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Sense and Sustainability:
Networked Sensors for the Urban Environment
20th–21stMay 2010

Bridging the Gaps is making £30,000 available for research into nanotechnology and the environment.

The latest funding opportunity from Bridging the Gaps is a sandpit event being held over two days in May. Bridging the Gaps sandpits address areas that require collaboration between disciplines. The aim of the sandpit is to form new cross-disciplinary collaborations at UCL to carry out novel sustainable urban environments research.

Bridging the Gaps provides the venue and the funding for the resulting ideas, so all you need to bring is yourself, your knowledge and your ideas.

This year's sandpit, Sense and Sustainability: Networked Sensors for the Urban Environment, focuses on the use of networked sensors to monitor aspects of the urban environment. We are interested in new collaborations from across UCL, we are aiming to form new research partnerships between researchers who have a knowledge of networked sensors and those who have a problem that could be investigated with the sensor data. There is no requirement to have a detailed knowledge of sensor or networking.

Although the most obvious collaborations might be between the ‘digital’ disciplines (computer science, electronic and electrical engineering) and the ‘built environment’ disciplines (civil engineering, environmental engineering, architecture, urban design), we are interested in anyone who has a urban sustainability question that can be addressed by using sensor networks, and anyone who has an interest in sensor technology or handling the data they produce.

Research areas could be based around include, but are not limited to:
  • environmental pollution
  • ageing infrastructure
  • energy use
  • water use
  • transport flows
  • waste management
  • noise pollution
  • ...
Any research area where data can be gathered from the urban environment using a network of sensors, and then applied to an urban sustainability problem.

The event will be held on the 20th and 21st May at Devonport House in Greenwich. The sandpit will be an interactive workshop where up to 15 participants will be able to explore the applications of networked sensors for sustainability issues. The research partnerships formed must be interdisciplinary and collaborative.

The sandpit format allows research areas and groupings of researchers to emerge from participants' interests over the course of the event. The research collaborations are then funded, based on a review by all participants, from an overall fund of £30,000.

Venue details

The event will take place over 2 full days (Thursday 20th and Friday 21st May) at the Devonport Hotel in Greenwich, with accommodation (night of the 20th of May), meals and refreshments being provided by Bridging the Gaps.


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De Vere Venues Devonport House Hotel Greenwich
King William Walk
London
SE10 9JW

020 8269 5400
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We try to be an inclusive programme, so if you have any particular requirements, such as a family room or childcare assistance, please let us know and we will try and make arrangements for you.

Please contact James Paskins (30661) if you have any questions about this event and your suitability to take part.

If you are interested in attending this mini-sandpit please fill in the application form, which is available for download here.

Previous sandpit - Little Green Things

Last year we held Little Green Things, a very successful sandpit addressing Nanotechnology and Sustainability.

We made 4 awards totaling £30,000 for 4 groups to begin investigating:

  • Modelling how nano-scale processes relate to macroscale function
  • Duracoat: Using nanoscience to protect wood
  • Pseudo-Living Material Modification
  • Novel Nanostructures for Water Purification and Treatment

The poster on the right will give you a better idea of what goes on at a Bridging the Gaps Sandpit.

 
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