Antares Vision invests in the future of innovation

The new Innovation Centre devoted to research and development of new technologies has been opened at the Multisectoral and Technological Services Centre (CSMT) in Brescia. The aim is to raise the bar for innovation and encourage development and continuous improvement.

Antares Vision, a Brescia-based company and international leader in the field of visual inspection systems and tracking solutions, has further cemented its leading role in the pursuit of innovation with the official opening of its new Innovation Center, which will act as a hub of technological evolution across multiple fields and will bring together companies, academia, associations and research institutes in a mutually beneficial collaborative ecosystem.

The new facility is part of the CSMT, the Multisectoral and Technological Services Centre located between the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Brescia. Founded in 2011, the CSMT has the function of building networks and alliances, conducting promotion, research, technical and specialist training and technology transfer, and acting as a start-up incubator.

“While we operate in various fields of research, they are all focused on innovation as the challenges posed by the market call for increasingly specific skills,” explains Emidio Zorzella, Chairman and CEO of Antares Vision. “We strive to achieve a mix of knowledge with a multidisciplinary approach, bearing in mind that developments must be transformed into hardware or software products that are easy to use, affordable and above all of value to the end user.”

“The new facility’s main areas of research are information technology, sensors, materials engineering and computer vision, for which purpose it combines expertise in mechanics, electronics, medicine, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology,” explains Alberto Albertini, Technology Scouting & Innovation Center Director at Antares Vision. “Demonstrating its constant commitment to research, Antares Vision has launched numerous innovative concepts such as the Smart Ward Platform project, a smart and flexible platform focused on patient wellbeing, and the application of hyperspectral technology for improving end product quality.”

Four researchers are already working at the new centre, alongside Alberto Albertini and the technical director Francesco Brazzarola, although selection procedures for a number of profiles are currently underway and further PhD students and researchers will soon join the team, in some cases in collaboration with the Italian National Research Council CNR.

Brazzarola comments: “In some research sectors, particularly food, collaboration is already underway with two University of Brescia departments that have been recognised as centres of excellence by the Ministry of Education: the Department of Information Technology and the Department of Molecular and Translational Medicine. In particular, Antares Vision is using its recognised expertise in tracking and quality inspection to design an innovative sensor for detecting foreign matter in food mixes in collaboration with FT System, a leading Food & Beverage inspection and quality control company acquired by Antares Vision in September 2019”.