Thursday, February 25th, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. and NEW YORK – Today, VR/AR collaboration platform The Wild announced its official acquisition of Prospect by IrisVR. IrisVR was the first VR software on the market for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals (2014). The Wild (2017) innovated upon this momentum by providing a robust suite of VR and AR collaboration tools for teams. IrisVR’s
Thursday, February 25th, 2021
In the mid-1970s, geologist Bob Johnson opened a small bureau service above a row of shops in suburban Sydney, NSW, to computerise coal seam drafting. That venture was the precursor to Maptek, which today develops, sells and supports innovative mining solutions to more than 20,000 users worldwide. In 1981, Johnson then formed a company to
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
ATLANTA – Pointivo, the leading software platform provider for asset inspection using AI and computer vision, today announced the approval of its patent application titled “Systems and Methods for Processing 2D/3D Data Structures of Interest in a Scene and Wireframes Generated Therefrom.” Once issued, Pointivo will own eight US patents, with several other US and foreign
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC™) today announced the publication of the Characteristics of IIoT Models White Paper. Interoperability between applications, subsystems, and devices in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems requires agreement on the context and meaning of the data being exchanged, or semantic interoperability, which is typically captured in an information model. The new white paper addresses
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Centennial Colorado – Liteye Systems, Inc., a US leader in Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems, announces Liteye SHIELD, the next level in Multi-Mission, Multi-Domain systems and a true advancement in Counter UAS Defense. Liteye SHIELD incorporates Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning techniques with a newly designed SPYGLASS™ 3D radar, EO and IR tracking to increase the
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Programme (IPP) and Ecometrica’s Forests 2020 Platform fuel industry initiative Edinburgh/Mexico City – The long-term sustainability of Mexican palm oil production has been given a major boost with the announcement that FEMEXPALMA, the association of Mexican palm oil producers, will use satellites to monitor and safeguard sustainable land use
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
SAN JOSE, Calif.- Cepton, a leading provider of intelligent, lidar-based solutions, and the Austrian Industry and Testing Alliance ALP.Lab have partnered to build lidar-equipped testing environments for studying complicated road driving situations. For the first time in Austria, this project will deliver real-world traffic data from complex urban and rural alpine intersections. As an alliance of automotive
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
CAESAREA, Israel – infiniDome Ltd., the GPS Security Company, today announces the successful completion of UAS flight trials conducted under GNSS jamming scenarios. The test flight was part of the NA’AMA initiative, a project to push the boundaries of BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line of Sight) operation and accelerate the adoption of UAS in urban environments. This project was made
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
CGI (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A) was awarded by the European Space Agency (ESA) a contract to develop a new wildfire mapping service that combines recent advances in Earth Observation (EO), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to help better map and monitor the impact of wildfires. CGI and its project partner, the University of Leicester, is working
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
SIMI VALLEY, Calif –AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV), a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems, today announced it had completed its acquisition of Arcturus UAV, Inc. a leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The approximately $405 million transaction was previously announced in a press release on January 13, 2021. The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)
