University of South Florida (USF) have been doing some amazing research on the early detection of dementia using Ubisense Precise Real-Time Location System (RTLS). See this clip which appeared on CNN for more information.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Ubisense Ranked number 2 Fastest Growing Technology Company in the UK in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50
Ubisense attributes its 15324% Percent Revenue Growth to its World beating precise real-time location system driving huge costs out of the businesses of its’ customers delivering an ROI in less than 12 months for companies like, BMW, Cummins, Honda and Boeing.
Cambridge, UK Oct 29 2008 — Ubisense today announced that it ranked Number two in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over five years Ubisense grew 15324 percent during this period.
Ubisense’s CEO, Richard Green credits his world class team, intellectual property and their determination to make our customers succeed with the company’s 15324% revenue growth over the past five years. He, "With such talented people the company can do amazing things for our customers and see no limits to growing this to be Cambridge’s next billion $ company"
“Growing the top line enough to make the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is especially meaningful during tough economic times for the technology sector,” comments David Halstead, lead partner for the Deloitte Fast 50. “The Fast 50 provides a fascinating view of the evolving structure of the UK's tech sector, with software and internet businesses making up the bulk of the fastest growing companies. While their products and services are at the extreme cutting edge of global technology, it is important to note that it is not just technology that makes these companies leaders in their sectors – it is about the quality of the people and their Intellectual Property (IP).”
Fast 50 Selection and Qualifications
The Fast 50 list is compiled from Deloitte’s nominations submitted directly to the Fast 50, and public company database research. To qualify for the Fast 50, entrants must have had 2003 operating revenues of at least £34,000. Deloitte researchers examined financial statements to validate operating revenues.
Entrants must also be public or private companies headquartered in a participating region of the UK and must be a “technology company,” defined as a company that owns proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify.
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Cambridge, UK Oct 29 2008 — Ubisense today announced that it ranked Number two in the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on average percentage revenue growth over five years Ubisense grew 15324 percent during this period.
Ubisense’s CEO, Richard Green credits his world class team, intellectual property and their determination to make our customers succeed with the company’s 15324% revenue growth over the past five years. He, "With such talented people the company can do amazing things for our customers and see no limits to growing this to be Cambridge’s next billion $ company"
“Growing the top line enough to make the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is especially meaningful during tough economic times for the technology sector,” comments David Halstead, lead partner for the Deloitte Fast 50. “The Fast 50 provides a fascinating view of the evolving structure of the UK's tech sector, with software and internet businesses making up the bulk of the fastest growing companies. While their products and services are at the extreme cutting edge of global technology, it is important to note that it is not just technology that makes these companies leaders in their sectors – it is about the quality of the people and their Intellectual Property (IP).”
Fast 50 Selection and Qualifications
The Fast 50 list is compiled from Deloitte’s nominations submitted directly to the Fast 50, and public company database research. To qualify for the Fast 50, entrants must have had 2003 operating revenues of at least £34,000. Deloitte researchers examined financial statements to validate operating revenues.
Entrants must also be public or private companies headquartered in a participating region of the UK and must be a “technology company,” defined as a company that owns proprietary technology that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues; or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology. Using other companies' technology in a unique way does not qualify.
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Monday, October 20, 2008
RTLS and Mobile Quality Control combination driven by Automotive customers
Two leading suppliers to the Automotive Industry partner to respond to their customers requirements and combine their systems to provide real-time location-based mobile quality control
Birmingham and Cambridge – 17 Oct 2008 Driven by the demands of advanced manufacturing customers such as Aston Martin and Bentley, the combination of the first industry specific quality control system with precise real-time location delivers complete traceability for the automotive manufacturer. In many countries legislation is now demanding comprehensive and detailed records of the production process and the parts used for vehicles. This often includes capturing the precise location of tools and their torque settings for specific builds, an application increasingly being provided by the Ubisense precise real-time location system in combination with leading tool manufacturers such as Atlas Copco.
The partnership has produced a total solution that provides quality control, monitoring and management of vehicle build. Touch’s quality control system (FLAGS) is used to standardise inspection and manage quality. Ubisense ensures correct tooling is used and provides precise track and traceability for vehicles.
Simon Holloway, Practice Leader at Bloor Research comments, “It makes eminent sense to combine these systems to provide an end to end quality control solution to error proof and automate many of the labour intensive and error prone activities in car manufacturing plants.”
