Welsh Government Win AGI Innovation Award

Corporate GIS for the Welsh Government has won a prestigious Innovation & Best Practice Award from the Association of Geographic Information. The AGI awards identify and encourage best practice, innovation and maximum use of geographic information. The 2011 award is a result of an investment programme in technology and skills that is now delivering a powerful suite of geospatial tools to support decision making across Welsh Government.

Technology from Envitia is used to provide the Welsh Government’s Spatial Data Infrastructure which underpins their Corporate Geographic Information System (GIS). “It is excellent to see the team at the Welsh Government win the innovation award” says Stuart Massey, Account Manager, who attended the awards ceremony. “It is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates the successful implementation of leading edge geospatial technologies.

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General Dynamics Canada and Envitia Renew Partnership

General Dynamics Canada and Envitia have renewed their longstanding partnership to perform ongoing research and development in next-generation tactical surveillance solutions for defence and aerospace applications.

Building on the success of a 10-year partnership, the two companies will continue working together to deliver integrated tactical data management and digital mapping solutions to defence and aerospace customers worldwide. Among the products of this partnership is General Dynamics Canada’s Tactical Integrated Sensor Information System (TISIS) which uses Envitia’s MapLink Pro to create a powerful surveillance solution for military aircraft.  TISIS is currently integrated into helicopters that are part of the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Program, along with other airborne global surveillance platforms worldwide.

Engineered by General Dynamics Canada, TISIS provides robust capability and flexibility to collect and present a wide range of situational awareness data gathered by the aircraft’s sensor systems.  Information from radar, electro-optics, electronic support measures, acoustics and magnetic anomaly detector subsystems and other sensors is displayed on a digital map, which can be easily configured to meet the needs of mission personnel in-flight.

The capabilities of TISIS are the direct result of ongoing research, development and innovation by General Dynamics Canada. Based on commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) components, the system collects and combines powerful information along with data management tools in a cost-effective system that is easily adapted for use on fixed and rotary wing aircraft.

Envitia’s MapLink Pro is a component-based software development kit for the management and display of geospatial and live track data. It was specifically designed for application developers across the defence and security industry. 

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Envitia welcomes Robin Parrish

Robin Parrish has recently joined Envitia as Business Development Manager and will be based in the US office in Reston, VA. As part of the growing sales team, Robin will focus on the Defence and Security market in North America.

Before joining Envitia Robin spent 8 years at eSpatial.  Robin was appointed as the VP of Business Development to eSpatial and over the 8 year period developed partnerships for eSpatial in the USA, Canada, Brazil and South Africa. During this period he successfully sold Geospatial solutions into many verticals including US DOD, federal, state and city governments and utilities.

Robin also spent 4 years at Oracle and was responsible for both business development and technical sales support for the Oracle Spatial product.  Robin served 25 years in the South African Defence Force and on leaving was in the post of Senior Staff Officer Landward Mapping and was responsible for establishing geoinformation system that supported all arms of service. Robin was also the founding president of the Geoinformation Society of Southern Africa, represented South Africa at the ISO Geographic Standards Technical Committee.

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Envitia is the first vendor to support new RTIG data standards

Envitia is pleased to announce that its CUTLAS-RTI bus real time information system now supports the RTIG-Inform Digital Air Interface Protocol (DAIP). CUTLAS-RTI is first to market with open standards-based data exchange support.

CUTLAS–RTI has a number of open interfaces to enable Bus Operators to access strategy-driven functions that can selectively alert on bus operations. This can be used to detect unwelcome events or conditions such as early or late running, road congestion, potentially poor driving practice.

“With the adoption of these new open standards our customers have the opportunity to combine GPS and GPRS in real-time directly from the Electronic Ticket Machine (ETM). Use of this data can help drive down costs whilst improving overall service.” Says Mark Percival, Head of Intelligent Transport Systems at Envitia Ltd.

Mark Percival added, “DAIP has now been running in Kent since it was deployed early this year. The first major operational bus ETM data influx occurred in late March when 142 bus ETMs were connected in Kent overnight.  Bus location and service data from ETMs using DAIP has continued to grow.  CUTLAS-RTI now has well over 300 buses reporting.”

Envitia will also be demonstrating the new software at Coach & Bus Live 2011. Visit us on stand G59 at the Birmingham NEC.

For further information, please contact:

Envitia Ltd

North Heath Lane

Horsham, West Sussex

RH12 5UX, UK

Tel: +44 1403 273 173  Fax: +44 1403 273 123

Dr Gobe Hobona of Envitia appointed to Open Source Geospatial Laboratory Advisory Board

In September 2010, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Centre for Geospatial Science (CGS), University of Nottingham signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for the establishment of an Open Source Geospatial Lab (OSGL) and to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organisations in open source GIS software and data in the UK. The MoU provides for the establishment of a research laboratory for supporting the development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. The MoU also provides for provision of internship opportunities for high quality students.

OSGeo and CGS have established an Advisory Board for the OSGL that includes experts from academia, industry and the public sector.

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