The UK at CES

AudioScenic
Audio Scenic is spinning out the innovation from S3A Future Spatial Audio research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). AudioScenic was founded in 2017 by Associate professor Filippo Fazi and Dr Marcos Simón, in order to commercialise novel audio technology that could take 3D audio into everyone’s living rooms.

Audio Analytic is the pioneer of sound recognition AI. The company is on a mission to map the world of sounds, offering a sense of hearing to consumer electronics. By empowering consumer products and digital personal assistants with intelligent contextual awareness, we give them the ability to react to the world around us, helping satisfy our entertainment, safety, security, wellbeing and communication needs. Audio Analytic’s ai3™ sound recognition software enables device manufacturers and chip companies to equip products with Artificial Audio Intelligence, recognizing and automatically responding to a growing list of sound profiles.

Visit stand 22063

Audiogum enabled Dynaudio to launch a personalised wireless speaker system

Challenge: Dynaudio wanted to develop a high-end wireless speaker system and companion app. Whilst they were already experts in delivering world-class audio quality, Dynaudio were looking for a software partner to help them innovate modern benefits that would ensure a  personalised user experience. 

Solution:

• Dynaudio Music companion app, integrated with TIDAL, Ximalaya, KKBOX and radio (vTuner).
• Music Now personalised playlisting: an endless source of tracks that constantly learns and adapts to the user’s taste.
• Secure cloud management of customer accounts and speaker registrations, with full data compliancy, multiple data centres and 24/7 support.
• Analytics dashboards reporting on detailed info e.g., user location splits, listening trends.

Auro

Auro is an audio personal trainer powered by music and personalised by data science. Our mission is to make personalised instruction affordable for the masses through technology. We provide trainer led audio workouts for the gym, outdoors or at home each with a curated playlist. Get a PT in your pocket- anywhere, anytime

Baro Vehicles LTD

BARO Vehicles design connected & autonomous compact vehicles. We are aiming to bridge the gap between standars cars and autonomous vehicles. The autonomous car platform BARO CAV-P is the best solution to develop software for the next generation of vehicles and to use as a base to manufacture low-speed autonomous vehicles. Our product BARO One is a high technology, fully electric self driving car with Level 3 autonomy and is suitable for use on private land e.g. airports, business parks, university campus sites, holiday resorts and golf courses and offers unprecedented levels of technology, design and comfort.

BIONICS

Founded in 2017 as a follow on from an EU research project, BIONICS is currently developing technology for the CCTV and artificial vision markets. Given the existing and continuing growth of this market BIONICS technology has the potential to have a disruptive effect as a next generation technology. BIONICS is applicable to law enforcement and security professionals who want to detect security threats in real time (whilst maximising detection and minimising resources). BIONICS is an artificial vision surveillance system based on the computational power and performance of the retina that can accurately detect threats with minimal human intervention.

Visit stand 51560 and 51562 of the Sands Expo in Tech West

Young entrepreneurs can get you brownie points with your gifting

BOON’s website, www.boon.gifts, selects a set of gift ideas specific to you and your recipient based on your responses to several questions by sifting through products from over 100 retailers. BOON uses the latest artificial intelligence technology to automatically learn and improve from every previous user’s
experience and instantly generate unique gift ideas. The questions and underlying algorithms are designed to deduce your recipient’s personality, and
match them to the best gifts in BOON’s catalogue. 

The 22 year-old founders Dylan Grey and Mike Oakley were inspired to develop the service while studying after frequently struggling to find the right gift. The pair now have a growing team who are rapidly improving the website. Instead of being swamped with countless options, BOON shows a small, highly tailored set of recommendations, and earns commission on the sale of recommended gift purchases. The new gift discovery platform saves users’ time and helps them give the best presents possible.

Cambridge Consultants

Cambridge Consultants develops breakthrough products and provides business consultancy in technology-critical issues for clients worldwide. For more than 50 years, the company has been helping its clients turn business opportunities into commercial successes, whether they are launching first-to-market products, entering new markets or expanding existing markets through the introduction of new technologies. With a team of more than 800 staff, including engineers, scientists, mathematicians and designers, in offices in Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA) and Singapore, Cambridge Consultants offers solutions across a diverse range of industries including medical technology, industrial and consumer products, digital health, energy and wireless communications.

