The Kognitiv Spark innovation team is looking to augment its team to help accelerate the next version of RemoteSpark and unannounced spatial computing and industrial metaverse projects

Kognitiv Spark is pleased to announce that Foresight Group, a listed private equity, and infrastructure investment manager, has invested 4.2m (CAD) in growth capital into Kognitiv Spark which is commercializing software that provides 3D data to support field service workers in remote locations.

Kognitiv Spark, the global leader in industrial mixed and augmented reality task support software, today announces the opening of its first UK office, at Harwell Campus, the UK’s leading science and innovation park, in Oxfordshire to support its expansion into the European market as the company is set to significantly increase in size in 2022.

When mobile augmented reality (AR), head-mounted mixed reality (MR), and assisted reality technologies first began hitting the market in the mid-2010s, companies and thought leaders immediately identified these technologies for the ability to solve the age-old problem: How do I help a worker fix a problem without being physically there myself?

As part of the work that we do at Kognitiv Spark, we get to interact with many industrial engineering firms, either as customers or partners.

By nature, industrial engineering requires significant on-site travel for its staff. As an example, an engineer that builds the plans for a new water treatment facility is typically required to travel to its construction site several times (inspections, troubleshooting, change requests, project management, etc.).

In many industrial sectors, client demands are increasing, and end-products or outputs are expected faster, cheaper, and often customized. Couple this with the knowledge that competition is fiercer than ever, and organizations are left with one choice: innovate or become irrelevant.

Kognitiv Spark today announced it has been named a global finalist in both the Defense & Intelligence and Mixed Reality categories for the 2021 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.

Three-plus decades ago as a high school student I worked a summer at the Ganong Chocolate factory in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, to save money to buy a new computer. Established in 1873, Ganong has the distinction of being Canada’s original and longest-standing family-owned and operated chocolate and confectionary company. Working there I ate a ton of candy (and still do!).

RemoteSpark is Kognitiv Spark’s industrial-grade remote communications tool built on the Microsoft HoloLens. It’s used to connect technicians and engineers to remotely located subject matter experts to reduce equipment downtime and maintenance-and-repair-related travel costs for senior techs and subject matter experts.

Today, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster announced four new projects with a total value of nearly $3.5 million. One such project is the Mixed Reality (3D) Visualization of Sonar Data for Microsoft HoloLens Project, HydroSpark.

Kognitiv Spark announced today they have been recognized as one of 13 businesses from Atlantic Canada who have been named as finalists for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2021 Atlantic program.

Considering our clients use RemoteSpark in some of the most remote, challenging, and low-bandwidth environments, we’re happy to announce that we’ve added additional robustness and stability to our AR remote guidance solution.