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This Marine Data Exchange Enhancement Project (MDEEP) sets out to better understand the landscape of automotive vehicle to everything (V2X) standards and best practices with a view to applying them into the marine domain. The optimisation of data exchange in the emerging low emission vessel industry offers the potential to accelerate uptake, reduce emissions and provide a superior experience for commercial and recreational end-users. The project will study existing automotive V2X data exchange solutions and identify how they can be adopted in the marine industry, what gaps will need to be addressed and look to identify possible enhancements. A consortium representing an industry cross section has been formed to complete the work scope. This includes RAD Propulsion, a supplier of electric drive and battery technologies to the zero-emission vessel market, Cisco a world leading international hardware/software technology company specialising in routing and switching, as well as adjacent advanced technologies. Urban Truant who brings real world use cases and experience and finally Stehr Consulting who will provide specialist support with regard to regulatory compliance. The lead organisations will host a series of workshops and interviews to engage with a wide swath of the zero-emission vessel industry and identify real actions that can drive adoption and optimisation of electric vessels. The vessels and systems being designed and delivered now will need to be in operation for decades to come. This project is important in progressing the understanding and application of standards and knowledge in data exchange now to help equipment designers and users progress rapidly. This is important if the UK, the maritime industry and the planet are to achieve CO2 reduction goals.

Nu Quantum, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and Cisco Systems come together to develop and commercialise integrated quantum photonic technology aimed at enabling entanglement-based networking of multi-core quantum computing clusters. Project Medusa employs Integrated Photonic technology to develop a Quantum Networking solution aimed at interconnecting small clusters of Trapped Ion Quantum Computers (TIQC). The motivation for this project is the scaling of TIQCs. TIQCs are the best-performing qubit technology today, however it is widely accepted that it will be extremely difficult to create TIQC cores of over 50-100 qubits. Interconnecting small, efficient clusters using photonic networking is the most promising solution to achieve large, powerful computers. The technological challenge is that there currently exist no commercially-available quantum networking photonic products - integrated switches, entanglement optics, and single-photon detectors - which meet the requirements of speed and efficiency, at the required wavelengths. The main output of this project is a world-first prototype of an integrated 4-node switched entangler which targets the necessary requirements of rate, loss, and wavelength to enable multi-core TIQC.

Quantum technologies have demonstrated the potential for vast technological improvements in communication, metrology, and computation. Although there are a variety of ways to leverage quantum technologies, photonic technologies -- those which are based upon encoding information in light -- are an exciting paradigm. Photons can be transmitted over complex free-space or fibre networks with minimal decoherence. This is due to their weak interaction with other fields or particles. Although this is a desirable feature, it also becomes a technical challenge as this leads to the requirement of probabilistic protocols for quantum information processing. Over recent decades, successive advances in laser science and atomic physics have made it possible to store and then retrieve, on demand, photonic information in an atomic vapour, therefore transitioning from probabilistic to deterministic protocols. This is named a photonic quantum memory. A substantial limiting factor in this technology is due to the motion of the atoms in which the photonic information is stored, leading to a reduction in memory lifetime. While long-lifetime quantum memories in ultracold-atom systems have previously been demonstrated, to date, these have only been laboratory demonstrations, and not commercially viable. The goal of this feasibility study is to leverage ColdQuanta's ultracold-atom technology to build a photonic quantum memory using laser-cooled atoms, showcasing state-of-the-art memory lifetime in a commercially scalable platform. In the coming decade, we anticipate devices built upon these techniques to become widespread as key components of vast quantum computing networks.

