The IPCRESS project addresses key industry barriers to Cloud adoption related to data security and resilience, focused in particular on the difficulties of entrusting highly valuable Intellectual Property (IP) to third parties through the Cloud. We address concerns about IP leakage and IP theft: IP theft has been cited as a £9.2bn problem for UK industry (OCSIA and Detica, 2011) and described as greatly assisted by an ‘insider’. But an 'insider' is hard to define in the deperimeterisation of Cloud and supply chains. IPCRESS will develop a capability for tracking IP through supply chains, offering Cloud services to (i) prevent IP leakage; (ii) detect IP leakage, or theft; and (iii) identify retention beyond allowed periods. The approach to be developed and embedded within Jaguar Land Rover is based on a computationally efficient method for finding IP without exposing IP, referred to as private search, but with an additional novelty (US patent filed by the University of Surrey) of avoiding costs of encryption.
“The UK automotive supply chain could win £3bn of additional new business in the UK according to the latest data published by the Automotive Council” (BIS, 10 Aug 2012, P/2012/332). Over 60% of vehicles are designed and produced within the supply chain, making sharing of intellectual property (IP) critical to this collaborative process. Sharing IP is a risk to JLR while being business critical. With digital data transfer being the predominant method for sharing information (JLR's E-DRIVE research), creating reliable methods for automating the sharing of appropriate levels of data only with those approved to share is a challenge and a key enabler for allowing an extended enterprise to embrace cloud technology. This project develops Flexeye's abilities to secure digital assets through the innovation of establishing a granular unit of IP and setting an enforceable perimeter around it, so creating the dynamic enforcement of per asset entitlement in a collaborative working environment.
In the last decade the drive for improved fuel economy has forced Internal Combustion Engine designers to develop new and more fuel efficient technologies. An increasingly common method of improving fuel economy is by reducing (downsizing) engine capacity coupled with high levels of air charge boosting to deliver good performance.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is the lead partner in a collaborative project called 'ULTRABOOST' which is supported with funding from the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The project consortium is made up of eight technical partners including Jaguar Land Rover, Lotus Engineering, Shell Fuels, GE Precision Engineering, CD-adapco, University of Bath, University of Leeds and Imperial College London.
The aim of the Ultraboost project is to develop an innovative 2.0 Litre gasoline engine concept capable of a 35% CO2 tailpipe reduction over the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC) relative to a current production 5.0 Litre V8 engine in a Range Rover, whilst maintaining key vehicle attributes such as performance and transient response. Performance targets of this magnitude result in challenging combustion conditions with high probabilities of detrimental abnormal combustion effects such as pre-ignition and knock taking place.
Starting in September 2010 and running for three years the project will utilise the partners expertise and collective skills in engineering, design, combustion modelling, pressure charging and fuels to develop a highly boosted downsized engine concept.
CREO aims to improve and re-optimise the engine and after-treatment as a complete system, meeting legislative, customer and business requirements while minimising CO2 levels. This will be achieved through the use of novel after-treatment techniques, the on-board generation and use of hydrogen and the development and application of new optimisation tools.
VIPER will demonstrate 4.5% NEDC CO2 emissions reduction, applicable to all internal combustion engine vehicles, by managing the thermal environment of vehicle sub-systems. New technologies and modelling techniques will be developed for effectively using thermal energy in the whole powertrain system. There is limited heat available during powertrain warm-up & by accelerating warm up friction, churning losses are reduced thereby improving fuel economy. Stop-start and hybrid technology exacerbates this, as reduced engine running delivers less thermal energy. Once fully warm excess heat is rejected & in the VIPER project this waste heat is recovered as electrical energy.
Managing the transfer of heat around the vehicle systems and conversion to electrical energy will be enabled by development of an analytical tool for thermal environment optimisation. Further, VIPER investigates new technology in specific sub-systems enabled by the optimised thermal environment.
VIPER takes the advanced capabilities of the suppliers, and uses academic expertise to optimally integrate these into a practical demonstrator with the vehicle manufacturers. VIPER will deliver:
1) A design study for minimum Powertrain thermal inertia and assessment of a demonstrator engine.
2) Driveline and lubricant technology for fast warm-up, with reduced friction & churning losses
3) Two complementary technologies for harvesting wasted thermal energy from the exhaust system.
4) A thermal analysis tool optimising heat distribution for CO2 emissions reduction.
5) A more efficient final drive unit
6) A prototype Land Rover vehicle demonstrating the benefits to CO2 emissions
The CABLED project will showcase electric cars across Birmingham & Coventry in the West Midlands. The project will make Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles available to a wide cross section of real world users and collect data on their everyday use. The CABLED project will use the data to understand how the vehicles are used in real life and to assist in the planning of the further expansion of EVs.
This project will:
• deliver a showcase demonstration of 100+ ultra low carbon vehicles across Birmingham and Coventry in West Midlands.
• deliver the infrastructure required in the users' property, in workplaces, and in public areas.
• provide extended real world vehicle evaluation and usage data to allow final development and hence ensure successful production launch of ultra low carbon vehicles.
• collect data to measure vehicle performance, infrastructure usage patterns, impacts and requirements with a minimum 12 months experience of seasonal conditions from all vehicles.
• publicise the benefits and progress of low carbon vehicles
The project objective was to develop a modular electric & electric/diesel powertrain, suitable for several different vehicle types. The aim was to develop the modularity such that the costs can be contained within a viable business case for any application. The performance target was to achieve in excess of a 35% reduction in cycle CO2 emissions for a large premium sport utility platform, with a zero emissions range of at least 12 miles. Test vehicles were be built to investigate range extension and plug-in charging and to establish and develop the viability of these technologies to maximise low carbon potential, including the installation and commissioning of local recharging facilities for the vehicles. The project stretch objectives were to ultimately to place the vehicle within the 120 to 130 g/km CO2 range and achieve a zero emissions range of 15 miles.
The project was successful in achieving and significantly exceeding the agreed and stretch targets. The project achieved the following:-
• 94.8g/km CO2
• 19.3 miles Zero emission range