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Basler acquires mycable, plans expansion into embedded vision

German manufacturer of digital industrial cameras, Basler, has concluded the acquisition of embedded vision company mycable, with the aim of increasing its presence in the embedded vision technology market.
June 9, 2017 Read time: 1 min

German manufacturer of digital industrial cameras, 7094 Basler, has concluded the acquisition of embedded vision company mycable, with the aim of increasing its presence in the embedded vision technology market.

Founded in 2001, mycable is a consulting company in embedded computing whose customers are primarily in the automotive and computer vision industry. The vision market is its strongest market segment and Basler offers mycable a platform for the marketing of its products and services.

With the acquisition, Basler notes that it “plans to significantly reduce the integration efforts of embedded vision technologies for its customers”.

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