Blackwood and partners aim to co-design a neighbourhood or place-based innovation eco-system, with choice and control for residents as they age at its heart. Its role is to facilitate engagement and co-design, learn about healthy ageing in an agile way, position and adapt products and services in response. We create an **independent living movement** where **\#ImIn** means that people can **in**vest, be **in**spired, be '**in** the know' about their health, and come together with their community as a great place in which to grow older. Blackwood's proposal responds to the challenges of: * Designing age-friendly homes * Sustaining physical activity * Managing common complaints of ageing * Supporting social connections * Creating healthy and active places The proposal centres in **three demonstrator neighbourhoods,** in Dundee, Glasgow, and Buckie. A partnership approach is core, collaborating with residents, local authorities, health providers, industry, and academia. The multi-disciplinary projects include ground-breaking house design across tenures, remodelling and retrofitting existing homes, digital empowerment and health and wellbeing self-management. **The Blackwood House -** beautiful, affordable, accessible and connected homes that adapt as we age to enable citizens to live independently within their neighbourhood. The Blackwood House features a unique and innovative barrier free core and has been co-designed with customers and architects. The home with interoperability as standard, features home automation and home health monitoring to enhance independent living. **The Blackwood Design Guide** -- a co-designed and co-created guide that enables individuals or housing organisations to adapt their existing homes, to support people as they age. The guide sets new standards of accessibility going beyond current regulation. **My Digital Hub (Digital Engagement Community & Learning Environment)** -- a 'virtual me' in my 'virtual neighbourhood' in a 'virtual world' allows citizens to play out their ageing journey through gamification. Individuals are empowered to set goals, track progress and see how they compare to others through set neighbourhood goals and rewards. Communities can compare themselves with others across Scotland. **CleverCogs(tm) --** a tablet device app, a customisable, safe, intuitive digital system. Designed to support citizens within the neighbourhood with a range of services and information linked to their health and wellbeing goals. **AI Smart meter monitoring** of energy usage to establish patterns of behaviour that may predict when intervention is required to prevent a hospital admission. **Value Exchange** -- designed to encourage and reward citizens to take an active role in their own health and wellbeing as well as supporting others.

There is clear drive to make all aspects of modern life smarter and more intelligent. A subset of smart applications concerns monitoring of people who may be particularly vulnerable to hazards and accidents. Monitoring and incident response has been reliant on video surveillance/analysis and on wearable devices/ sensors e.g. smart-phones and watches. This requires vulnerable users’ to submit themselves to potentially intrusive video surveillance or the need to wear/carry sensory equipment. This ultimately requires users to trade off their independence against reduced intimacy and to differing degrees, quality of life. SHADOW represents an international collaboration between innovators in the field: Israel-based CELENO and UK- based CISCO to address this challenge. SHADOW seeks to deliver a solution using typical Wi-Fi infrastructure to deliver radar-like doppler imaging technology using Wi-Fi spectrum and access points. This supported with a layer for machine learning-powered incident detection and response logic, processed at the edge. User privacy and intimacy is incorporated into design.

The World Health Organization has recognised Greater Manchester as the UK's first age-friendly city-region. As our population ageing, we need to move faster to create and shape GM as a test bed and vibrant market place for innovators to develop and deploy their products and services to support residents in our communities and neighbourhoods. The International Longevity Centre has described GM as the UK's most advanced ecosystem to be able to exploit the "ageing in place" market (Advantage GM: Unlocking the longevity economy for Greater Manchester). Our Trailblazer will further develop our ecosystem by supporting the design and marketisation of products and services that respond to the multiple determinants of healthy ageing and reduce inequalities. Across GM we have many examples of innovations supporting citizens to age healthily, but they tend to focus on one aspect of older people's lives such as transport, or housing design, or culture and leisure. Our proposal will bring together the different organisations, industries and communities to positively influence people's health and wellbeing and to accelerate the sharing and dissemination of good practice. A new agency for age-friendly design offering advice will enable homes and neighbourhoods to meet the changing needs of older people. Our ecosystem will be optimised as a marketplace for adoption at scale of healthy ageing technology products and services that support social connections, promote physical activity, and improve people's quality of life. With appropriate information governance, we will use artificial intelligence and analytics to develop predictive techniques for identifying needs and targeting cohorts. An integrated platform for citizen engagement and co-ordination will ensure we deliver holistic, citizen-centred products and services and evaluate the impacts and outcomes that people experience.

