The collaboration will see vans and cars fitted with automotive camera-based mapping technology from Mobileye.
In an announcement Tuesday, Ordnance Survey – the national mapping agency of Britain – said its work with Mobileye would "unlock the innovation of artificial intelligence-powered automotive technology for an array of markets." The vehicles will be able to capture a host of data, detecting, processing and sending it to the cloud to be aggregated, after which it will be sent to OS. The technology will be able to recognize and classify everything from traffic lights and road signs to road markings, drainage grates and bollards.
The trials will see vehicles from the Northumbrian Water Group retrofitted with Mobileye technology to record data in the north east of England.