Leveraging e-con’s digicam innovation functionality and Shikino’s deep market attain in Japan, this collaboration will discover tailor-made enterprise channels and localization methods to handle market-specific necessities similar to compliance and certification.
California & Japan (Jun 02, 2025): e-con Techniques®, a number one digicam options supplier for embedded imaginative and prescient purposes, and Shikino Excessive-Tech, a Japanese firm specializing in embedded digicam, semiconductor design, and testing tools, have formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on promotion and gross sales enlargement of embedded digicam modules for Mobility, ITS, Sensible Agriculture, Robotics, Retail and Medical purposes.
Leveraging e-con’s digicam innovation functionality and Shikino’s deep market attain in Japan, this collaboration will discover tailor-made enterprise channels and localization methods to handle market-specific necessities similar to compliance and certification.
This partnership reinforces the dedication of each corporations to ship good, market-ready embedded imaginative and prescient options that meet the evolving calls for of shoppers worldwide.
“We’re very honored to type a enterprise alliance with e-con Techniques. Our firm has been increasing its enterprise within the Japanese market by flexibly responding to numerous buyer calls for. Nevertheless, the calls for of the digicam module market have been increasing and diversifying lately. By enhancing our lineup with digicam merchandise from e-con Techniques that we shouldn’t have, and mixing them with our help capabilities, we anticipate to supply new and engaging proposals to our Japanese clients. Alternatively, e-con Techniques has a large community and is increasing its enterprise primarily within the European and American markets. We’ll increase our world enterprise by providing our merchandise as a part of e-con Techniques’ portfolio.” stated Shinichi Takahashi, Government Director of Shikino Excessive-tech.
“The embedded imaginative and prescient market is quickly evolving, however corporations nonetheless face main challenges — from regional compliance complexities to the necessity for deeply localized product help and sooner deployment cycles. Our partnership with Shikino is a strategic response to those challenges. By combining our strengths in digicam expertise with Shikino’s regional market insights and buyer proximity, we’re higher positioned to ship scalable, high-performance options to Japanese market. This collaboration allows us to successfully tackle vital purposes similar to mobility, ITS, precision agriculture, medical diagnostics units, robotics, and good retail, guaranteeing sooner time-to-market and seamless system integration.” stated Harishankkar Subramanyam, Co-Founder & VP-Enterprise Improvement of e-con Techniques.
About Shikino Excessive-Tech
Shikino Excessive-Tech is an electronics producer with industrial digicam enterprise, semiconductor inspection tools enterprise, and LSI design and growth enterprise. The digicam enterprise began in 2004, specializing in increasing enterprise in markets that demand prime quality and steady provide, similar to infrastructure tools like ATMs and POS techniques, industrial tools, and medical units. Merchandise embody USB-based view cameras, sensing cameras able to picture processing and edge AI, and customized cameras developed primarily based on buyer requests. Moreover, as a brand new problem, we have now began promoting from April 2025 the C-Support monitoring system outfitted with a radio sensor and digicam as an answer product for the nursing care enterprise, which detects coronary heart charge, respiratory, sleep, and getting away from bed.
About e-con Techniques
e-con Techniques® designs, develops, and manufactures OEM cameras. With 20+ years of expertise and experience in embedded imaginative and prescient, it focuses on delivering imaginative and prescient and digicam options to industries similar to retail, medical, industrial, mobility, agriculture, good metropolis, and extra. e-con Techniques’ broad portfolio of merchandise consists of Time of Flight cameras, MIPI digicam modules, GMSL cameras, USB 3.1 Gen 1 cameras, stereo cameras, GigE cameras, low mild cameras, and extra. Our cameras are at the moment embedded in over 350+ buyer merchandise, and we have now shipped over 2 million cameras to the USA, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and lots of different international locations.