Yotta DCL Contracts
OMG PLC
12 March 2008
12 March 2008
OMG plc
('OMG' or 'the Group')
Yotta DCL wins further contracts with UK Highways Agency
OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), the technology group providing image
understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and
engineering industries, is pleased to announce that its 3D mapping division,
Yotta DCL, has signed two further contracts with leading suppliers to the UK
Highways Agency. These contracts not only broaden the Company's reach in this
important market, but also extend and endorse the Company's service offering in
the space.
The integrated highway services company A-one has awarded a contract valued at
£120,000 to Yotta DCL for a 350km network length survey of the Highways Agency
Area 14. The survey will use Yotta DCL's groundbreaking Nano technology with
high-resolution 360-degree photography for precision mapping of the highway
inventory in Area 14 which covers Northumberland, Tyne & Wear and Durham. The
survey will collate details of highway assets in that Area including signs, road
markings, lampposts and safety barriers.
Yotta DCL will provide A-one with a pixel-by-pixel accurate picture of existing
inventory to compare with data held on the Highways Agency's computer system.
The additional benefits for A-one of Yotta DCL's unique digital asset collection
survey are speed, safety, lack of disruption to road users and lower cost.
This survey award follows the contract won by Yotta DCL in December 2007 to
supply A-one's sister company, A-one+, with a similar survey of Highways Agency
Area 10. As part of this engagement, Yotta DCL staff and technology are already
surveying over 530km of road network in England's North West. Today, OMG is
pleased to announce that A-one+ has elected to take a new, further service from
Yotta DCL valued at £170,000 to process the video data captured during the
course of that Area 10 survey.
Nick Bolton, Chief Executive Officer of OMG plc, commented:
'I am very pleased to announce news of these two awards in a strategically
important area for our business. The combined technology of Yotta DCL is
ideally suited to this type of work. Today's announcement is a further
endorsement of our capability which encompasses not only the capture of valuable
data, but also the processing and understanding of that data: something which we
believe can be of great value to our clients in this and other key markets.'
Contacts
OMG plc 01865 261800
Nick Bolton, Chief Executive
Peter Wharton, Finance Director
Financial Dynamics 020 7831 3113
Juliet Clarke / Matt Dixon
Evolution Securities 020 7071 4300
Jeremy Ellis
Notes to Editors
About A-One
A-one is a fully integrated highway services joint venture company which
combines the expertise of two leading performers in the market; Halcrow Group
Ltd and Colas Ltd. Located in the North East of England it comprises some 300km
of the Highways Agency network and over 450 structures, throughout
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, North Yorkshire and Durham. As Managing Agent
Contractor for Area 14, A-one is responsible for the day to day operational
management and maintenance of the motorway and trunk road network.
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), children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and
animals (for medical, life science and research industries) or virtual reality
displays (for engineering and development), the Group has the world leading
market position and a strong international reputation for precision instruments.
Founded in 1984, the Group's headquarters are in Oxford, UK, and it has offices
in California and Colorado, USA. 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 three operating subsidiaries - Vicon, the world's
biggest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of
specialised image understanding software for entertainment and defence
applications and Yotta, our 3D mapping business, which collects and analyses
highway data and street level imaging and which, following the acquisition of
DCL in July 2007, offers the most accurate and complete highway survey
available.
Oxford Metrics' global clients in science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming,
film, broadcast and 3D mapping 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, Square Enix and in 3D
mapping and highway surveys: Mouchel Parkman, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria,
Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.
For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com,
www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com or www.yotta.tv
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