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Meet ENVITIA at Security & Policing Show 2018

05 Mar 2018
Defence, Events, Security

 

ENVITIA will be exhibiting at the Security & Policing Show this week, in Farnborough, UK.  Come along and meet us on our stand F51.

 

ENVITIA is an internationally trusted and agile innovator of security and intelligence technologies, providing government agencies, defence and the intelligence communities with security sensitive mission critical knowledge management and decision improving systems.

Innovative solutions power new capabilities through the collaboration of multi-intelligence data, with everything in one place and open as standard, enhancing vital decision making across organisations. Our technologies support safety and security within and beyond borders.

 

If you can’t make it to the show but are interested in talking to us to find out more, please contact us on +44 1403 273173 or email: info@envitia.com.

 

 

ENVITIA APPOINTS NABIL LODEY AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO)

22 Feb 2018
Business, Corporate, News, People

Envitia Group PLC, the leading provider of geospatial technology and solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Nabil Lodey as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) with immediate effect. Nabil has over 20 years of leading innovative organisations, most recently in the Internet of Things (IoT) software market.

 

John Massey, the founder and Chairman of Envitia, commented:

“The Board is delighted to appoint Nabil as CEO. He brings energy and fresh ideas that we believe will be critical to our next phase of growth. I look forward to supporting Nabil and the Executive team moving forward.”

 

Nabil Lodey, commented:

“I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to lead the Company through this exciting next phase of development. Geospatial technology is now part of everyday life and Envitia’s world class capabilities uniquely enables it to consistently meet our customers’ needs.

Looking ahead, organisations are being inundated with huge amounts of data. Much of the operational data relates to when and where things are (or should be), and often hides much more value. Making sense of this data to extract meaningful information, with new insights, is a complex process but critical in order to move towards a “smarter” way of working. Envitia is well placed to guide our customers through this process and help them deliver real business advantage.

I am looking forward to working with John, the Board and a great team within Envitia.”

Hear ENVITIA paper at I/ITSEC 2017

22 Nov 2017
Events, News

Envitia has co-authored a technical paper with SEA, one of the partners in the SE Tower Architectures, Interoperability and Management of Simulations (AIMS) column, that will be presented at I/ITSEC 2017.   I/ITSEC is the world’s largest modelling, simulation and training event, and attracts large numbers of exhibitors (in excess of 350) as well as defence, industry and educational personnel from across the globe. It is taking place at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida on 27th November to 1st December 2017.

Our paper discusses  “Information Management: A Core Enabler of the MSaaS Ecosystem”.

Read our blog for more details, or come along to the show to hear in person.  It is scheduled for S10 on Thursday November 30th at 0830 in Room S320.

ENVITIA GEOINT SUITE 2.0 Released

30 Sep 2017
GeoIntelligence, News, Product News

ENVITIA GEOINT Suite is an open platform for the discovery, management, analysis and visualisation of information in space and time – enabling faster decisions and improving outcomes. Delivered via web services, ENVITIA GEOINT Suite provides shared situational awareness supporting multiple, specialist communities of interest, ideally suited for command and control, first responder and intelligence operations. ENVITIA GEOINT Suite brings intelligence and location together empowering users to derive greater insights and informed decisions.

Version 2.0 of ENVITIA GEOINT Suite delivers extended capability focussed at integrating a wide range of ‘geo-related’ data handling, including unstructured text and social media images, allowing ENVITIA GEOINT Suite to address one of the key elements of Activity Based Intelligence, correlation of information based on space and time. These capabilities build on ENVITIA GEOINT Suite’s open architecture to exploit a diverse set of analytic tools delivered by micro-services. The overall capability extends the product’s reach into a wide range of intelligence domains.

“At ENVITIA, we are seeing a significant move towards integration of situational awareness and intelligence systems, and believe that ENVITIA GEOINT Suite is an ideal platform to support such integrated MULTIINT mission systems, enabling better decision-making and leading to better outcomes. Furthermore, by avoiding vendor lock in, our open solution retains maximum interoperability and enables you to improve your operational awareness with minimal subsequent investment.” John Massey, ENVITIA CEO.

ENVITIA at DSEI 2017

22 Sep 2017
Defence, Events

Last week ENVITIA headed to DSEI 2017, the world leading defence and security event held every other year at the London ExCeL Centre.

 

ENVITIA had a jam-packed week meeting with existing customers and contacts as well as the huge amount of footfall that came to the Stand.

 

On display, we had our latest technologies ENVITIA GEOINT Suite, including ENVITIA MapLink Pro and ENVITIA MapLink Mobile and examples from our recent Applied Research tasks. We also demonstrated some of our partner’s products including MMIST’s SkyLink Parachutist Situational Awareness, TekFusion’s TacPlan and Blighter Surveillance System’s BlighterView HMI2.

 

At the show, ENVITIA were collecting for Help the Heroes, a truly fantastic charity, and managed to raise an impressive £342. Thanks to all who donated!