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Birmingham and Cambridge – 17 Oct 2008 Driven by the demands of advanced manufacturing customers such as Aston Martin and Bentley, the combination of the first industry specific quality control system with precise real-time location delivers complete traceability for the automotive manufacturer. In many countries legislation is now demanding comprehensive and detailed records of the production process and the parts used for vehicles. This often includes capturing the precise location of tools and their torque settings for specific builds, an application increasingly being provided by the Ubisense precise real-time location system in combination with leading tool manufacturers such as Atlas Copco.
The partnership has produced a total solution that provides quality control, monitoring and management of vehicle build. Touch’s quality control system (FLAGS) is used to standardise inspection and manage quality. Ubisense ensures correct tooling is used and provides precise track and traceability for vehicles.
Simon Holloway, Practice Leader at Bloor Research comments, “It makes eminent sense to combine these systems to provide an end to end quality control solution to error proof and automate many of the labour intensive and error prone activities in car manufacturing plants.”
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FISH partners with US Department of Veteran’s Affairs to extend benefits to eHEALTH 2008 attendees
Dallas, TX – Fish Software, a Dallas Texas based event technology company has
partnered with Technology Forums to support the Department of Veteran’s Affairs
educational conference and exposition e-HEALTH 2008 that takes place in Tampa
between July 15th and 17th. The event will feature location intelligence technology that will improve the attendee experience by providing better access to information.
The Fish system, that uses “Ultra-Wide-Band” radio frequency tags, is likened to an
indoor GPS system since it will allow the attendee to detect his/her exact location, with an accuracy of six inches, whenever they press a small green “Tell Me More” button on their tag. This location intelligence will be leveraged to proactively make information requests whenever, and whereever, they are standing on the show floor. When the attendee is standing in an exhibitor’s booth space and press their “Tell Me More” button information about that exhibitors products are instantly uploaded to the attendee’s personal web-based micro-site. The attendees will also be able to leverage the “Tell Me More” buttons in the 11,000 square foot poster session area and use their tags to request that specific educational posters are uploaded to their personal micro-sites or ins session rooms to request copies of presentations. The Fish “ShowKEY Tag” also features an additional button that empowers the attendees to swap contact information. If they each press their “My-Network” button within a few seconds of each other, the system will identify the attendee’s location and instantly swap their contact information to each other’s micro-sites.
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partnered with Technology Forums to support the Department of Veteran’s Affairs
educational conference and exposition e-HEALTH 2008 that takes place in Tampa
between July 15th and 17th. The event will feature location intelligence technology that will improve the attendee experience by providing better access to information.
The Fish system, that uses “Ultra-Wide-Band” radio frequency tags, is likened to an
indoor GPS system since it will allow the attendee to detect his/her exact location, with an accuracy of six inches, whenever they press a small green “Tell Me More” button on their tag. This location intelligence will be leveraged to proactively make information requests whenever, and whereever, they are standing on the show floor. When the attendee is standing in an exhibitor’s booth space and press their “Tell Me More” button information about that exhibitors products are instantly uploaded to the attendee’s personal web-based micro-site. The attendees will also be able to leverage the “Tell Me More” buttons in the 11,000 square foot poster session area and use their tags to request that specific educational posters are uploaded to their personal micro-sites or ins session rooms to request copies of presentations. The Fish “ShowKEY Tag” also features an additional button that empowers the attendees to swap contact information. If they each press their “My-Network” button within a few seconds of each other, the system will identify the attendee’s location and instantly swap their contact information to each other’s micro-sites.
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Thursday, October 09, 2008
Future solutions in 1930s house
A 1930s-style house is being built on a university campus to help people who own old homes to save on energy costs.
The replica house at Nottingham University will have hundreds of sensors to monitor heat loss and find better ways to update old houses.
The project, supported by energy firm E.ON, is meant to learn from the failings of homes of the past.
The three-year project will investigate how a suburban home could be upgraded to help reduce CO2 emissions.
Timber extension
Researcher Dr Mark Gillott described the house as "probably the most highly monitored home of its type in the world".
Ecotown monitoring screen
We are not monitoring just the house but the people living there
Dr Mark Gillott, Nottingham University
"We have to develop solutions that are applicable in the real world."
