Nexus, the University of Leeds’s innovation hub, has announced a landmark partnership with Terminus Technologies to deploy cutting-edge urban data mining technology at the university.

The partnership will see Terminus Technologies install advanced multi-spectral cameras across locations at Nexus, operating 24/7 to build a comprehensive dataset that will revolutionise how cities understand and respond to urban environments.

Terminus Technologies has developed a full-stack solution that extracts unprecedented insights from video footage. It claims that this delivers approximately 20 times as many data points as competing technologies. It claims to identify and report events within 100 milliseconds.

Unlike traditional CCTV systems that require manual review, Terminus’s technology allows users to directly interrogate footage with specific data requests, receiving instant, actionable insights. These can then be flown into statistics and used to identify data patterns, a capability transforming weeks of manual analysis into a short timeframe of automated intelligence.

The partnership aims to provide local authorities with the tools to make more informed, data-driven decisions about urban planning and resource allocation.