Information & Communications Technology

With the support of Innosuisse, the Ticino-based SME Cube Finance has developed an intelligent system designed to detect fraudulent banking transactions more efficiently, thereby helping to counteract money laundering.

Thanks to support from Innosuisse, the Geneva-based SME Skysoft-ATM has developed a technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assist air traffic controllers.

What can artificial intelligence (AI) do for geriatric medicine? Actually, quite a lot, says Thomas Münzer, Chief Physician at the Geriatrische Klinik St. Gallen: «AI has the potential to relieve the burden on carers and maintain the autonomy of older people.»

Tonnes of food ends up in the waste every day in the kitchens of Swiss restaurants, hotels and hospitals. The Swiss start-up Kitro helps companies to reduce food waste.

The offices of MyLiveZone AG in Ipsach, Bern, are filled with rows of cabinets lined up side by side. If you look behind the glass doors, you will see square boxes of differing sizes, with interconnecting coloured cables and small blinking lights.

The topic of cybersecurity is more topical than ever. To protect sensitive data, the Lausanne-based company OneVisage SA offers a digital authentication solution based on 3D facial biometrics.

Being able to transcribe the languages spoken in Switzerland, particularly Swiss German, is the mission of the Valais-based start-up recapp IT, which has developed a voice recognition system to transform conversations into text.

Guarantee the safety of lone workers thanks to an ultra-reliable communication system. This is the goal of a project led by Zurich-based company Swissphone Wireless AG in collaboration with the German Frauenhofer research institute.

ClearSpace tackles failed satellites and the proliferation of debris in space. With the help of Innosuisse, this start-up from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne is developing technology based on artificial intelligence that is capable of approaching and capturing such debris.