Firm to Aggregate Public Safety GIS data from 85 Emergency Communication Districts

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 19, 2020 — (PRNewswire) — DATAMARK^[1], the public safety GIS team of Michael Baker International^[2], has been selected by the Alabama 9-1-1 Board to provide Next-Generation 9-1-1  (NG9-1-1) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data solutions and services. As a part of this contract, DATAMARK will employ its VEP Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to enable Alabama to aggregate public safety GIS data from 85 Emergency Communication Districts to support geospatial call routing within the Alabama Next Generation Emergency Network (ANGEN). ANGEN is a project to install an Internet Protocol (IP) network to allow handling of 9-1-1 calls via IP.

"DATAMARK's dedicated team has been working for years to improve the success and reliability of emergency services by helping our partners become NG9-1-1 ready. A faster, more resilient system designed to receive calls and data from emerging technologies is necessary and can make all the difference in an emergency situation," said Jason Bivens, General Manager at DATAMARK, Michael Baker International. "As the only cloud-native provider, our solutions will allow the Alabama 9-1-1 Board to use cloud computing to reduce overall cost, provide a work-from-anywhere approach and deploy highly available and reliable GIS data."...

HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Aquiline Drones^[1] (AD), the Hartford-based manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and cloud solutions provider for commercial drone operations, today announced that it has signed exclusive US manufacturing and distribution licensing agreements with Drone Volt (ALDRV.PA), a French aeronautic manufacturer of professional civilian drones, on-board artificial intelligence, edge computing and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) production.

Under the terms of this five-year agreement, Aquiline Drones will take over the global production of two popular and proven drones from Drone Volt's suite of products, including the Hercules 2 and the highly coveted, Altura Zenith. Aquiline Drones will also be the sole manufacturer of the Pensar smart camera, a multispectral sensor, complete with artificial intelligence and edge computing capabilities.

Further to this collaboration, Aquiline Drones will be the exclusive provider of the Hercules 2, Altura Zenith and the Pensar in the United States, thus filling a much-needed gap in American-made drone products and systems.

"We are delighted beyond measure for this aptly timed and mutually beneficial union with Drone Volt," said Barry Alexander, CEO and founder of Aquiline Drones. "While we have been in operation for just under two years, we spent almost four years incubating this idea of...

The “SymCore” standard will increase consistency between different maps by defining agreed upon symbology rules.

 

15 October 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) membership has approved the Symbology Conceptual Model: Core Part (SymCore)^[1] as a new OGC Standard.

The Symbology Conceptual Core Model (SymCore) is the basis for defining symbology rules for the portrayal of geographic data. SymCore is modular & extensible (one core model with many extensions), and encoding agnostic (one symbology model can have many encodings). The core model is designed to be extensible so that new capabilities can efficiently be defined and used.

The modular, extensible and agnostic characteristics contribute to a new approach to portrayal in order to:

• Provide the flexibility required to achieve adequate cartographic styling while meeting the needs of a variety of information communities, for example aviation symbols, weather symbols, thematic maps, etc.; and
• Achieve high level styling interoperability without encoding dependencies.

Existing OGC standards for styling and symbology can only be used with a few OGC standards such as an OGC Web Map Service, so a more general and portable symbology model is required for use across the OGC standards baseline. SymCore fulfills this requirement.

As with any OGC standard,...

The Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation, in collaboration with the University of Maryland College of Information Studies (UMD iSchool), released a new online tool^[1] mapping pedestrian and traffic accidents across Prince George’s County, Maryland. This tool is part of the Vision Zero^[2] Prince George’s initiative launched by the county in 2019, which aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2040.

The tool, or “dashboard,” was developed by a team of students at the UMD iSchool, led by PhD Candidate TJ Rainsford and the Strategic Transformation Advisor at Dataprise, a Maryland-based IT services and support consultancy. Using geological data from the past four years – provided by the county and the Maryland Department of Transportation – the dashboard consists of various interactive maps that allow viewers to hone in on specific roadways and intersections in the county showing the exact location of reported crashes, dates the crashes occurred, the type of transportation involved, including pedestrian and motorcyclist accidents, and total number of people involved and the severity of their injuries. 

This data visualization tool will help county officials and local communities to hone in on and implement remediations in high-crash-risk...

IMDF targets indoor mapping and provides a mobile-friendly, compact, and human-readable data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.

19 October 2020: The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the draft Indoor Mapping Data Format (IMDF) before seeking adoption as a Community Standard. This draft standard was originally developed and submitted to OGC by Apple. Comments are due by November 18, 2020.

OGC Members Apple, Autodesk, Esri, Google, New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT), Ordnance Survey Limited, and Safe Software support the submission.

Apple developed IMDF to deliver indoor maps for venues all around the world, making it possible for users of the Apple Maps app to find their way indoors and discover attractions, services, shopping, and dining. IMDF provides a mobile-friendly, compact, human-readable, and highly extensible data model for any indoor space, providing a basis for orientation, navigation, and discovery.

