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The Awards
are designed to help new and existing businesses with less than 50 employees
improve their competitiveness.
This latest round of SMART:SCOTLAND Awards involves 19
research and development projects which will receive a share of £950,000.
A Scottish company working
on a breakthrough for the CCTV industry is among the projects being
supported by the Scottish Executive’s SMART:SCOTLAND programme.
This latest round of SMART:SCOTLAND Awards involves 19 research and
development projects which will receive a share of £950,000. The Awards are
designed to help new and existing businesses with less than 50 employees
improve their competitiveness by developing leading-edge products or
processes that have real commercial value.
Deputy Enterprise Minister Allan Wilson today welcomed the new round of
Awards and the impact the projects will have in different sectors. He said:
“Innovation is critical to Scotland's ability to compete in an increasingly
global market and it is vital that our small companies have access to
meaningful research and development resources to bring innovative products
and services to the marketplace.
“We are glad to support the diverse projects included in this round with
grants totalling £950,000.
“One of the companies, Codestuff in West Lothian, will use its SMART Award
to develop technology which has the opportunity to be a first within the
CCTV industry.
“These Awards present real prospects for smaller companies to get ahead
commercially by using research and development to the fullest.”
The 19 projects included in this round are:
1. AIMS (INT) Ltd, South Queensferry
DEVELOPMENT OF A TEST SYSTEM FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
The company will use their SMART Award to develop hardware and software to
produce a new digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) simulator
for the next generation of very high bit-rate digital subscriber line
(VDSL2) telecommunications equipment. The test system will allow the
telecoms industry to address the increasing user demand for high speed
digital data transfer.
Contact: Mr Douglas Hay
Telephone: 01383 739529
Email: doug.hay@aimsint.com
Website: www.aimsint.com
2. Ann Marie Shillito, Edinburgh
DEVELOPMENT OF A TOOL FOR THE RAPID CREATION OF NOVEL 3D HAPTIC MODELLING
APPLICATIONS
The SMART Award will enable a new company to be formed to develop innovative
state of the art “middleware” to enable the rapid creation of 3D haptic
applications which will plug in to leading 3D modelling and animation tools.
This application, which will meet commercial software standards, will
present a radical and potential internationally significant innovation for
the world’s first true haptic middleware development system.
Contact: Ms Ann Marie Shillito
Telephone: 0131 221 6173
Email: a.m.shillito@eca.ac.uk
3. Calico Jack Ltd, Dundee
DEVELOPMENT OF A CONVERGENT CALL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Calico Jack Ltd will use their SMART Award to develop a multi-modal
Convergent Call Management system designed to organise information about
conversations. The technology will enable telecoms carriers to extract value
from call records and is intended for deployment as a foundation for new
revenue generating services.
Contact: Dr Paul Sergeant
Telephone: 01382 200013
Email: info@calicojack.co.uk
Website: www.calicojack.co.uk
4. Calscience International Ltd, Edinburgh
TO ANALYSE A PLANT EXTRACT AND DETERMINE ITS POTENTIAL AS A THERAPEUTIC
INTERVENTION
Calscience International Ltd will use its SMART Award to characterise the
active component and anti-inflammatory properties of a plant extract and to
determine its potential as a therapeutic intervention. The technology
promises to be applicable for human use in important disease areas.
Contact: Dr William Forbes
Telephone: 0131 667 4203
5. Calton Hill Ltd, Edinburgh
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR SECURE MEDIA
CARDS
Calton Hill Ltd will use its SMART Award to create a method to register
removable Secure Media Cards to enable content to be truly portable between
mobile devices.
Contact: Mr Steve Rooney
Telephone: 0131 558 8500
Email: steve.rooney@caltonhill.com
6. Cascade Technologies Ltd, Stirling
DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST MERCURY GAS SENSOR
Cascade Technologies Ltd will use its SMART Award to develop a low-cost blue
green diode laser gas sensor for monitoring mercury chloride and mercury
oxide for continuous emissions monitoring. The technology will have specific
applications, for example, in monitoring emissions associated with
coal-fired power plants.
