Blue Jackets for the Stoke’s Team
In the last week we covered more than a 1000 km distance by train and 3 cities to meet with scientists working on the ORCA project. We left Edinburgh early in the morning on Monday. With hot coffees in our hands, we jumped on a train to London at Waverly station. Laptops ready and awake-ish minds. We crossed the beautiful, yellow blossoming Scottish country side. On the train we refined slides, discussed demos and tested our device.
Orca hub is divided in 4 work packages. We work in WP1: sensing. London’s meeting focus was the synergy between WP2, deployment technology, and all the other WPs. Our portable, multi sensing device, the Limpet, will interact with a drone to be deployed safely to a target location. Sayed, the mind behind the Limpet, stayed in London, at Imperial College, to investigate further development of his creation. Alistair and me found our way to King Cross station, dodging London’s rush hour, to make it in time to catch the train for Newcastle.
It was hard to leave the sunny South, but the USMART workshop definitely made it worth it. An incredible variety of people within science, industries, defence, renewables and oil & gas companies gathered to merge their ideas, share their expertise and, last although definitely not the least, learn more about the acoustic nano-modems developed by Jeff Neasham team. It has been encouraging beyond expectation too have an insight of the potential of our work and even more of the collaboration with other areas. We are carrying new ideas and bright perspectives back home, to Edinburgh.
King’s Cross
Kensington
Lebanese food
USMART workshop. Photo Credits: Mourya Rahul
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