Faire Solutions launch new website

Ubisense partner Faire solutions has just launched a new website detailing their precision animal tracking solutions.

www.faire-solutions.com

A revolutionary platform for precision animal monitoring that delivers quality assurance, health, welfare and fertility benefits.

Imagine One system that would monitor your animals continuously. A system that could see what you would see, if you stood looking at your animals 24 hours a day. A system that would show your animals moving around, feeding, drinking, lying, displaying oestrous signs – without having to install a single video camera on your premises.

Imagine further that this one system would send you continuously updated profiles of each animal and alerts, providing you with key information on their health, fertility and welfare status.

Together with high-accuracy 3D sensors, revolutionary software utilizing broadband connectivity to the Web, an information platform of precision animal monitoring is now available to farmers/producers, research organisations, veterinary and supply companies.

Faire Precision Animal Monitoring allows you to realise the significant ROI benefits that total management control of your animal assets can deliver in terms of:

* Animal Tracking
* Animal Health and Welfare
* Animal Fertility
* Animal Quality Assurance
* Animal Movement Control

An animal’s exact position and activities are detected, analysed and made available instantly - every second of the day.

Metro transit significantly reduces costs using Ubisense Precise Real Time Location System

By precisely locating buses to the exact space in and around Garage and Maintenance facilities Ubisense can improve operational efficiency of scheduling and dispatching

DENVER, CO, December 9th 2008 - Ubisense, the market leading provider of precise Real Time Location Systems today announced that Metro Transit of the Twin Cities has selected Ubisense to improve the operational efficiency of scheduling and dispatching more than 900 buses at five garages in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Metro Transit manages the 18th largest transit system in the US, an integrated network of buses and trains with approximately 240,000 rides provided each weekday. Today there are more than 900 active buses, which return to one of five garages after every completed route. Currently, bus locations are handwritten on bus/bay markup sheets by walking the aisles of the garage at the end of each completed route. Dispatchers at each garage must then manually enter the location of each bus into the dispatching system, each time the bus is parked and must be assigned again for duty. Savings on automating this process alone is expected to bring an immediate return on investment for METC.

In 2003, Metro Transit deployed an Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) system, which utilizes global positioning system (GPS) to track buses on their routes, providing valuable information to operators and transit users. When the bus enters the garages, however, they are parked at specific positions in one of up to 30 lanes, divided into several bays. With the installation of the Ubisense RTLS, tags placed on the buses’ rooftops send signals to a sensor network inside the garages providing an exact location to within one meter of accuracy, allowing the system to automatically determine which position within a particular bay and lane a bus was parked. If a bus moves to another location, this information is automatically updated and sent back to the system. Ubisense will provide the location of the bus to Metro Transit’s scheduling and dispatching system, instantly providing the dispatcher with the location of each bus in the garage at all times, removing errors in bus assignment at the beginning of each period of service.

"Metro Transit already utilizes a very effective system for tracking buses along their scheduled routes," said Sam Jacobs, Director of Bus Operations for Metro Transit. "The goal of Ubisense’s real time location system is to help us further reduce our operating costs by automatically logging the location of each bus as soon as it is parked in or around one of our garages, making it possible for the dispatchers to assign buses to operators without having to manually enter the location of the bus, which is not always up to date."

"Transit authorities today are striving to reduce operating expenses during challenging economic times," said Richard Green, CEO of Ubisense. “Having solved difficult location problems within challenging indoor environments in manufacturing, logistics, and military markets, Ubisense has been able to leverage this capability to solve the precise bus location problem within yards and depots in a very cost effective manner for several cities in Europe, already. Metro Transit represents a large transit deployment for Ubisense in North America, and we hope the first of many.”

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Ubisense in the Financial Times

Key tech awards dominated by business-efficiency services

he Deloitte awards rank British technology companies in terms of their rate of sales growth. Thunderhorse claims it can give clients a return on their investment within a year, a key attraction for banks in these troubled times. The company's software gives banks a standardised way of documenting credit derivatives trades.

