COMPANY / HISTORY
The mastermind of the spidercam® system is Jens C. Peters. He founded CCSytems Inc. in 2000 in Austria with the original aim to further investigate the innovative concept of the spidercam® and to develop a fully functional prototype. He intended to create a cable-suspension system for a camera transporting device, capable of moving not only laterally or horizontally along the ground, but also vertically, thus providing full 3D-movement while covering wide areas; applicable indoors as well as outdoors.
To reach his goal, he carried out an in depth study, made numerous calculations, plans and CAD-drawings, built models and revised them again and again. One of his major efforts was always to reach technical solutions by means of already well-known, standardised and reliable components which could be arranged in a modular manner. All developments Peters achieved are protected by international patents, and the name spidercam® is a trademark.
At the end of 2003 the project passed its baptism of fire: For the first time the spidercam® as known today took off, hovered and moved around freely in a large event-hall in Carinthia (Austria). In 2004 the system was employed for the first time on a television production in Austria. In the same year, J. C. Peters teamed up with the German company PMT and the spidercam® entered the German market. Right from the very beginning the spidercam® provided fantastic shots for various German broadcasters and quickly became integrated in the German media landscape.
A new partner, the successful Austrian businessman Herbert Neff, joined Peters in 2007 and a new company, spidercam GmbH, was founded. Since then further business relationships have been created in a number of countries, such as Great Britain, France, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Tunisia, Australia or China, this creates a local client interface renting spidercam® systems which includes staff, equipment and local know-how for the broadcast and film-production companies. To meet the growing demand for spidercam® services the spidercam GmbH-team offers workshops for prospective operators. The goal of these workshops is to guarantee the highest quality and safety standards established by spidercam GmbH and thus to satisfy any client wishes and needs.
The in-house engineering department is constantly improving the spidercam® and also developing special applications as per our customers needs. Currently work is been done on a completely revised and new system - the spidercam® MkII.