Developers around the world have already created apps and services that offer indoor positioning with automatic floor level switching, seamless outside to indoor navigation, and location based experiences using IMDF tools developed by Apple. These tools include the online IMDF Sandbox, Indoor Survey app, and Apple MapKit and...

The USGIF High School Industry Geospatial Intelligence Credentialing initiative encourages high school students to pursue a GEOINT industry credential while pursuing a high school diploma

Herndon, Virginia (October 19, 2020)—The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation ( USGIF) partnered with Gateway Global American Youth and Business Alliance Academies Inc. (AYBAA), an education management and workforce solutions provider in the St Louis region, to bring Entry to Executive, an industry certification program, to Missouri high school students to encourage them to work toward a geospatial intelligence industry credential while pursuing a high school diploma.

Both USGIF and AYBAA are organizations with a mission centered on keeping U.S. companies, regions, and government globally competitive by ensuring that students of all backgrounds have the access to STEAM education and tools needed to follow GEOINT career pathways in now and next-generation technologies.

“This is a historic moment for our community! We hope that more schools and organizations whose core values align with our mission to build and grow GEOINT education and career pathway programs will soon join our initial efforts. We want a larger and more diverse pool of talented students to not only dream of pursuing a vocational or 4-year degree but to also...

Customers of the Kamloops, BC-based industrial cybersecurity firm will benefit from Schneider Electric's industry-leading technology and expertise

MISSISSAUGA, ON, Oct. 14, 2020 /CNW/ - Schneider Electric, the leader in energy management and automation, has certified ICI Electrical Engineering as a System Integrator Alliance Partner, further enabling ICI to easily and efficiently bring Schneider Electric solutions, training and expertise to local clients in British Columbia and across Canada.

"We're pleased to announce ICI Electrical Engineering as a certified System Integrator Alliance Partner, expanding this successful partnership in British Columbia and across Canada," says Adrien Lemaire, National Industry Business Development Manager at Schneider Electric. "This certification is a testament to the high-quality and well-serviced projects ICI is known for with the assurance of being backed by the best of Schneider Electric's global knowledge and industry-leading technology, solutions and services."

As a certified Schneider Electric System Integrator Alliance Partner, ICI can leverage Schneider Electric's industry-leading technology to support its continued growth and expertise in industrial cybersecurity, and systems modernization. This partnership benefits ICI through direct access to industry leading experts and a range of connected products in Schneider Electric's platform which includes edge control and analytics, for faster development and support of customized, high quality solutions.

"When modernizing industrial...

HYDERABAD, India, Oct. 15, 2020 — (PRNewswire) — Cyient (Estd: 1991, NSE: CYIENT), a global engineering and technology solutions company, today reported its consolidated financial results for the second quarter (Q2) of FY 2021 ending September 30, 2020.

Financial Highlights

–      Consolidated revenue at $135.0 Mn (INR 10,033Mn); growth of 3.4% QoQ (1.3% in CC) and de-growth of 17.8% YoY (in $ terms) and growth of 1.2% QoQ (in INR terms) and de-growth of 13.4% YoY (in INR terms)

–      Services revenue at $114.1 Mn (INR 8,487 Mn); growth of 1.7% QoQ (-0.5% in CC) (in $ terms) and de-growth of 18.7% YoY (in $ terms) and de-growth of 0.4% QoQ (in INR terms) and de-growth of 14.3% YoY (in INR terms)

–      DLM revenue at $20.9 Mn (INR 1,546 Mn); growth of 13.3% QoQ (in $ terms), and de-growth of 12.3% YoY (in $ terms) and growth of 10.8% QoQ (in INR terms) and de-growth of 8.4% YoY (in INR terms)

–      Free cash flow to EBITDA conversion for the quarter at 131.4%

–      Consolidated EBIT margin at 11.0% up by 586 bps QoQ

–      EBIT margin for services at 12.2%, up 542 bps QoQ

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HERNDON, Va., Oct. 15, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —  AFWERX ,^[1][2] the catalyst for fostering innovation within the U.S. Air Force, announced HawkEye 360 as one of the top 26 participating teams^[3] out of 809 total teams selected from across the globe competing in the EngageSpace challenge^[4], working to revolutionize how the space ecosystem works, dismantle the walls between sectors and close the "believability gap" for what's possible in space.

The EngageSpace Challenge^[5] is centered around four key topics – Department of Defense Commercial Space Partnerships, Global Space Transport and Delivery, Persistent ISR and Space Asset Resiliency.

Located in Herndon, Virginia, HawkEye 360 competed in the Department of Defense Commercial Space Partnership Challenge alongside a diverse group of teams – originating from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and other allied countries – that represent entrepreneurial startups, small businesses, large enterprises, academic institutions and research labs all vying to enable government buyers to pursue the most promising solutions to the most pressing challenges in the space domain.

"The AFWERX EngageSpace Challenge is critical to the future of industrial...