Case Studies

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View the achievements of those who have taken advantage of the UMBRELLA testbed.
Image representing various uses cases, such as air quality sensing
 
AI robot arm - artificial intelligence and robotics concept

Collaborative Robotics

Part of Testbed Utilised: Robotics testbed

Key Stakeholders: Bristol Robotics Lab, Toshiba, University of the West of England, Bristol University

Key Goal: Develop the warehouse of the future using swarm AI driven robotics

 
Air quality sensing installation

Air Quality Sensing

Part of Testbed Utilised: UMBRELLA wireless network

Key Stakeholders: The University of the West of England, South Gloucestershire Council, Toshiba

Key Goal: Track air quality on key thoroughfares to help design future policy

 
Street lights - street light monitoring concept

Street Light Monitoring

Part of Testbed Utilised: UMBRELLA wireless network

Key Stakeholders: South Gloucestershire Council, Toshiba

Key Goal: Reduce street light maintenance cost and time

 
Hologram projector

Large Scale Wireless Testbed

Part of Testbed Utilised: UMBRELLA wireless network and LoRa wireless network

Key Stakeholders: South Gloucestershire Council, Toshiba, Bristol and Bath Science Park

Key Goal: Aid IoT developers in testing their applications and protocols in one easy to use testbed

 
People working in a warehouse

Private 5G For Warehousing and Logistic

Part of Testbed Utilised: Robotics testbed

Key Stakeholders: Bristol Robotics Lab, Toshiba

Key Goal: Develop private 5G networks for warehousing and logistics applications

 
smart motorways

Cyberhive (100 Percent IT Ltd)

Road-side network and k8s container hosting

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed (Road-side network and k8s container hosting)

 
aware control panel

Aware Technologies Ltd

Digital Twinned, Building Performance Evaluation

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed
(LoRaWAN Network)

 
Computer chips

Altered Carbon

Anomaly Detection with Graphene Gas Sensor Arrays

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed
(LoRaWAN Network)

 
Connected cities concept

IOETEC Ltd

Social Housing IoT

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed
(LoRaWAN Network)

 
Direk testbed

Direk Ltd

SIMS: Smart Indoor Management System

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed
(LoRaWAN Network)

 
GenieConnect

Service Robotics

GenieConnect

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed
(LoRaWAN Network)

 
Computer chips

Diligensys Ltd

VDI Smart Greenhouse and VDI Net Zero Energy

Part of Testbed Utilised: Smart city wireless testbed (UMBRELLA sensor nodes and historical data sets)

 
Crover engineer managing cereals stocks

CROVER Ltd

Grain Storage Management

Part of Testbed Utilised: Robotics Testbed