Houston, Texas, May 25, 2018 – Reality Imaging and Mapping Technologies, a market-leading 360° technology provider, announced the release of OcuMapTM, a comprehensive software platform for geospatial media that brings together videos, images and maps. Organizations can take advantage of OcuMapTM to upload, manage and share their aerial and street level imagery in an integrated environment that will help them to realize efficiency gains, as large infrastructure assets can now be visualized and accessed without leaving the office.

OcuMap™ is a cloud-based 360 degree viewer with georeferencing capabilities, offering a single dashboard with maps, imagery, and videos for remote decision making. Google Street View imagery and 2D map data can be used alongside aerial or street level video imagery, with functionality to add tags and annotation features. Because OcuMapTM is camera hardware-agnostic, users can upload all sorts of georeferenced video imagery, and view it in 360 degrees using no less than three different display modes. Finally, additional georeferencing capabilities enable users to create hotspots and take 3D measurements inside ground-level imagery and download the results.

“OcuMap™ was designed with the field engineer in mind. We created a solution that enables them to make fast and accurate decisions about work in the field, bypassing the need for expensive and highly technical data products, expertise and software,” says Ala Hamdan, CEO of Reality IMT. “OcuMapTM offers a great user experience, making it the perfect choice for applications such as road and highway construction, public works and infrastructure, drone and mobile mapping operations.”

The solution was road-tested by The City of Houston’s Public Works and Engineering (PWE) department, who teamed up with Reality IMT to explore the possibilities of using UAV-based video imagery. Together, they investigated how it could be applied to identify, prioritize and maintain off-road ditches in order to prevent flooding issues. Sample video is available here The team at Reality IMT used OcuMapTM to manage all the UAV data, tag defects online, and export the data based on the priorities set forth by the City.

Using UAV-based video imagery, the inspection efficiency increased to more than 60%. Whereas conventional inspections would take about 8 months to document and prioritize the 100-mile off-road ditch network of Houston, thanks to using drone-based imagery, it took only 45 days – a process including visually documenting, mapping, and geotagging defects. “The use of drone-based imagery and data management capabilities from OcuMapTM enabled rapid accessibility of geospatial data to the engineers and decision makers, all from the comfort of their office. It also contributed to a better, and faster method for identification and prioritization of defects,” concludes Hamdan.