Vision 2024’s Start-up World to be ‘springboard for innovators’

28 Aug 2024

Pitch sessions leading to “Start-up of the Day” to be announced each day of Stuttgart show.

Messe Stuttgart, the organizer of this year’s Vision 2024 expo says there will be “more than 450 exhibiting companies, a 20 percent increase in exhibitors and a 15 percent increase in exhibition space compared to the previous event, along with the highest share of international companies in the history of this leading international trade fair.”

Vision 2024, which will run between October 8th–10th, is set to provide its 30 plus start-ups and industry newcomers with optimum conditions for industry networking. For the third time, the event’s “Start-up World” will be hosting up-and-coming companies in their own area at the exhibition, where they have the opportunity to present their latest developments and ideas to potential customers and business partners.

“We’ll be presenting a new solution for real-time image processing that boasts impressive speed and precision. The USP is seamless integration into existing systems, facilitating the design of production processes that are more efficient and cost-effective,” said Alexandra Schmidt, Managing Partner of Mobile Vision Technology, based in Brandenburg, Germany.

“Our solution uses commercial hardware such as mobile phones and computes directly on the edge – leading to significant improvements in speed and a reduction in the complexity of the system. Vision is an important platform for us, as we have the opportunity here to explore the latest trends in machine vision while making valuable contacts.”

Young companies will once again be given the opportunity to raise their profile and position themselves against the competition by participating in the Pitch Sessions, which will be held on the Forum stage. The Start-up of the Day will be selected at the end of each trade fair day, with the overall Vision Start-up 2024 being crowned by a jury on the last day of the event.

Exhibitor expectations

Many start-ups have worked long and hard to prepare for their trade fair visit and the presentation of their products and solutions. One such company is PxE Holographic Imaging. “After years of development, we are now ready to bring our holographic imaging technology into the market,” said Noga Barpal, VP Business Development.

“It makes it possible to acquire natively-fused high-resolution color images, infrared images and pixel-level depth maps, all at once using a single, standard 2D camera. By achieving full perception in a single module, PxE offers a superior backbone for machine vision, without any compromises and at the price point of a standard 2D camera.”

Belgian start-up Spectricity is also introducing a new idea at the trade fair. Henrik Andersen, Chief Marketing Officer, described the technology: “We will present S1, our multispectral image (MSI) sensor with our patented filter technology and the corresponding camera modules S1-M. S1 is the first truly miniaturized, mass-manufacturable mobile spectral image sensor featuring 16-channel high-resolution imaging, covering the full visible and near-infrared range with video rates of 30 fps.”

High technology from the Netherlands, involving x-ray sensors based on quantum dots, will also be attending Vision and presented by start-up QDI Systems. “We have developed a quantum dot platform technology for image sensors. The material is solution-processable, and very versatile in terms of application possibilities in various sectors such as medical imaging, machine vision, security, inspection and non-destructive material testing. At Vision we will exhibit our SWIR and X-ray camera module and show our business partners our future wafer level processing plans,” said Juul Gielens, Chief Business Officer.

The expo is also an important event for Medabsy, the Bavaria, Germany-based provider of synthetic data and simulation of machine vision systems. “We’re looking forward to making many new contacts at Vision, particularly with decision-makers involved in the planning and implementation of inspection systems, so that we can better understand their needs and the market of industrial image processing,” said Maximilian Grau, co-founder and managing director.

“We will be presenting our innovative platform and demonstrating how quickly and easily inspection systems are planned using digital twins and how synthetic images are created as training data for AI applications before the hardware is available. Project times and costs will be considerably reduced as a result, particularly during the commissioning of inspection systems.”