Optimisation of vehicle fleets

We have developed the ConOP product that enables a wider, systems of systems approach where we optimise transport fleets at campus locations using a wide range of input parameters. We have taken this approach as we understand that high traffic  destinations have a wide range of priorities that need consideration, whether it be energy use, costs, labour or customer satisfaction. For each client site we can vary  preferences according to customer needs using a heuristic, multiobjective optimisation algorithm.

For instance, at a budget airport we may prioritise cost and labour, whereas at a large Hub airport we might prioritise added value services and passenger services. Each scenario can model priorities for different parameters so client sites can determine whether there is a most effective solution for their needs or consider the impact of  different trade-offs.This algorithm is based on one that is successfully used in the airline industry to optimise aircraft movements and is the first time that it has been applied for surface transport.

Project Alloyed - An end to end Platform for CAV

Epitomical led Project Alloyed which set out to play a role in the build up of one of the four key areas identified in the UK’s Industrial Strategy , the Future of Mobility. The project has taken a usecase driven approach to identify and prioritise areas of research  and development together with 17 partners within the project consortium. The key technical objectives of the project were to study and where possible develop prototype systems which: 
1. Allow vehicles and infrastructure to connect seamlessly independent of technology or location
2. Tightly integrates to existing and future in-vehicles technologies
3. Enable a services layer allowing the creation of both open and secure services

Executed over 15 months from August, 2017 this project is an initial foray towards delivering a broader vision. A number of work packages were identified to deliver project  bjectives with each work package assigned a leader supported by one or more project partners. The project culminates with a number of demonstrations of the systems and concepts developed over the course of the project.

Five AI

FiveAI is developing artificial intelligence and machine learning software for fully autonomous vehicles and plans to deliver a shared transport service for Europe’s cities.

Future Worlds Startup Accelerator
Future Worlds is the University of Southampton’s on-campus startup accelerator whose mission is to help our aspiring entrepreneurs change the world with their ideas. In 2018 the accelerator has engaged over 2,400 aspiring university entrepreneurs through its programme of events and provided one to one acceleration to over 100 startup and spinout ideas through its network of over 80 mentors. This acceleration has led to 30 startups launching or raising investment totalling over £5.8m in the year. The total  valuation of startups supported by Future Worlds to date is now over £38m. 

The Future Worlds web platform www.futureworlds.com promotes our latest startups, events and mentors, and our social channels have helped bring technology and  innovations from the University to millions of viewers and listeners worldwide. Our vibrant physical space provides desks for entrepreneurs and hosts many of our events and workshops. This impressive ecosystem is helping us reach our goal of growing a west coast US startup culture, on the south coast of the UK.

Talon: Tools for autonomous logistics and mangement

Project Aim:To develop software to optimise the operations for connected autonomous vehicle fleets at city scale, to support both strategic and operational decision making and enhanced fleet management that meet the needs of our cities and people.

Primary Challenges; assimilating a variety of different data sources including traffic, infrastructure and weather, simulation scaling for city operations and real-time deployment of decision support system for fleets and cities

Key Successes: Delivered a new category of scalable fleet management tools, created a platform which can simulate anywhere in the world, developed an accessible, customisable user interface, integrated simulation engine with third party modules including SpatialOS, Unity and delivered user-focused trials in the UK’s world-leading CAV testbed environments

Imont

delivers highly scalable, distributed IoT software for the smart industry. Our software connects devices from different manufacturers, using many protocols and allows these to be coordinated locally and remotely without reliance on expensive cloud services. The software allows companies to bring custom solutions to market rapidly and at significant scale. Security is key to the Imont proposition and built in resilience and low latency response makes it ideally suited to applications where reliability is desired. Our cloud-less, hub-less solution removes cost barriers to entry in the market, and delivers a truly distributed edge-compute framework for IoT. 

Specialisms: Imont is a complete smart home platform that doesn’t need a central cloud or dedicated hub to operate. Imont’s SDK can sit on any connected device and allows remote access and voice control.

Visit stand: 51560 and 51562

Intro

Intro is a brand-new app that removes the barriers to building new relationships. Whether it’s two students wanting to add each other on Facebook, or a recruiter looking to onboard a prospective graduate, Intro revolutionises the way they connect online.

Specialisms: Intro uses a combination of state-of-the-art wireless tech to make
connecting seamless, without sacrificing privacy. It combines Bluetooth Classic, BLE, Wi-Fi and ultrasonic sound to make connecting rapid and seamless.

