Award Recipients

The One Big Circle team is incredibly proud to be honoured with the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation, which recognises their efforts in providing innovative solutions in the rail industry with their ground-breaking AIVR technology.

“It is a momentous achievement to be awarded the accolade of King’s Award for Enterprise and is a fantastic reflection on our team who have worked so hard on delivering innovation with and for the UK rail industry,” says Emily Kent, co-founder at One Big Circle.
“From our first deployment just before the pandemic to now being a trusted partner of the industry, delivering a high level of data service every day, it is a real demonstration of innovation, and a great example of what can be achieved through collaboration.”

One Big Circle was founded by Emily, Ian Packer, Sam Low and Barnaby Kent in 2017 with a simple premise: to create smart video solutions to help people navigate challenging industrial environments.

The Bristol-based tech company is now a team of over 50, working at the forefront of Intelligent video, machine learning and artificial intelligence within the rail sector. With a broad range of expertise and technical skills, the team has developed the end-to-end AIVR system to meet rail challenges, developed for safe and remote monitoring of critical national infrastructure.

AIVR (Automated Intelligent Video Review) is deployed across the UK railway by Network Rail, Transport for Wales and multiple operators. The innovative system captures high definition forward facing, thermal, linescanning and overhead imagery from onboard trains, and automatically transmits the data to the web-based AIVR platform.

Machine learning and AI is applied to the data to automatically detect assets and conditions across the network. Thousands of users from multiple disciplines within the industry now access the data and intelligence using the AIVR platform, and access a suite of digital tools to help them increase their remote inspection capability, ultimately keeping them safer and helping the railway run more smoothly.