Cambridge Wireless has been selected as one of four successful organisations that will deliver IoTUK Boost, a series of local IoT innovation challenges and rapid incubation activities taking place over the next five months.
Cambridge Wireless will work with IoTUK to identify up to 20 SMEs and bring them together with large companies or public sector organisations to help find solutions to specific challenges.
Each Boost will culminate in two one-day workshops and innovation contests, with winners gaining access to business, technical and mentoring support from the IoTUK team.
Cambridge Wireless will work alongside SETsquared Partnership to coordinate this activity, focusing on the topic of assisted living, with workshops in both Bristol and Guilford.
"Our goal at IoTUK is to collaborate with start-ups, SMEs, enterprises, academics and other contributors to the digital economy to advance the take up of IoT in the UK," said Maurizio Pilu, Executive Director for Collaborative R&D, Digital Catapult.
"The companies chosen to be our Boost partners mirror our passion and interest for IoT as a transforming approach to business and society. Cambridge Wireless's submission particularly stood out for its experience in connecting the IoT community."
Robert Driver, CEO, Cambridge Wireless, added: "The Cambridge Wireless community contains a significant number of companies - large and small - that bring together aspects of this emerging and complex landscape.
"Our expertise is in bringing these different organisations together to learn from each other, to network and facilitate the development of new business relationships. Through the IoT boost programme we want to demonstrate how IoT product design for assisted living might transform the UK's health economy; empowering citizens, improving independence, and saving money."