Meridian technology in LG soundbars and speakers

Combining our unrivalled sound quality and pioneering approach to audio with LG’s reputation for producing award winning, innovative consumer electronics, our unique collaboration delivers a range of solutions for the ultimate listening experience.

By applying our in-depth understanding of psychoacoustics and our world leading in-house expertise of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) we have developed key technologies such as Bass & Space and Image Elevation. These Meridian Audio technologies enhance the authenticity of the overall sound, removing the physical boundaries of the product.

Ordnance Survey Limited

Ordnance Survey are the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain. We capture, maintain and supply authoritative, trusted, consistent & accurate location-based data of the natural & built environments. We are a UK government-owned organisation and our symbiotic relationship with government is such that we provide a hugely valuable service. We are exploring and developing the location standards and requirements for emerging markets and technologies such as CAV, Digital Twin, IoT and Advanced Connectivity (5G). Accurate location data will improve decision-making and planning for any organisation or sector. It is as important a driver as revenue, cost and time.

Oxbotica and Addison Lee partner bringing self-driving services to London

Announced on 22nd October 2018, Oxbotica and Addison Lee Group will collaborate to develop, deploy and operate autonomous vehicles with a view to providing self-driving services in London by 2021. The aim of the partnership is to enter the expanding car services market for Mobility as a Service, forecasted to be worth £28 billion in the UK by 2035. 

Addison Lee Group and Oxbotica, both British success stories, are pooling expertise, technology and on-the-ground resource to explore self-driving car services that are safe and environmentally friendly, with the integration of Oxbotica’s in-vehicle urban  autonomy expertise, plus its cloud-based fleet mission control system, alongside Addison Lee’s service model to enable an outstanding customer experience. By leveraging the strengths of each partner, the alliance will open opportunities to reach  consumers in new markets and segments starting in London, following into New York and other key international markets.

Visit stand: 51526

Sensio Air

Sensio AIR is a smart air quality device that detects and identifies allergens, pollutants and harmful gases. The device identifies in realtime airborne particles like pollen, dust mites, mould spores and pet dander all while tracking harmful gas levels along with temperature, humidity and light intensity. The device is linked to a user-friendly app
that allows people to log their symptoms and returns tailored advice to improve the air and prevent further outbreaks.

Specialisms: Asthma and Allergy Prevention.

Visit stand: 51441

Spoon Guru

Spoon Guru guarantees precise and relevant food choices, adapted to the needs of the individual, regardless of their dietary preferences. Founded in 2015, it uses artificial intelligence to tag products, allowing retailers to offer relevant, transparent, accurate and personalized food choices. The service continuously evolves to satisfy all types of diets, lifestyle, religious and medical preferences. The company won the Technology Game Changer of the Year award at the World Retail Awards in 2018. Among its partners is Tesco in the UK, Jet.com in the US and Woolworths in Australia.

Specialisms: Spoon Guru uses a combination of AI and nutritional domain expertise to enable food retailers to deliver personalized shopping experiences based on consumers’ unique dietary preferences, across all channels.

Valerann

Valerann turns roads into data generating infrastructure that sense everything that happens at every single point on the road network (traffic flow, road risks, accidents, road surface conditions, visibility, etc.). This forms the basis for the first complete road data platform the can provide data from the roads to all stakeholders. Over the past two years we developed a first commercial system. Deployed our system in the Washington Beltway (I-95) in the US, on the M1 Motorway in the UK and in Israel's busiest motorway (Ayalon). We have recently raised $6M and have partnered with major OEMs and Tier1 manufacturers.

Virtual Visions
Virtual Visions provides retailers with the world’s first technology platform for transforming physical locations into smart stores. From leading-edge smart-display technology -- which enables customers to virtually navigate endless aisles of merchandise -- to integrated inventory management for optimizing sales and operations and right-sizing stores, the platform enables retailers to creatively compete in the new retail economy.

XMOS

XMOS stands at the interface between voice processing, biometrics and artificial intelligence. Backed by some of the best names in high tech venture capital, we’re a leading supplier of voice and audio solutions to the consumer electronics market. Today our unique silicon architecture and highly differentiated software delivers class-leading far-field voice capture, and we’re building for a more natural human machine interface tomorrow. When you need to embed voice capabilities, proven to work seamlessly in real-world situations – talk to us.