Traditionally, banks have relied on in-house IT systems, which have struggled to keep pace with the explosion of derivatives trades. Now many of the world's largest investment banks, including Barclays, Morgan Stanley and Société Générale, use Thunderhorse's technology.

The other big downturn boom has been in digital media businesses that have prospered as clients have sought cheaper ways to target their marketing. Bigmouthmedia, the Scottish group, came fifth in the rankings and TH_NK, based in Newcastle, was sixth.

"The companies that have been successful have been ones that have really focused on what their customer wants," said David Halstead, partner at Deloitte. "Many have shown great agility, partly through working in small teams," he said.

But the focus on serving budget-conscious clients has not cut out the opportunities for higher-end, more visionary technology.

Second in the Deloitte rankings was Ubisense, which sells radio data tags that allow companies to track the whereabouts of their supplies. A spin-out from Cambridge university, and widely seen as one of potential new stars from Silicon Fen, its tracking systems work indoors, trumping GPS technology, and are accurate to 15cm, compared with about 20m for GPS.

The group was founded by Prof Andy Hopper, who still teaches at Cambridge and is best known for his association with Acorn, the 1970s low-cost computer start-up.

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Ubisense Ranked No. 3 Fastest Growing Technology Company in Europe in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500

Ubisense, the Precise Real-Time Location company, took 3rd place in the prestigious fasting growing technology company in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA.

Cambridge, UK, Dec 1st 2008 — Ubisense today announced that it had won 3rd place in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in the EMEA region. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years and Ubisense grew 15324 percent during this period.

Ubisense’s CEO, Richard Green stated “We attribute this strong growth to many factors, including our unique ability to help our customers achieve rapid ROIs using our Precise Real-Time Location System. Coupled with our incredibly talented implementation teams this means that we can have customers systems up and running in mission critical environments in record time. The greatest demand we see for our products is from the world’s leading manufacturers who demand robust, reliable systems that run over standard networks.”

“Because Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA measures sustained revenue growth over five years, being one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in EMEA is an impressive achievement,” said Karel Bakkes, partner in charge of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 EMEA program. ”Ubisense deserves a lot of credit for its remarkable growth.”

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Ubisense Precise Real-Time Location allowing monitoring of individual carbon footprints

Innovative, state of the art energy efficient homes at the University of Nottingham's School of the Built Environment, deploy Ubisense Precise Real-time location system to accurately monitor individual occupants carbon footprints

Nottingham, Cambridge - 28th November 2008 - The project is a showcase of innovative state-of-the-art energy efficient homes of the future. Six homes constructed on the University Park, Nottingham have been designed and constructed to various degrees of innovation and flexibility to allow the testing of different aspects of modern methods of construction (MMC) including layout and form, cladding materials, roof structures, foundations, glazing materials, thermal performance, building services systems, sustainable/ renewable energy technologies, lighting systems, acoustics and water supply. The project aims to stimulate sustainable design ideas and promote new ways of providing affordable, environmentally sustainable housing that are innovative in their design. Several companies including: Roger Bullivant Ltd, E.ON, BASF, and Tarmac have funded the project.

“We are trying to establish energy and occupancy use patterns for the family in the home. We want to accurately see the impact of our energy reduction interventions on their life. The Ubisense RTLS allows us to get this data to an accuracy that has never been done before - this will be the first POE study that should allow us to get the individual carbon footprints of the occupants - we'll know who is doing what and using what as all energy and appliances are also monitored through the house BMS system.”

Says Dr Mark Gillot, Project Lead and Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment.

“This is a great example of leading researchers taking energy efficiency to the next level”, says Professor Andy Hopper, Chairman of Ubisense and Head of Computing at the University of Cambridge. “The potential for using precise location for not only monitoring energy consumption but also in optimising its usage is enormous, I commend Mark and his team”

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