Dr Gillott said: "We have 21 million existing homes in the UK and 15 million of them have inadequate insulation. We want to take the house to a zero-carbon standard within three years."
He said the monitoring used in the house is based on automotive manufacturing industry tracking and will be used to determine people's energy consumption.
The researchers will also try to work out how to make best use of materials, renewable energy technology and energy management systems in the three-bedroom semi-detached house.
The government has set targets for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016.
"We will have a family moving in to live in the house so we will get real data. We are not monitoring just the house but the people living there," Dr Gillott said.
Research work will look at retro-fitting for existing houses including changes to the building fabric, heating and energy use including insulation, glazing, and building automation technology.
A timber-frame extension will be added to the existing house during the project to provide additional living spaces and allow new energy-saving initiatives to be tested.
The roof of the extension will be designed to allow solar panels to be installed in the most effective manner.
The house is one of six sustainable homes being built on the campus.
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The replica house at Nottingham University will have hundreds of sensors to monitor heat loss and find better ways to update old houses.
The project, supported by energy firm E.ON, is meant to learn from the failings of homes of the past.
The three-year project will investigate how a suburban home could be upgraded to help reduce CO2 emissions.
Timber extension
Researcher Dr Mark Gillott described the house as "probably the most highly monitored home of its type in the world".
Ecotown monitoring screen
We are not monitoring just the house but the people living there
Dr Mark Gillott, Nottingham University
"We have to develop solutions that are applicable in the real world."
Dr Gillott said: "We have 21 million existing homes in the UK and 15 million of them have inadequate insulation. We want to take the house to a zero-carbon standard within three years."
He said the monitoring used in the house is based on automotive manufacturing industry tracking and will be used to determine people's energy consumption.
The researchers will also try to work out how to make best use of materials, renewable energy technology and energy management systems in the three-bedroom semi-detached house.
The government has set targets for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016.
"We will have a family moving in to live in the house so we will get real data. We are not monitoring just the house but the people living there," Dr Gillott said.
Research work will look at retro-fitting for existing houses including changes to the building fabric, heating and energy use including insulation, glazing, and building automation technology.
A timber-frame extension will be added to the existing house during the project to provide additional living spaces and allow new energy-saving initiatives to be tested.
The roof of the extension will be designed to allow solar panels to be installed in the most effective manner.
The house is one of six sustainable homes being built on the campus.
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Ubisense delivers precise location for Tier 1 Automotive automatic Replenishment
Ortrander Tier 1 Manufacturer in Germany integrates precise real-time location, passive RFID and electronic scales in advanced production logistics project
Bernd Williams-Boock, CEO of the Ortrander iron foundry in Eastern Germany had a problem. The supplier of parts for the heating and the automotive industry has experienced a three fold growth in production in the last five years. “We had to introduce new technology to improve on our manual processes and keep up with the growth,” said Williams-Boock. “I had to know how many finished parts of which type I had and where to find them so I could meet the customer shipment deadlines.” Williams-Boock also needed to know the current status of the unfinished parts in sand blasting or clean-up to determine whether the company could meet its commitments and forecasts.
The Fraunhofer Centre for applied logistics and information systems in Cottbus developed the concept of an intelligent fork-lift to meet the requirements. The fork-lift is fitted out with a passive RFID reader so that it can identify containers that it picks up, an electronic weighing device so that it can determine the weight of the container (and hence the number of parts it contains), and Ubisense precise RTLS to determine the precise location and orientation of the truck, and a terminal to enable the truck operator to verify the data being collected and communicate with the back-end logistics system. The Ubisense precise RTLS system records where each container is set down in the logistics system so that the truck operator can be directed there to retrieve it. Information regarding the status of the parts in the container may also be added via the terminal. The location of the container provides additional information as to where the parts are and therefore what step they have reached in the manufacturing process. “This joint development in a tier 1 manufacturing enterprise is second to none”, declared Terry Phebey, VP of European Sales with Ubisense. “The material flow solution developed together with the Fraunhofer Institute, Ortrander, and the other partners involved can be rolled out not only to other foundries but any manufacturer looking for a more efficient production process.”