BeARCAT is a feasibility study that explores the 'Threats to Vehicle Networks' theme of the 'Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Cybersecurity' competition. While CAVs' benefits are enormous, mass connectivity makes them a target for a range of cyber attacks. Connected Automated Mobility deployed in public areas increases the risk of network intrusion, disruption, deception and denial of service attacks. Vehicle and network links therefore need to be thoroughly tested, developed and validated in controlled environments prior to deployment to combat these threats. This provision does not exist in a coherent or nationally coordinated way. This in stark contrast to increasingly sophisticated and organised cyber threat. Whilst some progress has been made in developing standards for CAV Cybersecurity. Measuring and testing Cybersecurity remains a particular challenge. The lack of regulation and standards relating to Cybersecurity and vehicle networks compounds this. National and international standards require significant further development. BeARCAT therefore seeks to explore the feasibility of a coherent, holistic approach to Cybersecurity testing for Connected Vehicle networks in the UK through CAV Testbeds. BeARCAT's overall approach will involve examination and identification of procedures and specifications to test cyber-physical and software architectures, provide guidance as well as an overview of best practices along the complete chain from design to deployment and certification. This exploration will consider a testing and assessment approach covering a wide variety of potential access points including Vehicle to Device (V2D), Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle to Network (V2N). Using WMG's, Cisco and O2 Telefonica's Cybersecurity, CAV and network expertise to fully understand the range of threats posed. BeARCAT's final outputs include a Phase 2 Outline Plan and a Business Model for Cybersecurity connected vehicle testing in CAV testbeds for further development and trialling. BeARCAT brings together a strong partnership, from Millbrook's expertise in CAV testbed environments, Cisco's capabilities in secure networks, the operational expertise of one of the UK's largest mobile operators to the research excellence of WMG's Cyber Security Centre.

When something goes missing at home, like your keys, it's an annoying program. When things get misplaced or lost at work, it's a real problem that costs businesses across the world a lot of money. In the course of everyday business, a growing new workforce of geographically disperse employees share use of things ranging from tools, demo kits, equipment for portable medical use, IT, or service truck-rolls, to boxes put into storage. When something goes missing, work doesn't get done. Production lines go down. Lives can even be at stake when medical equipment isn't where it's supposed to be. Reelables, a London-based start-up, has invented a smart label to make tracking things at work completely automatic. It simply peels and sticks like a barcode label. Employees gather information about assets at work with their phones running an app in the background. No scanning required. The unique software provides every employee the ability to know where all their things are at any moment. It also enables them to find things, see what their co-workers have, and when they had it. Existing asset tracking solutions on the market require a lot of work or are very costly to use and install. They range from simple barcode labels to very expensive GPS-enabled devices. RFID solutions, like barcodes, require manually going about scanning things or installing high power antennas in the ceiling or doorway. The Reelables smart label addresses a mid-range solution which allows for wider market implementation. The key innovation making this possible is a manufacturing process to form a battery directly alongside a wireless circuit on a thin plastic film. Initial working prototypes of the smart label are made on the same material used for ordinary potato crisp bags. However, the added cost and size of an external battery is the barrier to mass production. This feasibility study, in conjunction with the Centre for Process Innovation and Digital Catapult aims to demonstrate a game-changing new technology for forming a Battery-on-Circuit. The team intends to show that by electrochemically coating and laminating two plastic films together, an extremely low cost battery can be formed to power a wireless label for more than a year. The team further intends to demonstrate a host of new applications, business efficiencies, and use cases enabled by the innovation that in turn drives economic growth.

Public description Objective CyberStone will develop a secure, intelligent, collaborative IOT gateway to address the IOT cyber security challenge. Its key components are Secure: the gateway will embody security best practice. This encompasses secure boot, secure storage, software component attestation, network segmentation, managed IOT updates, remote management of router capabilities, roots of trust and secure device and user identities. Intelligent: CyberStone will by dynamic. Using secure edge based processing it will analyse IOT device behaviours and dynamical infer risk using a mix of strategies from statistics to full blown AI. The processing will include cloud based security services, that complement the local analytics Collaborative: the IOT risk is shared across players. A collaborative ecosystem of information sharing is needed to both detect and mitigate risks. CyberStone will define collaborative information sharing protocols, IOT fingerprinting techniques and technical integration layers to make wide scale deployment and impact possible Why the gateway Why address the issue at the gateway? For both deep technical and entirely pragmatic purposes securing the IOT endpoint is impossible. The horse has already bolted. The IOT gateway is an essential component of most IOT deployments, but provides a unique management node, to monitor, analyse, and mitigate risk across heterogeneous IOT devices and networks. Equally, any deep IOT security endpoint innovation will require an IOT gateway innovation to be practically deployable The team CyberStone is an active collaboration between: NquiringMinds - a leading UK AI and Cyber SME, Cisco - one of the worlds foremost router and gateway suppliers, The Internet of Things Security Foundation - a UK based trade association, with international reach, focusing entirely on IOT security and University of Oxford Cyber Security Centre , one of the UKs leading academic cyber centres of excellence

