Scandit strengthens its position in computer vision and augmented reality

With this objective it has opened an R+D office in the Finnish city of Tampere, which is one of the top five global hubs in mobile imaging innovation.

Scandit has opened an R+D office in Tempere (Finland) PAA strengthen its position in the artificial vision and augmented reality market. This is in addition to those of Zurich, Warsaw, London, Boston and San Francisco. In this international expansion it is supported by its investors GV (formerly Google Ventures), NGP Capital and Atomico.

There are currently thousands of mobile barcode scanning services with Scandit technology, that run on over a hundred million mobile devices and capture billions of scans every year, with speeds up to 480 scans per minute.

Scandit has already started hiring mobile image processing and machine learning specialists for its Tampere office who will work on developing advanced mobile machine vision and augmented reality technologies for large companies in industries such as retail., transport, logistics, Manufacturing or Healthcare.

Tampere has been a benchmark in innovation for the mobile phone industry since the years 90 and is strongly associated with Nokia's innovations in imaging and camera.

“Our new office in Tampere is an important addition to our engineering teams in Zurich and Warsaw, who are building Scandit's next-generation products based on machine vision and augmented reality”, explains Christof Roduner, Vice President of Engineering, CIO of Scandit.

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