"We are working flat out to develop and manufacture new hardware platforms with predictable semiconductor technology," says IDS Managing Director Jan Hartmann. "Once again, we have shown how essential our adaptability is. It gave us a pleasing business performance in the second half of 2022, not least due to the success of our uEye cameras with the newly developed USB3 technology platform."

Further models with this hardware technology will follow in 2023 to make the company even more supplier-independent and counteract potential component bottlenecks. At the same time, the product portfolio is to be expanded. Models with high data rates as well as faster and larger sensors are being planned. The low-cost segment will also be significantly strengthened with new product variants. "We see a growing demand for price-optimized cameras with reliable basic functions," explains Managing Director Jan Hartmann. At the same time, the 3D segment continues to offer exciting potential and is being expanded.

The company slogan "It's so easy" will remain the guiding principle in 2023. "We support our customers in finding a solution more quickly and easily with the help of the "Easy to Use" IDS ecosystem, which IDS will focus on in 2023," explains IDS Managing Director Alexander Lewinsky. On the one hand, this relates to the industrial camera sector, where particular attention will be paid to the usability of the in-house software package. On the other hand, the industrial camera manufacturer is pushing ahead with the trend topic of artificial intelligence.

"IDS wants to make it even easier for users to access this key technology, remove supposed barriers to entry and help to initiate urgently needed automation processes with easy-to-use image processing components," emphasizes IDS founder and owner Jürgen Hartmann. The opportunities offered by such solutions are enormous and are associated with completely new fields of application, such as traffic and smart cities or the environment and smart farming. "With visionpier - a marketplace for image processing solutions with and without AI - we offer such access," adds Hartmann. "Solution providers and users can exchange ideas, discuss solutions, (further) develop them and reuse them. This type of exchange and reusability of solutions can contribute to the widespread success of AI. We have emerged stronger from the crisis and expect the market to develop positively," summarizes Jürgen Hartmann.

Last but not least, sustainability will also be high on the agenda in the coming year. IDS has firmly anchored this in its annual targets and wants to reduce_{CO2 emissions} by a further 5%, among other things. "In the future, we want to be completely self-sufficient in our power supply," explains Jan Hartmann. "With these wide-ranging measures, we are well positioned for the coming year and can react flexibly to market conditions in order to offer our customers the best user experience on the vision market despite the difficult conditions."