Cambridge Uni to help UK manufacturers remove IoT barriers

The University of Cambridge has joined the Pitch-In Project that will investigate the barriers to successful IoT take-up and strengthen digital manufacturing research programmes. As reported earlier this month, the £4.9m project will be led by the University of Sheffield in collaboration with the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Newcastle.
Pitch-In-Project teams will trial solutions, and capture and share best-practice learnings and outcomes; and the aim is to focus on four priority sectors that are early adopters of IoT: health and wellbeing, digital manufacturing, energy systems, and smart cities.
As reported, the project will involve Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), which is part of the University’s Department of Engineering. The IfM has been awarded £1m of the total funding to lead the manufacturing theme, while also supporting the smart cities element of the project.
Dr. Alexandra Brintrup will lead the manufacturing theme as Cambridge’s principal investigator for the Pitch-In Project. She said the project would be a great opportunity to “increase the technology readiness levels for some of the state-of-the-art research that the University of Cambridge conducts in Industrial IoT.