Oxford Metrics Regulatory News (OMG)

13 October 2010

OMG plc

Yotta DCL win major asset inventory contract with Nottinghamshire County Council

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG) ("OMG" or the "Group"), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, announces its Yotta DCL division, the leading highways surveyor, has won a major new contract with Nottinghamshire County Council. Yotta will be carrying out a comprehensive video survey of the entire road network during the course of the year, extracting a range of asset inventory items with its state-of-the-art video survey vehicles.

Video surveys capture street level images at normal traffic speeds. This imagery will support data currently held in the authority's Highway Asset Management System (HAMS). It will assist Nottinghamshire County Council in enhancing how assets are managed and provide valuable inventory data in areas where current data coverage needs to be improved. Detailed inventory datasets will be extracted from the images, to be geo-referenced before sending to Nottinghamshire CC for storing in its departmental HAMS.

Nick Smee, managing director at Yotta DCL said: "Understanding your asset inventory means you can better target your maintenance spend and schedule. The data we're delivering for Nottinghamshire County Council will help them to produce more cost effective long term maintenance plans and help reduce their day to day operational costs with a visual record of the network."

The contract also includes hosting image data collected via the annual SCANNER survey that Yotta DCL currently undertakes for the Council.

Mike Barnett, Highways Assets Manager at Nottinghamshire said, "Choosing Yotta DCL for our asset inventory contract tied in with existing survey contracts. It enables us to utilise data and images collected as part of the video asset survey with forward facing and pavement images collected as part of the SCANNER surveys in one platform. We have a great working relationship with the team at Yotta DCL, as they've been carrying out our SCANNER survey for 3 years now providing good quality consistent data. Previous trials of this survey methodology demonstrated a high level of accuracy giving us confidence when awarding a network wide survey."

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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 assessing the value of properties; 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 three operating subsidiaries: Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, and Yotta, our highways and property surveying business.

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 surveying clients include:Miami-Dade county, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.co.uk or www.yottamvs.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.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.vicon.com/boujou, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.com, or www.yottamvs.com.