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Bovine respiratory disease (BRD), and resulting pneumonia caused by viral and/or bacterial pathogens, is the most common disease affecting the cattle industry globally. Calf pneumonia is a cause of major economic loss, affecting over a million animals across the UK and costing the UK dairy industry ~£60-80million pa. While BRD can affect up to 50% of catt...

Micro-LED HAPS aims to demonstrate an innovative optical communications system designed for deployment on high-altitude pseudo satellites (HAPS). Our approach exploits the unique capabilities of micro light-emitting diode (micro-LED) sources paired with single photon detectors. The compact nature of these integrated optical components and their low power ...

Precision timing is key to all aspects of modern infrastructure, from the national grid, to telecommunications, to financial trading, through to global, national, and individual navigation systems. When we switch on our smartphones or satellite navigation systems, we are unconsciously using networked oscillators utilising the performance of current commer...

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) facilitates the secure sharing of encryption keys using quantum technology. These keys can encrypt data for transmission over conventional fibre links across any distance, but QKD itself is limited over fibre to around 150km with current technology. Beyond this, 'trusted nodes' are required, but at major risk of creating sec...

**Magnetic resonance imaging** (**MRI**) is a powerful tool for diagnosing medical conditions that affect the brain. Standard MRI scanners in current use have a magnetic-field strength of 1.5 tesla (1.5T) or 3 tesla (3T). Recent advances have led to scanners with a magnetic-field strength of 7 tesla (7T), which provide images with an increased level of de...

Project LUSS (**L**ED based **U**ltra-Violet exposure for **S**afe **S**urfaces) provides an economical solution to combat COVID-19 with the ability to also disinfect surfaces of other viruses and bacteria. COVID-19 has raised the importance of preventing viruses spreading between individuals in their daily routines, e.g. touching door handles, entering r...

Precision timing is key to all aspects of modern infrastructure, from the national grid, to telecommunications, to financial trading, through to global, national, and individual navigation systems. In most cases this timing is received wirelessly through global navigation satellite systems, commonly known as "sat-nav" or GPS. However, these signals do not...

This project seeks to reduce the costs of offshore wind by targeting the wind monitoring infrastructure used at multiple stages of wind energy projects. By developing a factory adaptable laser wind sensor design the costs of such remote sensor systems can be reduced - by using a modular approach to the subsystem design, maintenance and down time costs can...

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) is a well understood application of quantum technology and there are several metropolitan fibre networks already established for QKD services. However, key distribution is limited by absorption inside optical fibres which mean that transmissions over distances greater than about 150 km are impractical. Free space communicati...

"The automation of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) practices in offshore wind sector is central to driving lower costs. The remote location of offshore wind farms means any requirement for physical human intervention pushes O&M costs upwards. This contributes to making the cost of getting offshore wind energy to our homes the second highest in the UK. Unt...

The automation of industrial practices to enable greater productivity on production floors is driving the need to replace conventional processes. One of such processes is the use of conventional laboratories to determine the rate of wear and degradation of lubricated production floor machinery. The inefficiency of this process results in reactive maintena...

This project will develop a novel wind turbine blade structural health monitoring system based on digital cameras and image processing using an array of optical markers installed inside the blade. An optical system will be designed, and a digital image correlation technique will be used to track the markers which will characterise the dynamics of the blad...