i-TRACE innovates through the use of an ML and blockchain-based cybersecurity approach using enhanced gateways for IoT. It will tackle the challenge of securing constrained devices highly prevalent in IoT particularly in distributed and dispersed networks (utilities, transport, smart city etc). While reducing power use and enabling 'fit and forget' deployment these devices then lack the capacity to use typical security techniques such as signature-based approaches. i-TRACE will implement an approach that introduces a device authentication/authorization mechanism. The gateway router will be able to regularly determine the identity of the devices and detect tampered devices. If a hacker introduces a malware/virus which might potentially corrupt the data which the sensor is sending to the GW router, it would be able to detect the device has been compromised. The data sent from the device will also be secured by using fairly lightweight encryption algorithm. The data will then make its way to the cloud server and be signed with a blockchain and stored in the secure data lake along with the provenance metadata. The end user will be able to read and detect the authenticity of the data whenever it needs by crosschecking the messages with the blockchain to obtain the ground truth. Since blockchain is immutable and tamper-proof, it is secure in principle and cannot be altered. This data will also be analysed by a ML system to run state-of-the-art threat analysis algorithms. This will identify & prioritise anomalies/outliers for action by security analysts. i-TRACE will demonstrate its approach in a high social impact sector: the water industry. London is in the top 10 cities in the world most at risk of running out of freshwater. Our current use is 150 litres per person per day; to be sustainable, we need to reduce this to 118 litres. A third of this saving needs to come from more efficient use -- reducing consumption -- but while reducing the cost of water for households. i-TRACE will demonstrate its approach to enable a secure yet low-cost, long-life approach to smart water meters. This in turn will enable approaches to household behaviour change. The i-TRACE Partnership includes relevant cross sector expertise to enable successful innovation delivery. Partners include: Cisco International Limited | Northumbrian Water Limited | BT plc | Senseon Tech Ltd | University of Warwick (Warwick Manufacturing Group).

The promise of flexible mobile energy storage & supply through V2G is no less than to turn each vehicle into a net carbon reducer. The challenge is to create a market mechanism that allows these benefits to be realised with business cases for EV operators and grid/energy users. E-FLEX will create a scale demonstration of a functioning V2G market. It will combine a number of fleets with variable duty cycles, a mixed hardware ecology, and diverse energy users (grid plus facilities) with a market design that captures as much value as possible as private benefit. E-FLEX will involve a mix of urban (London) fleets (parcel delivery, car sharing, police and heath service vehicles), totalling 200 EVs. The first phase will be oriented at fixed scheduling against known end user demand. The second phase will demonstrate a dynamic (near-real time) market operation. Vehicle use and V2G cycles will be fully monitored for analysis of market operation, including adoption, use, cost of operation, value captured, and battery and vehicle performance.

"100CC will provide a connectivity platform that digitally includes the most vulnerable. By combining multiple services (healthcare, social care, communities and families services) on a single connectivity infrastructure 100CC will demonstrate how an orchestrated approach delivers wellbeing and business outcomes. This will improve quality of life and wellbeing outcomes for the individual while significantly reducing the cost of public service delivery. The project is tackling a genuine and stubborn societal need: bringing digital inclusion to the most disadvantaged. Some public services are fully digital (car tax renewal), but others have had mixed results (housing benefit reform, Universal Credit), or are still developing (social care remote monitoring). This is unequal because access to digital services is predicated on digital literacy and broadband access at home. Disadvantaged communities are high-volume public service users, but have benefitted the least from the shift to digital services. Too many legacy service users and barriers to end-users' digital adoption exist. 100CC will address the challenge by demonstrating a fit-for-purpose connectivity platform in the home for high-volume, heterogeneous public service user groups. This demonstration will validate a 'provider pays' business model, where the cost of providing secure connectivity is an order of magnitude lower than currently provided by the market. The deployment in West Suffolk will then demonstrate a citizen-centric digital service delivery model that uses IoT, real-time collaboration, digital-enabled staff and a fully online citizenry, transforming the State-of-the-Art from apps and online services to a fully-digital public service experience."

