Innovation promotion
"The vialytics system is an innovation that has emerged from extensive research and development.
For this purpose, we also cooperate with public research institutions and continuously advance our technology.
We are grateful that the state and the federal government recognize our research achievements and support them. The subsidies are an important building block in creating incentives for a technology ecosystem from which innovations emerge.
This is the only way we can maintain our global competitiveness."
Danilo Jovicic-Albrecht, Founder (Politics & Fundraising)
KERAV
AI-based recognition and evaluation of traffic signs and signals.
With KERAV, traffic signs and road signs are to be automatically detected using AI and evaluated for their object-specific damage. The image data will be collected during route inspections by a smartphone mounted on the inside of the windshield of municipal vehicles and specially developed vialytics smartphone app.
Funding as part of the second InvestBW "Digitization and AI" funding call of the Ministry of Economy, Labor and Tourism.
Timeframe: 06-15-2023 - 04-15-2024
SEKISA
Sensoric and AI-based road condition analysis.
In the joint project SEKISA , together with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), we are focusing in a feasibility study on the AI analysis of data collected by acceleration and LIDAR sensors from commercially available smartphones, which are to be used to assess the condition of roads and other infrastructure.
Funding received as part of the funding line 1 of the "Mobility of the Future" from the mFund of the Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport.
Timeframe: 8-1-2022 – 7-31-2023
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Feasibility study together with KIT:
- Markus Reischl: KIT
- Jens Kühne: Kühne Mobilität
The SEKISA joint project is being funded by the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport as part of the mFUND innovation initiative with a total of around 100,000 euros.
About the mFund of BMDV:
As part of the mFUND innovation initiative, the BMDV has been funding data-based research and development projects for digital and connected mobility 4.0 since 2016. Project funding is supplemented by active professional networking between stakeholders from politics, business, administration and research and by making open data available on the mCloud portal.
ZAVIS
Time-based analysis of visual information of the road surface
In the ZAVIS innovation project, the aim was to automatically and reliably identify changes in road damage on image data in order to be able to systematically track a road change progression.
The challenge with ZAVIS was to specifically recognize the damage detected and classified on a road section in the image data, which is collected again by the municipalities at intervals of months, and to automatically evaluate their changes.
Funding as part of the Baden-Württemberg AI Innovation Competition of the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Tourism
Timeframe of the project: 1-1-2021 - 12-31-2021
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Innovation Vouchers
In the start-up and early phase, the state of Baden-Württemberg supported vialytics in 2018, 2019 and 2020 with the innovation vouchers "A" and "high-tech start-up", thus enabling the successful development of algorithms for the detection of road damage and the visualization in the web system.
"In 2008, Baden-Württemberg was the first German state to introduce innovation vouchers for small and medium-sized enterprises. The program supports SMEs in the planning, development, implementation and further development of innovative products, services or production processes. In 2012, the program was expanded to include the Hightech Start-up innovation voucher. It is aimed at high-tech start-ups up to a maximum of five years after foundation and supports innovative projects from the growth fields of the future. In 2017, the innovation vouchers Hightech Digital and Hightech Mobility were introduced, which support established companies in the development and realization of sophisticated digital products and services." (Ministry of Economics, Labor and Tourism, BW)
Funding source Ministry of Economy, Labor and Tourism, Baden-Württemberg
Project timeframe: 2018, 2019, 2020