VSBLTY & NGDI, A SMART INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNER, TO CONNECT CITIES, CITIZENS & BUSINESSES
VSBLTY Groupe Technologies Corp. (OTCQB: VSBGF) has partnered with urban tech company NGDI to enhance Smart City solutions. This collaboration focuses on deploying advanced technology hubs in dense urban areas, utilizing VSBLTY’s AI-driven security and retail analytics. Key technologies include VisionCaptor™, DataCaptor™, and Vector™, which promote customer engagement and improve security through advanced facial recognition. VSBLTY's CEO, Jay Hutton, announced plans for two deployments by the end of the year in Asia and the Middle East. The global Smart Cities market is projected to grow significantly, valued at USD 1,226.9 billion in 2022 with a CAGR of 25.8% from 2023 to 2030. Additionally, VSBLTY granted 5,606,000 stock options at an 85% premium to the market price, while CFO Mitch Codkind will transition out of his role. The partnership aims to provide enhanced community services and security solutions.
- Partnership with NGDI to deploy advanced Smart City hubs enhances market position.
- Technologies like VisionCaptor™ and DataCaptor™ improve customer engagement and security.
- Projected growth of the Smart Cities market indicates potential for revenue increase.
- CFO Mitch Codkind's departure may affect financial oversight during transition.
- Recent stock options granted at a substantial premium could dilute shareholder value.
All three of VSBLTY's advanced, propriety technology solutions are included in the platform. VSBLTY technology provides enhanced customer engagement and audience measurement using machine learning and computer vision. Its industry leading VisionCaptor™ and DataCaptor™ software combine motion graphics and interactive brand messaging with cutting-edge computer vision measurement and insights. VSBLTY's AI driven software Vector™ provides in nanoseconds enhanced facial detection that is crucial to strengthening today's security requirements when recognizing weapons or suspicious persons in a crowd.
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NGDI's range of hubs, strengthened with VSBLTY state-of-the-art technology, help to fund city-wide security through brand advertising on its giant screens. The safety features include cameras that enable local authorities to monitor public spaces, a microphone for two-way communications with emergency services, monitoring of air quality and UV levels, and public service announcements through speakers and on its screens.
The aesthetically distinctive hubs provide communications and mobility, in addition to security. The multifunctional and interactive platform accommodates all physical, online and mobile communications including current, visual and interactive information to citizens and visitors. 32-inch touchscreens enable users to learn more about local points of interest, entertainment and area businesses, from which on-the-spot purchases can be delivered. The hubs also provide maps, real-time transit schedules, weather reports, local news, school information and even job listings. The hubs supply smart applications for mobility such as parking and charging solutions, bicycle rental and public transport, as well as IoT sensors to enable IoT-based applications.
The all-encompassing kiosks, utilizing VSBLTY technology, provide local businesses with advanced real-time analytics using computer vision and audience measurement that includes dwell time, impressions, percent looking at screens and content interaction.
VSBLTY has granted an aggregate of 5,606,000 stock options ("Options") to certain directors, officers, consultants and employees of the Company pursuant to the Company's stock option plan, allowing them to purchase an equal number of common shares in the capital of the Company. All Options are exercisable for a period of 5 years at a price of
The Company believes that equity compensation is the best way to incentivize directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company in a manner that increases their proprietary interest in the Company, encouraging them to remain associated with the Company and furnishing them with additional incentive in their efforts on behalf of the Company, and for the Company to preserve cash needed for the development of the Company's business.
VSBLTY also announced today that Chief Financial Officer
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NGDI is an urban tech company that supports cities, real estate developers and communications companies by reducing fragmentation of infrastructures in cities. Its uniquely modern designed outdoor kiosks and their underlying platforms strengthens and extends the engagement between cities, local businesses and citizens by connecting the digital and physical worlds. The family of multi-functional hubs enhance the way citizens and tourists experience communities and take advantage of the services that local municipalities offer.
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