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Interview
Think smart
A Q & A with Scandit’ s Christian Floerkemeier
Tell us about your career history, and its evolution to your current role? Before co-founding Scandit, I was the Associate Director of the Auto-ID Lab at MIT and a member of the MIT research team that developed the RFID technology, which is today in use in major supply chains. I also co-founded Fosstrak, the leading open-source RFID software platform that implements the EPC Network specification. My academic background includes a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and an MEng and BA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
I co-founded Scandit in 2009 together with Samuel Mueller and Christof Roduner, whom I met at ETH Zurich. Our ambition was( and still is) to transform the daily lives of customers, workers, and businesses through software that can change the way we interact with everyday objects by blending the physical and digital worlds.
Originally, we thought that RFID technology was the way to do that. However, it soon became apparent that there was a better way: extending the Internet of Things( IoT) paradigm to everyday objects by developing a highly specialized computer vision platform for camera-equipped smart devices.
What is currently at the top of the agenda for Scandit in the smart data capture arena? At Scandit, our priority right now is shifting
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