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The UK company is a software technology business, developing state-of-the-art desktop training simulators. Their mission is to provide portable, scalable and cost-effective training solutions to regulated industries including rail. The UK company has a development team with significant experience in developing highly complex simulators based on serious games technology. The UK company has developed a cloud-based train route simulator which uses in-cab forward-facing video with audio. The route simulator, which can be run on desktop, laptop or tablet, is used by qualified and trainee train drivers as part of their mandatory route learning qualification. The route simulator requires the use/manipulation and integration of high-resolution forward-facing video captured in-cab with audio. To comply with data protection rules, voices of drivers captured in the forward-facing video will be removed and blurring software will be used to blur faces of passengers and station staff. The UK company is seeking European suppliers of train in-cab forward-facing video with audio sound track. Technical Specification or Expertise Sought The supplier must be able to provide train in-cab forward-facing video which needs to be high quality (e.g. forward-facing video having the highest possible frame rate and resolution). The captured forward-facing video must also contain audio, and it would be really advantageous to provide matching video of the train speedometer (i.e. so the UK company can determine the speed of the train when the forward-facing video was captured). A variety of captured forward-facing video for specified routes should include various weather conditions (e.g. sunny/normal/rain) and differing time of day (e.g. day or night). Note: Any voices captured in the forward-facing video, (e.g. in-cab train driver talking), will be removed to comply with data protection rules. The UK company will also blur-out any faces of passengers/staff captured in the video to comply with data protection rules. Expected role of a partner The UK company is seeking a partner who can supply in-cab forward-facing video with highest possible frame rate and resolution. The forward-facing video should also contain captured audio, and it would be really advantageous to provide matching video of the train speedometer (i.e. so the UK company can determine the speed of the train when the forward-facing video was captured). The UK company will assume that the supplier holds the IP for the captured forward-facing video, but the UK company will need to have a commercial agreement which allows it to use and manipulate the supplied forward-facing video. The forward-facing video will form part of our route simulator application, which the UK company fully own. The supplied forward-facing video will not entitle the supplier to any ownership/rights relating to our route simulator product. The supplier should be familiar with the rail sector and ideally have relationships with European train operators and/or rail infrastructure owners. The commercial agreement will also detail the financial terms for the supply of the ‘raw’ forward-facing video, which would be a flat fee (based on the forward-facing video file).