Imperial College London upgrades Vicon solutions

14 October 2019

Oxford Metrics plc

("Oxford Metrics", the "Company" or the "Group")

Vicon Contract Win

Imperial College London upgrades to Vicon's Vantage and Vero solutions

14 October 2019 - Oxford Metrics plc (LSE: OMG) the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets is pleased to announce that Vicon, a world leader in motion measurement, has signed a contract with Imperial College London, a global top ten university, to upgrade to both its flagship Vantage solution and flexible Vero solution.

The Human Performance Group, part of the MSK Lab at Imperial, has been a customer for nearly 10 years, using the Vicon solution to research and analyse human performance. The Group's research contributes to areas such as diagnosing early knee osteoarthritis and interventions to delay or prevent progression, joint hypermobility syndrome and developing evidence-based exercise programmes, maximising performance and reducing injury risk in elite athletes.

The Group is moving to the brand-new and revolutionary multi-million pound facility, the Sir Michael Uren Biomedical Engineering Research Hub, which will house life-changing research into new and affordable medical technology, helping people affected by a diverse range of medical conditions.

Alison McGregor, professor of musculoskeletal biodynamics in the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Human Performance Lab, at Imperial College London, commented: "We are planning to expand our current research and that, coupled with the capture area in the new facility being significantly larger than our current lab, we needed a higher specification motion capture system. It needed to be powerful enough to track subjects across the larger space and capture data of the highest fidelity - Vicon Vantage was the only solution for that."

"We also wanted the flexibility to turn the large space into two smaller capture areas to carry out simultaneous sessions. Vicon Vero in combination with the Vantage solution will enable us to capture specific movements such as rowing or running on a treadmill, when using the smaller lab."

Nick Bolton, CEO of Oxford Metrics, commented: "We are delighted that the Human Performance Group have chosen the next generation of Vicon products for their new facility. Our powerful Vantage solution combined with the flexibility of Vero will enable them to capture human movement at high-speed, deliver high precision data and carry out multiple capture sessions simultaneously. The fact that a leading institution like Imperial has been a customer for nearly 10 years is testament to the strength of Vicon's products. We look forward to continuing our work with them and seeing the exciting research they go on to produce."

About Oxford Metrics

Oxford Metrics develops and markets analytics software for motion measurement and infrastructure asset management to clients in over 70 countries worldwide. Our list of clients across the globe is as diverse as the markets we operate in; we help highways authorities manage and maintain their road networks, hospitals and clinicians decide therapeutic strategies and Hollywood studios create stunning visual effects. And the diversity of applications is growing all the time.

The group trades through two subsidiaries: Vicon and Yotta. Vicon is the world's leader in high precision motion measurement analysis to thousands of customers worldwide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, MIT and NASA and our software is used in an ever-expanding range of applications. Yotta provides cloud-based infrastructure asset management software to central and local government agencies and other infrastructure owners. Yotta has a large number of high profile clients including Highways England and Amey in the UK and VicRoads in Australia amongst others.

Founded in 1984 our group is headquartered in Oxford with offices in Leamington Spa, Gloucester, California, Colorado and Singapore. Since 2001, Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), has been a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange.

For more information about Oxford Metrics, visit www.oxfordmetrics.com

About Vicon  

Academy Award®-winning Vicon is an innovator in motion capture and the world's largest supplier of motion measurement systems. Established in 1984, Vicon serves customers in visual effects, object tracking, virtual and augmented realities, engineering, broadcast, biomechanics, sports and clinical sciences. 

With thousands of customers world-wide, including Guy's Hospital, EA Sports, Bandai Namco, Sony, Dreamscape Immersive, MIT and NASA, the diverse applications for Vicon technology continues to grow.

More recently, Vicon has seen the demand for motion measurement going mainstream and applied to a broader range of applications than ever before with new markets including Location-based Virtual Reality and Elite Sports.

Vicon is a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics (LSE: OMG), the international software company servicing government, life sciences, entertainment and engineering markets. For more information about Vicon, visit www.vicon.com.