The Luciad (part of Hexagon)

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications. Our technologies are shaping production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous – ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division improves the resilience and sustainability of the world’s critical services and infrastructure. Our solutions, including Luciad, turn complex data about people, places and assets into meaningful information and capabilities for better, faster decision-making in public safety, utilities, defense, transportation, and government.

• We are the global leader in public safety solutions, helping to protect 1 billion people.

  Building on our long-standing leadership in computer-aided dispatch, we provide a public safety platform for data collection, management, analysis, collaboration, and response.

• We support more than two dozen departments and ministries of national defense.

  We deliver mapping and imagery intelligence capabilities and enable high-performance, real-time applications for command and control, mission planning and more.

• We aid government services in more than 100 countries

  Our geospatial data collection, management and analysis capabilities support land and property administration, census taking, natural resources management, sustainability mobility and more.

• We ensure safe and efficient transportation for millions of travellers.

  We support aviation, maritime, rail and road planning, operations and safety, from mapping and maintaining infrastructure to monitoring traffic and services.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 21,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.8bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Luciad

The Luciad portfolio is the SDK of choice for building high-performance mission-critical geospatial applications featuring static, dynamic and moving data in 2D and 3D. It is used extensively in defense, aviation, maritime and other sectors and powers solutions for NATO, EUROCONTROL, Lufthansa Systems, Airbus Defence and Space and many other leading organizations. The Luciad software is developed in Leuven (Belgium). Since 2017, Luciad is part of Hexagon, which gives us access to the rest of the resources and infrastructure of Hexagon.

Our Role in TeamAware

Hexagon’s contribution to the project focuses on bringing situational awareness to the first responders by visualizing geospatial data in augmented reality (AR) glasses and on mobile devices. Tracking information is combined with sensor data, alarms, and commands from the Command-and-Control Center to bring a common operational picture to the first responders in real time.

With it’s Luciad software, Hexagon has the leading role of Work Package 11 “TeamAware AR/Mobile Interfaces” and is responsible for coordinating the joint effort of the other members of the work package to ensure effective communication, productive collaboration, and a seamless integration of the different building blocks that integrate WP11. We expect to learn and benefit from the expertise of every team member while ensuring a successful completion of the project.

Situational Awareness has been the focus of Luciad since its creation, and for more than two decades we have been shaping this field. TeamAware’s goals are bringing situational awareness to a completely new level.

During the development of WP11, Luciad’s AR interface will bring critical data to the eyes of the first responders so that they are immersed in the mission, making them aware not only of potential threats, but also of helpful assets that can help them to complete their job successfully. The AR glasses will also work as a secondary communication system on top of the existing voice communications, as it will allow sending commands to the first responders to assign missions and tasks to specific members of the team.

Hexagon is also involved in the management of the project, more specifically on the “Innovation & Exploitation” activities. Our proven expertise is backed by more than 20 years of experience in creating successful commercial applications and contributing to multiple research projects including European Commission and OGC projects.