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WashTec’s 3D CarScan invention receives the Innovation Award
For their development of three-dimensional vehicle recognition in car-wash systems, the Augsburg WashTec Group is to be awarded this year’s Innovation Prize of the automechanika trade fair.
The principle
- The 3D CarScan technology by WashTec registers the exact dimensions and shape of the bodywork of a vehicle in front of the car-wash, and uses them to determine the optimum movements of spray nozzles, washers and dryers. In contrast to the conventional, two-dimensional recognition systems, this method recognises mountings and structures such as mirrors and spoilers, and these can be deliberately approached or avoided during the washing process. This new development, which has been termed “extraordinary“ by leading representatives of science, the media and trade associations, will be presented to the public for the first time at the automechanika.
- When the optional 3D CarScan technology is utilised, the contours of a vehicle are recorded by means of a camera using the laser-light section process, and evaluated to produce a three-dimensional model.
The advantages
- The advantages of this new process benefit operators and customers of car-washes alike: whereas hitherto special wash programs had to be selected for special forms of vehicle, mountings or structures, it will be possible in future to drive any vehicle into the car-wash and have it cleaned with the standard programs.
- When this technology is employed, operating errors and the often resulting damage are impossible. Exposed parts of the vehicle can be cleaned more deliberately and more thoroughly. For the operator, this means that a wider circle of potential customers can be addressed.
The 3D CarScan technology by WashTec, the market leader in the car-wash sector, is only one of a total of 13 new developments that are to be distinguished with the Innovation Award on the 12th of September at this year’s automechanika.
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