Honouring British Crowd and Public Safety Tech Company: King’s Award for Enterprise

Halo Solutions, the Nottinghamshire-based tech company behind the UK’s leading crowd safety and security operations software, has been honored with a King’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation.

Halo Solutions is one of a number of organizations nationally to be recognized with a prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise. Announced today (Monday, 6th May), Halo Solutions has been acknowledged by His Majesty for Excellence in Innovation. 

Now employing 15 people, Halo Solutions was founded in 2019 by CEO Lloyd Major, a former national counter-terrorism police officer, and crowd safety and event security adviser with more than 20 years of policing experience, including police training and public order command at major sporting events. He was also the first operational police planner in the UK to obtain a Master’s degree in Emergency Planning and Management, developing a totally new process for threat assessment at public events, which became national policing policy. 

Halo software provides a unique crowd safety, security, and incident response platform that streamlines all aspects of crowd safety, incident management, security, and operations into one place. It is now the leading crowd safety and threat management platform in the world.  

Commenting on the King’s Award, Halo Solutions founder and CEO Lloyd Major said:

“Halo is in the business of protecting people and anywhere where the public gather, from train stations to football stadiums, festivals to universities, and everywhere in between. It takes great communication and coordination of information and resources to keep the public safe at all times. The Halo system is the software that connects everything together to enhance public safety and security, which helps to protect everyone. 

Winning the King’s Award for Enterprise is a stunning recognition of the hard work we do in this space as a British tech company, bringing innovative software to the operational environments that need it most.  We have an amazing team who are dedicated and committed to public and crowd safety, enabling our clients to keep their public spaces, events, and infrastructure safe and protected.  

“It was a fitting honor that Halo played a part in the safety and security aspects of the state funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and at the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III.” 

Halo Solutions has played a hugely important role in protecting the public and keeping them safe at some of the biggest sporting, music and entertainment events across the world. 

The tragic events of the Manchester Arena bombing galvanized Lloyd Major’s personal quest and mission to ensure that Halo developed a software technology platform to help keep people safe. 

The Halo software system was designed with public safety and security at its core, including the ability to integrate all streams of information and intelligence into one place. It’s technology that would provide vital assistance to venues and public spaces, arming security and operations teams with more informed intelligence and information, and enabling faster responses to critical decision-making, ultimately protecting the public and saving lives.  

The Halo system acts as a central command-and-control function that operates from a standard laptop, tablet or smartphone, and brings together more than 10 different systems into one, with more than 75 client-led features. Halo integrates the monitoring and recording of multiple feeds of information across a venue, from security, incident management, CCTV, and live drone feeds to health and safety, cleaning, medical, public reports, ticket scanning and staff accreditation – and next year, it will incorporate crowd management, crowd density, flow, sentiment, mood and capacity.

Halo software technology has been used at major events around the world, including the Eurovision Song Contest, FIFA World Cup fan zones in Qatar, the Miami F1 Grand Prix, Silverstone’s British Grand Prix and Moto GP. It has also protected fans at some of the UK’s biggest entertainment events, from Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

The crowd and event safety platform has also been deployed at major entertainment and exhibition arenas such as the NEC in Birmingham, ExCeL London, Motorpoint Arena Nottingham and the ACC Liverpool to keep millions of visitors safe each year. Additionally, it played a key role in protecting the public across major rail transport infrastructure and stations across the UK, including London Euston and a number of university campuses, including Birmingham City University.

The King’s Awards for Enterprise, previously known as The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, were renamed last year to reflect His Majesty The King’s desire to continue the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II by recognizing outstanding UK businesses. 

The award program, now in its 58th year, is the most prestigious business award in the country, with successful businesses able to use the esteemed King’s Awards Emblem for the next five years.

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