Public Funding for and Technology Research Limited

For over 40 years, AND Technology Research have been developing bespoke electronics/software products and prototypes for the medical device market , and have been advising customers on regularity requirements worldwide. Through previous work and market analysis, there exists a clear need to tackle the overbearing costs and barriers for innovators. They are often confused by regulation and moreover, the journey to achieve certification. Tento+ enables innovators to understand, track and progress the regulatory pathways required for medical devices. Initially targeting UKCA and EU CE, future developments are planned for other markets. It provides a simple, easy to use dashboard where innovators can detail their medical devices, track progression to certification, access advise, be signed posted to resources and utilise AI enabled analytics to ease their journey. Through developing Tento+ as a Software-As-A-Service, it will become an the on-stop-shop for innovators to track and manage their end-to-end regulatory journey.

To develop a first-in-class suite of self-powered, battery-less sensors utilising low-powered processing and an intelligent multi-source energy harvesting system to deliver continuous monitoring capability.

This project aims to develop new algorithms for energy control utilising appliance signature data from three case-studies (a car-park, a plastic factory and a village community). The algorithms will be used for peak load management and load balancing and will be designed to rectify previously identified issues in monitored data due when simple demand response is applied. In addition the algorithms will be able to take advantage of secondary power sources such as PV, wind and battery storage. This is a collaboration between the University of Reading using their expertise in energy data analytics and optimisation and AND Technology Research with the expertise in energy monitoring and control. Trials will then be undertaken through simulation and tested using energy monitoring equipment that has been pioneered by AND Technology Research. This equipment is designed for cost effectiveness and is targeted at the organisations operating at a meso level. In summary, the University of Reading and AND Technology Research will develop predictive control algorithms for meso-level energy management based on the energy data available from monitoring.

A consortium comprising of Environmental Process Systems (EPS), the University of Nottingham (UoN), AND Technology Research (ANDtr), Absolute Air & Gas (AAG), Elmhurst Energy Systems (EES) and the National Energy Foundation (NEF) are developing a more efficient, accurate and assessor and occupant friendly means of determining the air tightness properties of existing dwellings. This will help improve the accuracy of baseline performance assessments as well as the applicability and impact modelling of upgrade recommendations. The new instrumentation will also make airtightness performance and compliance checks more accessible and will fundamentally shift the existing air tightness testing market from a small scale specialist service offering to one where assessors, advice providers, retrofit installers, contractors and building control can all undertake leakage assessments themselves – permitting regular screening throughout the retrofit process and accellarating the development of more effective methods for improving and managing airtightness and ventilation.