VIDA is an earth observation and AI-powered custom software that enables data-driven investment, business and policy decisions in rural villages in Africa and Asia frontier markets. It uses high resolution satellite imagery for deriving information about individual villages and their local context. High resolution satellite imageries allow a zoom into villages with quality check and findings presented in an interactive "smart map".
VIDA provides services that offers governments, funders and companies the ability to access energy market potential rapidly and at scale. Apparently, this will be beneficial to the African market as Africa is anticipating providing a universal energy access by 2030.
Recently, VIDA's great works on electrification of health centres in Africa amidst others won VIDA the EU's PARSEC Accelerator for startups in data science and earth observation following a keenly contested competition consisting of leading data scientists, top notch entrepreneurs and satellite experts.
Source: medium.com
VIDA uses cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence and earth observation to improving electricity access planning in emerging markets. This technology, shows the limitations in accuracy and scale of manual surveys. VIDA's artificial intelligence includes an automation of data analytical tasks such as; recognizing patterns from satellite imagery. Thus, ensuring a much faster, convenient and cheaper process.
For companies striving to break grounds owing to a limited set of onsite data, VIDA got you covered as it possess the propensity to influence site selection and generate a quality potpourri of sites quickly.
VIDA is interactive, transparent and flexible thus, allowing a formidable and effective as well as efficient customer engagement with "village" as a unit of analysis. VIDA analysis helps users make better decisions by bringing the analysis together in a user specific format as a ranking. VIDA provides relevant demographic, topographic, agricultural and socioeconomic input parameters for each village.
Based on experience over the years, an organization with frontier market experts which have worked on electrification projects in India, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Togo. VIDA currently partners with reputable international brands such as; Initiative for applied artificial intelligence, DLR, esa, PARSEC accelerator, Copernicus accelerator, Odyssey and Good Energies.
Data is the life wire for developmental strides and as such, VIDA is well equipped in utilizing data for solving problems and thus, processes large amounts of data very efficiently, adding speed and cutting cost. It's analysis of satellite images is highly automated and uses machine learning. This enables a swift and reliable process of large quantities of imagery from across the globe.