Classification & Data Collection

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Stage Intelligence has confirmed Tom Nutley will replace Toni Kendall-Troughton as CEO. Troughton will continue to maintain her position on the board of directors. Stage Intelligence says it also intends to grow its Bico AI platform, which allows users to collect, manage and visualise data and turn it into actionable insights, the company says. It has already been deployed in bike share schemes in cities such as Paris, Helsinki, Chicago, and Guadalajara, Mexico.

Teledyne e2v says its CMOS sensor for barcode reading offers improved performance for handheld, mobile or fixed reads and automatic identification cameras. Called Snappy 2MP, the solution combines high definition resolution, a 2.8μm low-noise global shutter and features which are intended to provide fast and economic decoding. According to Teledyne e2v, the sensor allows scanning platforms to offer enhanced productivity and throughput in logistics, sorting and retail point of sale. Snappy 2MP’s feature

Lufft says its new all-in-one weather sensor has a temperature accuracy of 1% and can be used to monitor smart city and smart home applications. The device is expected to cover ten measurement parameters simultaneously. The WS10 sensor comes with an integrated compass which enables a direction-independent installation to help it suitable for building management systems, the company adds. WS10 measures temperature, relative humidity, air pressure, wind speed and wind direction, precipitation intensity

Vricon has launched its Precision 3D Registration (P3DR) software suite which, the company says, georegisters imagery automatically anywhere in the world. It works with Vricon’s Globe in 3D brand, a source of geospatial and digital elevation data used by defence and intelligence agencies. The company says that P3DR provides critical accuracy enhancements to other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sources, allowing geospatial intelligence data to be used to direct resources. The solution aims to

Smartphone telematics provider TrueMotion has partnered with Inrix to provide contextual driving data to auto car insurers to help improve driver safety and lower costs from losses. Through the agreement, insurers working with TrueMotion can incorporate Inrix traffic, incident and road weather data into their digital programmes. In addition, Inrix’s safety alerts aim to enable insurers to deliver real-time driving notifications to their clients and help them anticipate dangerous slowdowns, accidents ahead

In-vehicle and traffic data company Waycare has signed a deal with navigation app Waze. The partnership will see the pair swapping aggregated road traffic data, enabling city and public agencies to communicate directly with vehicles on the road and to harness real-time in-vehicle data to improve safety and traffic flow. The companies say the arrangement shows how driver communities can benefit from interacting with municipal traffic organisations. Noam Maital, CEO of Waycare, says it will “further enable