Architecture
Client Within the Mechanical & Electrical Sector
4
Projects
£195,067
Secured in R&D Tax Credits
Project Example
Advanced Development of a Connected Environmental Monitoring Platform
The company undertook a multi-year research and development programme to enhance a connected monitoring platform designed for use across distributed residential environments. The work investigated an alternative sensing method based on changes in environmental conditions, with the objective of improving the platform’s ability to identify abnormal conditions without relying solely on conventional measurement techniques.
At the outset, significant technical uncertainties existed around the scalability, accuracy, energy efficiency and robustness of the proposed approach when deployed across a large and diverse population of properties. Particular challenges arose from the variability of operating environments and the need to maintain reliable performance under real-world conditions.
Development activity focused on optimising wireless communications and embedded software to reduce energy consumption while maintaining dependable connectivity and accurate transmission of monitoring data. This included investigating methods of reducing device activation frequency and duration without compromising monitoring performance, communications reliability, remote software maintenance or the security requirements of a connected product.
Further development addressed the platform’s ability to operate consistently across differing environmental conditions, tolerate intermittent communications and maintain reliable operation at scale. The programme involved iterative testing and refinement of both the sensing methodology and underlying device software to establish whether the required levels of performance, reliability and energy efficiency could be achieved in practical deployment scenarios.
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