Helping blind people navigate stations with technology
WeWALK is to showcase its Smart Cane and assistance system for visually impaired persons at InnoTrans in Germany, alongside Connected Places Catapult.
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Cracking the productivity challenge in infrastructure
Collaboration and new thinking encouraged by i3P – the Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership – are helping major project clients improve productivity.
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Making journeys smoother with personalised instructions
Journey Alerts will showcase its passenger assistance technology at the InnoTrans event in Berlin, after joining a Station Innovation Zone scale-up accelerator programme delivered by Connected Places Catapult.
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Keeping people safe in transport hubs using AI
Createc will be demonstrating its crowd monitoring technology that helps keep people safe in train stations and airports at InnoTrans in Germany, alongside Connected Places Catapult.
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Meet the innovator using AI to improve the school run
Moria Bennett is growing a tech business whose AI platform is helping to make the school run safer, greener and smarter.
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Powering infrastructure without waiting for the grid
Access to reliable, affordable power is becoming an increasing challenge for transport and infrastructure organisations looking to reduce emissions and modernise operations.
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Energy storage firm sets its sights on success
Catapult-backed H2CHP is securing investment and growing its customer base for shore-side energy generators used in maritime applications.
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Industrialised Construction championed to accelerate housing delivery
Standardising the manufacture and assembly of built environment infrastructure – including housing – is the premise of Industrialised Construction, an emerging approach supported by Connected Places Catapult and discussed at UKREiiF.
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Infrastructure pipeline: an unmissable opportunity to drive growth through innovation
Leveraging even a fraction of Britain’s £725bn infrastructure pipeline in support of innovative new approaches will deliver significant benefits for UK businesses and the economy.
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8,468 jobs and £698m investment linked to innovation support
Economic growth depends on businesses being able to commercialise innovation, win customers and scale.
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Shape-shifting lorry promises greener and cheaper logistics
Freight trailers might soon be transformed at the push of a button, to improve aerodynamics when carrying smaller loads.
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Allye Energy: providing batteries out in the field
Second life batteries are being repurposed for use on construction sites by a Catapult-backed SME with ambitious growth targets.
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Meet the innovator making construction sites run smoother
Shelley Copsey created tech to reduce downtime on construction sites, and her company FYLD recently secured £32 million of investment after taking part in two Catapult-led programmes.
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Autonomous boat scale-up charts rapid growth
Online Oceans received Catapult support to build autonomous work boats, and is now attracting investment and starting to generate a profit.
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Carbon capture concrete firm secures £2.5m investment
Advanced materials specialist Vateris – a recipient of Catapult support – has secured £2.5 million of investment towards scaling its carbon capture technology for use as additives in concrete.
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Freeports and Investment Zones join forces to drive growth
Ways to unlock growth and investment across all 25 Industrial Strategy Zones was a hot topic among delegates to a UKREiiF roundtable event, convened by Connected Places Catapult and hosted by global real estate advisor JLL.
