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 LiDAR company targets China as a core market by founding a local branch, inaugurating a new office and building an expert team in Shanghai.
Blickfeld relies on leading manufacturing service provider for series production of the world’s first smart LiDAR, the Qb2, to meet growing global demand.
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.