RS Metrics
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RS Metrics is a Stamford, Connecticut-based geospatial data company that provides asset-level environmental, climate, and physical risk metrics derived from satellite imagery and geolocation data. Its flagship offering, ESGSignals, serves both corporate risk management and financial market applications.[1]
The company grew out of the alternative data movement, with early historical datasets that tracked retail parking-lot traffic, electric vehicle production, and global metal production, before pivoting toward climate and physical risk analytics for banks, insurers, and system integrators.[1]
What It Does
RS Metrics converts satellite imagery and geospatial data into objective, verified, asset-level indicators used for business management, performance analysis, and investment decisions. It emphasizes real-time, asset-specific measurement rather than country- or company-level aggregates.[1]
Products
Current products include ESGSignals, delivering environmental, climate, and physical risk metrics at asset level; AssetTracker, a geolocation platform mapping corporate assets such as factories and warehouses to asset type, sector, and country; and Custom Event-Driven Monitoring for remote supervision of specific events or projects.[1]
Historical datasets listed on its site include TrafficSignals, which recorded vehicle counts in parking lots at over sixty-five thousand US retail stores; EVTracker, which tracked global EV manufacturers and their production levels; and MetalSignals, which covered production of aluminum, copper, zinc, and iron ore at smelters and other company sites.[1]
Data and Methodology
The company works with a broad ecosystem of imagery and technology partners displayed on its website, including Planet, Satellogic, ICEYE, GHGSat, Maxar, SkyWatch, e-GEOS, Telespazio, NASA, ESA, and NOAA, alongside cloud and data platforms such as Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft, and Snowflake.[1]
ESGSignals is offered as a modular, ready-to-deploy framework and is distributed as a SaaS product on Google Cloud Marketplace; the company has published partnerships with Google Cloud Platform, Cognizant, and alignment with the TNFD nature-related disclosure framework.[1]
Buyers and Use Cases
Target buyers span financial institutions using ESGSignals for portfolio climate-risk measurement, corporates assessing physical risk to their assets, and system integrators embedding the data into client solutions, per a testimonial from advisor Tan Moorthy, former Executive Vice President at Infosys.[1]
The site also lists relationships with market-data and research institutions including Bloomberg, Nasdaq, FactSet, McKinsey, Neudata, Eagle Alpha, Columbia University, Princeton, and Harvard, reflecting its dual position in alternative data distribution and academic research.[1]
History
RS Metrics is headquartered at 700 Canal St. in Stamford, Connecticut. In September 2024 it announced expansion into Europe led by Magnus Billing, former CEO of Nasdaq Nordics and of pension fund Alecta, who joined as senior advisor; other advisors include Tan Moorthy and former FASB chairman Robert Herz, who sits on its advisory board.[1][2]