Industry and Academia develop next gen of sensor systems

ERI, the gateway to engaging with the University of Edinburgh’s world class research and expertise have arranged the AIMday Sensor Signal Processing & Imaging workshop to take place on 21st September.

AIMday is a day one-day event that will tackle individual questions and challenges posed by companies looking to harness the latest research outputs and expertise in signal processing & imaging. Academics from across the University, will select those questions they believe their research could add the most value to during the company discussion.

The chosen technology area has a wide variety of applications across many market sectors, such as security, manufacturing, automotive, rail and transport, aerospace and healthcare as well as the food and drink industry.

Each participating company will meet with the academics in a one-hour face to face, closed workshop, to discuss possible pathways and novel approaches to a solution, with the emphasis being on generating innovative ideas to meet today’s challenges using a multi-disciplinary approach.

This event is being organised in partnership with the University Defence Research Collaboration, an EPSRC-funded consortium of seven leading universities developing research in signal processing for security.

This is an ideal opportunity to benefit from the transfer of the expertise and outputs from this programme to other industry sectors to develop new business opportunities and address technical challenges through the application of sensor, signal processing and imaging expertise.

Ian Sharp, ERI’s Head of Marketing and Engagement, said the AIMday provides an effective and focussed way for industry to meet with relevant, world leading experts and find answers to challenges and opportunities. “At the same time, AIMday is also a powerful way of developing new and productive links between industry and academia. We have run the AIMday program for several years now and it has been very successful in delivering innovation and new approaches. For example, we have seen how robotics and AI can be used to support the construction industry, how design modelling can improve brewing, and have developed new and productive partnerships between academics and the financial industry.”

In 2014, The University of Edinburgh became the first higher academic institute outside Scandinavia to be approved as hosts for AIMday, a unique collaborative knowledge exchange initiative that began life at Uppsala University in Sweden.

This is the ninth AIMday that Edinburgh Research & Innovation has organised at the University of Edinburgh, and the initiative is proving successful in establishing useful contacts and collaborations, as well as identifying possible new solutions to challenges facing organisations today.

This latest AIMday will be held on 21st September 2016 at the Surgeons’ Hall Quincentenary Conference Centre in Edinburgh.