About the session
TravelAI's smartphone software automatically, 24/7 and in the background detects mode of travel using algorithms to analyse the movement of a user. The team beat out rival projects from MIT, Stanford, Nokia and Google to commercially launch, through CarbonDiem, a service that helps companies like the BBC, BT and Forum for the Future to measure their employees' travel carbon footprints. TravelAI is also working with a national newspaper on a Spring 2014 cycling and commuter audit and is 1 of 10 companies chosen to work on the governments SBRI Future Cities programme. Omnisense supplies accurate positioning products in which people and assets know where they are relative to each other. Its collaborative intelligent sensor network is completely wire-free, making it quick and easy to install. The system is low-cost, extremely flexible, and provides true position and behavioural information indoors and outdoors. Customers need better location data to increase operational efficiency, to ensure the safety of staff, to manage security and to quickly locate assets or people. Omnisense uses industry-standard protocols to deliver contextually relevant information to third-party applications, including: position, direction, zone, change in behaviour or telemetry data. Passive Eye Ltd. is a start-up that was formed in November 2012 to develop a self-powered GPS locating and tracking device that doesn't use batteries. It is a true entrepreneurial effort that has the good fortune to be working with two brilliant PhD graduates from University College London. The result has been the development of an innovative kinetic energy 'engine' and an advanced broadband energy harvesting module to generate and harvest the required power. The project has the active support of UCL through their Knowledge Exchange Associate programme, and the company is now in a position to give live prototype demonstrations to interested parties.
