Public Funding for A.T.Kearney Limited

"The feasibility project and our consortium partners will focus on evaluating the technical viability and social and economic impacts of developing a fully integrated assessment and hardware specification system for public charging installation. We will define and test three core solutions to support the timely wide scale uptake of public charging assets, both as retrofit solutions into densely populated urban areas and new 'out-of-town' solutions. Our partners are A.T. Kearney (lead), 4th Dimension, Brixworth Technologies, University of Nottingham and Cenex. Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Homes, a leading DNO, a leading multi-national O&G, Isle of Wight Council, DG Cars, Peel Group, Bruntwood, Transport Systems Catapult and Manchester City Council all sit on the advisory board and will become full partners at the demonstration phase of the project if successful. The primary objectives of this feasibility project are as follows: 1\. Begin development of an automated site assessment and installation management app. 2\. Create a methodology to assess location hot spots for public charging infrastructure. 3\. Identify the economic, social and environmental benefits and disadvantages to a standardised assessment and installation process, tailored to sites by archetype."

"This feasibility study and it's consortium partners are looking to evaluate the opportunities of bespoke semi-dynamic and static wireless charging in order to; * Increase EV uptake for vehicles will low dwell times and high utilisation, such as taxi's and buses. * Identify the primary motivation and use cases for wireless charging. * Identify how standardised wireless charging protocols could increase the uptake of smart charging and vehicle-to-grid applications. * Impact of battery preservation - what influence will wireless charging have on the relationship OEMs and users currently have with the vehicle battery? With a diverse consortium of large multi-nationals to SME's, spanning the energy, transport and built environment sectors, the partners are well placed to lead on the uptake of wireless charging for commercial applications. Partners are A.T. Kearney (lead), 4th Dimesion Technology, Brixworth Technology, University of Warwick and University of Nottingham. The consortium is also working with a leading midlands based vehicle OEM, who will review the opportunity of becoming a partner at demonstration phase to identify the application of technology back to the vehicle. The project also has a number of other organisations on it's advisory board, who wish to become full partners at application stage; Transport Systems Catapult, Cenex, Peel Group, DG cars, a leading DNO, a leading multi-national O&G, Nottingham City Council and Isle of Wight Council. The consortium will use the feasibility stage of AMiCc to develop a robust business case for the integration of wireless charging into their portfolio for asset management and aggregation with V1G and V2G applications. Three case studies will be explored initially; taxi's, city buses and security vehicles, where dwell times are short and infrastructure opportunities are often limited due to space constraints."

This project and our consortium of partners will focus on the business models which will enable the sharing of the value V2G can bring to the grid, local and regional businesses and of course the consumer. Ultimately we are looking to define and test scaleable business models which will link our technology ( existing and new) to a range of new service models. Our partners are ATKearney, Cenex, e-Carclub, Warick University,University of Nottingham, Honda, Slamjam, Nottingham City Council, Leeds City Council, Forward Utility. and a mix of local SME's. We will take an airport such as (Liverpool John Lennon Airport or Gatwick)as our primary demonstrator for 100 EV's connected and parked at the Airport and enable them through our technology to be used as an aggregated battery storage. The consumers of the vehicles will be able to monetise through the trading to the grid and our App will allow them full control of these parameters of trading. The output of the project is to help the current and future EV consumers monetise their investment while accelerating the take up of EV's in UK through this trading monetisation. Our V2G solution will be EV car maker agnostic and will inform the necessary scale from the 100 demonstrator to large scale deployment across the country and Internationally.

To design, develop and demonstrate data services for mobile assets using the citizen as a location driven human switch for smart energy applications.

This project will build on the prototype technology and processes that Unto this Last have built to enable CNC rapid manufacturing technology to be utilised to produce furniture on the High Street, at mass production prices. Unto This Last have developed and tested a business model of production at the point of demand, with a production unit at the shop location in the city centre. The CNC manufacturing technology is utilised to enable flexible digital manufacturing, using software to manufacture customised furniture to order at a competitive cost. This project will develop these prototypes to enable the Distributed Factory, a flexible manufacturing model with manufacturing units co-located with retail on the high street. Each unit would have the flexibility to manufacture the whole range of products, and if there is variable demand the flexibility to deliver orders placed at another location. The project will develop the IoT connected hardware, and the control software and processes that will enable this model to scale. We will demonstrate this working across three locations in the timeframe of the project. The project brings together a team that can develop this prototype to enable the business model to scale: Siemens (manufacturing / smart city), AT Kearney (lean manufacturing design, business process), HSSMI (technology integration) and Unto-This-Last who will exploit the commercial opportunity as a business.

Personalised Urban Living Solutions (PULS) offer a novel approach to solve one of the biggest crises cities are facing - ageing. Led by Fujitsu UK, the consortium offers unique approach: a smart-phone app-based product that will use behavioural data captured through a GPS-enabled wearable and analysed by a versatile open standard for measuring everyday living ('Coelition'). PULS has chosen to look at: quality of retired life for the ‘aged’ and the quality of future retired life for the ‘ageing’. These are inexorably linked and their impact increases significantly with time. The challenges could be better addressed if individuals and social institutions were better prepared for the future. This means adapting individuals’ and institutions’ behaviour now, to accept and exploit the technology advantages.

Project Notch looks to accelerate the adoption of Community Energy Systems (CES). CES is a different way of generating and supplying heat and electricity to homes and commercial buildings - locally produced energy is used locally with minimal or no use of the national grid. The benefits are reduced cost and more efficient use of distributed renewables to reduce the overall carbon emissions from the energy system. Most of the necessary technologies are available but they are too expensive for consumers to invest in themselves and the business model is not in place that shows companies how they will make a return, so they dont invest. Project Notch starts with a blank sheet of paper: a new housing development in Nottingham’s Trent Basin. It brings together all the companies involved in the energy supply chain with the potential buyers of up to 120 homes on site. Involving heat and electricity the aim is to operate independent of the gas and electric grids. Using novel consumer engagement tools and a focus on business model development the consortium will develop and test business model templates that could be used by any developers of large scale housing projects.