Our vision is to create a world leading test environment for the development of future mobility solutions in London. The Smart Mobility Living Lab based in the Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG) and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park (QEOP). Businesses will be able to test their ideas, technology and services, examples include: • Testing autonomous and connected vehicles on real roads safely • Exploring the relationship and interaction between autonomous vehicles and people in complex and busy real world environments • Testing the use of driverless pods to carry people short distances (1-2 miles) from transport nodes, i.e. railway and underground stations to major venues or destinations • Exploring the use of large data sets to improve the flow of traffic and people • Exploring how much more can be achieved through a more integrated transport system that requires little interaction from the passenger • Exploring the benefits of new technology for logistics companies This is an exciting project and part of the UK Governments commitment for the UK to be at the forefront of this new and rapidly evolving market. Investment will give UK industry the opportunity to take the lead and reinforce its position as a leader in this field.

The aim of this project is to further develop innovative technologies for connected autonomous vehicles to accelerate adoption of driverless vehicles and allied technologies in the UK. This project will introduce innovative technologies to operate connected autonomous cars in a platoon formation from Stockport directly to the arrivals terminal at Manchester Airport. Concurrently, a platoon of three pods will transit passengers to and from a car park in the airport to the passenger terminals. Project Synergy will facilitate inclusive accessible transport for the aged and the visually impaired. Innovations include: rapid battery charging using graphene supercapacitors enabling power sharing between vehicles. An Artificial Intelligence system will provide natural conversation concierge service to users. Development of control strategies and sensor technologies to facilitate platooning. Design of secure connectivity solutions for real-time communications of the platoon convoy within urban infrastructure. Deployment of resource sharing such as audio and video between the vehicles during platooning operation. This project will lead to the formation of new business models to improve mobility and the environment whilst providing economic growth through new job and business creation.

Worker and workplace safety are critical programmes and have high priority status in regulated sectors. Non-compliance creates incident costs and loss, lost productivity and business disruption, and sometimes regulatory fines. There can also be a high human cost. The current state-of-the-art is for a person to be manually checked that they are wearing the correct equipment, all of which is prone to human error and costly to manage and monitor. AI-SAFE aims to design and build an autonomous system that will detect and monitor workers against the correct inventory. This would remove the human errors, thus improving worker safety and compliance, and increase productivity. An automated system would reduce personnel costs and costly contamination. During idea generation GSK confirmed that improving their systems could save millions of pounds per year of contaminated labs caused by people entering wearing the wrong equipment. As a base technology it will apply to all industries where Personal Protection Equipment is required, creating significant opportunity.

The peak and trough mobility demand profiles remain a critical challenge for city transport, and lead to negative consequences for welfare, productivity, energy use, and environment. This results from the largely fixed transport infrastructure with finite capacity that cannot respond dynamically to demand variations. Previous attempts to influence demand by altering travel behaviours through top-down policies failed to achieve meaningful improvements. CitySPIRE will address this challenge by creating a demand aggregation service presenting groups of passengers to transport operators. This will be achieved by combining location-based data from two communications (Bluetooth Low Energy and Wi-Fi) network operators. These data will create context-aware knowledge enabling demand-responsive transport services. The project output will be a new demand-responsive transport service curated by Simply Connect, enabled by a networked approach to demand aggregation and end user engagement. Underpinning this, a new commercial model for private data exchange and analytics will be tested. The consortium expects tools and insights from the project to increase the value of the existing Proxama, Purple, Cisco, and Movement Strategies propositions.

