Oxford Metrics Regulatory News (OMG)

30 May 2012

OMG plc

Yotta DCL launches new Horizons

 New Horizons is an easy to use road network asset management system for highways authorities and local councils

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 its Yotta DCL division has launched an innovative road network asset management system for highways authorities and local councils, built on top of Google Maps. The Horizons web platform makes it easier for highways departments to visualize, manage and optimise all their asset management records and tasks using a centralised, single cloud-based solution.

With Horizons, Yotta DCL has revolutionised highways software products to provide an intuitive solution that brings data alive for the user. Instead of using disparate applications Horizons brings together GIS, pavement and asset management into a single unified user-friendly hosted system. This combined functionality allows users to manage multiple sets of data, make cost predictions, plan and model various road maintenance scenarios, build schemes and ultimately, make better, more informed decisions.

Developed with input from leading highways authorities since its introduction in April 2011, Horizons has been enhanced with a more powerful analysis module that enables users to forward project and analyse highways defect treatment based on multiple strategies. Users can easily add constraints such as reducing defects over a number of years while comparing the costs for different treatments. This gives an instant view of what is achievable for a given budget and helps guide decision makers to select the optimal solution for their road network.

Users will also be able to analyse data over multiple years to produce accurate projections for deterioration rates over time. For example, the system can predict where future defects and deterioration are likely to appear leading to problems such as potholes. This enables a more informed and targeted approach to highways maintenance and will provide the user with tools to assist in making large cost savings in not only road maintenance but also in the time taken to make decisions.

Commenting on the launch, OMG Chief Executive Nick Bolton said:

"Horizons brings a new way to managing the road network, providing full and instant access to important network asset data. Being based on Google Maps it is very easy to use and requires minimal training. The new analysis module is a powerful tool that enables highways departments to select the best, most cost-effective treatment strategy to present to their cabinet members. This ultimately speeds up the decision making process and expedites maintenance scheme planning and delivery, which in turn can lead to valuable savings for the authority."

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About OMG plc

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 leader movement analysis systems; 2d3 Sensing, providing video intelligence software for defence and civil applications, Yotta DCL, our infrastructure software and services 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, Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. Infrastructure clients include Highways Agency, Atkins and Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils amongst others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit

www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.com.

About Yotta DCL

Yotta DCL is at the forefront of highway technology and services. The company's surveyors cover hundreds of miles of roads collecting all types of data every day to help transform highway surveys into solutions with real benefits. Its broad experience working with local authorities enables Yotta DCL to provide a range of survey solutions for councils to efficiently manage and maintain their highway assets.

Surveys from Yotta DCL include Coarse Visual Inspections (CVI), Detailed Visual Inspections (DVI), machine scanning using its high tech Scanner vehicles and asset inventory surveys. It also develops and supports a wide range of software such as MARCHpms the industry renowned and respected pavement management system, Nano the user friendly asset management software and NotiVia, its new data capture tool.

Yotta DCL's consultancy services team offers bespoke and scheduled training seminars, UKPMS expertise and data analysis to customers of all pavement management systems. Customers include the Welsh Assembly Government, Southampton City Council, Nottingham City Council, Hampshire County council and Northumberland City Council.

Yotta DCL is part of the OMG plc group of companies. Founded in 1984, OMG is a successful British technology company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. OMG is one of the world's leading suppliers of image understanding systems, with customers all over the world.