Yotta – surveying the UK one pixel at a time

26 July 2007, 1:50pm

Yotta collects Data Collection in first UK acquisition

Yotta, the provider of advanced highway data collection technology and services, and part of the Oxford Metrics Group plc (LSE: OMG), has today announced it is to acquire Data Collection Ltd (DCL), one of the largest dedicated highways surveying companies in the UK.

DCL will assume the Yotta brand and will now be known as Yotta DCL. Yotta DCL will continue to operate from its offices in Bognor Regis and Leicester with the addition of new offices and a development team in Oxford. Yotta’s expertise in automated image recognition and location plotting will be a great fit with DCL’s highway surveying market pedigree.

DCL has been trading since 1993 and provides surveying and software for road and footway condition management. The company provides condition assessment surveys, asset collection services and UKPMS compliant software to Highway Authorities. DCL has many long term contracts with its current customers including Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Pembrokeshire County Councils.

David Lowe, Yotta DCL Managing Director, said: "This acquisition provides a great platform for us to take advantage of the growing demand for highly detailed information from highways management and intelligent mapping organisations. Through DCL we now have 15 years of highways surveying pedigree to combine with Yotta's ability to automatically map the precise location of each and every detail of the highway. Yotta DCL can now provide the most accurate and complete highway survey available, by extracting tiny details from massive datasets."

Steve Batchelor, Managing Director of DCL, commented: “When we first met Yotta the appeal of their technology was immediate. Having been involved in highways management all my working life, it was obvious to me the benefit and change the vision software could bring to our market. DCL has always been about long-term customers and high quality execution - because we’ve been highways engineers we know how important it is to have high quality survey information. By combining Yotta’s technology with our team’s knowledge and our business’s market presence, Yotta DCL can really go places.”

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