# Maestrano Group achieve major engineering milestone with ARTC

- Link: https://www.directorstalkinterviews.com/maestrano-group-achieve-major-engineering-milestone-with-artc/412839527
- Published: 2020-07-06T11:37:56+01:00
- Author: Amilia Stone

**Maestrano Group PLC** (LON:MNO), the Artificial Intelligence platform for transport
corridor analytics, has announced a Partnership Agreement with Esri Inc. and achievement
of a major engineering milestone with ARTC.

**Partnership Agreement**

Maestrano’s subsidiary, Corridor Technology, and Esri have signed a partnership 
agreement to formalise joint solution efforts around the world. This partnership
includes a localised teaming agreement in Australia to enhance the quality and quantity
of data available in the ARTC instance of the Esri ArcGIS (“Geographical Information
System”) software, by incorporating results from the Corridor Machine Learning platform.
ARTC is a customer of both Esri and Corridor Technology.

Esri Inc. is an international supplier of geographic information system software,
cloud GIS and geodatabase management applications. The company is headquartered 
in Redlands, California.   www.esri.com

ARTC is a Government of Australia owned statutory corporation, which manages most
of Australia’s interstate rail network, 8,500 kilometres in length across five states.
Maestrano announced the project to collect and analyse track information on 6 January
2020, which has a 3 year duration and provides for up to 36,500km of corridor scanning
per year.

**Major Engineering Milestone**

As part of the commissioning process Corridor Technology and ARTC have undertaken
the appropriate engineering acceptance activities that demonstrate that the Corridor
Technology platform meets engineering accuracy and safety requirements, to replace
the manual method of surveying rail track infringements and track clearances, with
the automated Machine Learning process from Corridor Technology.

> **Nick Smith, Vice President Sales for Maestrano**, said,
> “We are proud and excited to become an Esri partner. The partnership will assist
> us in opening up new markets, helping us to deploy solutions more quickly using
> established Esri software and by providing valuable market, solution and technology
> intelligence.
> The engineering acceptance from ARTC means our automated Corridor Technology platform
> is now formally accredited as meeting the engineering accuracy and safety standards
> of previous manual inspection and survey methods.  In the very conservative environment
> of rail engineering, this is a significant achievement and will reassure rail 
> operators around the world.  The commissioning process has now been completed 
> and the Corridor Technology platform moves to Business as Usual (BaU) inside ARTC.”

> **Andrew Pearson, CEO of Maestrano Group, commented:**
> “We are delighted with the progress our team are making with key partners and 
> customers.  This reflects the recognition of our product’s technical excellence
> and efficacy.  Using Machine Learning techniques to analyse very large datasets
> is now moving from research to practical applications and we are at the forefront
> of this movement in the transport sector.”

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