Summary
- Profile Type
- Technology offer
- POD Reference
- TOGB20240429019
- Term of Validity
- 29 April 2024 - 29 April 2025
- Company's Country
- United Kingdom
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
- Targeted Countries
- FranceSwitzerlandIcelandSpainNorway
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General information
- Short Summary
- A UK based SME has developed a technological solution to realise thermal imaging mobile mapping, which consists in capturing images, light detection, and ranging data (LiDar data) and other informative data at street-level using cars. This technology enables the SME to detect heat loss from homes and buildings at the scale of entire cities, entire regions and even countries fast and in high resolution. The SME is seeking partners through commercial with technical assistance agreements.
- Full Description
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A UK based SME has developed a technological solution to realise thermal imaging mobile mapping, which consists of capturing images, LiDar data and other informative data at street-level using cars. The SME has extensive experience in providing geospatial mobile mapping services in Europe, having managed, and conducted largescale projects in the UK, France, Germany and Austria, with various types of clients ranging from technology companies to public institutions.
Between 30 and 40% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the world come from heating and cooling buildings; improving building insulation can help to reduce CO2 emissions. However, insulation can be expensive, therefore better targeting the solutions to choose and better targeting the buildings that need it the most will help to achieve worldwide reductions in CO2 emissions faster and at a lower cost.
Thermal imaging has two main benefits when tackling this issue: it helps to identify the sources of heat loss to better target retrofit and it helps to raise awareness on the need to act. Thermal imaging is currently mainly conducted by hand by an individual thermographer coming to one building and taking a series of static pictures with a handheld thermal camera. This approach is extremely time consuming and requires optimal environmental factors such as no rain or cold weather; thus, this approach is not scalable. Other approaches have attempted to solve the problem of scale, such as aerial capture through drones. The limitation of drones is that they are usually not allowed to fly at night or over major cities, and they must fly at a high distance and cannot carry heavy equipment which means the resolution achievable vs the distance to object may be insufficient to precisely identify the source of heat loss.
To overcome the limitations of existing solutions, the UK based SME have built a thermal mobile mapping system that can capture data at driving speed with comparable image quality to collecting individual thermal images from the street using a handheld device. The system collects thermal images and geolocates them; it can be specified for any field of view up to 360 degrees depending on the application of the end requirement. The thermal sensors are industrial sensitivity and of a high enough image resolution to be above what most traditional thermographers would have access to.
The technology developed by the SME enables users to reach large scale fast and at low cost. This has been made possible by the development of in-house capture systems and operational processes that ensure qualitative yet large scale capture projects. The recent addition of artificial intelligence in the analysis of the data is also an advantage as this will assist potential partners in processing large data sets.
The UK based SME are seeking partners through a commercial agreement with technical assistance with the view of developing partnerships in which their technology can be further developed and applied. Key areas of interest include geospatial companies in which the SME can collaborate on mobile mapping projects. Infrastructure and surveying industries where the SME can explore potential applications and use cases for their technology. Energy companies where the SME can utilise their data services to provide detailed customer insights. - Advantages and Innovations
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• The technology is significantly cheaper than alternatives when used for large scale projects (around 90%). Also, the incorporation of artificial intelligence enables the technology to capture and process data much quicker, which is significant due to the scale of the operations.
• Know-how behind the development of technology, when compared with existing/competitor solutions.
• The technology helps users to identify the sources of heat loss to better target retrofit and it helps to raise awareness on the need to act. - Stage of Development
- Already on the market
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Partner Sought
- Expected Role of a Partner
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• Geospatial companies with an interest in collaborating on mobile mapping projects, the role of the partner will be to support the SME to explore applications of the technology in the construction, infrastructure and surveying industries.
• Energy companies which have an interest in utilising the SMEs data services to obtain detailed customer insights. - Type and Size of Partner
- Big companySME 11-49SME 50 - 249SME <=10
- Type of partnership
- Commercial agreement with technical assistance
Call details
- Coordinator required
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Yes
Dissemination
- Technology keywords
- 04008003 - Micro- and Nanotechnology related to energy
- Market keywords
- 03007002 - Other measuring devices
- Targeted countries
- FranceSwitzerlandIcelandSpainNorway