Ubergizmo’s Best of ITS 2022

The twenty third Innovative Technology Show (ITS) was held final week within the COEX heart in Gangnam, Seoul. Like final 12 months, Ubergizmo was an ITS Awards jury member (by way of video conferencing). We rigorously reviewed and rated the worth proposition and technical excellence of the finalists of the “K-Innovation Company” award.

The ITS opened with a welcoming speech by Minister Young Lee of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups who known as the present “Korea’s biggest SME-centered technology innovation event”. This 12 months’s theme was ‘Tech-Innovation, Talk to the Future!’.

10 corporations out of 245 made it to the ultimate, so the competitors was intense, and we have been impressed by the final degree of sophistication of the merchandise and applied sciences used throughout numerous industries.

Ubergizmo nominated three corporations as Ubergizmo’s “Best of ITS 2022” based mostly on their innovation, capability to export worldwide, and worth proposition. They are Everchemtech, SHENB, and NES&TEC Co., Ltd, on this order.

Everchemtech

Everchemtech is an organization that develops movies made of assorted supplies sometimes used for industrial functions, to insulate electronics, for instance. However, they got here up with a brand new product that might attain each shopper as a result of it’s associated to meals: NEXRIER.

NEXRIER stands for NEXt BarRIER and is a bio-degradable substitute for plastics used within the meals trade. Its purpose is to forestall contact between meals and oxygen, and it may be a drop-in substitute for conventional plastic wrapping.

It is extraordinarily sometimes troublesome to create a bio-degradable plastic that received’t degrade in a short time when in touch with moisture or meals. Everchemtech says it has managed to take action, and though its product will bio-degrade finally, they’re secure in the course of the meals’s shelf life.

Additionally, the corporate says it could produce this NEXRIER 30% to 40% cheaper than the standard plastic equal within the Ethylene-vinyl alcohol (EVOH) household. As far as we all know, it is a large breakthrough that might result in a drastic and economically sustainable discount in petroleum utilization on this trade.

Surprisingly, the bottom element of NEXRIER is whey protein, which is generally a by-product of Cheese-making. Everchemtech’s NEXRIER acquired one in every of two “Excellence Awards” from the mixed jury.

SHENB

SHENB is a medical gadget maker demonstrating its VIRTUE RF Microneedling gadget.

Microneedling is a medical process sometimes utilized within the beauty trade to rejuvenate or heal individuals’s pores and skin. For instance, it has been used to deal with Acne, Hair loss, Scars, Sun injury, Wrinkles, and extra.

Microneedling works on the precept that pricking the pores and skin with tiny needles (managed pores and skin injury) causes your physique to heal (rebuild) that space by producing extra collagen and elastin. The healed pores and skin might need a greater look, though it’s not with out threat, and specialists ought to do procedures in response to native laws.

SHENB makes use of RF (radiofrequency) expertise along with the needle, therefore the VIRTUE RF product title. RF turns into warmth and may attain deeper into the pores and skin layers, giving much more management and therapy choices. Most individuals don’t notice it, however human pores and skin has three distinct layers.

Other producers additionally use RF, however SHENB’s novelty comes from a couple of options. First, it has ACS (superior cooling system), which cools down the pores and skin as quickly because the RF vitality has executed its job. This makes it attainable to make use of extra vitality (attain deeper) whereas avoiding the chance of thermal damage.

Next, IPRS (Integrated Pulsed Radiofrequency System) gives higher vitality pulse management which turns right into a “wider area of skin rejuvenation,” says SHENB. Finally, the gadget works throughout a number of frequencies (0.5MHz to 2MHz) and may safely ship vitality for as much as 7 seconds (vs. 0.8s beforehand), the corporate says.

Apparently, the Virtue RF has already been approved by the U.S FDA and its European equal, and SHENB is already engaged on the 2024 improve. SHENB is the opposite recipient of an ITS 2022 “Excellence Award.”

NES & TEC

NES & TEC Co LTD was pitching its SWID drone (multi-copter UAV system in trade lingo) that has a number of potential functions. It has all it takes to be utilized as an industrial drone to regulate infrastructures, or by fireplace departments throughout forest fires, for instance.

However, it additionally has a robust army potential as a result of it’s constructed to withstand jamming and may navigate even when conventional positioning methods (like GPS) aren’t out there.

To thwart hackers, NES & TEC makes use of a proprietary flight management system. While we are able to argue concerning the security degree of proprietary vs. open-source code, the corporate didn’t actually have a selection for the reason that South Korean army prohibits current open-source communications methods. The one used on this drone adheres to the Korean Military Specification-level encryption (KCMVP) customary.

NES & TEC additionally bought safety certifications within the USA and Europe however didn’t go into particulars about which of them. The firm talked about that the drone can resist jamming and may nonetheless navigate regardless of being minimize off from GPS. It does so through the use of a camera-based positioning system in its place.

Given current army developments, this functionality is more likely to appeal to consideration from safety forces worldwide as drones have confirmed to be extraordinarily helpful reconnaissance instruments.

Other finalists

The different nice finalists are listed under. Most are wonderful as nicely and worthy of your consideration:

• JPS: ITS 2022 Grand Prize winner. (electrical band for packaging metal merchandise)
• Kanavi Mobility: scanning LiDAR sensor merchandise
• IntelliVIX: deep learning-based CCTV video analyzer
• Jijun System: clever basic parking administration system
• Secuworks: sound area safety sensor
• Ison: drone charging station
• P&S Technology: meals and beverage (PET bottle) defect inspection gear

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