Arqiva, the BBC and Chronos want to evaluate the use of the existing 198 kHz infrastructure, currently used for audio broadcasting of the BBC's Radio 4 Longwave service, to also disseminate time and frequency to low cost, fixed location receivers suitable for applications including Critical National Infrastructure. If the 198 kHz system can be modified to take an accurate time signal there are significant advantages. * The infrastructure already exists and can be upgraded quickly * Wholly UK-based solution covering the UK landmass * Terrestrial and not space based, thus complementary to GNSS The key innovation is the modification of the system to add an accurate time signal with the additional information for a receiver to be able to decorrelate the signals from the existing transmitter sites and generate a sub one microsecond accurate time epoch.  The evaluation will look at; * Synchronisation of the sites that make up the 198 kHz network with UTC * The modification of the 198 kHz signal to add the time signal and helper information * Building link budgets for several end device use cases to serve specific potential customer requirements

The need for affordable, high speed broadband services to rural areas of un(der)served nations is underlined by the United Nations and the ITU. Satellite service offerings are not yet viable for general consumers: monthly costs of satellite bandwidth and initial installed cost of user equipment are too high; outdoor units are too large ; and total available capacity and capacity density are too low and inflexible to form a significant component (eg 10-20%) of a national broadband infrastructure. Terrestrial technologies are also costly and impractical over very large sparsely populated areas and so isolated homes, businesses and communities are currently left disadvantaged. Methera is planned as a flexible constellation of MEO satellites to help fill the gap for partner nations who will be able to provide these services to small, low cost user terminals, at prices competitive with terrestrial technologies. Methera will be capable of providing 300- 1000Gbps capacity to each of 5-15 partner nations distributed around the globe. This study will allow the team to design and model the system and predict the distribution of capacity, cost and performance which can be delivered to meet the national rural broadband market needs of prospective participants which will hopefully lead to advanced sales.

People with dementia and their carers in Surrey and North East Hampshire will benefit from an innovative new project that will use technology to revolutionize healthcare. A variety of apps, monitors, sensors and other devices will be combined in an ‘Internet of Things’ that will monitor people’s health in their own homes. These devices will produce information to help people with dementia and their carers take more control over their own health and wellbeing. The insights and alerts provided by the combination of devices will enable healthcare staff to deliver more responsive and effective services. The ‘Test Bed’ project is funded by Innovate UK and NHS England to try out combinations of technologies that have the potential to improve care quality and provide better value for money. The project is led by Surrey & Borders NHS Foundation Trust working with the University of Surrey, Royal Holloway, University of London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, the Alzheimer’s Society, local Clinical Commissioning Groups, charities and other partners.

People with dementia and their carers in Surrey and North East Hampshire will benefit from an innovative new project that will use technology to revolutionize healthcare. A variety of apps, monitors, sensors and other devices will be combined in an ‘Internet of Things’ that will monitor people’s health in their own homes. These devices will produce information to help people with dementia and their carers take more control over their own health and wellbeing. The insights and alerts provided by the combination of devices will enable healthcare staff to deliver more responsive and effective services. The ‘Test Bed’ project is funded by Innovate UK and NHS England to try out combinations of technologies that have the potential to improve care quality and provide better value for money. The project is led by Surrey & Borders NHS Foundation Trust working with the University of Surrey, Royal Holloway, University of London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, the Alzheimer’s Society, local Clinical Commissioning Groups, charities and other partners.

The project aims to inspire sustainable behaviour change in urban areas using emerging Internet of Things (IoT) network technology and by developing Data as a Service solutions. Using low power circuits connected to a low cost machine-to-machine radio network, we aim to measure and affect bin usage across a test bed of 1,000 homes, and build out web-based services that encourage civic action at a neighbourhood level, increasing rates of recycling. The project will collect data and integrate with the city’s Open Data Platform (Leeds Data Mill). It will use integrated data to inform change with the following aims: reducing landfill (and the associated costs for Leeds City Council); reducing complaints related to household waste (missed bin collections, student waste etc.); increase recycling participation through citizen engagement; and contribute to cohesion at a neighborhood level, in urban areas of the city.