Our network of partners has led to the acknowledgement of our commitment to drive innovation and our investment in the country’s digital future. We are proud to have been recognised with the following awards: Connected Britain, The Industrial Innovation Award 2022, Smart City Expo Awards 2021, IoT Global Awards 2021...

Funded by an InnovateUK award of £2.2m, the SYNERGIA consortium is led by Toshiba and includes Smartia, Ioetec, MAC, Configured Things, and the University of Bristol. The consortium aims to develop a secure-by-design IoT platform for large scale networks of low-power, resource constrained devices...

The Bristol Robotics Laboratory held a competition in June 2021 focusing on the evaluation of SWARM AI algorithms in robotics and how they could be used to overcome challenges in logistics requiring flexible robotic solutions...

22nd September 2022
South Gloucestershire Council has been recognised for its commitment and investment in the country’s digital future and handed a national award. The council, along with technology partner Toshiba Europe Ltd, Bristol Research and Innovation Lab, has won Connected Britain’s Industrial Innovation Award 2022 for the UMBRELLA network...

8th September 2022
South Gloucestershire Council has awarded a further £125,000 in grants to businesses in the digital technology sector. The money has been given to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from across the country as part of the council’s UMBRELLA competition to help them pilot...

30th May 2022
Grants totalling £125,000 are to be handed out to five small and medium sized businesses by South Gloucestershire Council. The small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) from the digital technology sector were selected through the council’s recent UMBRELLA competition and are being awarded the funding...

22nd February 2022
Up to £250,000 worth of funding is being made available to small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Gloucestershire, the South West region and the wider UK. The funding will be distributed via grants to SMEs in the digital technology sector by South Gloucestershire Council through the UMBRELLA competition...

25th October 2021
South Gloucestershire Council and our lead technology partner Toshiba Europe Ltd, Bristol Research and Innovation Lab have launched the world’s newest innovation network – UMBRELLA. A UK and global first, UMBRELLA is an open, programmable, smart city and industrial internet of things (IoT) testbed...