected and configurable micro-fabric provide an experimentation platform for micro-technical manufacturing and Industry 4.0 industries. At the very early stage are Mylagro by Hernan Gomez, developing a digital platform that directly connects farmers with customers. The project by Yvette Allimann, a technical writer, terminologist and technical translator. Allimann aims to transform tedious instruction manuals into entertaining, easy-to-read and always up-to-date Serious Games with reading and comprehension control.

Scientific Visual brings home the Swiss-Russian prize.

The FAVORIT Entrepreneurship Award 2020, organised by FAVORIT, The Guide for Russian speaking people in Switzerland and Liechtenstein recognises Russian-speakers entrepreneurs with companies in Switzerland. The jury selected Ivan Orlof from Scientific Visual as the best Russian-speaking entrepreneur of the year. Scientific Visual is developing automated quality control tools that visualise internal crystal defects to ensure that only quality crystals enter costly processing chain. The equipment saves up to 50% production cost in crystals intended for LED, watch, optic and semiconductor industries.

(RAN)

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