Public Funding for Plextek Services Limited

"Our proposed innovation is a robust communication platform to enable remote health monitoring and reliable communications for individuals working within radioactive cells in a Nuclear Facility. The technology could increase both safety and productivity. As such, this proposal directly addresses three key challenges outlined in the competition; communication, health monitoring and safety. Currently, operatives working inside a contaminated cell are isolated from the outside world as standard radio technology won't penetrate through the thick walls of a nuclear facility. Their status and health to an external observer may be unknown during an entry until they emerge from the facility some time later. Further, there is no reliable means to raise an alert rapidly in the event of an emergency. Our proposed technology looks to address these fundamental issues, also enabling health and environmental data to be routinely gathered which could be used to identify opportunities to optimise future operations and increase productivity."

To develop a flexible joint communication and sensing tool that can detect targets while providing communication links with other devices.

To create a computationally efficient, testable, embedded intelligence platform for versatile deployment in Internet of Things networks with the capability to filter and transmit only 'interesting' data, utilising intelligence and adaptability in data processing.