 

 

We also ran a daily competition to win a Fitbit Alta – congratulations to the winners:

  • Oluwatoyin Layade – MOD
  • Leslie Brower – DXC Technology
  • Olivia Brazell – GlobalData

 

We will be following up the meetings and conversations had at the show personally over the coming week or two, but if you would like to schedule a follow-up conversation sooner, please get in touch at sales@envitia.com or on +44 (0) 1403 273 173.

 

Bring on DSEI 2019!

 

ENVITIA at DSEI 2017 – Stand S2-342

23 Aug 2017
Defence, Events, Security

ENVITIA will be exhibiting at DSEI 2017 (Defence and Security Equipment International), which takes place on 12th-15th September at the London ExCeL Centre.

 

DSEI is the world-leading defence and security event held every two years in London. ENVITIA will have GEOINT Suite, MapLink Pro and some examples from our recent Applied Research work on show, as well as a Partner Zone to demonstrate applications and solutions developed by some of our partners around the world.

 

We welcome you to register as our guest using out exclusive Exhibitor Guest Code, available upon request by contacting the Sales Department at ENVITIA, sales@envitia.com. This will give you discounted entry when registering before 31st August 2017.

 

 

If you would like to book a meeting with ENVITIA at DSEI to discuss specific requirements, please contact us directly via the website, via sales@envitia.com or call +44 1403 273173.

 

ENVITIA supports Help For Heroes

ENVITIA will have Help for Heroes wristbands available on its stand, collecting charitable donations during the show.

 

Says John Massey, CEO of ENVITIA “Help for Heroes are truly inspirational and a fabulously worthwhile cause that ENVITIA is delighted to support.”

 

We look forward to welcoming you at Stand S2-342.

Geospatial Portal Woes

10 Aug 2017
Architecture, OGC, Open Standards

The use of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and, more specifically, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) has grown significantly over the last few years, delivering maps, imagery and other geospatial data online as services and for download.  Many government institutions are making available open data and have rushed to set up SOA/SDI environments… often only to deliver the result to the user only via a specific geospatial portal.  As a result, the geospatial portal is often becoming the new stovepipe, with systems unable to effectively chain onto a service platform, The users are left with a myriad of geospatial portals, each with different interaction styles, to search through to get to the geospatial data they want.

 

… the geospatial portal is often becoming the new stovepipe, with systems unable to effectively chain onto a service platform

 

Custom Geospatial Portal

 

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I am sure I am not the only person that has had to suffer these bespoke geospatial portals, navigating their specific query models, and download tools. Many of the portals are well designed, but the point is I really don’t want to learn how to use a new one for every provider of open source data. Nor do I want to spend hours selecting the data I am interested in manually.

 

The OGC ISO19115/119 Application Profile of Catalogue Services for the Web (CSW) Service definition is a perfectly good and functional standard for the discovery of basic geographic information. CSW is implemented by a number of Open Source projects (including GeoNetwork and PyCSW), just waiting to provide machine-readable catalogues. We have slowly seen the addition of basic OGC compliant catalogue services such as those used by EU INSPIRE and GEOSS using CSW-ISO, but many organisations are shunning them leaving us with the custom portal they provide as the only way to get at their data.

 

Custom Geospatial APIs

 

Probably as bad as dealing with the custom portal, is the tendency for organisations to offer ‘their own web API’ which you can use to search on. But this means if you are to avoid an organization’s portal, you have to get your developers to build a specific interface for each provider. This then often is not financially viable and you soldier on with the specific portal. Some organisations claim to have far more complex and diverse data sources to manage and deliver.  Data may be versioned, with change history being important, and may include multiple time and position dimensions such as in meteorological data, live track feeds or full motion video.

 

Data may be derived from multiple community sources; in this situation, there may be multiple taxonomies, symbolizations and styles to mediate to ensure effective access to information by all users in the enterprise. But again, these requirements are pretty much covered by the more advanced OGC Catalogue standard CSW-ebRIM (Electronic Business Registry Information Model).

 

Instead of implementing this perfectly workable standard, organisations seem to invent more yet complicated APIs to access their data. Or, they try to deliver catalogue services through a range of other existing standards with geospatial information searchable only in a bespoke way. Picking an especially obscure standard or even using other OGC Standards such as the Web Feature Server (WFS) as a catalogue means there is little or no chance of general interoperability with the rest of the geo community.

 

Envitia Applies Open Standards

 

Envitia, an active OGC technical member, applies both of the OGC Catalogue standards, CSW-ISO and CSW-ebRIM and we question why organisations, even organisations which support other OGC standards such as WMS, seem to continually ignore the OGC Catalogue standards. If every government agency that provided open data supported one of the OGC CSW Standards (and it is not that hard to support both) then it would massively increase the accessibility and exploitation of open data in many geo-related communities. And we would all not have to go through the rack of tedium in trying to get at a set of open geospatial data to use in our own innovative new applications.

 

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