Contact: Dr J. William Buckie
Telephone: 01786 447721
Email: b.buckie@cascade-technologies.com
Website: www.cascade-technologies.com
7. Codestuff Ltd, West Calder
REAL-TIME 360° SCENE MAPPING WITH MOTION DETECTION
Codestuff Ltd will use its SMART Award to develop a novel system to harness
the power of high speed, high frame-rate cameras to monitor, record and
detect movement in real-time within a complete 360° panorama. Working in a
similar fashion to RADAR, movement within a ‘protected’ 3D space will be
automatically monitored and alarms triggered. The system will detect
relative motion while the camera itself is moving, representing a first
within the CCTV industry.
Contact: Mr David Ritchie
Telephone: 01506 870777
Email: d.ritchie@codestuff.net
Website: http://www.codestuff.net
8. David Eckersall, Glasgow
DEVELOPMENT OF RAPID IMMUNOASSAYS FOR SERUM AMYLOID A FOR ANIMAL DISEASE
DIAGNOSTICS.
The SMART Award will enable a new company to be formed to develop rapid
immunoassays for Serum Amyloid A protein. This technology will have the
potential to provide a significantly more sensitive and rapid Serum Amyloid
A detection system to those currently available and will have specific
applications, particularly in the field of animal diagnostics.
Contact: Prof. David Eckersall
Telephone: 0141 330 5732
Email: p.d.eckersall@vet.gla.ac.uk
9. Douglas Macdonald, Glasgow
DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST INTELLIGENT VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM.
The SMART Award will enable a new company to be formed to develop an
intelligent video surveillance system. The technology will consist of
inexpensive smart cameras capable of tracking human motion in indoor
environments and promises to offer a low-cost solution to the large retail
security market.
Contact: Douglas Macdonald
Telephone: 0141 339 2484
Email: mm2ps@yahoo.co.uk
10. Dundee Cell Products Ltd, Dundee
DEVELOPMENT OF A MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION OF
ISOTOPE-LABELED CELLS FOR PROTEOMICS
Dundee Cell Products Ltd will use its SMART Award to develop a manufacturing
process for the large-scale production of metabolically-labeled cells
incorporating isotope-tagged amino acids and associated reagents for
customers wishing to use quantitative proteomics technology. This would
result in ready-to-use mammalian cell products for quantitative proteomics
research undertaken in academic, biotech and pharmaceutical company
laboratories.
Contact: Dr Paul Ajuh
Telephone: 01382 388769
Email: p.m.ajuh@dundee.ac.uk
11. Dynamo Games Ltd, Dundee
DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEM TO ALLOW UPDATING OF MOBILE PHONE GAME DATA RESOURCE
Dynamo Games Ltd will use its SMART Award to develop a system to allow the
updating of mobile phone game data resource, particularly for games
requiring large amounts of data to be delivered. The proposed Connected
Content Update system would allow updateable game content to be created
efficiently, which could then be downloaded into an existing game client.
Contact: Mr Stuart Reid
Telephone: 01382 348635
Email: stuartr@dynamogames.com
Website: www.dynamogames.com
12. Frances Flood, Glasgow
ENTERPRISE PRODUCTIVITY SUITE
The SMART Award will be used to establish a company to develop software
capable of analysing and comparing computer user actions against set
objectives, and to correlate user activities and other relevant documents in
order to assist users in co-working and locating information locally or
remotely. The technology will build upon an earlier collaboration tool
called ePlace and offers the potential to improve enterprise productivity.
Contact: Ms Frances Flood
Telephone: 0141 548 2077
Email: frances.flood@eee.strath.ac.uk
Website: http://www.transgnosis.com
13. Funky Moves Ltd, Stirling
DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
The SMART Award will enable Funky Moves Ltd to investigate the feasibility
of developing a robust, low power wireless communication platform with
exceptional radio transmission. The new technology will have the potential
to be incorporated into a number of products offering solutions to education
and sports professionals.
Contact: Mr Ralf Klinnert
Telephone: 01786 458012
Email: ralf@funky-moves.co.uk
Website: www.funky-moves.co.uk
14. Immunosolv Ltd, Edinburgh
DEVELOPMENT OF A PROTOTYPE DEVICE FOR REMOVAL OF DEAD CELLS/ DEBRIS FROM
CELL CULTURES
Immunosolv will use its SMART Award to produce specifications for the first
demonstrator device to remove dead cells and sub-cellular debris, which will
markedly improve the viability and productivity of cell cultures. This will
enable devices applicable to biomanufacturing to be developed to enhance the
productivity of biopharmaceuticals, an industry whose capacity is saturated
by current demands.
