Many congratulations to Dr. Sithamparanathan Sabesan for being awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowship! Dr. Sabesan worked with an i-Team in 2009, looking at possible applications for his long-range RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. Since then the technology … [Read more...]
Micro-droplets i-teams update – now a funded start-up company!
"As inventors we always believed that our microfluidic picodroplet technique was revolutionary, and that it could have a wide range of applications. We wanted to work with i-Teams to help us identify commercial uses outside of our own sphere of knowledge. The i-Team delivered excellent results for … [Read more...]
Passive RFID Tracking System for an Intelligent Airport
Contacts: Sithamparanathan Sabesan, CAPE Mentor: Amy Weatherup RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags are widely used as a passive means of identifying items, in particular being used by retailers to track high value goods. Their main limitation has been the short range over which the tags … [Read more...]
Photonic Bio-sensors Based on Novel Polymer Waveguides
Contacts: Nikos Bamiedakis & Joseph Beals, CAPE Mentor: John Loveluck, 42 Technology The research team at CAPE has been focusing on developing new light-based electronics using a novel polymer material from Dow Corning. They are now interested in finding other commercial applications for the … [Read more...]
Combining mobile phones, medical devices and temperature
Contacts: Dr. Shamus Husheer, Cambridge Temperature Concepts Mentor: Caren Weinberg Cambridge Temperature Concepts Ltd (CTC) is a recent university spin-out, which started in the college rooms of graduate students, won multiple university business plan competitions, and raised funding from local … [Read more...]
Finding applications for micro-hotplates as gas sensors and more
Contacts: Dr. Florin Udrea, Electrical Engineering Mentor: Adrian Swinburne The team of researchers led by Dr Udrea have been developing micro-hotplates using CMOS silicon-on-insulator technology, with the intention of using them as gas sensors. However, the devices may have a broader … [Read more...]
Measuring peripheral vision in small children
Contact: Dr. Adar Pelah, CUED & York University, and Dr. Louise Allen, Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist, Addenbrookes Hospital Mentors: Bob Pettigrew & Dr. Nicky Athanassopoulou Dr. Pelah and Dr. Allen have designed a new ophthalmic device (perimeter) which can measure the visual … [Read more...]
Finding real-world uses for microcantilever chemical sensors
Contact: Professor Stephen Elliott, Chemistry Mentor: Dr. Julian White The team of researchers led by Professor Elliott have been developing a system of MEMS-based sensors for measuring chemical compositions, including both sampling and callibration techniques. The method uses … [Read more...]
A one-cent magnetoelectric sensor
Contacts: Dr. Neil Mathur, Materials Science & Professor Jim Scott, Earth Science Mentors: Andy Milton & Richard Bown, Innovia Technology Reference: Israel C, Mathur N D, and Scott J F, A one-cent room-temperature magnetoelectric sensor; NATURE MATERIALS 7, 93-94 (2008) The team of … [Read more...]
Simulating vision and motion impairment
Contacts: Dr. Sam Waller, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre Mentors: Tim Goldrein & Megan Morys, Innovia Technology Background Information: The inclusive design toolkit (www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com) and usability evaluation tools … [Read more...]
Mobile environmental sensing
Contact: Dr. Eiman Kanjo, Cambridge Computer Lab Mentors: Alan Cucknell & Pierre Far, Innovia Technology Website: http://www.escience.cam.ac.uk/mobiledata/ The Cambridge Mobile Sensing research team has developed software and sensors that allow mobile and remote monitoring of a range of … [Read more...]
Magnetic memory elements
Contacts: Christoforos Moutafis, Physics Mentors: Marc Bax, Panchromos Limited The Thin Film Magnetism group at the Cavendish, led by Dr Crispin Barnes, has developed a number of small-scale memory storage and biotagging technologies in recent years. The new technology for this i-Team project … [Read more...]
Microdroplet microfluidic reactors
Contacts: Professor Wilhelm Huck, Chemistry Mentors: Dr. Julian White, MDS Analytical Technologies The research team led by Professor Huck have developed a high-throughput assay technology platform that allows a number of experiments to be conducted in parallel. Each experiment is confined to a … [Read more...]
A miniature cell-cultivator
Contact: Dr. Cyril Picard, Biological and Soft Systems Mentors: Marc Bax, Panchromos Limited Dr. Cyril Picard originally developed a self-contained miniature environmental chamber to allow him to observe biological cells over a period of a few days. Previously this was done by building a sealed … [Read more...]
A Chinese speech recognition system
Contact: Yuandong Lin, Institute for Manufacturing & Dr. Kai Yu, Machine Intelligence Group, Engineering Mentors: Adrian Swinburne AI Speech were finalists in the 2008 CUE £5k business creation competition. The team has developed a new software product for teaching spoken Chinese to … [Read more...]