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Bernd Williams-Boock, CEO of the Ortrander iron foundry in Eastern Germany had a problem. The supplier of parts for the heating and the automotive industry has experienced a three fold growth in production in the last five years. “We had to introduce new technology to improve on our manual processes and keep up with the growth,” said Williams-Boock. “I had to know how many finished parts of which type I had and where to find them so I could meet the customer shipment deadlines.” Williams-Boock also needed to know the current status of the unfinished parts in sand blasting or clean-up to determine whether the company could meet its commitments and forecasts.
The Fraunhofer Centre for applied logistics and information systems in Cottbus developed the concept of an intelligent fork-lift to meet the requirements. The fork-lift is fitted out with a passive RFID reader so that it can identify containers that it picks up, an electronic weighing device so that it can determine the weight of the container (and hence the number of parts it contains), and Ubisense precise RTLS to determine the precise location and orientation of the truck, and a terminal to enable the truck operator to verify the data being collected and communicate with the back-end logistics system. The Ubisense precise RTLS system records where each container is set down in the logistics system so that the truck operator can be directed there to retrieve it. Information regarding the status of the parts in the container may also be added via the terminal. The location of the container provides additional information as to where the parts are and therefore what step they have reached in the manufacturing process. “This joint development in a tier 1 manufacturing enterprise is second to none”, declared Terry Phebey, VP of European Sales with Ubisense. “The material flow solution developed together with the Fraunhofer Institute, Ortrander, and the other partners involved can be rolled out not only to other foundries but any manufacturer looking for a more efficient production process.”
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Freight forwarder achieves rapid ROI
eseg integrated video security and Ubisense precise RTLS provide improved quality to Bursped, a leading German logistics operator in the CargoLine network
Hamburg and Cambridge – 19th August 2008 In November 2007 logistics services provider Bursped Speditions GmbH, a long-established Hamburg company and one of Germany's most respected freight forwarding companies, installed an efficient monitoring solution to cover its 13,500 m2 distribution centre. The facility handles approximately 3,000 shipments or around 1,000 tonnes of freight every day. "High-quality service and protection against loss are a major competitive advantage for freight forwarders", comments Operations Manager , Roland Mrowka. "Right from the start we therefore went looking for an efficient monitoring solution to cover the entire warehouse."
An important consideration was how to track the movement of goods, especially when individual shipments are "mislaid". "Staff are a major factor in the handling of package freight", explains Mrowka. "Shortage of time and the usual warehouse pressures will inevitably mean that some units for shipment are not located where they should be." Dispatching incomplete shipments leads to lower customer satisfaction and to time-consuming search activity later on.
"Video monitoring combined with a precise real-time location system covering the entire warehouse is therefore absolutely essential", states Mrowka. The contract was awarded to the real-time location system provided by Ubisense, whose German office is based in Dortmund. eseg Deutschland GmbH, Bornheim, conceived the total solution and took overall responsibility for the delivery and installation. Experts in security systems for logistics and a Ubisense strategic partner, eseg also developed the video picture recording, storage, indexing and management tool used at Bursped.
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Hamburg and Cambridge – 19th August 2008 In November 2007 logistics services provider Bursped Speditions GmbH, a long-established Hamburg company and one of Germany's most respected freight forwarding companies, installed an efficient monitoring solution to cover its 13,500 m2 distribution centre. The facility handles approximately 3,000 shipments or around 1,000 tonnes of freight every day. "High-quality service and protection against loss are a major competitive advantage for freight forwarders", comments Operations Manager , Roland Mrowka. "Right from the start we therefore went looking for an efficient monitoring solution to cover the entire warehouse."
An important consideration was how to track the movement of goods, especially when individual shipments are "mislaid". "Staff are a major factor in the handling of package freight", explains Mrowka. "Shortage of time and the usual warehouse pressures will inevitably mean that some units for shipment are not located where they should be." Dispatching incomplete shipments leads to lower customer satisfaction and to time-consuming search activity later on.
"Video monitoring combined with a precise real-time location system covering the entire warehouse is therefore absolutely essential", states Mrowka. The contract was awarded to the real-time location system provided by Ubisense, whose German office is based in Dortmund. eseg Deutschland GmbH, Bornheim, conceived the total solution and took overall responsibility for the delivery and installation. Experts in security systems for logistics and a Ubisense strategic partner, eseg also developed the video picture recording, storage, indexing and management tool used at Bursped.
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