IFOY MGZN 2022 EN

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SYNAOS, SYNAOS IMS – Vehicle Localization
Special of the Year
Test report: What is the aim of all the digitalisation if there are always “blind spots”
in the company? One such blind spot is the fact that most of the forklift trucks
that drive around in companies are still controlled manually and are therefore
only rudimentarily digitised, if at all. With the SYNAOS IMS – Vehicle Localization
system, a camera-based sensor kit ensures their cost-efficient localisation
– using state-of-the-art computer vision technology.
SYNAOS is a software company, but it decided to build a bit of hardware. A small
black box (19 x 12 x 6 centimetres) was exhibited at the demo set-up in Hall 3 in Dortmund.
It was attached to a child-sized forklift and projects its images onto a screen. The manufacturer
has dedicated itself to eliminating the gaps in the localisation of manually
controlled industrial trucks of all kinds: So it’s all about the indoor localisation of
industrial trucks. 95 percent of companies have forklifts in use, but they are
rarely well integrated into the value chain: Currently, only the transport order
is digital; the forklifts themselves are not digitalised. As a result, there
is no knowledge of where a forklift is. There are forklift localisation
technologies, but they are often not used. There is a good reason
for this: ultra-wideband or lidar technologies are simply
too expensive. Speaking of lidar: the system is already
too accurate, overkill, like shooting at sparrows with
cannons.
With the new system from SYNAOS, which
works with so-called “markers“, a Localisation-as-a-Service
(LaaS)
tool, it‘s different: Everything
is already included in the
price and the detection
comes to an accuracy
of about
25 centim
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