CityVerve is based around the large-scale deployment of technologies, where everyday objects can be connected to a network in order to share data. This approach will demonstrate and evidence the benefits to citizens’ through environmental improvements, economic opportunities, and the more efficient and effective delivery of services such as transport, healthcare and energy. It will provide the ability to create new services and operating models through the interoperability between transport, healthcare and energy systems. The geographical focus of CityVerve will be Greater Manchester; a city region which has been at the forefront of the city devolution agenda, in particular health and social care provision, leading the way in designing new ways of delivering services and providing the blueprint for other cities in the UK and beyond. CityVerve will build on these opportunities to provide a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform healthcare and other city services around the needs of people, not only is this is an urgent priority for Greater Manchester, but a challenge faced by many global cities.

The objective of the project is to develop a lifecycle management approach for IoT data securityNo single approach will be able to address the breadth of IoT end devices and use cases. To address this gap, a framework will be developed from the ground up, enabling different approaches based on the class of device being connected. The project will deliver a proof-of-concept architecture for the least-cost, lowest-power sensor class, and test this in a lab setting. This architecture will then be extended and generalised for more spohisticated classes of IoT sensors and devices. To-date alternative approaches to protecting IoT data in industry have solely focused on single-supplier, single- time security instances. No common approach has been developed that reflects the lifecycle of embedded IoT devices with expected usefulness of upto two decades. This project will bridge this gap, addresing a critical barrier for IoT adoption ultimately strengthtening businesses relying on IoT.

SWIFT will use high-speed in-carriage Wi-Fi to improve the passenger experience, enhance commercial opportunities and improve train management capabilities. Wi-Fi on trains is currently delivered using bonded mobile solutions. This is essentially providing Internet access to whole trains via a handful of tethered smartphones. Improving capacity in-carriage requires trackside Wi-Fi backhaul, which relies on advanced service management, with session handover at 2ms. This has been demonstrated in a lab but not in a real-life environment. SWIFT will demonstrate this technology on UK rail, advancing the state-of-the-art. Furthermore, Wi-Fi is moving beyond a pure Internet access model to value-added services based on location and presence- awareness with Big Data analytics. These types of services are seen increasingly in the retail sector, but have not as yet reached on-train Wi-Fi. SWIFT will bring this innovation to the UK rail sector through its application development and SME Open Innovation competition. It will expose new businesses with creative, technical, and user experience capabilities to the UK rail sector, enhancing the customer experience in rail travel.

Based upon a real-world regional scenario in Scotland, CONSERVE will build and demonstrate an innovative integrated approach to urban resilience planning, event management, environmental management and critical infrastructure protection. This will improve quality of life for citizens in that a coordinated response to flooding events will minimise harm to both citizens and critical infrastructure. An understanding of systemic risk is emerging in some cities, but solutions are in their infancy. Existing city dashboards allow visualisation of city authority activity, but without interlinked workflow and information sharing between public and private. CONSERVE would create a first-of-its-kind service as a model for other cities to build on. It will detail how the multi-stakeholder challenges of flood event response can be addressed through data virtualisation and open city datasets, multi-agency workflow, and state-of-the-art analytics.The commercial procurement models supporting these initiatives will also be considered

Working with Network Rail, the project will deliver 21st Century station facilities, responding in a unified manner to the connectivity demands of four functional groups: security providers, operators, retailers and travellers. It will converge discrete, separate communications and mobile subsystems in a station to create a single, IP infrastructure to develop and test a holistic architecture called Stations as a Service (StaaS). StaaS empowers a step change, and provides an open archiecture needed to unlock future investment and innovation in the UK Rail Sector. StaaS delivering benefits from convergence of various systems & technologies: building management, Internet of Things and Big Data. It enables operators to move from closed systems & networks which have impacted the rail sector negatively to a co-operative shared structure. It creates a new management & commercial model for future stations and provides a blueprint to improve customer experience as data & its value becomes visible and exploitable. StaaS will support innovation in the four main stakeholder functions: security, real-time operations, commercial estate and passenger service innovation. The project will develop a StaaS architecture based on clear user-scenarios. The involvement formally of Abellio and the self-financing observer status of Network Rail and Scotrail provides the window of opportunity to develop and demo StaaS eco-systems. The project will be open and allow other UK SMEs to innovate on the StaaS platform ensuring the reference architecture is extensible.