Luciad User Conference Delivers Geospatial Innovation

Nearly 200 geospatial experts convened in Brussels on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 for the Luciad User Conference. The event brought together geospatial experts in industries ranging from aerospace and defense to public safety, utilities, logistics and smart cities. 

“We are very pleased to host Luciad’s user conference in Brussels, the capital of Europe,” said Luciad CEO Marc Melviez. “This event brings together a wide range of industries with speakers and participants from companies like Airbus Defence and Space, Lockheed Martin, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Network Rail UK, NVIDIA and Thales.” The two-day conference focused on managers of geospatial projects, developers of geospatial projects and new business opportunities created by the growing amounts of geospatial “big data.” During the conference Luciad and its partners presented their innovative geospatial technologies. NVIDIA, Openvalue, PALAMIR and UniFly used the event as an opportunity to present partnerships and products.

Luciad Becomes NVIDIA GRID-certified Software Partner

Luciad is now an NVIDIA GRID-certified software partner. NVIDIA GRID graphics virtualization technology allows LuciadLightspeed to run in virtualized environments, harnessing the power of server farms.“By using cloud-hosted GRID GPUs to boost performance, Luciad is making the geospatial analytical power of its applications available to any user on any device in any location,” said Chip Carr, Geospatial Partner Manager at NVIDIA. “The agility, flexibility and security offered by NVIDIA GRID make this virtualised approach to delivering LuciadLightspeed a potential game-changer.”

Optimizing Bike-Sharing with Openvalue

French Software company Openvalue presented its predictive bicycle-sharing platform at the 2015 Luciad User Conference. The platform solves the major pain point of city bicycle-sharing programs: no free spaces to return a bicycle. “We chose LuciadLightspeed for its scalability since it is able to show thousands of users at the same time and in real time,” said Openvalue’s Marketing Director Thomas Graindorge. “Moreover, LuciadLightspeed allows fast and smooth transitions from global views to small areas.”

Smart & Safe Cities with PALAMIR

PALAMIR based in United Kingdom and Australia presented its C7i SECURE BORDERS platform. The cognitive big data platform utilizes both Smart and Safe City technologies together with ability to integrate industrial IoT for infrastructure security to provide predictive and prescriptive analysis for improved situational awareness. “Luciad provides PALAMIR with the only high-level geospatial situational awareness technology that truly meets our requirements,” said Peter Karidis, managing director of PALAMIR. “No other COTS enterprise system could handle multiple ingestions in real-time to present a variety of geospatial analysis side by side with PALAMIR unique SOCMINT and OSINT geo-analysis technologies for demanding clients.”

UniFly Announces Drone Management Platform SkyBridge

UniFly announced SkyBridge, a drone management platform guaranteeing an equivalent level of safety in comparison with manned aviation. The platform is based on the existing standards and requirements applicable in the aviation industry. It will allow drone users to maximize the airspace use. “The components delivered by Luciad are a valuable asset in the situational awareness improvement for drone users”, said CEO Andres Van Swalm.