OHIO STATE NEWS | CHRIS BOOKER

The Ohio State University adopted an innovative approach to honoring some of the university’s leading and emerging researchers.

The annual Innovator of the Year awards recognize Ohio State researchers who are working to promote commercialization of university intellectual property. The researchers are usually honored at the annual Office of Research and Corporate Engagement Office Research and Innovation Showcase in April, which was canceled this year due to COVID-19 protocols. Now a series of surprise meetings over CarmenZoom serves as the announcement.

“Research and innovation are at the heart of what I want my presidency to be,” said President Kristina M. Johnson. “It’s also at the heart of our land-grant mission and it’s how we influence those we serve. The way to serve is by doing research in the betterment of society.”

Alper Yilmaz, professor of geo-informatics in the Department of Civil Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, is the university’s Innovator of the Year. Yilmaz was nominated because of his development of wireless geolocation technology. The patented technology is the basis of the startup firm Ubihere (pronounced you-be-here), providing a standalone solution to finding the position of an object or person.

Read more at https://news.osu.edu/innovator-of-the-year-awards-honor-top-researchers/ 

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Real-time location system (RTLS) provider Ubihere reports that it won a $150,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-powered autonomous navigation for unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) and electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) vehicles.

The UAS will integrate Ubihere’s next-generation positioning system, which works independently of global positioning system (GPS) to identify the UAS’s location and movement.

Ubihere officials state that the aim of this project with the USAF is to build a demo system that will fly, land, and hover autonomously independent of GPS tracking; the UAS’s position data will then be compared and correlated with that of GPS. The UAS team at The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering will support Ubihere as it tests the drone, which be based on the company’s proprietary multisensor hardware tracking tags and AI software to focus on a given object’s movement and position in real time and much more accurately than legacy real-time location systems.

Read the full article here.

We are excited about this partnership with the Air Force, which will allow us to develop a navigation support system for commercial and defense UAS platforms.”— Eric Wagner, VP of Government Programs for UbihereCOLUMBUS, OH, UNITED STATES, December 16, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ — Ubihere, a technology company that develops real-time location systems (RTLS), on December 3 won a $150,000 contract from the US Air Force to develop autonomous navigation for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) vehicles. The drone, using Ubihere’s next-generation positioning system, which works independently of global positioning systems (GPS) to identify the UAS’s location and movement, will have myriad implications for improving security measures for both the military and the civilian public.

The contract came in just ahead of another key success for Ubihere: the company was named by Columbus Business First as one of the top startups in the region as part of the publication’s 2020 class of Columbus Biztech Award winners.

Ubihere has commercialized a real-time adaptive, easily trainable, artificially intelligent video processing technology, based on patents exclusively licensed from The Ohio State University. This patented AI computer vision hardware and software technology was invented and developed by Dr. Alper Yilmaz, who runs a nationally renowned photogrammetry research program at The Ohio State University, and his research team. 

Read more at https://markets.financialcontent.com/streetinsider/news/read/40768427

JASON HARTMAN | AUTHORITY MAGAZINE

Asa part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Alper Yilmaz, founder and CTO of Ubihere, a solution that uses next-generation location systems to keep track of items in GPS-deprived environments such as remote, mountainous regions or office and hospital corridors. Ubihere came out of years of research and development conducted for US government entities such as the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA. 

In addition to his work with Ubihere, Dr. Yilmaz is a professor of geoinformatics with appointments in Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and the Computer Science and Engineering (by courtesy) Departments at The Ohio State University. He holds five patents and has been published and cited in academic journals more than 10,000 times. This has been a banner year for Dr Yilmaz: he was named Ohio State’s Innovator of the Year for 2020 and Ubihere was named as an “Outstanding Startup” in Columbus Business First’s 2020 BizTech Awards. 

Read more on this the thee things you need to shake up your industry in this article from medium.com.

EINPRESSWIRE | UBIHERE 

Air Force funding grant to go towards development of Ubitrax visitor tracking wrist bracelet evaluation system with multiple use cases

Ubihere, a company that develops innovative real-time location systems (RTLS), which enable accurate, to-the-second inventory tracking and management in a wide variety of environments and conditions, received an Air Force SBIR contract for $50,000 to fund the development and commercialization of the Ubitrax Wearable. The wrist bracelet, the first wearable tech item in the Ubihere family of tools, is a first-of-its-kind tool that leverages Ubihere’s next-generation technology, deep learning sensor fusion, to monitor movement and give up-to-the minute information on the wearer’s location. 

SPECTRUM NEWS 1

HILLIARD, Ohio — Richard Arnold is the director of engineering at Converge Technologies, a tech hub of sorts in Hilliard.

He’s also part of the growing effort behind the company Ubihere and its asset tracking device called Ubitrax.

“Hospitals, the statistics is they lose $16 million in equipment every year, and nurses can spend up to eight hours looking for equipment,” said Arnold. 

The device is already being tested in medical centers as well as Dyess Air Force Base in Texas. 

“One hundred tags and we’ve got a handful of anchors that they’re currently testing. We’ve got a dashboard that’s running, it’s tracking where they’re moving from,” said Arnold. 

Read the full article from Spectrum News 1 here. 

THRIVE GLOBAL | JASON HARTMAN

As a part of our series about business leaders who are shaking things up in their industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Alper Yilmaz, founder and CTO of Ubihere, a solution that uses next-generation location systems to keep track of items in GPS-deprived environments such as remote, mountainous regions or office and hospital corridors. Ubihere came out of years of research and development conducted for US government entities such as the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and NASA. In addition to his work with Ubihere, Dr. Yilmaz is a professor of geoinformatics with appointments in Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and the Computer Science and Engineering (by courtesy) Departments at The Ohio State University. He holds five patents and has been published and cited in academic journals more than 10,000 times. This has been a banner year for Dr Yilmaz: he was named Ohio State’s Innovator of the Year for 2020 and Ubihere was named as an “Outstanding Startup” in Columbus Business First’s 2020 BizTech Awards. 

Read more at https://thriveglobal.com/stories/dr-alper-yilmaz-of-ubihere-you-should-always-share-your-knowledge/

COLUMBUS CEO | CYNTHIA BENT FINDLAY

Want to know where your kid is at Cedar Point, or where your cat’s gotten to on a 10-degree day? Ubihere, a 2016 Columbus startup, just won a $50,000 Air Force contract to develop affordable, wearable technology that can monitor movement on a fine-grained, up-to-the-minute basis.

Ubitrax Wearable initially will be developed for use at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, but the grant will help fund its commercialization and development. Ubihere already is in talks with memory care providers to help keep dementia patients safe.

Read more on Ubihere’s product development in this article from columbusceo.com.