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About Barcona
Young team. Real problem. Serious engineering.
Barcona Systems is a student-founded technology startup from Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. We build autonomous vision systems that help businesses reduce errors, save time and run their inventory more efficiently.
Our story
Why we started.
Inventory is one of those problems everyone accepts as normal: things go missing, counts drift and people spend hours searching. We think automation can fix that.
We started with the idea of a robot that does the tracking itself, the TraceUnit-1-30x. Along the way the idea grew into something bigger: BARCONA AI, a software core that turns camera images and video into reliable inventory data.
Today that core can run on two kinds of hardware: the autonomous TraceUnit, or the Detection Unit, a camera and compute module mounted on the forklifts a warehouse already uses. We design the hardware, write the software and test it ourselves, and we're now looking for partners to take it into real warehouses.
How we work
What we believe in.
Hardware and software together
We design both sides in-house, so the sensors and the software are built for each other.
Built with users
The best product decisions come from the warehouse floor, which is why we build it together with the people who will use it every day.
Team
The founders.
Two co-founders with complementary roles: one leads the software, the other leads the AI.
KB
Co-founder · Lead Software Engineer
Kenan Busch
Kenan leads software engineering at Barcona Systems. He is responsible for the architecture behind BARCONA AI and its integration into the hardware, from the camera input on the device to the data that ends up in a customer's systems.
Responsible for
- Software and system architecture
- Integration on the Detection Unit and TraceUnit
- Interfaces and data output
PythonEmbedded systemsRaspberry PiSystem architecture
PW
Co-founder · Lead AI Engineer
Philipp Wirth
Philipp leads AI engineering at Barcona Systems. He is responsible for the machine-learning side of BARCONA AI: the vision models that recognise and read barcodes in real warehouse conditions, and keeping them reliable as new environments are added.
Responsible for
- Computer vision models
- Training and evaluation
- Reliability in real warehouse conditions
Machine learningComputer visionModel trainingData quality
Location
Lörrach, Germany.
- Based in
- Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Region
- Where Germany, Switzerland and France meet
- Contact
- info@barconasystems.de
Work with us
Partner, mentor or investor?
We're always happy to talk to people who can help the TraceUnit get onto real warehouse floors faster.
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