ORLANDO, Florida and BIELEFELD, Germany, May 6,
2019 /PRNewswire/ -- itelligence has won an SAP Innovation
Award in the "Process Innovator" category with a project involving
the use of drones and image recognition for the purposes of
environmental protection. These awards honor companies that operate
successfully in the digital economy making use of SAP technologies
in innovative ways.
Norbert Rotter, CEO of
itelligence AG, said, "I'm delighted that SAP is honoring
itelligence AG as a 'Process Innovator' for an intelligent
environmental protection project in this high-caliber worldwide
competition. Being recognized as a good example of the smart use of
digitization makes me very proud and will serve as a special
incentive for us to warrant the trust placed in us in the future as
well."
This is the sixth year that the SAP Innovation Awards have been
held. The jury received 233 submissions from 37 countries and 25
sectors of industry. 81 projects were shortlisted as finalists. The
winners in the six categories were then chosen from these
finalists.
"Drones photograph the landscape and a previously trained and
optimized algorithm processes the image data automatically and
detects the weeds," said Mark
Albrecht, Global Head of Innovation Technologies at
itelligence AG. "This involves products from the SAP innovation
portfolio among others."
The itelligence environmental protection project, which was
conducted by itelligence Denmark,
itelligence Innovation Technologies, and NTT DATA Japan, uses
drones to loom for giant hogweed, a plant with huge, deeply lobed
leaves that can reach up to 15 feet in height. The sap from these
leaves causes photosensitivity in people's skin, potentially
resulting in serious skin inflammation. As this is a highly
invasive species, land and forest owners have a duty to uproot the
plants in order to eradicate them.
Even though the weed is quite large, it is laborious and
time-consuming to scan swathes of land for it by eye. "We have
automated this process by using drones to photograph the landscape
and then examining the vegetation in the photographs," explains
Albrecht. "When the image recognition detects giant hogweed, we
mark the place on a map."
Besides the drones, the project uses Artificial Intelligence,
Machine Learning, and Big Data technologies. "The greatest
challenge was to supply the algorithm with sufficient images to
train the neural network to recognize the plant," remembers
Albrecht.
The project was conducted in collaboration with the Danish drone
manufacturer ProDrone and involved four Danish town councils. The
users update the existing mapping of the weed with the results of
their IT-based image recognition and use the information to carry
out control work.
The SAP Innovation Awards team is donating $20,800 US dollars to charitable organizations on
behalf of the award winners. The award winners receive tickets to
the annual SAP conference SAPPHIRE NOW®, which will take place from
May 7th to 9th in Orlando, Florida this year.
Projects:
https://www.sap.com/bin/sapdxc/inm/attachment.2777/pitch-deck.pdf
Overview of Winners
https://www.sap.com/idea-place/sap-innovation-awards/entries/winners.html
Besides the winning project, two further itelligence projects
made it into the list of finalists in the SAP Innovation
Awards:
- FrontlineAI in collaboration with KIA Motors. A lifelike IT
avatar, which provides information to customers in natural language
in the store environment.
- XERVON – a project for Predictive Maintenance based on sensor
data and Machine Learning
About itelligence
itelligence AG transforms IT landscapes and business processes
through the combination of innovative SAP software and technology
with services and products developed in-house.
As an SAP Global Platinum Partner, itelligence supports SMEs and
large enterprises in every phase of their digital transformation.
itelligence's range of services includes IT strategy and
transformation consulting, software deployment and implementation,
as well as application management and managed cloud services. The
excellence of these services is built on the foundation of
itelligence's local presence, global capacity, and comprehensive
industry expertise. itelligence partners with customers to create
new and innovative business opportunities through the use of IT –
for each facet of the customer's business. Thousands of satisfied
customers have placed their trust in itelligence, many of them
since the company was founded 30 years ago. itelligence's
contribution to innovation and long-term business success has been
confirmed by numerous SAP awards and leading market analysts.
itelligence is part of the global NTT DATA group and employs
over 8,000 people across 25 countries. In 2018, itelligence
generated 926.6 million euros in
total revenues.
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