Smart Industry 1/2016

Comarch
Tapping
into Wealth
Management
Comarch, an international software
house and systems integrator based
in Kraków, Poland, has launched a prototype
of a wealth management app
taking advantage of technology never
used before in the world of private
banking: virtual reality. The mobile app
prototype combines financial planning
and investment advisory into a single
tool. “It lets well-off bank clients control
and multiply their assets, often scattered
throughout the world, with no
more than a few taps – and a little help
from a personal advisor’”, says Grzegorz
Prosowicz, Head of Product Management
for Capital Markets at Comarch.
As for the banks themselves, the app
allows in turn for devising investment
strategies closely aligned with clients’
needs and objectives.
photo ©: www.comarch.de
Braster
A simpler way
to halt
breast cancer
The medical company Braster in Poland
has developed a device to early detect
breast cancer. A special foil inside the
device measures slight changes of
temperature on the breast and takes
a picture of this image using a TD next
camera module provided by Avnet
Silica. The device sends the picture via
Bluetooth or Wifi to a mobile phone
and the mobile phone send the picture
to a hospital center where a doctor
analyses the picture and decides if
something is wrong and in this case
contact the patient to advise her to
contact a specialist, thus avoiding
the need for examination
via X-ray mammography
scans.
Kontakt.io & Estimote
Polish firms take
lead in beacon tech
photo ©: www.estimote.com
Two Polish companies, Kontakt.io and Estimote, made it into the
Top Five list of BLE beacon vendors worldwide recently released
by ABI Research, a market intelligence provider specializing in
transformative technology innovation. Real-time location services
are expected to be a key part of IoT ecosystem solutions. Kontakt.io,
based in Kraków, aims at creating “secure and configurable beacon
hardware and software, enabling you to build any proximity-based
solutions”, according to co-founder Szymon Niemczura. Estimote
has made a name for itself by supplying small, wireless sensors
and accompanying software to provide indoor location technology
for many Fortune 100 companies, and recently succeeded in
landing $10.7 million in Series A funding. “Beacon technology is not
something the everyday consumer thinks about, but it’s changing
the way they interact with the world around them, while using their
smartphone”, says co-founder Steve Cheney. U.S. retailer Target is
using Estimote’s smartphone application that works hand-in-hand
with beacons placed around the stores in order to provide information
and recommendations to shoppers, along with deal alerts.
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