ClarK

We offer smart augmented reality (AR) glasses designed to help industrial employees in their day-to-day jobs. The main purpose of our product is to provide explicit real-time guidance to field technicians, as well as serve as standard protective equipment.

Our product separates expertise from execution and provides job opportunities for unskilled workers, who can take on field assignments without expertise, knowing that they will be fully guided by domain experts. Being guided by AR glasses with a heads-up display will help the field technicians to be focused which will decrease the risk of human error and increase productivity.

We estimate our product to decrease errors in field assignments by 17%, as well as reduce the costs of service teams by 11%.

Our vision is to craft the right future: a future of inclusion and growth.

Warehouse operations are estimated to account for about 20% of all logistics costs while picking items from shelves represents up to 65% of warehouse costs.

A 2017 article from the Harvard Business Review sums it up: "The experience at General Electric and other industrial firms shows that, for many jobs, combinations of humans and machines outperform either working alone." As for impact, the numbers get very large, very quickly. As an example, across 1,000 workers, a 30% productivity improvement, translates to upwards of $25MM in savings on an annualised basis.

With an ageing workforce, a growing skills gap, and rising demands for quality and productivity, it’s never been more urgent to empower the people who get the work done every day.The logistics giant DHL and a growing number of other companies are using AR to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the picking process. At DHL this approach has led to fewer errors, more-engaged workers, and productivity gains of 25%. And the AR application is allowing new Intel workers to immediately achieve picking speeds 15% faster than those of workers who’ve had only traditional training.

This is the starting point of our project to improve internal logistics for SMEs.

The current operational training process implemented in industries is not efficient and cost-effective. While factories increasingly employ the latest smart, connected technologies, human workers remain central to factory performance, efficiently delivering information to them that enhances their performance is essential.

ClarK aims to deliver the right information at the right moment and in the ideal format, directly in workers’ line of sight, while leaving workers’ hands-free so they can work without interruption. 

The head-up display offers real-time information easing the work of the employee and allowing for a boost in productivity. 

Google Glasses, Microsoft Hololens, Vuzix, Daqri are potential direct competitors that leverage the AR technology. They all produce smart glasses for industrial use. Some are still in prototype mode, with 400+ million in funding. Our USP stands in the modularity and easy adaptability of embedded sensors for specific use cases, according to our business partners.

The custom sensors on the glasses  are able to identify gas temperatures, short gases, various alerts (useful in the oil and gas industry), and can be used in warehouses as they are able to scan QR codes or bar codes that can provide various inside box information - useful for parcels, customs, post, etc.

Gesture recognition is used for menu navigation, providing an intuitive and hassle-free method to interact with the device, regarding the user wearing gloves or not.

The thermal camera provides the glasses with the ability to see thermal signatures, detect high and  low temperatures in front of the worker  and give alerts about temperature anomalies.

Air quality sensor and volatile compounds from Bosch has the capability to trigger alerts based on dangerous combinations of heat and gas.

An on-board HD camera enables live video streaming feed from the worker’s point of view and access to QR code scanning and image uploads to the dashboard.

We are 4 founders, 2 full-time, with an extended team of 10 engineers dedicated part-time for now, until we can afford to finance the venture. 

We are a team of young professionals aiming to revolutionize Industry 4.0. Serial innovators working together for more than a year on internationally awarded projects, we are focused on developing innovative products.

The ClarK project has started in March 2018 as an entry in the Innovation Labs contest among other 85 teams.

Our team is composed of highly skilled young professionals who have an extensive background working on novel and innovative projects.

The team has two business developers with a corporate and entrepreneurial background. We have one member assigned with developing the marketing strategies and handling design issues.

Regarding the development of the product and technical innovations, the team benefits from the expertise of two software (SW) developers and one hardware (HW) developer with extensive backgrounds in big tech projects (Wearables, European Space Agency HW development)