Smart Surface & Infovalley announce a strategic partnership in multitouch medical applications
The New medical application developed by Smart Surface & I-Gene (Infovalley)
Smart Surface Sdn Bhd and INFOVALLEY Group of Companies, represented by their subsidiary I-Gene Sdn Bhd, have signed few months ago an MOU for a strategic collaboration to develop a groundbreaking application of multitouch and surface computing in the medical field.
The Beta version of this technology was showcased at the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum, WIEF, that was held between 18 -20 May 2010 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.
Smart Surface Managing Director (right) and one of our lead programmers (left) demonstrating the new application to a WIEF06 delegate
INFOVALLEY Group of Companies is a leading developer of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Medical Informatics in Asia.
The collaboration aims at developing an integrated hardware/software multitouch system in the field of Forensic Medical Science. The system reconstructs 3D visuals using digital images generated by MSCT and MRI machines and subsequently enables autopsy procedures to be conducted digitally on a surface computer using hand gestures.
Smart Surface Managing Director (right) explaining the product to a WIEF delegate: the Commerce Minister of Bangladesh Mr. Muhammad Faruk Khan
Smart Surface Sdn Bhd showcased its latest projects at the 6th World Islamic Economic Forum that was held between 18 -20 May 2010 at Kuala Lumpur Convention Center.
The 6th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) is one of the most important business forums in 2010 with over 2000 participants featuring Heads of State, government officials and business communities of the Muslim world and beyond.
Smart Surface introduced a Beta version of its latest multitouch surface computing medical application which is currently under development in collaboration with I-Gene Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of the INFOVALLEY Group of Companies, a leading developer of Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Medical Informatics in Asia.
Smart Surface Partners with Significant Technologies to cover Brunei & Indonesia Markets
Smart Surface Sdn Bhd has assigned Significant Technologies Sdn Bhd as their agent in regard to surface computing and multitouch solutions to cover the Brunei Darussalam & Indonesian markets.
Significant Technologies Sdn Bhd provides services in communication (optical fiber products and related services) and education (training services and materials) and is especially strong in Brunei Darussalam where it has an established cooperation with Communication and Education ministries of Brunei.
Significant Technologies will partner with Smart Surface to market multitouch products and applications developed by Smart Surface as per clients’ needs and specifications and to provide training and after sale services .
Receiving Malaysia Excellence Award
In Picture above, Mr Pierce Ang, Director - Frost & Sullivan hands the 2010 Excellence Award to Smart Surface’s Managing Director Faysal Abdul Aziz in Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Malaysia.
Smart Surface was honored with 2010 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Excellence Award - Technology Innovation Award for Emerging Human Computer Interface Technologies.
The award plaque and certificate were officially handed in a ceremony held in recognition and honor of outstanding industry achievements, on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 at the Nusantara Ballroom in Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Malaysia.
Saying goodbye to one of the partners
Mr. Homam Alghorani who co-founded Smart Surface Sdn Bhd in 2009 is leaving the company in order to have time for personal life and possibly pursue his Masters Degree. Mr. Homam helped in founding the company and assisted in the making of the early prototypes. He was responsible for various daily business matters as an Executive Director.
Smart Surface team hopes all the best to Homam and wishes him happiness in his new direction.
Mr. Homam sold his shares to the remaining partners and resigned from all posts and responsibilities related to Smart Surface Sdn Bhd. Therefore, he is no longer a representative of Smart Surface Sdn Bhd and he is not associated with the company in any form.
All intellectual properties, trademarks, designs, and know-how, etc, related to all SmartSurface products and software belongs to and are registered to the company, Smart Surface Sdn Bhd.
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We are pleased to announce that following their research and rigorous judging process, Frost & Sullivan has selected Smart Surface Sdn Bhd as the recipient of the 2010 MALAYSIA EXCELLENCE AWARD:
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD FOR EMERGING HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE TECHNOLOGIES
The award is to be received at the Seraton Imperial, Kuala Lumpur on May 12, 2010.
Frost & Sullivan is a leading global market research giant that covers 300 markets and 250,000 companies and provides management and decision-making consultancy and investment directions to the leading financial institutions, investment bodies, and corporations around the world.
Nominations for this Award are not open to companies/individuals for self-nomination. Companies are selected strictly by Frost & Sullivan’s analyst team, following a rigorous measurement based methodology to select leading companies in various Malaysian market segments.
In order to select the Award recipient, Frost & Sullivan analysts measured companies with the following selection criteria:
• Uniqueness of Technology
• Impact on New Products/Applications
• Impact on Functionality
• Impact on Customer Value
• Relevance of Innovation to Industry
In their award letter they sited:
“The Smart Surface Solution, unlike other rear projection based competitors, is based on a number of different technologies that enable a large number of form factors for different applications. Their solutions are the first to use laser-based detection in addition to the standard IR illumination, and stripped LCD based display technology in the place of IR projection. The Smart Surface solution is the only full-function surface computing solution in Malaysia, and on a per-inch screen size basis, has a significant cost advantage over competing international solutions.“
SmartSurface has recently won a contract to build a 6.5m interactive multitouch SmartWall at the K-World exhibition hall of MIMOS, the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems, in the Technology Park Malaysia.
The integrated interactive SmartWall is powered by our multi-touch technology that supports multi-users in a multi-tasking environment and is communicated with entirely by the use of hand touch.
The contract included as well system initial programming and integration, testing and commissioning, operational and maintenance training, and software development kit and programming training.
We provided the entire installation in an exceptionally short period to accommodate the Client’s sudden change of schedule for a demonstration in front of ministers’ delegation.
The following is a praise of SmartSurface’s team work for the K-World Hall’s SmartWall: “I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to SmartSurface team in being fully committed in completing the project in less than 10 days. They did it exceptionally well and I would like to congratulate them on a job well done. Our management team is very encouraged with Smart Surface’s SmartWall.” V. Apayee, Client’s Project Manager.
See this demo video at time of calibration of the interactive multitouch wall:
SmartSurface SmartWall at MIMOS K-World Hall, Technology Park Malaysia.
SmartSurface’s SmartFrames at MIMOS
SmartSurface has been cooperating with MIMOS, the Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems, by supplying our multitouch SmartFrame and providing training on multitouch programming.
Among the many applications Mimos is cooperating with SmartSurface on and using SmartSurface technology to develop is a SECURITY APPLICATION, showed in the pictures here. This Security Application allows hands-on direct mulititouch control over 60 security cameras at their facilities.
SmartWall was chosen to interactively showcase Malaysian Prime Minister program “1-Malaysia” at the launching event of the “Government Transformation Program” (GTP). The launching was held last week on the 28th & 29th of January 2010 at the “KLCC Convention Center” and was attended by representatives of most ministries in Malaysia.
SmartSurface’s early models are based on both in-house research as well as open source community contribrutions. SmartSurface would like to acknowledge the surface computing and multitouch community for trying to advance this technology. We would like to further contribute by releasing SmartSurface”s tracking source code under the GPL license.
You can download it from our SmartSurface Community Forum (please register to be able to download the materials we offer there).
Two of the co-founders are veteran, active members of the NUI Group. NUI, (Natural User Interface) is a global open source community that brings together experts in surface computer related multitouch programming. Many founders of startup surface computing companies have come from NUI Group. We at SmartSurface have learned much from these members and are always willing to share and exchange knowledge.
SmartSurface is committed to its active involvement in spreading multitouch and surface computing technology by providing source codes and training. The more surface computing is integrated into everyday life and the more people know about multitouch programming, the better this will reflect on SmartSurface as well as all of those involved in surface computers and multitouch.
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