Challenge

How can you find out what's happening now at your favourite places? IES Group was presented with a unique challenge: develop the first ever mobile app and website that allow users to find and follow places anywhere in the world, and upload content from their mobile phone anytime.

Solution

"Koopz" is a web and mobile app that lets you find and follow your favourite places on the planet – whether you're looking for the best place for midnight waffles or the hottest club in town. Here's how it works. Koopz collects images, videos, geographical locations, and content from popular social networks in real time. You can browse to find places or create a personal list to follow places. You log-in using your Facebook credentials and search by place, topic and time to find out what's happening near you, anywhere you go. You get notifications about the places you follow – with news to share with friends. You can take and add pictures using the Koopz App, share favourite locations with friends on Facebook, like or dislike images, and add comments to pics and videos.

Challenge

Connex gave IES a key challenge. Their method for manually updating and maintaining Mental Health, Drug & Alcohol, and Problem Gambling treatment information required extensive manpower and removed the ability to provide real-time information. Due to the nature of the organization's volume of information changes, significant administration was required to ensure information accuracy. They needed a new system that would remove agency communication barriers and instill transparency in the treatment community, while ensuring secure information transfer.

Solution

IES Group designed, developed and installed a web-services layer connecting 3000 treatment professionals and the community. Working together, we implemented an effective change management process for their website that allowed changes to flow easily, while still providing for a human review process. In addition, Connex now has the ability to analyze agency information in real-time via an online reporting system to allow accurate timely decisions, and Ontario residents are receiving an improved responsiveness in their care.

Challenge

The Ford Motor Company mandated aggressive energy conservation targets of 5% reduction per year over a 5 year mandate objective.

Solution

Ford Motor Company engaged IES Group to implement sustainable energy efficiency programs supporting corporate conservation policies and targets, with the goal of reducing costs, and ecological footprint. IES Group implemented a "Total Utilities" measuring and monitoring program which allowed facilities staff to view a simplistic software dashboard providing real time utility usage throughout the 2 million square foot production facility. Understanding when and where energy is consumed allowed the facility engineers to pin point areas of excess consumption and to implement conservation measures through the facility.

Challenge

Designing a standard test platform that solves the conventional problem of testing various vehicle types, electric circuits and ECU's, and a steady flow of new options each model year is a complex task. Daimler leveraged IES Group's experience in the power electronics industry, where IES Group has been a demonstrated technology leader.

Solution

Automated electrical component testing is a challenge faced by all large vehicle manufactures, and is one of the top 10 warranty issues. Daimler Trucks North America LLC (DTNA), a Daimler company, is the largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer in North America and the leading producer of medium-duty trucks and specialized commercial vehicles. DTNA is the world's largest commercial vehicle manufacturer. In 2006, DTNA teamed up with IES Group to retrofit six plants, and 22 test systems in Canada, USA,
and Mexico with a three stage VET (Vehicle Electronic Test) platform.

Challenge

Large YouTube directors needed a new type of architecture to help them schedule video content and automatically communicate with social networks. Being able to store and manage massive amounts of Big Data is one thing; finding a way to store, categorize, monitize and serve it to site visitors is quite another.

Solution

Designed as gaming's video platform, G2PO.com was made to provide video content to gamers from video game developers, publishers, leading gaming news publications, and top independent video producers. Gamers will find trailers, gameplay videos, news, reviews, preview videos, as well as walkthroughs, commentary, satire and series videos.

Visitors spend 2.2 hours per month, which is greater than Google and YouTube!

We are proud to announce our recent contract with DailyMotion to receive DailyMotion's uploader source code. IES Group is working with DailyMotion to implement our categorization and scheduling engine on their network.