London, Dec. 18, 2014: Seven companies, all of them based in either London or Cambridge, have been declared winners of the Innovate UK programme and will share the £1m grant provided by the United Kingdom (UK) government.
London’s Tech City and Cambridge Wireless were th promoters behind this event. During the selection process the panel looked for pioneering projects taking Internet of Things (IoT) activity into innovative new areas.
The winning projects are:
- Digital Shadows Limited – A project to identify, enumerate and attempt to mitigate some of the IoT-related security risks facing businesses, cities and individuals
- Product Health Limited – A new service for connected batteries, representing a step change in the way batteries are managed in the off-grid energy sector
- ThinkInnovate Limited – An IoT defence scanner, consisting of a portable scanning device, a mobile app and a web app and designed to increase confidence in IoT
- Arjun Technology Ventures Limited – Wireless remote collection of data from multiple in-field sensors to make digitised farming enterprises a commercial reality
- 1248 Limited – A project to encourage and improve cycle journeys in London and Cambridge, by discovering, processing and providing relevant sensor data
- OpenTRV Limited – A venture to work out the optimum combination of sensors to use inside buildings and outdoors to detect environmental information, such as the presence of people and the weather
- Superflux Limited – A compact air quality monitoring and GPS tracking sensor that can be easily fitted to child’s pushchair
In addition to the funding grant, the winners will benefit from access to expertise and business support from the programme’s private sector partners: EE, John Lewis, Unilever, Bosch, Seedcamp, Red Gate, Cisco, Hive by British Gas, RPD and Fab Lab London. These partners will offer the winning companies the opportunity to access a range of support, from investment, and access to markets and mentorship, to retail for showcasing products to consumers.
The competition was announced earlier this year by British Prime Minister David Cameron.
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