Zerintia reaches an agreement with Vuzix for the development of solutions using smart glasses and augmented reality targeted at the industrial sector.

Zerintia Technologies keeps betting on the digital transformation of the industrial sector, and on advancing towards the smart factory. With this in mind, the company has just entered an agreement with Vuzix® Corporation, one of the world’s leading companies in Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality both on corporate and home markets.

With this agreement Zerintia becomes the first Spanish company to be incorporated into Vuzix® Corporation’s M300 VIP program, which will allow for the development of augmented reality and virtual reality solutions using smart glasses, targeted at the industrial sector.

Zerintia Technologies is leading the deployment of solutions based on smart glasses and the internet of things in Spain’s industrial sector. Its platform, Wearable & IoT Architecture is being implemented in various companies in the industry to integrate wearable technologies with their business and industrial management systems.

This collaboration with the North American company will enable Zerintia to have privileged access to Vuzix’s cutting-edge M300 Smart Glasses, a powerful tool with which it expects to be able to offer increasingly comprehensive and personalized solutions to the aerospace, iron & steel and automotive industries.

“The agreement with Vuzix opens up a new range of opportunities before us thanks to the innovative hardware of the M300 glasses, which will enable us to offer new features and solutions to Spanish companies in the field of wearable technologies, augmented reality and the internet of things. The goal is to help companies take the lead in the digital transformation”, explained Kepa Sagastabeitia, Innovation and Consultancy Partner at Zerintia Technologies.

With these devices and Zerintia’s technology, companies will be able to provide their employees with powerful tools where augmented reality supplies them with all necessary information about the task at hand, the steps they are to follow to successfully complete it, access to supporting material (documents, schemas, manuals, instructional videos, etc.) or even remote, real-time support by experts who could offer advice from anywhere in the world. All of this without the need to ever take their hands off of the task or activity they are performing at each time.

The smart factory

Latest advances in smart glasses and the internet of things have paved the way for integral solutions that provide workers with comprehensive information about the tasks to be performed and how to execute them step-by-step with multiple real-time aids.

The smart factory generates significant cost savings by reducing response times with expert remote support via real-time streaming services, also improving the quality of customer service on maintenance or check-up tasks and incident resolution. Professionals have access to information and support material while carrying out their duties without the need to deviate their attention or get cut off from the issue or scenario on which they are working. This next-generation smart glass integration allows for “hands-free” operation, as well as access to powerful support features and step-by-step guidance in high-risk tasks, thereby reducing workplace accidents and errors while carrying out complex tasks.

The use of “how-to” or step-by-step guidance features insures the proper implementation of quality control guidelines and error reduction by making the performance of duties easier, while providing access to videos and instructions that help resolve issues and incidents.

All actions or tasks performed are logged and can be subsequently audited, enabling the obtainment of analytic information in regards to productivity or proof of performed tasks and their outcomes.

About Zerintia

Zerintia Technologies specialize in developing B2B solutions for industrial and healthcare environments using Wearable technologies and Internet of Things platforms.

We have developed a solution based on smart glasses for industrial and medical environments, with the purpose of assisting companies and workers to be more efficient, productive, and at the same time improving safety conditions.  Zerintia seeks to become the first company to develop the most advanced holistic solution for supporting workers to accurately monitoring, analysing and implementing inspection and maintenance processes in a secure, timely and cost-effective way.

Zerintia is among the top 25 brands worldwide which have the greatest influence on Wearable Technology (Onalytica study). 

About Vuzix

Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart-Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The Company’s products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and virtual and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 43 patents and 23 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2016 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK and Tokyo, Japan.