2004/05

Wheelchair Drive

Development of a low-cost, detachable power unit to fit 70% of the UK's 400,000 manual wheelchairs - offering power, steering and regenerative braking for the wheelchair user or an attendant at a much lower price than a powerchair.


Members: 
Dan Lockton
Members: 
Tom Lockton

GreenPowerGenerators

Reduction in power generation costs will reduce the electricity charge for customers. Two major costs in all power stations are Equipment and Maintenance costs. Higher efficiencies also cheapen electricity charges and benefit environment. Reliability is a very important issue in power stations. Each blackout can cause damage to the tune of billions of pounds. Most blackout caused by the failures of turbine generators. GreenPowerGenerators has developed a novel brushless doubly-fed generator for wind and wave power stations. The novel generator has less manufacturing costs (by down to 10%) and maintenance costs (by down to 60%) and is more efficient (by up to 5%) and more reliable. It operates in a wider range of speeds and introduces higher power quality into the grid (i.e. less harmonic pollution). The market for this technology is largely composed of power plant suppliers. Electrical motor and generator manufacturers are also the target companies. Since the technology is innovative and critical, there is great market potential.


Members: 
Seena Rejal
Members: 
Ehsan Abdi Jalebi
Members: 
Richard McMahon
Members: 
Paul Roberts

Medicines For Humanity

One-third of the world's population does not have access to essential medicines. Pharmaceutical companies have reputational and financial incentives to donate medicines. However, the medical donations process is not meeting its potential. The key problem is a lack of accurate and comprehensive information on unmet medical needs and sources of donations. The MedMap database will provide this, thereby facilitating communication between donors, recipients, and donation channels, and raising public awareness of good medical donations. By consolidating information crucial to all stakeholders, Medicines for Humanity will enable the distribution of the right medicines to the right people at the right time.


Members: 
Elizabeth Darwin
Members: 
Janet Ginnard
Members: 
Niclas Tue Hansen
Members: 
Robyn Scott

Floating Clinic

Our mission is to establish a fully-funded Floating Clinic to facilitate the provision of basic healthcare services in remote parts of Timor Leste. The Floating Clinic, a medically equipped and staffed boat, will travel around the mainland of Timor Leste and its offshore islands. The project will be undertaken in collaboration with a local healthcare provider, responsible for the day to day operations. An extensive fundraising campaign will be conducted in Australia, Singapore and the UK to raise funds to support the Floating Clinic. It is intended as a demonstration project, with long term viability assessed after 5 years.


Members: 
Linda Pomeroy
Members: 
Eleanor Fung
Members: 
Sangeeta Puran
Members: 
Abena Asante-Poku
Members: 
Nicola Perrin

WiGuide

WiGuide will address the demand for flexible and customised city tours by delivering location-driven audio guides on a portable device running the unique WiGuide software.


Members: 
Claudio Marinelli
Members: 
Mark Reilly
Members: 
Emma Ruminski

User A Solutions

Doppio is a new software product by User A Solutions that transforms a single personal computer (PC) into two independent computing terminals - effectively doubling the number of supported users. Each terminal behaves like its own PC; the fact that they are sharing computing resources of one machine is transparent to both users.


Members: 
Colin Jones
Members: 
Karen Su

VirtualTourPro

We have developed an in-house hardware based panoramic creation technique. This, coupled with our extremely simple to use software, is to be marketed as VirtualTourPro. The system presents and extremely powerful tool for modern estate agents, enabling production of their own high quality full screen panoramas. VirtualTourPro has been designed to fill this thus far neglected segment of the booming virtual tour creation market. It is placed between the high cost subcontracted work carried out by professional photographers, and the low cost, but visibly lower quality, tours currently photographed by estate agents.


Members: 
Stuart Milne
Members: 
Matthew Rogers

Traffic-LED

Traffic-LED will replace every light bulb in every traffic light in the country with Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), saving energy and reducing carbon emissions. The key to Traffic-LED's success is the high efficiency of LEDs: they are up to ten times more efficient than the most energy-efficient conventional lighting. Bulb replacement LED units are already available and can last over thirty times longer than a light bulb. But the cost is at least a hundred times too high. Traffic-LED will encourage a longer-term view by financing initial investment with reduced running costs: Traffic-LEDs will cost less than light bulb.


Members: 
Andrew Lamb

TK

The aim is to fulfil the need for an online platform for Cambridge University students to look for short term ad hoc projects offered by the university community that will give them opportunities to develop various skills needed. At the same time, we utilise this opportunity to seek advertisement fees from large corporations to build a sustainable business.


Members: 
Hong Hsien Tan
Members: 
Kaifeng Kang

su-chef

su-chef is a system that seamlessly plugs into existing smart home environments and achieves the automatic coordination of intelligent devices. It employs artificial intelligence technology to transparently compose sequences of operations (to be executed on several devices simultaneously), which will meet a goal set by the user (for instance, 'cook lasagne'). It then executes the instructions, monitors the progress of the process, and adapts to environmental changes in order to ensure the successful completion of the task. In a fast-growing market such as the smart home one - an estimated $27 billion a year will be spent on smart domestic technology this year in the US, su-chef stands to gain significant market share in a relatively short time span. The problem of automatic coordination of smart home devices to achieve complex tasks, such as cooking, remains largely unexplored. su-chef will initially market its solutions to three distinct market segments including smart home providers, large restaurants, and consumers. The su-chef team intends to patent the developed technology.


Members: 
Maja Vukovic
Members: 
Evangelos Kotsovinos

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