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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

PCI Geomatics Announces PT Barrata as New Distributor in Indonesia

PCI Geomatics, a world leading developer of geo-imaging software and systems is pleased to announce that PT Barrata is now an official distributor of PCI products for customers in Indonesia. Located in Bandung, Indonesia, PT Barrata’s staff is focused on remote sensing and GIS related business.  PT Barrata will promote PCI Geomatics technologies including Geomatica®

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Bluesky Adds Northern Ireland Aerial Images to Historical Photo Archive

Bluesky has added more than 100,000 aerial photographs to its online collection of historically important images following an agreement with Land & Property Services (Northern Ireland) to supply the entire Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland photographic archive. The newly available archive includes complete countrywide coverage from 2002 onwards together with a vast array of mainly

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

HR Wallingford Creates New Environment Team

International research and consultancy organisation HR Wallingford has announced the creation of a new team of environmental specialists to enhance existing capabilities and act as a centre of excellence for aquatic environmental solutions. Environmental issues are at the heart of sustainable economic growth and social development. Management of the environment aims to conserve ecosystems now and

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

HOK Announces New Product Design Business

Global architectural design firm HOK has launched a new business:HOK Product Design, LLC. Through this venture, HOK designers from across the firm will design products for use in and around the firm’s core business of architecture and interior design. HOK Product Design will license its designs to manufacturers for fabrication and sale. “HOK has a history

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

CSIRO: ‘Smart’ Water Quality Sensor Network Wins iAward

A smart sensor network that is monitoring the quality of drinking water in south-east Queensland has earned CSIRO one of the Australian ICT industry’s highest accolades. At the Australian Information Industry Association’s annual awards in Melbourne, CSIRO was named winner of the 2010 iAward for research and development. Read More

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Windsor Adds Water to Smart Grid

The City of Windsor has signed on to become one of Ontario’s first municipal participants to connect its water and wastewater facilities to the next generation of smart grid services. The City of Windsor has agreed to connect its municipal water resources to Sempa Power’s Ancillary Services Network (ASN), a pilot project which will enable Ontario’s

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Leica Geosystems Updates its GNSS Quality Control and Data Analysis Software

Leica Geosystems is pleased to announce Leica SpiderQC v4.0 aspart of the new reference station software update that also includes Leica GNSS Spider andLeica SpiderWeb. SpiderQC (previously known as GNSS QC) adds a range of advanced featuresfor multi-frequency, multi-GNSS data analysis, visualization, and numerous other new features,improvements, and optimizations. SpiderQC provides a suite of tools to

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Utility Improves Outage Response with Mobile GIS

Northeastern Rural Electric Membership Corporation (REMC) is able to better serve the energy needs of its growing customer base by using mobile geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri. The consumer-owned utility supplies electric power to more than 26,000 households and businesses in northeastern Indiana. Northeastern REMC utility linemen once navigated the service territories by memory, armed

Monday, August 16th, 2010

3-GIS Introduces Inspection Management Module

3-GIS announces the release of the Express Solution Inspection Management System.  By extending the functionality of 3-GIS’s Network Express and Field Express applications, the Inspection Management System provides an intuitive solution that addresses a utility’s maintenance management issues while leveraging existing GIS data. Learn More

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Telvent and Open Access Technology International Inc. Form Strategic Alliance

TRADING MARKETS – Telvent jointly announce the strategic integration of Telvent’s advanced data acquisition and distribution management smart grid solution suite with OATI’s webSmartEnergy solutions for smart grid and energy markets. The combination of the companies’ leading-edge solutions will enable utilities around the world to efficiently and effectively balance network optimization and energy costs while maximizing regulatory,