Wejo announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft through which Wejo's real-time mapping and traffic data will be integrated with Microsoft mapping services to deliver enhanced accuracy, safety, and efficiency to its location services. The expansion of the strategic relationship follows the company's previous announcement that Wejo will build its suite of data and intelligence solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Accounting quickly and accurately for new roads, routes, journey times, and travel disruption information is a challenging problem for mapping service providers.

Wejo's high-quality, proprietary data platform will enhance Microsoft Azure Maps and Bing Maps services with real-time, accurate information across the U.S. and Europe. This information includes live updates on street-specific traffic, brand new roads, and parking availability. Utilizing more than 16 billion data points that Wejo collects in real-time each day across a growing network of over 11 million connected vehicles, Microsoft can enhance its mapping solutions to create a faster, smarter, and more cost-efficient driving experience.

Additionally, Wejo's proprietary data sets can help Microsoft perpetuate improved smart city applications in a consolidated, map-based application that allows for visualization of pertinent information crucial to its mapping users.