Partners
The project is a collaboration of 4 research groups at Lancaster University, and 4 industrial partners.
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Ubiquitous Computing (Computing Department Lancaster University): Ubiquitous Computing research at Lancaster has an outstanding international reputation with research in location and context sensing and awareness, computing embedded in physical artefacts, and distributed systems support for ubiquitous computing. |
| Networked Systems (Computing Department, Lancaster University): Networked Systems research in the Computing Department has an outstanding international reputation. The Department has been active in networked systems for more than 20 years, and completed many UK and EC research contracts in this area. | |
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Risk Management (Department of Management Science, Lancaster University): Lancaster University’s Management School is one of two in the UK to have a 6* RAE rating. It has a broad capability across the range of management disciplines but has an especially strong management science department, whose expertise incorporates operational research, operations management and systems. The department has joint strengths in quantitative methods – particularly in forecasting – and in systems analysis – particularly in the development of soft systems methodology. |
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High Level Cognition (Psychology Department, Lancaster University): The Psychology Department is internationally recognized for its leading research in the areas of developmental psychology, high-level cognition, applied psychology and social psychology. The Department has secured over £5m in research and training funding over the past five years, and has strong PhD and Masters programmes as well as a buoyant undergraduate community. |
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Agilent Laboratories: Agilent Laboratories is Agilent Technologies' central research organization. Its purpose is to create value for Agilent through breakthrough technology innovations. Agilent Laboraties, Scotland, seeks to engage closely with the NEMO project on topics such as context sensing and awareness, reflectivity in supporting platform components, self-configuration and self-protection, and and will consult the in the areas of systems, communications and measurement science. |
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BP, Chief Technology Office: BP (United Kingdom) participates in NEMO with its “Sensory Network” programme that coordinates all research, development, proof of concept and industrial deployment activities associated with RFID, Smart Item, and Collaborative Objects. BP contributes with expertise on technologies, use cases, and application scenarios. |
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Carillion Plc: Carillion is one of UK’s leading business and construction services and companies. Carillion will engage with this project to provide access to case studies in the area of highway maintenance, and to help the project identify user requirements for embedded systems for tracking and quality assurance in maintenance activity. |
| In Touch Ltd: In Touch Ltd. are a high-technology SME based in Morecambe, Lancs. They provide mobile data solutions to a range of multi-national companies – typically those that provide services such as highway maintenance. | |