The Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center (hereinafter referred to as the Gyeonggi Innovation Center) announced that a total of 16 child care companies received awards in the recently released ‘CES 2023 Innovation Award’ announcement.
The CES Innovation Award is an award given by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) to products from companies with outstanding technology and innovation ahead of the opening of CES, the world’s largest IT and home appliance exhibition, held in Las Vegas, USA every January.
A representative project to support startups’ global expansion operated by the Gyeonggi Innovation Center is ‘Global Star Venture’. It is a project that has been steadily underway since 2018, providing practical help to startups through ▲ entry application consulting ▲ product introduction video and image shooting ▲ know-how seminars on winning senior companies, etc., and opening up the possibility of entering overseas markets such as the CES Innovation Award in the U.S. and the Edison Award. give. Following last year’s 14 innovation awards, 9 of the 16 companies that received awards this time were ‘Global Star Ventures’, achieving another remarkable achievement.
Bestella Lab (CEO Jeong Sang-soo), a company specializing in self-driving V2L, introduced the unmanned autonomous parking system ‘Watchmile’. This uses vision AI to determine the availability of parking spaces, provides it to users, and guides them to recommended parking spaces using an optimal route algorithm, thereby maximizing user satisfaction.
Edint (CEO Won Dong-il), which pioneered a new area of edutech with its AI automatic detection engine, introduced technology to record and manage cheating in online exams. Based on AI technology, we introduced a testing service that helps organizers, proctors, and test takers.
SMT (CEO Lee Dong-wook) introduced ‘Water N’, a water quality care solution device with UV/filter function. By monitoring water quality/temperature through IoT, it is possible to prevent accidents such as low-temperature burns and skin diseases.
Celico (CEO Kim Jeong-seok), which develops AR glasses that help visually impaired patients correct their vision, was also honored with an award. In order to improve the difficulty in securing vision due to retinal disease, AR glasses display the patient’s vision information in the periphery of the field of vision after image processing, strengthening the patient’s ability to cope with danger.
Lutra (CEO Seon Jong-yeop) introduced ‘Clam’, an NFT platform that allows you to turn special moments in everyday life into works of art. She presented a memory card production service using NFT as a platform to collect reality information of moments containing memories and experiences and record them as cards.
LuxPM (CEO Young-woong Yoo) presented a real-time 3D digital twins solution using LiDAR sensors. The value of scanning solutions was demonstrated by demonstrating object recognition, reading, and spatial reconstruction in 3D.
AlgoCare (CEO Jeong Ji-won), which received the CES Innovation Award for three consecutive years, provides balanced nutritional intake by analyzing customer health information and adjusting content. By applying a customized nutritional algorithm using artificial intelligence technology, you can periodically check your health status with a comprehensive nutritional management service based on machine learning.
HME Square (CEO Kang Yoon-ho), which developed GlucoSound, an effective health management app for diabetic patients, introduced a glucose monitoring system that does not require blood sample collection or needles. We worked to improve the lives of diabetic patients by emphasizing non-invasive blood sugar check based on MEMS sensor technology.
Blossom Cloud (CEO Park Ki-ryun, Jeong Min-gyu) introduced ‘Banban Store’, a commerce and education platform for semi-permanent makeup products. It plays a role in strengthening the competitiveness of products and expanding the semi-permanent market through beauty shop recommendation apps and online lecture services through non-face-to-face services. We participated in this project in recognition of our global capabilities through the recommendation of the Daegu Innovation Center.
In addition, among the companies located in the Pangyo Startup Zone of the Gyeonggi Innovation Center, Eva (CEO Hoon Lee), a company specializing in electric vehicle charging solutions, swept the innovation awards in three categories, including ▲Lutton Technologies (CEO Seyoung Lee), ▲Mango Slab (CEO Yongsoo Jeong), and ▲Forty. Pie (CEO Moon Woori), ▲N.Light (CEO Park Jin-young), ▲Blue Pill (CEO Kim Kang-nam), and ▲GSIL (CEO Lee Jeong-woo) received awards in recognition of their innovation.
Expectations for the ‘Edison Awards’, America’s most prestigious invention award, which is scheduled to announce the winners in February next year, have been raised as candidates by 28 companies through the Global Star Venture Program in September.
Shin Hyun-sam, head of the Gyeonggi Innovation Center, said, “Over the past five years, the center has considered discovering and nurturing start-ups with overseas expansion potential within the start-up ecosystem as its core role,” adding, “We will use the know-how accumulated through performing this role to help our companies “We plan to actively utilize it to support global expansion.”
Meanwhile, the Startup Zone is Korea’s largest startup support cluster, established in 2017 by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to intensively foster promising startups in new industries, and operated by the Startup Promotion Agency and the Gyeonggi Creative Economy Innovation Center.
Source: Pangyo Techno Valley Official Newsroom
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