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Finalists of the IET Innovation Awards 2009
2009 Winners list »
| Category: Asset Management |
| Intelligent Asset Management |
United Kingdom |
| BOMBARDIER ORBITA: the future of intelligent railway maintenance and operation. |
United Kingdom |
| Reducing Weather Related Signal Failures on the Docklands Light Railway |
United Kingdom |
| Gullyhawk Silt Monitoring System |
United Kingdom |
| Keeping Asset Functional Safety on TRAC – Developing Credible Layers of Protection |
United Kingdom |
Category: Built Environment |
| Configurable Design of Solar Roofs For Heating & Cooling: A New Paradigm On Low-Energy Buildings |
Argentina |
| An Innovative Technology for Healthy Natural Ventilation with Heat Reclaim for Tomorrow’s Air-Tight Construction |
United Kingdom |
| Project Spear ice storage for major data centre |
United Kingdom |
| Standard-form IET Innovation Awards 2009 DrillVent |
United Kingdom |
| Mechanisation and Control of the Wimbledon Centre Court Retractable Roof |
United Kingdom |
Category: Electronics |
| Achronix Semiconductor: the Speedster FPGA |
United States |
| Ultra Low Power Wireless Microcontroller Enables Applications Powered Entirely from Harvested Energy |
United Kingdom |
| A Precise Real-time 3D Location System Using Ultra-wideband Radio Technology |
United Kingdom |
| Complete system design with the speed and agility of a software flow |
United Kingdom |
| CSR9000: Achieving the world’s most highly integrated Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solution through Smart Integration |
United Kingdom |
Category: Emerging Technologies |
| Synchronverters: Inverters that Mimic Synchronous Generators |
United Kingdom |
| An Efficient Ion Engine To Enable Precise Measurement Of The Earth’s Gravity Field |
United Kingdom |
| Deep Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes |
United States |
| A truly wearable device for real time monitoring of breathing and heart rate |
United Kingdom |
| Fosar® – Fibre-Optic Permanent Reservoir Monitoring for maximising Oil and Gas Reservoir yields |
United Kingdom |
| The Power of a Heartbeat :- Next Generation Pacemakers Powered from the Patient |
United Kingdom |
Category: Information Technology |
| Autonomic Fault Prediction and Resolution |
United Kingdom |
| A truly wearable device for real time monitoring of breathing and heart rate |
United Kingdom |
| DebateScape: being part of the conversation. |
United Kingdom |
| Computing for Science and for the Masses, towards a Federative, Collaborative and Cloud-Enabled Computational Platform |
United Kingdom |
| Resolver One: a development environment for complex systems through the spreadsheet user interface model. |
United Kingdom |
| Touch Screen Information Control System for Mobile Workforces |
United Kingdom |
Category: Measurement in Action |
| Miniaturized, Low-Cost Field-Asymmetric Ion Mobility Spectrometer For Ultra-Sensitive Widespread Detection Of Hazardous Chemicals |
United Kingdom |
| Imaging Pharmaceutical Fluidised Beds for Drying, Granulation and Coating by Electrical Capacitance Tomography |
United Kingdom |
| A truly wearable device for real time monitoring of breathing and heart rate |
United Kingdom |
| Airborne Particulate Monitoring using Mobile Phone |
United Kingdom |
| Fosar® – Fibre-Optic Permanent Reservoir Monitoring for maximising Oil and Gas Reservoir yields |
United Kingdom |
Category: Power/Energy |
| The Aegir Dynamo - Mechanical Wave Energy Converter |
United Kingdom |
| Development of a Superconducting Hydroelectric Power Generator |
United Kingdom |
| Clean Coal Technology Products |
United Kingdom |
| Superconducting Fault Current Limiter – Innovative Management of Fault Levels on Distribution Networks |
United Kingdom |
| Fosar® – Fibre-Optic Permanent Reservoir Monitoring for maximising Oil and Gas Reservoir yields |
United Kingdom |
| A mouldable conductive polymer that dramatically improves the economics of fuel cell production. |
United Kingdom |
Category: Product Design |
| Freelander2 TD4_e: World First SUV Stop/start System |
United Kingdom |
| One Touch™ Automatic Jar Opener - Inclusive for ALL, (including: Arthritic, Elderly, Weak and anyone) |
United Kingdom |
| A truly wearable device for real time monitoring of breathing and heart rate |
United Kingdom |
| The “Marlin” Low Carbon, LED Street Light |
United Kingdom |
| Groundbreaking innovation advancing towards a life-like prosthetic hand and beyond |
United Kingdom |
Category: Security |
| LynxSecure 3.0 separation kernel and embedded hypervisor |
United Kingdom |
| Geofencing as a Security Strategy Model |
United Kingdom |
| Physical and Logical Security Convergence to Detect Fraud and Defeat Terrorism |
United States |
Category: Software in Design |
