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INNOVATION WATCH - Railway track reinforcement
Balfour Beatty’s XiTrack is an innovative polyurethane polymer that gels around the ballast beneath rail tracks to stabilise them
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INNOVATION WATCH - Indoor positioning system
Cambridge-based Ubisense combines Ultra Wide Band radio, RFID tags and GPS to create a sophisticated object-tracking system
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Innovation Watch - Helping Buildings Breathe
A Cambridge based company, Breathing Buildings, has achieved rapid commercial success by producing a pioneering method of natural ventilation in buildings
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Innovation Watch - Greener buses
Greener buses
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Innovation Watch - Intelligent queue monitoring
Retail businesses are using infrared technology to speed up customer queuing times
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Innovation Watch - Home area network for energy visibility and control
AlertMe is a recent UK innovation helping consumers control their energy usage.
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Innovation Watch - Radical approach to air decontamination
A machine that decontaminates indoor air and surfaces eliminating viruses, bacteria and superbugs
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Innovation Watch - Secure Hypervisor
‘Virtualisation’ enables computing resources to be optimised for power and performance
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INNOVATION WATCH - Flybrid Flywheel
Affordable hybrid cars could soon be on the market thanks to a new kind of mechanical energy storage device.
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INNOVATION WATCH - A quiet revolution
A new generation of wind turbines designed to take into account the turbulent wind patterns of urban environments.
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Innovation Watch: shock absorbing material
A flexible polymer that stiffens on impact is now being used in protective sportswear, military equipment, and in coverings for high-value goods.
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Innovation Watch - Autonomous taxis
A new form of driverless taxi is set to ferry passengers at Heathrow Terminal 5
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Water bottle is a life-saver
A water bottle that can filter out microscopic viruses and chemicals to provide survivors in disaster areas with clean water.
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The smallest television screen in the world
Engineers have developed a fully functional miniature screen that measures the size of a thumbnail.
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Innovation Watch
Swimsuits for Olympians: the engineering and manufacturing innovation used in creating swimsuits that help swimmers go faster
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