Location intelligence company xyzt.ai presented an innovative collision avoidance system in partnership with Securitas and Bolesian for early detection and warning of possible dangerous situations at the INEOS jetty in Port of Antwerp. Leuven, Belgium, 08 April 2022 – xyzt.ai, a Leuven-based high-tech company offering an innovative visual analytics SaaS (Software as a Service) platform… Read More
Over the past decades, we have seen a new type of business emerge in the big data industry: DaaS companies. They operate as a SaaS company, but instead of offering Software as-a-Service, they offer Data-as-a-Service. Through online platforms and APIs, clients of DaaS companies can connect to data, query, and download the relevant parts to ingest the data into their pipelines and workflows. Examples include otonomo and INRIX that provide… Read More
xyzt.ai is selected to join a new hub for innovation in the maritime sector, organized by the global innovation platform Plug and Play Tech Center, to connect the world’s best startups to industry-leading corporations. Leuven, Belgium, 8 December 2021 – xyzt.ai, a Leuven-based high-tech company offering an innovative visual analytics SaaS (Software as a… Read More
A port is a complex environment with a large number of vessel movements interacting every day. To improve the performance of a port you need to know what is happening. Situational awareness sounds self-evident, but it is not easy to monitor and analyze all of the activity in order to learn what can be improved… Read More
Data-driven styling helps people understand better what they are looking at when visualizing and analyzing data. Imagine you’re a data analyst who just spent two weeks studying a particular dataset. You cleaned up the input data, ran all the required calculations, and discovered some new groundbreaking insights. Proud as a peacock you prepare your report… Read More
Pop the champagne! We’ve just released our second major platform update of 2021. We listened to your feedback and focused our development efforts on how we could help accelerate your location analytics capabilities. If you’re new to xyzt.ai, we are a company that provides a big data location analytics platform that allows you to easily… Read More
Visual analytics platform xyzt.ai is excited to announce a collaboration with Port of Antwerp to enhance innovation and digitalization in Europe’s second-largest seaport. Leuven 30 August 2021 – xyzt.ai, a Leuven-based high-tech company offering an innovative visual analytics SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for big location data, announced today a partnership with leading maritime port authority, Port of Antwerp. A port is a complex environment with a large number… Read More
Big data location analytics platform xyzt.ai co-hosted a webinar with Spire maritime, a satellite-powered data company and a leading provider of maritime data. Bart Adams, CTO of xyzt.ai, and Mark Deverill, Data Operations Manager at Spire, will demonstrate how to uncover the hidden treasure in your maritime data in the joint webinar. The maritime industry… Read More
External data is not (yet) a commonly used data source these days, although it can be the light at the end of the tunnel. Leuven, Belgium 26 May 2021 – Companies across industries too often still rely only on the data that is generated in-house. A lot of effort has been made to implement a… Read More
xyzt.ai announces the availability of its free trial and gives analysts working with large amounts of geospatial data access to an unparalleled performance to analyze their data. Leuven, Belgium 17 May 2021 – xyzt.ai (www.xyzt.ai), a Leuven-based technology start-up offering an innovative visual analytics SaaS platform for big location data, announces today the launch of… Read More
In 2002, the Automatic Identification System (AIS) for vessel tracking and collision avoidance became operational. The data logged is now affecting many industries outside the maritime sector. xyzt.ai’s, Founder and CTO, Bart Adams explains how. We live in a world that is becoming increasingly more digital and connected. The list of assets being tracked continues… Read More
Leuven, 09 September, 2020 – Our CTO, Bart Adams, has recovered from the UN Global Pulse#AISHackathon, but he couldn’t wait until Feature Friday to showcase our latest feature with you. We are really proud, it’s the result of hard work in the design and implementation of our architecture and algorithms. In this video you see xyzt.ai‘s big data,… Read More
Leuven, 20 August, 2020 – Another proud moment for xyzt.ai as we have been selected for the United Nations AIS Hackathon during 3-6 September 2020. xyzt.ai is one of the 17 strongest applications chosen from teams all over the world. The #AISHackathon organized by the UN Global Pulse and its partners, challenges researchers to use vessel traffic data to help inform #COVID19 response… Read More
Webinar rewatch Did you miss our recent webinar? xyzt.ai is super excited to announce our joint webinar with Spire, the leading provider of global data and analytics. Join Bart Adams, CTO xyzt.ai and Mark Deverill, Senior Manager, Spire Global. To request access Register here. The maritime industry is undergoing a digitalization revolution. Port authorities, shipping companies,… Read More
“Working with AIS data is such a pain”. This is one of the most often heard sentences when talking to our prospects and customers. In this article I’ll first explain what AIS data is, highlight the pain points, and then I go into how we help our customers take away these pains… What is AIS… Read More
AIS data contains information communicated by vessels to report on their location, status, draught, and so on. AIS stands for Automatic Identification System. Vessels are required to report their position and status at regular intervals. The AIS signals are picked up by antennas onshore, on satellites, and on other vessels. Knowing where vessels are moving… Read More
There is this saying that over 80% of all data is spatially referenced. It shows that spatial technologies are important for data-driven insight generation. But I like to take a different approach. What percentage of real-world objects (including people) is digitally referenced? Or in other words: for how many objects and people do we know… Read More
