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An Electrical and Electronics Engineering PhD student, Marc de Vos, has won the Peopleâs Choice Award at the 2016 Launchpad Competition from the Royal Academy of Engineeringâs Enterprise Hub.
The Enterprise Hub harnesses the expertise, insight and networks of Academy Fellows to support the countryâs most promising engineering entrepreneurs. The Launchpad Competition is aimed at aspiring technology entrepreneurs in the UK aged 16-25.
At a prestigious events in London last might, Marc pitched his business proposal â Bar Analytics â to a panel of judges including Professor Andy Hopper CBE FREng, Chair of the Judging Panel âand head of the University of Cambridgeâs Computer Laboratory. The Peopleâs Choice Award was open to public voting and Marc fought off competitors to win with Bar Analytics â an easy-to-use, real-time tool to monitor beer flow in pubs.
Beer breweries and pub chains currently have no way of tracking the quality of their product, or how fast it is selling in real-time, once it has travelled from brewery to bar tap. Bar Analytics is a revolutionary technology that uses internet-connected sensors to automatically analyse the temperature, flow or liquid type of beer at the point-of-sale and upload the data to remote servers. This gives companies a 24-hour real-time overview of whether product quality is fluctuating and also sales of each drink around the world.
The technology enables breweries to track the performance of marketing campaigns as they happen, remotely monitor whether lines are being correctly cleaned and stored at the right temperature, and accurately predict when they need to deliver extra stock â so your favourite beer will always be on tap.
It will give companies a full-spectrum overview of the sales and quality of each line which they can later use to optimise their marketing and stock delivery strategy.
Marcâs company already has three orders from Tank Beer and is preparing a trial unit for one of the worldâs largest breweries. The startup aims to take the global beer industry by storm and further develop the product for other remote monitoring applications.
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A new collaboration between the University of Southampton and the National Microelectronics Institute (NMI) â a leading industry organisation for electronics â is set to provide new opportunities for businesses and advance UK engineering.
The âimpactechâ Hub will provide NMI member companies with access to the Universityâs world-leading research expertise. The Hub bring together experts and businesses from across a wide range of sectors, including autonomous systems, nanotechnology, smart sensing, communications, electronics, data and security, allowing collaboration and development of innovative solutions.
Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi, Dean of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Southampton, said: âWeâve worked closely with NMI for many years and are proud to now be working together on this innovative partnership.
âWe believe in the excellence of our research, our teaching and our students. We feel the new hub has great potential to extend the support and capabilities of the University towards wider industrial engagement, particularly with SMEs, where there are well-documented challenges to overcome.
âThis has been enabled through EPSRC Impact funding and I want to take the opportunity to recognise this key investment. We believe this new partnership model can deliver significant returns.â?
A main focus of the hub will be to hold regular networking events, which will provide opportunities to hear about the latest challenges and development in key areas of University research, as well as from companies working in those areas. With over 80 per cent of the industrial base being SMEs, the ultimate goal of impactech is to increase their visibility and market penetration, and provide support with their technical development.
Collaboration funding will be available as well as access to funded research activities such as Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and opportunities with Innovate UK, Local Area Partnerships and Horizon 2020. The Hub will build networks of SMEs with common interests, provide access to student projects and to targeted recruitment of graduates, and provide a common access point for companies to engage with the University across the range of these activities.
Researchers and prospective industrial partners are invited to the Hubâs launch event, which will be held at the University of Southamptonâs Boldrewood Campus on Wednesday 21 September. The event will include a series of presentations focusing on the role of research in advancing intelligent embedded systems.
Professor Sir Christopher Snowden, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton, said: âI am delighted to see the continuing success of NMI and welcome its members to this exciting new partnership with the University. We have the highest hopes and expectations for its future success.â?
For more information on the NMI-UoS Hub, contact Dr Ghaithaa Manla at the University of Southampton on gm504@soton.ac.uk.
Register your place at the Hub launch event now through the NMI website.