Monsieur Cube provides digital services.
Every face of them.

Services

Consulting and R&D: Monsieur Cube lives in the space of innovative user interfaces, image processing, machine learning and will help you with custom-made projects.

Design and implementation: Monsieur Cube speaks C++, Python, Javascript, Java, OpenCV, Meteor, Ruby on Rails… He will gladly learn the most exotic technology to support your project!

DevOps, hosting and maintenance: Monsieur Cube takes care of all or any the parts of your “stack” to ensure that your project is stable and future-proof.

Realisations

Tangible interface to control a renewable energy simulation
The solar energy departmednt of the ÉS group had a dual need to present its offer: explain the importance of autoconsumption in the return on investment in solar energy projects as well as attract visitors to their booth in fairs and expositions.
Monsieur Cube proposed tan³ (tangible cubes), a intuitive tangible interface. Visitors are invited to place cubes representing electric components on a miniature house. The user thus controls the various parameters involved in the computation of the autoconsumption rate.
Interactive light display
TCRM Blida is a meeting space for artistic and digital creation, production and innovation.
The event space provides a stage to host various shows and talks. TCRM Blida wanted an interactive solution to involve spectators.
Monsieur Cube proposed and developped the following use of the 30 luminous cubes on the background of the scene : spectators can vote on a simple mobile website with their smartphone and the cubes display a live visualisation of the poll results.
Design and development of a mobile, multimedia recording studio
Boumchaka wanted a interactive animation for their festival “Freeze”.
C.U.B. is a booth where users can record their performance for 40 seconds. It is a giant cube containing a big screen proposing various activities: dancing, rapping, singing, or performing a show of air guitar, air scratch or “air cooking”.
The performance video is recorded and may be published on the C.U.B.’s website or on social media.
Monsieur Cube was involved from the early stages of the project and developed all the software, including an augmented reality interface.
Deployment of experimental, scientific software to process digital archives
The Digital Humanities Laboratory of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) developped a tool to work on digital archives of old manuscripts.
This tool detects words, characters, graphical elements (e.g. in illuminated manuscripts) and cross-reference them.
Monsieur Cube integrated the various, heterogenous components of the system, stabilized it and deployed it on site for a luxury watchmaker.
High reliability, massive optical character recognition
Odoma provides AI technologies to extract, enrich and exploit contents from digitized or digital heritage.
Its client, the a Swiss luxury watchmaker Longines, archived over a million transactions as numerical records printed on microfiches and needed to manage these records digitally.
Off-the-shelf character recognition software did not reach the required precision to digitize this data. A single wrong digit invalidates the whole record !
Monsieur Cube developped a custom-made image processing software and achieved the expected reliability (>99.9 % correct records).
Deployment and hosting of innovative web services
Odoma provides AI technologies to extract, enrich and exploit contents from digitized or digital heritage.
They regularly build prototypes and experiments to create new tools.
Monsieur Cube takes care of their deployment.
Web and mobile development for a pedagogical social network
Realto is a social application developed by Lateral Studio in collaboration with several swiss research institutes.
It aims at creating a link between the learners, the professionals tutoring them on their workplace, and the teachers.
It allows learners to capture observations on the field and share them with the class. Learners can also participate in digital, pedagogical activities created by their teachers.
Monsieur Cube fulfilled various missions, from consulting (on a proof of concept of a native port of the application) to development (of the image annotation tool).
Passive presence detection
The not-for-profit Coworking Metz manages a coworking space called “Le Poulailler”.
It needed to simplify the process of subscription and day-pass to access the space.
Monsieur Cube designed and implemented a system to passively measure the time spent by coworkers and interfaced it with an e-commerce solution integrated to the organization’s website.
The presence detection system is based on monitoring the network of the coworking space.
Passive attention detection method and videoconferencing
Linote is a startup building a digital solution to help the elderly stay at home.
A digital tablet allows non tech-savvy users to show smart notifications to their elderly family member as well as call them without needing them to interact to answer.
Monsieur explored how to process the image from the camera of the tablet to ensure that the notification has been read, by detecting the presence of the user’s face.
Monsieur Cube also experimented on a solution to automatically pick up a videoconferencing call.

Team

Monsieur Cube is an avatar of the collaboration between complementary profiles:

Dave Hops has been a passionate computer nerd since his childhood. As a self-learner always on the look out for the latest technology trend, he takes care of operations and maintenance. In his spare time, he experiments too much with self-hosting (email server, DNS server, iot…) with his home(lab).

Quentin Gineer received his Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Institut national des Sciences appliquées (INSA) de Lyon and participated long-term student exchange programs with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Trinity College Dublin. He learned software engineering, computer science, networking, project management…

Doctor Bonnard received his Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) under the supervision of Pierre Dillenbourg and Frédéric Kaplan. His thesis, <em> Paper interfaces, an HCI approach to geometry education<em>, led him to invent and develop innovative, robust and simple solutions, mixing the best of various technologies (in this case paper and computers)

All these profiles live in the physical person of Quentin Bonnard, founder of Monsieur Cube EURL, Metz, France 😉

Clients

Following are some of the clients Monsieur Cube enjoyed working with. (While he hopes that the feeling is mutual, this does not constitute an official endorsement.)