| Non invasive measurement of drug induced changes in cardiaccell action potential and iconic channel function using the electrocardiogram |
United Kingdom |
| Retractable Roof Equipment Emulation System |
United Kingdom |
| Automatic Testing of Novel High Resolution X-ray Optics using Matlab. |
United Kingdom |
| A Tool For Determining Optimum Contribution Of Low And Zero Carbon Technologies In Building Design |
United Kingdom |
| Fast Simulation of the Micro-Embossing and Nano-Imprinting of Polymeric Materials, with Lab-on-Chip and Lithographic Applications |
United States |
Category: Start-up |
| Achronix Semiconductor - creators of the world’s fastest FPGA - enabling innovative new high-performance system designs |
United States |
| Lime Microsystems Develops Innovative Digitally Configurable RF Transceiver Technology for the Emerging Femtocell Market |
United Kingdom |
| Fabless semiconductor company providing the world's first and only multimedia processor to enable complex real-time video editing on handheld battery-powered devices |
United Kingdom |
| Elimination of Organic Pollutants Using a Novel Treatment Process of Adsorption Coupled With Electrochemical Regeneration |
United Kingdom |
| Patients Know Best |
United Kingdom |
Category: Sustainability |
| Elimination of Organic Pollutants Using a Novel Treatment Process of Adsorption Coupled With Electrochemical Regeneration |
United Kingdom |
| The Aegir Dynamo - Mechanical Wave Energy Converter |
United Kingdom |
| Xerox ColorQube 9200 series: Development of an environmentally friendly office multi-function printer (MFP) |
United Kingdom |
| Utilisation of used vegetable oil (UVO) in asphalt mixtures |
United Kingdom |
| The “Marlin” Low Carbon, LED Street Light |
United Kingdom |
Category: Team |
| EPIC Innovation Team |
United Kingdom |
| Fit For the Future Virtual World |
United Kingdom |
| Team Stellar |
United Kingdom |
| Multi-company Co-Located Project Team For ‘Tomorrow’s Terminal 4’ |
United Kingdom |
| The Ginger Group |
United Kingdom |
Category: Telecommunications |
| Innovation to help millions of customers see amazing leaps in their broadband speeds |
United Kingdom |
| Remote Community Solution - Delivering Cost-Effective Hybrid Satcom/Cellular Communications Solutions to Isolated Communities |
United Kingdom |
| Embedding connectivity into devices |
United Kingdom |
| The battle for voice and SMS over LTE |
United Kingdom |
| Semantic Tool to Accelerate Migration of Telecommunications Products and Systems |
United Kingdom |
Category: Transport |
| Freelander2 TD4_e: World First SUV Stop/start System |
United Kingdom |
| Digital Displacement® Hybrid Vehicle |
United Kingdom |
| A Systems Framework for Integrated Vehicle Health Management and Advisory Systems for Uninhabited Air Vehicles. |
United Kingdom |
| Innovative Control Strategy For Electric Starter Generators Embedded In Gas Turbine Engines |
United Kingdom |
| Patented technology applied to airflow to denaturise smells/viruses resulting in substantive breathable air quality improvements. |
United Kingdom |
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Winners of the IET Innovation Awards 2008
| Categories |
The winners |
Their Innovations |
| Asset Management |
Three Valleys Water / AMCL |
Optimising Capital Maintenance |
| Built environment |
Test Marshal Ltd |
Automated Testing of Fixed Wiring |
| Electronics |
Algotronix Limited |
DesignTAG - A Novel IP tagging system to help counter stolen IP, counterfeit chips and cloned designs |
| Emerging Technologies |
University of Bristol |
Integrated Quantum Photonics |
| Information Technology |
United Nations Foundation & Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership |
Mobile Health (mHealth) for Development - Using Wireless Technology to Improve Public Health in Developing Countries |
| Measurement in action |
LiteThru Ltd |
Novel technology for Rapid Non-Invasive Assay in Production Monitoring |
| Power / Energy |
Oxsensis |
1000°C Sapphire Sensor for Advanced Combustion and Emissions Control in Power Generation and Aero Engines |
| Product Design |
Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd |
Moisture-Activated, Polymer-Tube Kink Valve |
| Project Team |
The Integrated Alliance |
Collaborative Engineering Design and Delivery |
| Security |
Kromek |
The Use of selective X-ray Detectors for Accurate Threat Materials Identification in Security Applications |
| Software in Design |
Sundance DSP Inc. |
Generating Parallel Applications Automatically From Simulation Models |
| Start-Up |
Air Semiconductor |
Air Semiconductor |
| Sustainability |
Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd |
Moisture-Activated, Polymer-Tube Kink Valve |
| Telecommunications |
Sagentia |
Innovative Mobile Payment Solution Aids Economic Growth for Kenya |
| Transport |
Kromek |
