Chicago, IL – April 8, 2019 – On April 8, Photoneo was presented with a platinum-level award in the “Cameras – 3D” Category at the Fifth Annual Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards presentation, held during Automate in Chicago, IL. Photoneo’s MotionCam-3D was recognized by a panel of esteemed experts from system integrator and end-user companies as the only product receiving the platinum award this year.

“We are deeply honored to receive the VSD Platinum Award. Digging so deep into CMOS, optics and software has been an exciting journey. We at Photoneo love designing state-of-the-art sensors and products and I promise that we will keep turning our passion into powerful tools for our customers,” Photoneo’s CEO Ján Žižka commented.

About The Vision Systems Design 2019 Innovators Awards program

Alan Bergstein, publisher of Vision Systems Design: “This prestigious program allows Vision Systems Design to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry. Our 2019 Honorees are an outstanding example of companies who are making an impact in the industry.”

The Innovators Awards are judged based on the following criteria:

• Originality
• Innovation
• Impact on Designers, Systems Integrators, End Users
• Fulfilling a need in the market that hasn’t been addressed
• Leveraging a novel technology

The 2019 Visions Systems Design Innovators Awards Honorees are featured in the June Issue of Vision Systems Design magazine as well as on http://www.vision-systems.com. Companies were recognized in the following categories:

• Cameras – visible
• Cameras – 3D
• Cameras – non-visible
• Cameras – Specialty (High-speed, scientific)
• Connectivity: Cables, connectors, extenders, interfaces, etc.
• Embedded vision: Cameras, computers, boards, processors, development kit, components
• Frame grabbers and boards
• Image sensors
• Lighting, lenses, and optics
• Robotics
• Software
• Unmanned
• Vision systems

About Vision Systems Design

Published since 1996, Vision Systems Design is a global resource for engineers, engineering managers and systems integrators that provides comprehensive global coverage of vision systems technologies, applications, and markets. Vision Systems Design’s magazine, website, email newsletters and webcasts report on and analyze the latest technology and business developments and trends in the worldwide machine vision and image processing industry.

About Photoneo

Photoneo is a well established developer and provider of sophisticated 3D machine vision systems for advancing automation. At The Vision Show in Boston (MA) last year, the company received the bronze-level award in the Vision Systems Design 2018 Innovators Awards Program  in the same category for their PhoXi 3D Scanner. This year’s platinum winning product, MotionCam-3D, also won the VISION Award at the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart, DE, in November 2018, for the most innovative development in the machine vision sector. Another panel of experts included the MotionCam-3D among the top ten innovations of the year 2019 in the trade journal inVISION ranking. Photoneo deeply values all the three significant honors and believes their demonstrably best 3D Camera in the world will help to advance multiple industries.