Numbers of the 25th Intergeo were also extraordinary: 708 exhibitors, 1107 products, 3 huge halls in an area as big as a smaller city. Therefore it was hard to get around all the booths in merit. There were 19 000 visitors by the way.

Main subjects of this years event besides old school survey equipment were the developments of UAVs, Smart City solutions, BIM modeling, and in one-or-two places: AI. INTERMAP took it’s part in hall no. 4, the so called Smart City Pavilion, on a 17 m2 island stand, which was a lucky choice for both our representatives and our visitors as the booth was easy to reach from any direction and it was easy to see the the demonstration of ForteMapAI running on a big screen in real time identifying the traffic signs and objects shown to it. More curios professionals liked to play with the system, trying to test out the capabilities, showing different kinds of objects from different countries, covering them partly or twisting them different angles. ForteMapAI was up to the challenge. 3 years ago at CEBIT we presented GeoMeter600, but now with more significant developments just like the fully functioning AI feature extraction module we shown the world something new. This expo was preceded by a great preparation and work, yet it was the first international challenge where we presented our technology at the same platform with the major players in the industry from 5 continents of the world especially our flagship mapping product the GeoMeter intelligent mobile mapper.

 The expo opened at 9 o’clock, but there was not too much noise until 10 but what came after we can call a rush. Our three colleagues were simultaniously showcasing products left without any time to visit the other 707 booths. People around the booth were interested in two things:

 -          How can we reach such an accuracy without using lidar?

 -          With regards of efficiency how is it possible to recognize 10k of objects and extract them classified daily?
 
They found this efficiency revolutionary new in the industry. Besides these two there was a third thing: the price which they found surprisingly afordable.
 Most of the visitors represented resellers, bigger or smaller surveying companies from all over the world. The other half was public road managers, city managers, highway managers, asset managers, utility managers and monitoring companies. There were already inquiries for exclusive reseller rights.
In regards of countries from Japan, China, India cross EU to America, even an Australian reseller was represented. Even the representatives of big players paid their duty at our booth who were the main sponsors of the event (ie: Hexagon, Trimble, Autodesk…) some of them with a surprising amount of colleagues.
The third day was all about comebacks who were interested in future partnerships and the students and researchers of universities who want to come work with us. So we had time to visit other exhibitors with special attention to our suppliers and competitors. We were surprised that the biggest suppliers are just getting prepared for the age of AI in mobile mapping devices of course there is a few startups and SMEs that are planning to introduce AI in some fields of their systems.

Experiencing all of these we have the right to say that we are one of the few outstanding companies integrating AI and Machine Learning in their systems and this was confirmed by many representatives of big companies. That is why it’s important to develop and fine tune our systems based on these questions, demands and experiences as the base technology proved to face a huge demand internationally. Laser based mobile mappers are still popular but those are 10-15 times more both in weight and cost even without a processing software. Prices of product parts i.e: cameras, sensors IMUs… were not going south but improving a lot in performance. We can say we are over a succesful exhibition with a huge number of serious interested partners which must be redeemed with future hard work and enthusiasm.