Funding opportunity
The UK Technology Strategy Board wants to invest £10 million in data collection to underpin disaster management, traffic management, road maintenance and pollution monitoring. It is inviting companies to apply for grants to research and develop innovative data-gathering technologies that could be rapidly configured and deployed by users such as the police, fire and rescue services, local authorities, utility companies and others.
The Technology Strategy Board believes that innovative data-gathering technology would improve operating efficiency in many industry and service sectors, such as, air, water and soil management; control and security of utility supply; traffic management; Road and rail infrastructure maintenance; buildings maintenance and management; health monitoring of patients in ambulances; pollution monitoring; monitoring and maintenance of civil engineering works; Instrumentation and control in vehicles and planes; cultural heritage: environmental management of historic buildings, collections, sites and landscapes.
The Technology Strategy Board’s investment will provide partial funding for winning projects that involve businesses working collaboratively with other businesses and/or with research organisations and academic institutions.
Applicants must register their intention to apply for funding, and submit an outline of their proposal, by 4 April 2008 and the final closing date for applications is 8 May 2008.
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