Sky Tronic won New Economy Heroes 2017 competition
Sky Tronic, a high-tech startup has been declared a winner of New Economy Heroes 2017 for the most innovative Internet-of-Things start-up. The founders could meet up with Maciej Balsewicz from bValue.vc and Morten Lund, who’s already invested in an over a hundred startups. Besides that, like all the finalists they got access to Front End Development courses on CodersTrust platform.
New Economy Heroes is an event where innovative startups can meet up with large companies, investors and entrepreneurs to discuss business and exchange their experiences. After all, it’s pointless to stay isolated; it’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes than to make the same ones. To make it even more worthwhile, it awards the most forward-looking startups. This year’s contest was for IoT startups.
“New Economy Heroes contest showed how innovative and creative Polish entrepreneurs can be. Making the final decision who should win really wasn’t easy,” says Beata Jarosz from CodersTrust Poland. „I’m very happy we can help them in their further development. I believe that sessions with Maciej Balsewicz and Morten Lund will help them spread their wings.”
Sky Tronic, the startup who won this year’s edition, specialises in designing and producing drones using their own controller systems for UAV steering and stabilising. Their nav system should improve the safety and stability of UAV flights in difficult weather and terrain conditions. In order to make it possible they implement Fuzzy Logic Controller. Their solutions are dedicated to the military and everyone who’s responsible for protecting saving lives. They’re perfect for the life rescue missions, monitoring of snow avalanches or surveillance just to name a few. They’ve got some cool projects for the future and they’re going to develop novel unmanned helicopters.
“IoT is a concept, which opens completely new possibilities to us, especially in the industry. We’re just starting the journey (with IoT), the ideas how to use the data which has suddenly become available are just being created. In our point of view, IIoT has a great potential to improve the economy of many businesses,” says Tomasz Kosik, General Manager, Poland, Baltics and Ukraine in Emerson.
Besides Sky Tronic, Bionik and Res Solutions placed in the top three. Bionic is a startup that offering solutions product identification, verification of intellectual property and the trademarking. Res Solutions creates Jivit, an intelligent solution that allows you smart power management.
Partners and organizers of Polish edition of New Economy Heroes competition are: Businesslink, CodersTrust Polska ThinkTank, Virgin Mobile, Emerson Process Management Sp. z o.o, Akdemia Leona Koźminśkiego, Bank City Handlowy, Polska Press and StartUp Magazine.