geospatial index podcast

Writing to Utility Databases from Space: Podcast with The Geospatial Index

Podcast recording is below.

Last Friday, Lucy Kennedy, Spottitt CEO and Co-Founder, got interviewed by Wil Waters for The Geospatial Index Podcast. 

This episode is a story of entrepreneurship helping utilities reduce losses by enabling satellites to write external risk assessments directly to a utility’s asset monitoring system. In this episode:

– Obtaining the ‘right’ satellite imagery can be a challenge in itself. But the hardest task lies in extracting valuable outcome analysis from it in a way that is easy to interpret, manipulate and integrate with other data sources.

– In the initial stages of client discussions, exploring colourful images featuring distinctive buildings, crop fields, or changes can be visually appealing – the ‘seeing is believing’ concept in action. However, as we scale up to monitor thousands of kilometers of infrastructure, the client shifts to a more data-driven approach. They want data mapped directly onto their assets, such as identifying trees in poor health situated closer than X meters to the clearance corridor, and understanding the network’s impact.

– AI is one of the enablers of why EO and geospatial services became commercially attractive for clients. Looking ahead, it will be intriguing to explore the potential of AI in reshaping customer interactions with the product. E.g. instead of configuring variables, users can directly ask AI to show trees taller than X meters and located within Y meters of a designated line.

Also about ongoing “nirvana journey” to product-market fit, a perpetual hunger to satisfy client needs, how each Spottitt team member has skin in the game and much more. 

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Lucy Kennedy

Spottitt CEO and Co-Founder

Our latest news:

asset risk report creation across multiple data layers

Introducing an Upgraded Spottitt MF 2.0: What’s New? Part 2.

The upgraded Spottitt platform now empowers users to customize reports in a single step, using multiple data layer types, filters, and display preferences.

Layer types refer to the specific input data leveraged for a monitoring use case.

Depending on the source data purchased through Spottitt MF, the available layer types might include but are not limited to: Optical Vegetation and Man Made Classes, Wind, Precipitation and Temperature Classes, SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Land & Asset Motion Classes, Digital Elevation Data Classes.

satellite Earth Observation data for asset analysis

Introducing an Upgraded Spottitt MF 2.0: What’s New? Part 1.

As climate change intensifies and extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, it’s clear that understanding climate and weather variables is no longer just a ‘nice to have’ for asset owners. Recent disasters all over the globe, including the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles, USA, only emphasise the necessity of integrating climate and weather data into asset monitoring workflows.

Building on our past successful climate impact analytics projects, such as updating severe weather maps for SPEN, we are thrilled to announce the coming soon launch of Spottitt Metrics Factory 2.0.

Welcome to Spottitt’s Chief Technology Officer

We are thrilled to announce that Sebastian Sobocinski has joined us as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

With a wealth of experience as a CTO, Chief Product Officer (CPO), and Software Development Director, Sebastian brings a strong background in IT project management. As he puts it, he is passionate about leveraging his extensive knowledge and skills to create value and drive impact through innovative business and technology solutions.

Spottitt Closes Investment

Spottitt Closes 800K USD Bridge Financing Round

In only 12 months since its launch, our AI-powered geospatial analytics service, Spottitt Metrics Factory, has gained significant traction and annual recurring revenue (ARR) among critical infrastructure owners.

Today, we are thrilled to announce the successful closure of an $800,000 bridge financing round.

This round has been led by US based VC fund, Right Side Capital Management, with support from our existing shareholders, KIC InnoEnergy SE, three amazing angel investors, and Spottitt founders CEO Lucy Kennedy and CFO Paolo Senes. We could not have achieved this funding milestone so swiftly and smoothly without the Qubit Capital team.

Spottitt Provides a Solution to Automatically Detect Changing Conditions on the NSW Road & Rail Network

Spottitt became Finalist in Transgrid’s Challenge for real-time insights for company’s easement route planning and Champion for Transport for NSW Challenge for tracking safety of roads and railways using satellite data.

The New South Wales network includes 6,800 route kilometres of operational rail lines and 17,600 km of state roads and highways.

TfNSW has identified Earth Observation satellites as a valuable addition to the monitoring technologies currently deployed and was looking for innovation to automatically detect changing conditions of network and potential risk modelling.

Satellites Drones Geospatial Data Collection Comparative Analysis

Deciding Between Satellites and Drones for Geospatial Data Collection: A Comparative Analysis

In recent times, the landscape of asset monitoring has witnessed a transformative shift with the emergence of advanced technologies, particularly satellite and drone systems.

The utilization of Earth observation satellites for monitoring purposes began gaining momentum in the late 20th century. Free government programs, such as those initiated by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), played a pivotal role in providing open access to satellite imagery. These programs not only facilitated scientific research but also allowed industries to leverage satellite data for monitoring critical infrastructure and environmental changes.