The use of Energy Selective X-Ray Detectors for Accurate Threat Material Identification in Security Application |
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| Category: Asset Management |
| Three Valleys Water / AMCL |
Optimising Capital Maintenance |
| Tubelines |
Life Extension of Track Lowered Sites |
| Yorkshire Water |
Real Time Water Resource Planning |
Category: Built Environment |
| Byzak |
Innovatory operational control systems for pumping systems |
| EnOcean |
Self Powered Wireless Sensor Technology for Intelligent, Reliable, Maintenance-free, Eco-Efficient Buildings |
| Test Marshal Ltd |
Automated Testing of Fixed Wiring |
Category: Electronics |
| British Broadcasting Corporation |
High definition terrestrial TV on freeview using DVB-T2 |
| Algotronix Limited |
DesignTAG - A Novel IP tagging system to help counter stolen IP, counterfeit chips and cloned designs |
| Nujira Limited UK |
Energy saving RF power modulator module for cellular networks, broadcast transmitters and mobile handsets |
Category: Emerging Technologies |
| University of Bristol |
Integrated Quantum Photonics |
| Kromek |
The Use of selective X-ray Detectors for Accurate Threat Materials Identification in Security Applications |
| Polymertronics |
UV-Inkjet Organic Light Emitting Diodes |
Category: Information Technology |
| JAOtech |
Hygenic entertainment terminals for hospital patients |
| United Nations Foundation |
Mobile Health (mHealth) for Development - Using Wireless Technology to Improve Public Health in Developing Countries |
| Wipro Technologies |
e-Faces Framework |
Category: Measurement in Action |
| Applied Nanodetectors Ltd |
Asthma Breath Analyser |
| LiteThru Ltd. |
Novel technology for Rapid Non-Invasive Assay in Production Monitoring |
| Oxsensis |
1000°C Sapphire Sensor for Advanced Combustion and Emissions Control in Power Generation and Aero Engines |
Category: Power/Energy |
| DeepStream Technologies |
The World's First Digital RCD |
| Oxsensis |
1000°C Sapphire Sensor for Advanced Combustion and Emissions Control in Power Generation and Aero Engines |
| Stingray Geophysical Ltd |
Improving Oil & Gas Reservoir Production and Total Recovery with Pioneering Fibre Optic Sensing System |
Category: Product Design |
| Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd UK |
Moisture-Activated, Polymer-Tube Kink Valve |
| Nujira Limited UK |
Energy saving RF power modulator module for cellular networks, broadcast transmitters and mobile handsets |
| Sequoia Communications UK |
SEQ7400, the first single-chip polar multimode RF transceiver delivering unprecedented integration for 3G phones |
Category: Project Team |
| GTi Team |
GTi Team for "One Solution" |
| The Integrated Alliance |
Collaborative Engineering Design and Delivery |
| MWH Ltd/United Utilities |
UU/MWH SBAP Project Team (Sludge Balanced Asset Programme) |
Category: Security |
| Distributed Management Systems Ltd |
The CASQUE Extensible Secure Remote Access Solution (CASQUE- ESRAS) |
| Algotronix Limited |
DesignTAG - A Novel IP tagging system to help counter stolen IP, counterfeit chips and cloned designs |
| Kromek |
The Use of selective X-ray Detectors for Accurate Threat Materials Identification in Security Applications |
Category: Software in Design |
| BAE Systems |
The Evaluation of an Aircraft Design in order to Ensure its Manufacturability |
| Sundance DSP Inc |
Generating Parallel Applications Automatically From Simulation Models |
| UK Robotics |
3D Simulation Of High Throughput Laboratory Automation To Aid System Design, Feasibility Studies and Resource Optimisation |
Category: Start-up |
| Air Semiconductor |
Air Semiconductor |
| Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd |
Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd |
| mPedigree |
The Mpedigee 1393 System |
Category: Sustainability |
| A-one Integrated Highway Services |
Use of Lightweight Durakerb on the trunk road network |
| Liquid Lever Solutions Ltd |
Moisture-Activated, Polymer-Tube Kink Valve |
| United Utilities |
Sludge Balanced Asset Programme (SBAP) Changing the Route to Sustainability |
Category: Telecommunications |
| Nujira Limited UK |
Energy saving RF power modulator module for cellular networks, broadcast transmitters and mobile handsets |
| Quintel Technology Limited |
QTiltTM - Multi-Tilt Base Station Antenna |
| Sagentia |
Innovative Mobile Payment Solution Aids Economic Growth for Kenya |
Category: Transport |
| Acute Technology Ltd |
The "Trusted Driver" Technology that Solves the Pay as You Drive Privacy Problem |
| First TransPennine Express |
The Eco-Initiative - A Fuel Efficiency Programme |
| Kromek |
The use of Energy Selective X-Ray Detectors for Accurate Threat Material Identification in Security Application |
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