OMG's 2d3 Sensing supplies Insitu

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OMG PLC

03 April 2013

 



3 April 2013

OMG plc

("OMG" or the "Group")

OMG's 2d3 Sensing supplies Insitu, a subsidiary of The Boeing Company

- Insitu Integrates 2d3 Sensing's advanced motion imagery solutions-

-2d3 to provide enhanced video processing capabilities to Insitu's solution -

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, announces that 2d3 Sensing, the Group's defence and aerial business, will supply Insitu, Inc. ("Insitu"), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, with Tungsten, 2d3 Sensing's digital media management and exploitation software development kit ("SDK").

Tungsten will be integrated into Insitu's solution, Insitu Common Open-Mission Management Command and Control ("ICOMC2"), which allows users to access multiple video streams simultaneously from an unmanned aircraft in real time. Going forward Tungsten will play an integral role in ICOMC2's motion imagery infrastructure.

This agreement marks the latest between the two companies in a series of product integrations dating back to 2009 and further cements the strong and longstanding relationship that 2d3 Sensing has with Insitu.

Insitu's Program Manager for Advanced Ground Architectures, Andrew Hayes, said:

"2d3 Sensing's Tungsten SDK will provide an additional and unique set of powerful video processing capabilities that will be used throughout our ICOMC2 ground control software. Over the years, 2d3 Sensing has consistently been responsive to our engineering requests and has provided a capable, stable, and performance optimized solution. We are very pleased with the services 2d3 Sensing has provided to Insitu."

Nick Bolton, CEO of OMG commented:

"We are excited that 2d3 Sensing continues to work with Insitu. Together our capabilities offer the most advanced motion imagery solutions possible in the unmanned aerial system field.

"ICOMC2 will use Tungsten as part of its solution to seamlessly manage increasing demand for data to be captured from multiple and different systems. Tungsten's cross platform solution specialises in pulling together this captured data and allows users to simultaneously access multiple video streams. We look forward to further developing our relationship with Insitu in the years ahead as we continue to make advancements in the unmanned aerial system field."

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Nick Bolton, CEO
David Deacon, CFO
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About OMG

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry),sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through four operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, Yotta, our highways surveying business and OMG Life our new consumer subsidiary.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In highways, clients include East Sussex, Lancashire, Transport for London, Cheshire East and West as well as many others.

For more information about OMG, visit www.omgplc.com.

About Insitu

Insitu Inc., located in Bingen, Wash., is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Insitu designs, develops and manufactures UAS and provides associated services for commercial, civil and defense applications. With a small footprint and expeditionary focus for both land and sea operations, the company's family of UAS solutions and global mission support serves the needs of worldwide customers. To date, these systems have accumulated more than 680,000 combat flight hours and 75,000 sorties. For more information, visit www.insitu.com.

About 2d3 Sensing

2d3 Sensing is a nimble commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technology provider specializing in the processing, exploitation, and dissemination of motion imagery and metadata. Using innovative vision science techniques and standards-based media management capabilities, 2d3 Sensing improves and extracts the information contained in motion imagery for better situational awareness and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mission results.  2d3 Sensing offers stand-alone software products, SDKs and APIs, and also customized software solutions through 2d3 Sensing's Delivery Teams.  For more information, please visit www.2d3sensing.com or call [phone].

 

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