2020: Year in Review
The month of December always prompts us to pause and reflect on the moments, big and small, that formed the year. 2020 will be a year that we will not soon forget! Despite the challenges created by the pandemic, we recognize we have much to celebrate and feel grateful for as a business.
We were featured in the spring issue of ArcNews for our image recognition and machine learning work with the City of Houston’s public works department.
Even in its beginning stages, our clients found real value in ARTMS, our newly developed augmented reality ticketing management system. From a small Colorado facility owner managing its responsibilities under Colorado SUE legislation, to petroleum-industry clients who discovered a huge discrepancy in their survey grade data after viewing it in AR, ARTMS helped facilitate and document high quality positive response to location requests.
The Argis® Lens became available on ArcGIS Marketplace.
We became an Esri Silver Partner and also earned Esri’s Release Ready Specialty.
We presented at Elevations Geospatial Summit and several other virtual events.
We had the pleasure of engaging with the young minds of Challenge to Excellence Charter School for GIS Day 2020.
On the consulting side of our business, we enjoyed creating solutions for a number of client successes:
Partnering with Worker Studio, we gave ARcampfire its augmented reality capabilities, providing classrooms with innovative learning and teaching tools. Back in January, we never guessed that a global pandemic two months later would shift much of education to virtual settings, underlining AR’s role in effective, engaging instruction.
We developed a 3D visualization tool using ArcGIS API for JavaScript to enhance communication surrounding complex pipeline construction and designed another 3D visualization tool that dynamically interacts with PHP, helping our clients better share highly technical geospatial data with their customers.
When our client, a leading home warranty company, envisioned a more efficient way of evaluating structural engineering claims, we designed an industry-changing tool using BIM and DEM so that their new process is faster and more accurate.
We used image recognition to help a client requiring a bin-picking solution that worked with the limited processing power of a Raspberry Pi.
Answering a client’s need for a better, more usable site-planning tool, we designed a product that visualizes the client’s complex information matrix in easy-to-understand terms so that all levels of the organization are empowered.
The pandemic required us all to strengthen our muscles of flexibility and resourcefulness. Even with all the pressures of 2020, our creativity and drive to innovate continued. We look forward to 2021 and the new opportunities and challenges it will present. We are ready!