ItCognify (Pty) Ltd is a black-owned private company specialising in machine vision technology and developing bespoke operational systems, with a special interest in Education.
Our primary focus in machine vision is on providing solutions to businesses operating in areas of low visibility, such as aquatic and medical environments, where we quite literally help make the unseen, seen. To this end, we have developed a proprietary image enhancement algorithm that we use on video footage taken underwater. This is the first step towards applying object recognition and tracking algorithms to the data.
In addition, we have developed our proprietary CloudSound solution to address the lack of access to specialist obstetric care for women in rural and underserved areas. This solution will provide rural clinics with mobile ultrasound scanners and, through a bespoke operational system, allow specialists in urban centres to download, interpret and diagnose the ultrasound images. CloudSound has the potential to revolutionise rural health service delivery and perfectly marries our two core competencies of machine vision and developing bespoke operational systems.
In addition to our machine vision work, we provide the Northern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal Departments of Education with an operating system called SmartAdmit. This system allows parents to register their learners for admission to a school online and the Department to objectively and automatically place those learners at the appropriate schools in accordance with a set of predetermined criteria.
Following the crisis around reading with comprehension and illiteracy in South Africa, we have also developed two products to help alleviate this problem, namely an EGRA operational system and ReadItWrite.
To successfully build, maintain, and operate online systems such as these, a very specific skill set is required:
We are very proud of the fact that we have all of the above skills at our disposal. We have not only employed these skills in our Education products; our senior data scientists were, in fact, part of the team that developed Capitec’s cloud solution and put several machine learning systems into production for them. This followed an initial AI strategy that they developed after an intensive investigation into the bank’s data flows, which entailed interviews with everyone from junior bank tellers to the CEO.
Having worked in such a highly regulated environment, we are confident that our executive team possesses the necessary skills and experience to successfully design, develop, and implement an operational solution in any industry.
In order to ensure that their child receives the best possible education, parents often apply to multiple schools for admission. In South African public schools, that means having to stand in long queues for hours at each school. Even worse, applying to more than one school does not guarantee a place at all. SmartAdmIt ensures that each child receives an education.
Provides a birds-eye view of placement progress and helps to identify problem areas in advance.
Identify learners that are yet to make an application, allowing for early interventions.
Export admissions data directly to SASAMS.
Ensures that learners are effectively and objectively placed in the best possible school, based on their respective preferences and admission criteria.
According to the PIRLS (2021) report 81% of South African Grade 4 learners are struggling to read with comprehension. We propose various solutions to help combat this issue.
An online, automated solution that facilitates Early Grade Reading Assessment in the classroom
Learn moreLet us know how we can help you leapfrog the deficit by sending an email to info@itcognify.com.