Report title: Smart Innovators: EHS Analytics In The IoT Age’ report Published on 21 October, 2019 by Sarah Bloch & Steve Bolton, Verdantix Executive Summary This report helps corporate decision-makers at all levels within the EHS function better understand the drivers and challenges of the market for EHS analytics, while also highlighting capabilities that are available, high-growth areas in the market and a roadmap for future innovations across the technological landscape. Firms seek to improve their analytical capabilities to alleviate key resource constraints and derive actiona ..read more

Cortexica Joins Intel® AI Builders Program to Advance AI-PPE Compliant, an AI-powered Workplace Protection Solution At Cortexica, we focus on creating and turning cutting-edge AI and machine learning research into real-world solutions for retailers and health and safety professionals that make businesses commercially stronger. That’s why we are excited to be part of the Intel® AI Builders program and take advantage of the opportunity to reach more customers and ecosystem partners. “Being part of Intel® AI Builders program not only proves our credibility but open ..read more

Cortexica Vision Systems Ltd, leaders in visual AI, announce their strategic partnership with e-commerce and merchandising experts Attraqt   Cortexica Vision Systems are delighted to announce their partnership with Attraqt, the global providers of onsite search, merchandising and personalisation for over 240 of the world’s leading retail brands including ASOS, de Bijenkorf, Harvey Nicols, Paul Smith, Ted Baker, and Wolf & Badger. Leaders in powering exceptional shopping experiences, Attraqt deliver search and merchandising and personalisation e-commerce solu ..read more

Advanced AI technology for worker safety In this podcast you will hear from: Thomas, a PhD student studying Cancer Biology John Kersey,  a veteran within the health and safety industry and contributor to SHP Online. Tony Skurr, Senior Solutions Director, Cortexica Myrofora Ioannidou, Head of Innovation Demonstrations, CISCO Maria Hernandez, Head of Innovation UKI, CISCO This podcast in summary Thomas, a Ph.D. student studying Cancer Biology talks about his experience of working within a laboratory environment, and how he would welcome a system that could formalize the PPE requirement and che ..read more

Visit Cortexica at stand SH3496 and join us on stage at the Safety Technology Zone where Alex Harriman, Head of Technical Delivery will be talking about how technology is being used to improve and automate workplace safety and compliance. Visit Cortexica at: Safety and Health Expo 2019, Excel (18 – 20 June 2019) Stand SH3496 Speaker slot: Safety Technology Zone. Day 1: Tuesday, 18 June, 16:10 – 16:40 Speaker slot title: Improving workplace safety with computer vision Where: Safety Technology Zone When: Day 1: Tuesday, 18 June, 16:10 – 16:40 Speaker: Alex Harriman, Head of Technical Delivery ..read more

FRIDAY, 03 MAY 2019. Source: Verdantix Blog Snippet: Firms have taken different approaches to encouraging its workers to correctly utilize PPE—from more traditional ways, such as pinning up posters, to safety nudges that act as reminders to wear PPE correctly and even artificial intelligence (AI) for detecting PPE on workers. In partnership with Cisco, the vendor Cortexica offers an AI visual analytics technology called “AI Safe” that enables real-time video analysis with advanced algorithms and machine learning to ensure employees are wearing the correct PPE. The breadth of this tool’s appli ..read more

Source: Verdantix Blog THURSDAY, 02 MAY 2019. Verdantix recently concluded our seventh HSE Summit at the Chelsea Football Stadium, London. During the two-day event—attended by over 170 senior executives from corporate firms, vendors and services providers—we conducted audience polls and word clouds using Slido to identify sentiments on various HSE technology topics and the challenges that HSE professionals are facing in their role. With more than 739 votes submitted over the two days, and with an average of 53 votes per poll question what did we learn from the Summit participants? Read this a ..read more

With all the doom and gloom around in the retail world at the moment, it can be easy to lose sight of the bright spots. Evolution of retail and the physical space it occupies is happening at hyper speed because of the impact of technology. Within this maelstrom there are hundreds of people and companies changing the way physical retail works, doing innovative, creative and (importantly) profitable work. From developers and owners to retailers to tech companies, they are shaping the retail experience of the future… Cortexica Cortexica Another use of AI will be in the world of visual analytics ..read more

The world’s first edge compute solution for Personal Protective Equipment monitoring Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the equipment that protects the user against health or safety risks. Not wearing PPE dramatically increases the chances of injuries and in many situations also of financial losses due to fines for injuries and death of workers as well as contamination caused by not wearing gloves, hairnets, shoe covers, etc. This post describes the world’s first edge compute solution for PPE ingress and real-time PPE compliance monitoring. AAEON partnering with Cortexica allows us to ide ..read more

I am happy to announce that we have successfully developed the World’s first AI edge camera powered by the very latest Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) accelerator. This is the fourth time in the last two months that we have pushed the edge computing to its very limits. In December last year, we have created two types of AI edge cameras that are powered by multiple Intel Myriad-X Vision Processing Units (VPUs). The first version was based on Raspberry Pi and the second one on UP Squared board. The video below shows a quick overview ..read more