Contact: Dr Ruth Murray
Telephone: 0798 917 4477
Email: ruth@immunosolv.com
Website: www.immunosolv.com
15. Integrated Intelligent Monitoring Ltd, Glasgow
REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM
Integrated Intelligent Monitoring Ltd will use its SMART Award to
investigate the potential of developing an optical current sensor and novel
interrogation system. The technology will be used in conjunction with an
existing voltage sensor and offers the potential to provide a comprehensive
condition monitoring and control system for remote electrical plant. This
will be particularly amenable to the oil and gas, subsea and industrial pump
markets with other long-term opportunities within distributed power
generation, electric marine and aerospace.
Contact: Dr Pawel Niewczas
Telephone: 0141 548 2869
Email: p.niewczas@strath.ac.uk
16. Mobile Healthcare Networks Ltd, Edinburgh
CUTTING-EDGE WIRELESS NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES TO ACCESS PATIENT INFORMATION AT
THE POINT OF CARE.
Mobile Healthcare Networks Ltd will use its SMART Award to develop
accessible patient information at the point of care through development and
application of cutting-edge wireless network technologies. The project will
attempt to address issues of availability and human error through the
development of wireless network technology to provide a ubiquitous and
stable network platform for clinical information systems.
Contact: Mr James Hanlon
Telephone: 07833 682610
Email: j.hanlon@mobilehealthcarenetworks.com
17. Nick Wood, Glasgow
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL SIGNAL TRANSITION METHOD ON AN EXISTING LOW-NOISE
AMPLIFIER CHIP DESIGN.
The SMART Award will be used to establish a company that will develop a
novel waveguide translation for an existing low noise amplifier design. This
technology, which will be based on a metamorphic HEMT (high electron
mobility transistor) process, will enable the production of high frequency,
millimetre wave components with greater manufacturing yield and low cost.
Contact: Mr Nick Wood
Telephone: 01234 783054
Mobile: 07768 615115
Email: nick.wood@davicon.co.uk
18. Mather Technology Solutions, Selkirk
FLEXIBLE SOLAR CELL INTEGRATED ON A CONVENTIONAL TEXTILE FABRIC.
The SMART Award will be used to establish a company to develop a flexible
solar cell for generating electricity directly from sunlight that will be
integrated on a conventional textile fabric. If successful, the technology
promises to have a number of applications including electrical supply in
remote areas and disaster relief.
Contact: Dr Robert Mather
Telephone: 01750 725106
Email: mather@laburnum44.fsnet.co.uk
Website: www.mathertechnologysolutions.com
19. Traak Systems Ltd, Edinburgh
DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT AND SELF-LEARNING ENGINE FOR RFID AND SENSOR
NETWORKS.
Traak Systems Ltd will use their SMART Award to demonstrate the feasibility
of developing a new intelligent and self-learning engine for RFID and Sensor
Networks. Using real-time processing and highly optimised algorithms, the
software engine will process as much RFID and sensor data as possible at the
edge of the network. The major benefits include minimising the amount of
network traffic and maximising the business value of the data.
Contact: Mr Colin Balfour
Telephone: 0131 478 4784
Email: colin.balfour@traak.com
Website: www.traak.com
NOTES:
1. Entries for SMART:SCOTLAND can be submitted by individuals planning to
start a business in Scotland, and by existing small firms / groups with less
than 50 employees.
2. There are three rounds of judging each year with closing dates for
applications in January, May and September. The Government meets 75 per cent
of the project costs and the maximum award payable is £50,000. Projects last
between 6 and 18 months.
3. Winners who successfully complete their projects and require additional
assistance to develop a pre-production prototype can apply for further
funding under the SPUR scheme. SPUR is a non-competitive scheme and grant is
available at 35 per cent of the eligible project costs, subject to a maximum
grant of £150,000. These projects should last between six months and three
years.
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