At a glance
- Who: Nexus, University of Leeds; Terminus Technologies.
- What: Nexus, the collaboration and innovation hub of the University of Leeds, has signed a smart city partnership with Terminus Technologies to deploy urban data mining technology at the university. Multi-spectral cameras will help build a comprehensive dataset to help cities understand and respond to urban environments.
- Why: To provide local authorities with the tools to make more informed, data-driven decisions about urban planning and resource allocation. The partnership aims to envision urban life in 20 years and build the data infrastructure to support smarter, more responsive cities.
- Where: The two sides hope the project will benefit communities across the UK and beyond.
Nexus, University of Leeds, and Terminus Technologies will build a comprehensive dataset to help cities understand and respond to urban environments.
Nexus, the collaboration and innovation hub of the University of Leeds, has signed a smart city partnership with Terminus Technologies to deploy urban data mining technology at the university.
Terminus Technologies will install advanced multi-spectral cameras across locations at Nexus, operating 24/7, to build a comprehensive dataset to help cities understand and respond to urban environments.
Enhanced urban monitoring
Terminus Technologies has developed a full-stack solution that extracts insights from video footage, claiming to deliver approximately 20 times as many data points as competing technologies.
The proprietary multi-spectral cameras, combined with an advanced perception layer, can identify and report events within 100 milliseconds; an end-to-end process that it also claims represents a leap in urban monitoring capabilities.
Unlike traditional CCTV systems that require manual review, Terminus’s technology allows users to directly interrogate footage with specific data requests, receiving instant, actionable insights. These can then be flown into statistics and used to identify data patterns, a capability transforming weeks of manual analysis into a short timeframe of automated intelligence.
The partnership aims to provide local authorities with the tools to make more informed, data-driven decisions about urban planning and resource allocation.
By understanding real-world patterns and behaviours, city planners can design infrastructure and services that better serve their communities while avoiding the misappropriation of resources.
“This collaboration is about looking ahead – envisioning what urban life will look like in 20 years and building the data infrastructure to support smarter, more responsive cities,” said Joshua Ward, CEO & co-founder of Terminus Technologies. “By creating this commercially viable dataset at the University of Leeds, we’re contributing to next-generation urban insights that will benefit communities across the UK and beyond.”
The initiative will create a robust data bank for academic researchers at the University of Leeds, providing professors and academics with access to real-world datasets for urban studies.
As the partnership generates data over months and years, the partners hope the ability to identify long-term trends and seasonal patterns will become increasingly valuable for urban development.
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