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UrbanTide Limited

uReveal

uReveal tracks, values and assesses the risks of physical assets using its advanced artificial intelligence image detection and change analysis. Through linking aerial and street level images with other national data assets uReveal can: detect new buildings and built assets; confirm build quality and materials; confirm asset size.

Features

  • Linking arial and street level images with national data assets
  • Detect new buildings or assets using imagery analysis
  • Confirm build quality and materials used using imagery analysis
  • Confirm asset size with image analysis
  • Latest data visualisations and customisable dashboards
  • Ordering of new image data collections for analysis

Benefits

  • Can deliver nationwide identification of building heights
  • Can deliver nationwide analysis of building materials by built asset
  • Detect changes over time of build assets and buildings
  • Link built assets from imagery with national data e.g. addressbase
  • Maps these assets and findings in interactive viewers
  • Enables use of the images in report generation
  • Enables data reuse for the customer
  • Identification of fraud based on asset valuation

Pricing

£10,000 an instance a month

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at steven.revill@urbantide.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

7 8 6 9 7 4 1 2 1 4 7 7 4 6 0

Contact

UrbanTide Limited Steven Revill
Telephone: 07921912422
Email: steven.revill@urbantide.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
What software services is the service an extension to
USmart
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
No there are no constraints
System requirements
Accessible via web browsers (all standard ones, Chrome, IE, etc)

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Yes, at extra cost
Support response times
Critical - 1 business hour
Urgent - 1/2 business day
Medium - 1 business day
Informational - 2 business days

Therefore response times are different at weekends.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
No
Support levels
A technical account manager is provided for every customer. The technical account manager engages with the cloud support engineer to rectify any issues.

We have no additional costing for different support levels at present. Our support level is the same albeit the Service Level Agreement specifies the different speed of response for each type.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We have user documentation available here https://urbantide.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/US/overview which provides training for all services and functionality.

However, we normally undertake some user training either onsite, online or a mix of both as required by the customer. This continues throughout the contract as new users join or features are released.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
HTML
End-of-contract data extraction
Bulk extraction of metadata can be provided alongside the datasets which are all available as standard.

We also have a full json dcat end point which enables harvesting of the metadata and data in various formats.
End-of-contract process
There are no additional costs.

We support the user in ensuring access to the relevant metadata files and data files. Only once this has occurred will we switch off the service.

Exit interview to determine why the customer no longer requires our product.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
The primary difference is how is the view on screen as we have designed for the services to be reactive to the screen size. There is no difference to functionality.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Description of service interface
Web based interface
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Accessibility testing
We have tested using the WCAG compliance checker
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Using API key and secret confirmed in the webservice by adding users

Access and interrogate the databases

The images cannot be accessed via the api
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
Open API (also known as Swagger)
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Provision of organisation information
Provision of organisational specific data for retraining or supervised learning
Creation of specific visualisations

Scaling

Independence of resources
Normal usage patterns for user numbers and data upload/ downloads are managed through autoscalable microservices which are already designed into the system.

uSmart's primary demand pinchpoint is our data query layer. Here we have the ability to scale the demand by increasing the cloud resources available though on click deployment to increase the speed systematically. This speeds up the service to users, albeit users are never not served, it can just take time.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
The number of active users.
The number of API requests.
The number of dataset requests.
Uptime is also constantly monitored and available through uptime.robot
Reporting types
Real-time dashboards

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
Protecting data at rest
Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
By logging in and selecting the download function or via the API interface for each dataset.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • Json
  • Geojson
  • Xml
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
Other data import formats
  • Json
  • Geojson
  • Xml
  • Pdf
  • Dmp

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
USmart has availability guarantee of 99.9%.

Refunding has never been required as service level guarantees have always been extended.

We don't have a set refund policy but have signed up to customer defined refund levels in previous/ existing Contracts and are happy to do the same in future.
Approach to resilience
We are happy to make this available on request.
Outage reporting
A public dashboard - uptime robot is provided.

We also send emails to users.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
2FA is available for customers who determine they wish to use it. This can also be controlled at a user type level so the customer can decide if it is implemented for admin and/ or tiers below admin.

Admin functionality is restricted to admin users anyway by design of the system.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
QAS International
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
05/06/2023
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Not applicable
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
It is aligned with ISO/IEC27001 and we also maintain Cyber Security Plus Certification.
Information security policies and processes
Cyber Security Plus Certified and we also have a Cyber Security Policy and a Quality Management Statement both of which have been checked and accepted by UK Public Sector bodies for their procurements.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
Unit testing and frequent review between the Management Team and the Technical Team.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
All of our services are hosted within Amazon Web Services and we action any advice provided by AWS.
We deploy patches within the two week sprint period and instantly when they are noted as urgent.
In addition to AWS advice we also action alerts provided through the Frameworks we are part of including for example Crown Commercial Services RM6094 and RM6200.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Our approach combines our own monitoring, that of our cloud service provider AWS and any identified issues through our knowledge and network alerts including existing Crown Commercial Services Frameworks (e.g. RM6094 and RM6200).

- AWS make us aware of any potential comprises
- When made aware we review and implement urgent changes as quickly as possible reapplying resources to solve the problem or include it within the next sprint.
- Our own monitoring includes internal log management dashboards for identifying security events.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Aligned with ISO/IEC 27035-2:2016 our approach includes both Plan and Prepare and Lessons Learned.

Specifically this is covered within our Continuous Improvement Policy which incorporates incident management which states that:
- information security incident management is recognised by management;
- we manage these risks and have an incident management plan in the event of incidents
- we have clear responsibilities for tackling incidents dependant on the type and this is shared across the organisation
- provision of incident reports to customers when it impacts them
- learning from incidents to reduce re-occurance.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Social Value

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

uReveal significantly contributes to fighting climate change through environmental benefits, including progress towards net-zero greenhouse gas emissions and supporting environmental protection and improvement. By linking aerial and street-level images with national data assets, uReveal enables comprehensive analysis of built assets and infrastructure, facilitating the monitoring of urban development and its environmental impact. uReveal provides valuable insights into resource consumption, sustainable building practices, and spatial planning.
uReveal supports efforts to promote sustainable development practices and reduce carbon emissions associated with construction.
Additionally, uReveal's interactive mapping capabilities and report generation features enhance accessibility and communication of environmental findings, facilitating evidence-based decision-making and collaborative efforts towards environmental protection and improvement.

Tackling economic inequality

identifying areas with inadequate infrastructure or housing quality could inform policymakers and organisations about areas requiring investment and support, potentially reducing disparities in access to essential services.

Wellbeing

While uReveal's primary focus is on environmental monitoring, the improvement of infrastructure and built environment it supports can have positive effects on well-being. Access to quality housing, green spaces, and essential services contributes to improved living conditions and community well-being. Additionally, by enabling better urban planning and resource allocation, uReveal may indirectly support initiatives that enhance community well-being.

Pricing

Price
£10,000 an instance a month
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at steven.revill@urbantide.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.