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With the mining industry at a pivotal point, facing unique issues that demand advanced technology solutions to enhance safety and operational efficiency, technology development specialist Plextek has released advice that will help the sector to meet these new challenges.

Cambridge-based Plextek DTS has been named as one of the competition winners under the recent Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition: ‘Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence’. The initiative is being supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

When or if an effective COVID-19 vaccine is discovered, the next major challenge will be to scale up its development, clinical trials and manufacture to unparalleled levels, according to Design Momentum and Plextek. The two companies are working together to develop technology for a new range of lab-based collaborative robots.

Plextek has been awarded two contracts under the latest Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) challenge to boost how autonomous vehicles and systems operate in challenging environments.

Innovation and design consultancy Plextek has joined the Arm Pelion and Mbed Partner Ecosystem, a growing group of embedded and cloud companies, component manufacturers, system integrators and OEMs committed to driving innovation in IoT.

Plextek has partnered with Griff Aviation, to put micro radars and sensors on its innovative heavy lifting drones. Griff is developing UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) designed to carry payloads up to 250kg for a wide range of applications including moving building equipment and materials across harsh terrains including mountainous and forested landscapes.

UK-based engineering and design consultancy, Plextek, has launched a new defence business unit called Plextek DTS (Defence Technology Solutions), to help government agencies, defence suppliers and military stakeholders find new exploitation paths to support UK forces.

A multi-chip module (MCM) to cover the recently-designated European ‘Pioneer Band’ for millimetre-wave (mmWave) 5G around 26GHz has been has been developed by Plextek RFI, a UK design house specialising in microwave and millimetre-wave IC design. The development of the Front-End Module (FEM) was carried out in collaboration with Filtronic Broadband.

Thanks to a new innovation developed by UK-based engineering and design consultancy Plextek, a far reaching impact could soon be had on the early diagnosis and treatment of debilitating hearing conditions such as tinnitus, that currently affects over 300 million people worldwide. Plextek’s new prototype has been designed for integration within standard everyday consumer headphones and has been proven to reliably detect the early signs of ti...

Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has contracted a team, led by Plextek Services and including RFEL and 4Sight Imaging to tackle the problem of performing rapid evaluations of real time image processing functions and to simultaneously demonstrate the latest adaptive capabilities that modern FPGA-based system-on-chip architectures can deliver to defence and security surveillance applications, all within a minimised size, weight and ...