In a guest article for all-electronics.de, a widely read magazine on industrial digitization and automation, Blickfeld co-founder Florian Petit discusses the remarkable transformation that LiDAR technology has seen in the last five years. The focus is on three applications that show how LiDAR solutions deliver added value to companies in different industries:
As Chief of Marketing (CMO), Luisa Martens has been in charge of marketing and product management at Blickfeld since January 2023. In this chat, she tells us about her plans for her teams, shares one of her most valuable learnings, and her favorite tradition at Blickfeld.
Mike Yang became part of the Blickfeld management team as Head of Sales China, and in this chat, he shares his plans for the Chinese market and one of his most valuable learnings from the past years.
The terrible images of the 2010 Love Parade in Duisburg are still fresh in people’s minds. From a density of six people per square meter, the risk increases sharply that one can no longer move freely. There is then a danger that individuals will simply be swept along by the crowd and lose control of their direction of movement. Modern crowd management can help prevent this.
In Munich, the days are getting shorter, the city is decorated and even the first snow has already fallen – in short, the year 2022 is drawing to a close. As every year, we like to use this time to look back on the past 12 months and see what has happened.
The wide range of possible use cases for Blickfeld LiDAR sensors was once again reflected in the trade fair participation in the fall of 2022. Three completely different application areas were in focus from September to November. Blickfeld solutions were of great interest at leading international trade fairs for security, powder and bulk solids processing, and smart cities.
Blickfeld continues to expand its partner network with Quvo being the latest addition. The company, led by industry experts Allan and Ross Kane, offers Blickfeld’s LiDAR-based volume monitoring solution to players in the waste, recycling, and aggregates industry in the UK and Northern Ireland as an exclusive partner.
Blickfeld has received the award “Mittelstandspreis der Medien”! The prestigious prize honors excellent medium-sized companies and was presented in the incomparable atmosphere of the Alte Oper Frankfurt.
Blickfeld has made it to Germany’s top 300 startup employers in a study conducted by Business Punk and Statista for the second year in a row. In the category “Business Products & Software”, Blickfeld ranked sixth with a score of 87.52 out of 100.
In order to prevent damage to a bridge’s structure, there are many that may only be driven over by vehicles up to a certain permissible weight and solutions are needed to identify these vehicles. Volkmann Strassen- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH, a leading company in the field of road and construction site safety, uses Blickfeld Cube 1’s 3D LiDAR sensors to play an important role in their solution to this issue. The device identifies such vehicles and safely diverts them before they cross and cause further damage to the structure.
Double win for Blickfeld at the Urban Tech Challengers in Warsaw. The LiDAR supplier was awarded in the Infrastructure & Industrial IoT category and took home the overall win as the Ultimate Urban Tech Challenger 2022.
Patrick Pylypuik joined the Blickfeld management team as Head of Sales North America in June. In this chat, he tells us what fascinates him about Blickfeld, what his plans for the US market look like, and he shares one of his most valuable learnings from the past years.